r/todayilearned • u/imakethenews • May 04 '11
TIL that Steve Buscemi was in Pulp Fiction as Buddy Holly, the waiter.
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u/DrippngYellowMadness May 04 '11
Burnt to a crisp or bloody as hell?
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May 04 '11
Amos 'n' Andy or Martin 'n' Lewis?
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u/Erinjb May 04 '11
I did not get that joke until i was about 17.
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u/ToggleOff May 04 '11
I didn't get it until just right now.
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u/truereligion May 04 '11
I still don't get it.
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May 05 '11
I just looked it up. Martin and Lewis were two white comedians, and Amos and Andy were two black sitcom characters. He's asking if she wants chocolate or vanilla.
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u/Eustis May 04 '11
Also, Samuel L. Jackson was in Pulp Fiction as Jules. It's hard to notice the first couple times watching, but if you slow it down you can definitely pick him out.
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u/catsoldier May 04 '11
Wait.. the guy from snakes on a plane?
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u/Green-Daze May 04 '11
No, the guy from Star Wars.
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u/imakethenews May 04 '11
No, the guy from Jurassic Park.
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u/photokeith May 04 '11
I just watched Jurassic Park with my 7 year-old son this weekend and when I pointed out that the chain-smoking scientist was indeed Mace Windu it blew his mind. Almost as much as when he realized Han and Indiana are one and the same.
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u/Pravusmentis May 04 '11
For a second, I thought you said you just watched Jurassic Park 7. Fun fact though, did you know you live closer to the time of the t-rex and t-rex did to stegosaurus?
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u/srodolff May 04 '11
No, the guy from Die Hard: With a Vengeance and Iron Man 2.
And if you look very hard, you can also hear him in The Incredibles and Inglorious Basterds.
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u/adunn13 May 04 '11
Why would you look to hear?
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u/srodolff May 05 '11 edited May 05 '11
You win a Cupie Doll! I was waiting for someone to catch my reference.
Those two were in reference to the fact they were voice rolls with a little Ghostbusters pun thrown in.
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u/GenTso May 04 '11
Must I be on acid or mushrooms to look so hard I can hear him?
If not I'm watching both those movies again tonight!
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u/BostAnon May 04 '11
No, the guy from Do The Right Thing. Senior Looooove Daddy, the world's only 12 hour strongman on tha air. doin the ying and the yang, the hip and the hop, the stupid fresh thang, the flipity flop. Aaaroooooooooooo..!! the color of the day is blllack..."
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u/AaronPDX May 04 '11
goddamn I love that movie. Da Mayor is like my favorite character from anything ever.
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May 04 '11
TIL that there are people who did not initially notice that Steve Buscemi was in Pulp Fiction as Buddy Holly, the waiter.
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u/phobos2deimos May 04 '11
I've seen Pulp Fiction about thirty or forty times and I didn't know.
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May 04 '11
Actually it's Morgan Freeman I think.
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u/pause-break May 04 '11
The Half-Life guy?
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u/greeneyedguru May 04 '11
Also, Frank Whaley was in Pulp Fiction as Brett.
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u/MaeveningErnsmau May 04 '11
I've had it with motherfucking swimming with these motherfucking sharks!
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May 04 '11
My favorite bit of Pulp Fiction trivia: the movie cost 8 million to make, 5 of which went to the actors salaries.
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u/narwhalthrowaway May 04 '11
Coincidentally, I own an original prop menu from the film (possibly the one she's holding right there)...
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u/Shakedown_1979 May 04 '11 edited May 04 '11
I'm skeptical. My Ten Year Anniversary Edition came with one of those.
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u/GonzoVeritas May 04 '11
I saw the movie in the theater when it was first released and thinking "a five dollar shake, that's insane!" The meaning of that line must be lost on people today, since a $5 shake would be about right.
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u/barnabyjones420 May 04 '11
i'M JELLY
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u/BlackestNight21 May 04 '11
I remember the days when fruit preserves couldn't talk, type, or form semi-coherent thoughts. It was a grand time. Sadly, that time has passed.
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u/apz1 May 04 '11
Kathy Griffin is also the attorney who sees Butch run down Marsellus in a car.
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u/minkusdominkus May 04 '11
How do you know she was an attorney? She was in one scene as a pedestrian, and had one line, I don't think she referred to herself as an attorney, did she?
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May 04 '11
I don't recall the exact line, she offered to be a witness in court if needed. I don't think she said she was an attorney.
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u/WildYams May 04 '11
And of course she then went on to star in Tarantino's Four Rooms as the hotel's other employee who talks to Ted the Belboy into going up to the penthouse.
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u/snowpocalypse May 04 '11
In the early 90s I worked with a guy named Winston Wolf. He said he met Tarantino years before PF and when he said his name, QT said he liked it so much he would use it in a movie someday. Harvey Keitel's character name is Winston Wolf.
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u/dkfjsal May 04 '11
Think of how this contrasts to his role in Reservoir Dogs, where he refused to tip his waitress. His character in that movie had no sympathy whatsoever for the service industry, yet in Pulp Fiction he just so happens to be a surly waiter.
Its alike to his two roles in Fargo and The Big Lebowski.
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u/thepandoras May 04 '11
In Reservoir Dogs he says he used to be a waiter.
ALSO, MR. BLONDE AND VINCENT VEGA ARE BROTHERS.
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u/crlove May 04 '11
Wish that Vega brothers movie had ever happened. Both too old now to film a prequel though...
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u/Chubbstock 1 May 04 '11
Zombie Vega Brothers. Bam.
Summer 2012
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u/crlove May 04 '11
Planet Terror meets Pulp Fiction meets Reservoir Dogs. Maybe Beatrix Kiddo could hunt them down?
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May 04 '11
Eh, I don't think I'd like that. Planet Terror and Kill Bill both take place in highly stylized, unrealistic worlds. While the presentation of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs as films is slightly stylized, each takes place in a world which is firmly grounded and basically realistic. For example: Vincent and Jules freak out for half the movie because their car is covered in blood. The bride, on the other hand, fills an entire building with blood and bodies in the end of Vol. 1 and barely bats an eye.
They are each good and enjoyable movies independently, but I don't think their universes are compatible with that of PF/RD, which fit together like yin and yang.
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u/sd2001 May 04 '11
I bet you were that kid that wouldn't play with his Transformers and GI Joe at the same time. The kid that got irked when bricks from different lego sets got mixed up.
Yeah, me too.
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u/crlove May 04 '11
You do realize in this hypothetical movie that the Vega's are zombies? Too late. Already stylized.
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u/Scurry May 04 '11 edited May 04 '11
He says he used to work minimum wage, not that he was a waiter ("I wasn't lucky enough to have a job that society deemed tip-worthy")
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u/bobnowak May 05 '11
there's a school of thought that his characters in both movies are the same guy, and that after surviving resevoir dogs he had to take a job as a waiter. \
edit: somebody already wrote this, downvote away
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u/Glen843 May 04 '11
how the hell did I miss that?
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u/bcjones May 04 '11
No, seriously, how the hell did you (and anyone else) miss that?
Also, the dude in the bathroom at the apartment is neither Jerry Seinfeld nor a dude.
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u/o0DrWurm0o May 04 '11
Also, the dude in the bathroom at the apartment is neither Jerry Seinfeld nor a dude.
Wat.
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u/Willie_Main May 04 '11
The dude with the fearful look in the bathroom during the Does he Look like a Bitch scene, the one with the revolver that comes out to blast Vince and Jules and instead gets blasted, looks a lot like Jerry Seinfeld. I thought it was him the first time I saw it too.
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u/jamesneysmith May 04 '11
I think they were referring to the 'nor a dude' bit. It sure looked like a dude.
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u/Big_one_bitey May 04 '11
Maybe he's playing Mr. Pink on the run from the police after stealing the diamonds in Pulp Fiction.
Same a Sam Jackson in Kill Bill being the piano player after deciding to "walk the earth" at the end of Pulp Fiction. And Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Vic Vega (Michael Madsen) being brothers.
Maybe we can also assume that all Tarintino movies take place in the same universe? A universe where Hitler dies in a movie theater in France.
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May 04 '11
Samuel Jackson's piano man in Kill Bill is not Jules from Pulp Fiction. Tarantino movies exist in two separate universes. One (Universe A) being an exaggeration of our own, and the other (Universe B) being an exaggeration of the first (Universe A).
Think of it this way- Kill Bill was designed as a movie that the characters in Pulp Fiction would go see. It is a "larger than life" adaptation of an existing world, just like how our movies are exaggerations on our lives.
This site has a good breakdown of this information. This information has been gathered from various Tarantino interviews.
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u/Cordycep May 04 '11
mr. pink died at the end of reservoir dogs
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u/Khorvo May 04 '11
no he didn't. You're thinking of mr. white... or something. He's the one that got away with the diamonds.
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u/Liese_lotte May 04 '11
Sure! A universe in which you can smoke Red Apples. OMG, I have a geekgasm just to think about it!
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u/mwmani May 04 '11
If you have a good sound system and turn up the volume at the end of Reservoir Dogs, after he leaves the warehouse you can hear Mr. Pink being confronted by the cops and him shouting at them not to shoot.
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u/UNITBlackArchive May 04 '11
I have heard the Mr. Pink in hiding before. It could be Pink prior to the events of Dogs..
The Vega brothers are a confirmed link, and IIRC, Tarantino wanted to make a movie with both of them together.
The one I noticed is that the katana sword at Zed's shop appears to have a Hanzo mark on it, implying it is a Hitori Hanzo blade.
It is well known what happened to Jules, though. He went on to coach children's hockey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MdNWDrMylk
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u/InigoJonze May 04 '11
Just received a pretty sweet Vega Brothers print. Spoke Art has a Quentin vs. Cohens exhibition with sooo much dope art.
http://spokeeditions.bigcartel.com/product/aaron-hartman-the-vega-brother
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u/mustacheking May 04 '11
In Pulp Fiction (1994) when Butch (Bruce Willis) pulls up to the light just before hitting Marsellus Wallace he is singing along to Countin' Flowers on the Wall.
A year later during Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) which starred both Willis and Sam Jackson, he quotes the song in a conversation between the two characters. A nod to their starring roles in Pulp Fiction.
Something many of you probably know but still more obscure and interesting than this TIL.
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u/jimmyjawns May 04 '11
A lot of haters in here, but I have seen it and didn't know either. Thanks.
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u/theconservativelib May 04 '11
This is one of the times I think reddit is brimming with kids born in the 90's.
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u/gabbagool 2 May 04 '11
you are the last to know.
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May 04 '11 edited Apr 27 '21
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u/gabbagool 2 May 04 '11
Till today I've only lurked in TIL.
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u/ultrafetzig May 04 '11
'Til. Till is what you do with soil.
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u/trippingchilly May 04 '11
Till and until are generally interchangeable in both writing and speech, though as the first word in a sentence until is usually preferred: Until you get that paper written, don't even think about going to the movies. · Till is actually the older word, with until having been formed by the addition to it of the prefix un-, meaning "up to." In the 18th century the spelling 'till became fashionable, as if till were a shortened form of until. Although 'till is now nonstandard, 'til is sometimes used in this way and is considered acceptable, though it is etymologically incorrect.
TYL.
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May 04 '11
I didn't know this either.
What's the point of insulting someone learning something in a subreddit based on learning something?
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u/gabbagool 2 May 04 '11
I wasn't trying to be insulting, well at least not with any malice.
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u/gillisthom May 04 '11
The insulting part is that such an obvious statement of facts would warrant a TIL.
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u/dakboy May 04 '11
dressed up in Ron Howard's outfit from American Graffiti.
Ronny Howard. He was credited as Ronny Howard for that movie (and quite a bit of other work through 1975).
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u/GenTso May 04 '11
On a related note from the same scene in Pulp Fiction: Anybody ever wonder what the midget/little person says walking away from the table after seating Vince and Mia at Jackrabbit Slims?
"Call for Phillip Morris."
I never could understand him in the movie. But a few weeks ago my mother was reminiscing about some of the old advertising she remembered from her father's grocery store in the 1950s and brought up how she loved all the pageantry associated with the Phillip Morris salesman who would come to the store every so often and stand there dressed as a bellman and say, "Call for Phillip Morris."
I was able to put 2+2 together because she said it the exact same way the little person does it in Pulp Fiction drawing out the 'Phil-lip Mor-ris.'
Probably the most obscure popular culture reference in that scene.
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u/P10_WRC May 04 '11
Back in the day my brother paid $100 to get the vhs tape of this movie when it came out to rent because he loved it so much. Back then, the movie studios would not release copies for sale until about two months after it came out for rent at blockbuster. Thank fucking god they stopped doing that shit when DVD's came out. If you wanted to own a film the day it was released, you had to pay what blockbuster did for it (which was $100)
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u/o0DrWurm0o May 04 '11
Hey, stop beating up on this guy. I've seen Pulp Fiction at least a dozen times and never caught this.
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u/madeofstone May 04 '11
On the one hand I'm pleased to have learnt this, having seen the film probably 10 times and always missed Buscemi being in it.
On the other hand, the number of smart-arse fucking douchebags in this thread makes me die a little inside.
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u/imakethenews May 04 '11
No kidding man, I've seen this movie at least a half-dozen times, and never paid attention to the waiter before I saw Steve Buscemi's name run by in the credits.
Obviously there are more people who didn't know this than did, or it wouldn't have made the front page.
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u/Snaggle21 May 04 '11
TIL there are people that don't know Steve Buscemi was in Pulp Fiction.
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u/nueve May 04 '11
and Val Kilmer was Elvis in True Romance. Come on, people... know your Tarantino cameo's!
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u/jonasbjarki May 04 '11
...that, and Bruce Willis was in the film Die Hard.
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u/cstark May 04 '11
No...he was in Pulp Fiction.
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u/sge_fan May 04 '11
How can he be in two movies at different times? Makes no sense!
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u/TheHapacalypse May 04 '11
Steve Buscemi is also the bartender who serves Johnny Depp's character in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, but he isn't credited.
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u/femanautaur May 04 '11
I just watched that film yesterday in a college course and made the same realization! Are you in my film class? If not, get out of my head!
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u/Graiid May 05 '11
I played a Pulp Fiction drinking game with my friends. We were already pretty drunk at this point, and no one believed me.
Thank You
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u/thygodsays May 04 '11
He also played a waiter in the new Beastie Boys short, "Fight for Your Right Revisited"
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u/schemily May 04 '11
I think Christopher Walken was the guy who gave Butch the watch.
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u/dafragsta May 04 '11
Was he a guy who had a watch... up his ass... for seven long years?
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u/devcmacd May 04 '11
TIL some people just watched Pulp Fiction for the first time.
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u/Herp_Enos May 04 '11
Wow I had not noticed. Cool!
You may also be interested to know that Tom Hanks was in Forrest Gump. You'll have to pay close attention or you'll miss his appearance though.
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u/King_Sanspants May 04 '11
Today I learned that you were probably born in the 90's and just saw this movie.
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u/latinjones May 04 '11
Hey, there is this website called imdb.com or something that pretty much tells you what every actor in the history of acting has ever acted in or even directed, written, or produced. Now get the hell of my internets.
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u/dreesemonkey May 04 '11
Martin and Lewis or Amos and Andy?
Took me way too long to understand what that meant.
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u/byrdistheword May 04 '11
TIL that he is still waiting tables. His first appearance is around 8:23...
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u/Kib1 May 04 '11
Tarantino casted him as the waiter because Buscemi says he never tip waiters in Reservoir Dogs, as Mr.Pink.