suitcase in pulp fiction?

Question

does any1 know what is in the suitcase in the movie pulp fiction

Answer 1

An orange lightbulb.

The most persistent theory (most usually attributed to a friend of a friend who saw it posted on a message board by someone whose brother had read a report of a radio interview with Tarantino himself) is that it is Marcellus Wallace's soul. The story goes that when the Devil takes a person's soul, it is removed through the back of the head (this isn't part of any known religion, but this is what the message board posters say). When we see the back of Marcellus's head he has a Band-Aid covering the precise spot indicated by tradition for soul removal. Perhaps Marcellus sold his soul to the devil which would also explain why the combination to open the briefcase is 666.

Quentin Tarantino has said that the band-aid on the back of Marsellus Wallace's neck had nothing to do with an allusion to the Devil stealing Marsellus's soul... but that the actor Ving Rhames had a scar on the back of his neck he wanted to cover up.


According to Roger Avary, who co-wrote the script with Quentin Tarantino, the original plan was to have the briefcase contain diamonds. This seemed neither exciting nor original, so Avary and Tarantino decided to have the briefcase's contents never appear on screen; this way each filmgoer could mentally "fill in the blank" with whatever struck his or her imagination as best fitting the description "so beautiful". The orange light bulb (projecting shimmering light onto the actors' faces) was a last-minute decision and added a completely unintended fantastic element.

In a radio interview with Howard Stern in late 2003, Quentin Tarantino was asked by a caller the contents of the briefcase, and he answered, "It's whatever the viewer wants it to be."

Answer 2

The real question isn't what was in the suitcase but what the "pigs are filthy animals"-discussion was about... I think it explains the movie... A lot of **** happens in that movie but the audience was most shocked when the "bad-guy" gets it from the "good-guy" (Vincent Vega gets shot by Bruce Willis' character, can't think of his name right now)... In other words, Vincent Vega was a character who deserved to get killed, and probably in a worse way than he did, but still people were dissapointed when it happened... Why? Because he had personality, he was fun... So, the moral of the story was, it doesn't matter how bad you are, as long as you have looks and personality, people will like you and on the other hand, it doesn't matter how good you are, if you don't have looks or personality, people won't like you, and there's something terribly wrong with that... This, to me, is what Pulp Fiction is about and what makes it such a great movie...



ps... No, my nickname has nothing to do with that movie, it's my real name... on the other hand, the name of the character in the movie...

Answer 3

Nobody knows. In an interview, Samuel Jackson speculated that the light (which was all there was really in the case) symbolized Marsellus Wallace's soul :-/

Answer 4

It started off as cocaine, turned into a soul and some how became gold.