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Pulp Fiction
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
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Marcellus Wallace's briefcase — the MacGuffin lineage
→ The Godfather (1972)
The glowing briefcase is Tarantino's nod to the great MacGuffins of cinema. The Godfather's orange motif (oranges appear before each death) is echoed in the amber warmth of the briefcase glow — a shared visual language of dread.
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The Bonnie situation — Hitchcock's mid-film murder in reverse
→ Psycho (1960)
Tarantino has cited Hitchcock's murder of Marion Crane mid-film as the model for shocking the audience by removing a character without warning. The Bonnie situation plays the same card: a body in an unexpected place that upends the film's l…
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