

And that’s the thing- Reservoir Dogs was successful, but it wasn’t earth shattering. You don’t have to work to memorize it, because the thing you’re saying is the thing that comes naturally. I’m sure everybody on that cast read that script and said, “What do I have to do to be a part of this?”īy the third time I read through my scene, I had it memorized. That’s why they were able to do it for $8 million. But there are a lot of great things that don’t wind up being commercially successful. Was there a general consensus that Pulp Fictionwas going to be big?

Quentin was the celebrity guest and I was in the cast, and that’s where I first met him-a few months, I think, before he started pre-production on Pulp Fiction. and came back to L.A., she invited Quentin to come perform at the Groundlings. Quentin and Julia hit it off, so after she left S.N.L. It was during Reservoir Dogs time, so he brought along his buddy Quentin Tarantino. *Phil LaMarr: Basically, “It’s Pat.” *I was friends with Julia Sweeney from the Groundlings before she went on to do *S.N.L.*Harvey Keitel hosted S.N.L and he did a “Pat” sketch. _ VF Daily:_ How did you end up auditioning for the role? VF Daily caught up with LaMarr about Tarantino’s possible guest edits on It’s Pat, the racial controversy of Django Unchained, and last-minute changes in the Pulp Fiction script. He’s lent his voice to dozens of animated characters, including Hermes Conrad on *Futurama,*and worked alongside Paul Reubens as Cowboy Curtis in The Pee-wee Herman Stage Show. Phil LaMarr, who plays Marvin, has had a wildly busy career after filming Pulp Fiction, including five years on MADtv.

Without Marvin, we would have never met the wolf (played by Harvey Keitel), we’d miss Jules asking Brett, “English motherfucker! Do you speak it?!,” and Tarantino would have never made a cameo.

Though Marvin has three lines in Pulp Fiction, he is also the character Tarantino used to string together the movie’s idiomatic vignettes. Vincent and Jules got themselves into a lot of trouble when Vincent accidentally shot a man in the face in their car, which led them to take the car with Marseullus’ cleaner, Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel), so they wouldn’t be caught.Few Quentinphiles can forget Pulp Fiction character Marvin, the man who Vincent Vega (John Travolta) accidentally shoots in the back of Jules Winnfield's (Samuel L. Jackson), their boss Marsellus Wallace (Wing Rhames), his wife Mia (Uma Thurman), and boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis). The leads of the stories are hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Pulp Fiction follows various interconnected stories in a non-linear style and set in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. One of the most memorable scenes in Pulp Fiction is when Vincent Vega accidentally shoots Marvin in the face while in the car – but why did Jules and Vincent take him in the first place? And was his death really an accident? Quentin Tarantino’s career as a filmmaker began in 1992 with the crime film Reservoir Dogs, and while it was a success, his breakthrough came two years later with Pulp Fiction, regarded by many as his masterpiece.
