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Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you.
— Pulp Fiction · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the film's first spike of menace, and it is also a joke: a young woman who was cooing 'I love you' a second earlier screams the most violent thing she can think of, in a coffee shop, while her boyfriend holds up the staff. The line is shorthand for every over-the-top stick-up threat since, and when the diner returns at the finish Jules makes the same bluster look small.
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In context
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Pulp Fiction opens in a coffee-shop diner, where small-time thieves Pumpkin and Honey Bunny decide to give up liquor-store robberies because the diner is easier: a room full of wallets. They agree that he will handle the staff and she will handle the crowd, trade 'I love you's and jump up. Pumpkin announces the robbery, and Honey Bunny screams this threat at the whole room. The film then cuts to its opening titles. The same diner scene returns at the end of the film, where it turns out that Jules and Vincent are eating breakfast there and Jules talks the robbers down.
Sources (2)
- Pulp Fiction script (Springfield! Springfield!)opening diner scene, Pumpkin and Honey BunnyReference checked
- Pulp Fiction (Wikipedia)Plot summary, the diner scenesReference checked
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