Pulp Fiction: pulp/pelp/n 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter. 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. American Heritage Dictionary, New College Edition. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino
Opening Scene: Forget it, it’s too risky. I don’t believe in that shit.
Her: You say the same thing every time. I’m through, never again, too dangerous. ibid.
Ringo: A lot of people come to restaurants.
Yolanda: A lot of wallets.
Ringo: You’re pretty smart, eh?
Yolanda: Pretty smart. I’m ready. Let’s do it. Right now. Right here. Come on.
Ringo: All right. Same as last time, remember? You’re crowd control; I handle employees [they kiss].
Yolanda: I love you, pumpkin.
Ringo: I love you, honey bunny. [jumps] Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Yolanda: If any of you fucking pricks move, I’m going to execute every motherfucking last one of you! ibid.
Allow nothing in your life you cannot walk out on in thirty seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner. Heat 1995 starring Al Pacino & Robert DeNiro & Val Kilmer & Tom Sizemore & Diane Venora & Amy Brenneman & Ashley Judd & Mykelti Williamson & Wes Studi & Ted Levine & Jon Voight et al, director Michael Mann
When these guys walk out the door of whatever score they’re gonna take next they are gonna have the surprise of a lifetime. ibid. Pacino
I told you I’m never going back. ibid. DeNiro
2,400 times a year. 44 times a week. 9 times a day. Every 48 minutes. A bank is robbed here. This is the bank robbery capital of the world: Los Angeles. Den of Thieves 2018 starring Gerard Butler & Pablo Schreiber & O’Shea Jackson junior & 50 Cent & Evan Jones & Cooper Andrews & Maurice Compte & Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau & Dan Olivieri & Lewis Tan et al, director Christian Gudegast, caption
They stole a fucking empty armoured truck? ibid. Big Nick
You’re not the bad guys. We are. ibid. Big Nick to barman the driver
The Fed is the Olympics. And Merrimen is Carl fucking Lewis. ibid.
I know how you feel. I’m not the guy to go running to the cops. I’m on the lam myself. I swear, I can prove it. Make time. I got the dough. Roadblock 1951 staring Charles McGraw & Joan Dixon & Lowell Gilmore & Louis Jean Heydt & Milburn Stone et al, director Harold Daniels, driver to dud with gun
Her: Some day you’re going to want something nice and expensive. But you can’t afford on a detective’s salary.
Him: Like what?
Her: Like me. ibid.
And I want you, Joe [kisses]. But not as an insurance cop making three hundred and fifty a month. ibid.
Set up a general road block covering all transportation and embarkation points – air, rail, bus and water. We want Joe Peters for murder and robbery of the United States’ mail. Peters is driving a black 1950 Plymouth sedan license number 1X1 ... ibid. rozzer on radio
Went into the store just to get a beer; came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery. Menace II Society 1993 starring Tyrin Turner & Jada Pinkett & Larenz Tate & Samuel L Jackson & Glen Plummer & Clifton Powell & Arnold Johnson et al, directors Allen & Albert Hughes
When the riots stopped, the drugs started. ibid.
I thought killing those fools would make me feel good, but it really didn’t make me feel anything. I just knew that I could kill somebody. ibid. commentary
Ronnie: You’re alive ain’t you?
Caine: And who says that’s good? ibid.
Sunset 7-2131. Armored Car Robbery 1950 starring Charles McGraw & Adele Jergens & William Talman & Douglas Fowley & Steve Brodie & Don McGuire & Don Haggerty & James Flavin et al, director Richard Fleischer
The naked and the dead. ibid. rozzer
Tell them there’s a robbery in progress. Takers 2010 starring Idris Elba & Matt Dillon & Paul Walker & Hayden Christensen & Chris Brown & Jay Hernandez & Michael Ealy & Zoe Saldana, director John Luessenhop, bank robber to bank worker
10% to the usual charities. ibid. gang at table with money
Only so many people know how to use C-4, chief. ibid. Matt Dillon to boss
It’s just business for you; this shit just got real personal. ibid. Delonte Rivers to gang boss
High above the city of LA a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He’s alone, tired ... and the only chance anyone has got. Die Hard 1988 starring Bruce Willis & Alan Rickman & Alexander Godunov & Bonnie Bedelia & Reginald Vel Johnson & Paul Greason & James Shigeta & Clarence Gilyard junior et al, director John McTiernan, tagline
I need the code key, because I am interested in the $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds that you have locked in your vault. ibid. Rickman
One big job – that’s all I want. The Split 1968 starring Jim Brown & Diahann & Carroll & Ernest Borgnine & Julie Harris & Gene Hackman & Jack Klugman & Warren Oates & James Whitmore & Donald Sutherland & Joyce Jameson & Jackie Joseph et al, director Gordon Flemyng, him to her
There are good cops and there are bad cops – and then there’s Bullitt. Bullitt 1968 starring Steve McQueen & Robert Vaughn & Jacqueline Bisset & Don Gordon & Simon Oakland & Norman Fell & Robert Duvall & Georg Stanford Brown, director Peter Yates, tagline
I have a witness who needs protection. ibid. Bullitt
It costs money to have a soul. ibid.
You work your side of the street and I’ll work mine. ibid. Bullitt to politician
I thought I knew you. But I’m not so sure any more. Do you let anything reach you? I mean, really reach you. Or are you so used to it by now that nothing really touches you. You’re living in a sewer, Frank. Day after day ... Living with violence and death. How can you be part of it without becoming more and more callous? Your world is so far from the one I know. What will happen to us in time? ibid. her to him
Heroin, Mr Tibbs. Scag. Smack. About four million dollars’ worth wholesale. The Organization 1971 starring Sidney Poitier & Barbara McNair & Gerald S O’Loughlin & Sheree North & Fred Beir & Raul Julia & James A Watson junior et al, director Don Medford, gangsta
I can see a better world. A greater world. The Sound of Fury 1950 starring Frank Lovejoy & Lloyd Bridges & Kathleen Ryan & Richard Carlson & Katherine Locke & Adale Jergens & Art Smith et al, director Cyril Endfield, opening scene
I bet I know why you couldn’t sleep. You’ve been drinking too much. Don’t you think you ought to take it easy. ibid. her to him
People do things they don’t mean sometimes. They just happen. ibid. him to her
I’m glad it is all over. I want to die. It’s no use to live. ibid. letter to wife
In a democracy there is no place for mob violence. ibid. Sheriff
Violence is a disease caused by moral and social breakdown. That is the real problem. And it must be solved by reason. Not by emotion. With understanding, not hate. ibid. Professor
After it’s all over and we’re safe it’ll be just you and me, you and me, the way it should have been all along from the start. Criss Cross 1949 starring Burt Lancaster & Yvonne de Carlo & Dan Duryea & Stephen McNally & Esy Morales & Tom Pedi & Percy Helton & Alan Napier & Griff Barnett & Meg Randall & Richard Long et al, director Robert Siodmak, her to him opening scene
Now the first thing I want to get off my chest – my name isn’t Bailey, it’s Markham. Out of the Past aka Build My Gallows High 1947 starring Robert Mitchum & Kirk Douglas & Jane Greer & Rhonda Fleming & Richard Webb & Steve Brodie & Virginia Huston et al, director Jacques Tourneur, him to her
And then I saw her. Coming out of the Sun. ibid.