Pulp Fiction and the contents of the case?

Question

i've seen Pulp Fiction quite a few times and throughly enjoy it. whenever i hear anyone talking about it, its almost always about what the case contains. everyone says its Wallace's soul, and it very well may be, i'm not really trying to discredit that. i just wonder why, if Wallace is supposed to be such a bad ***, how his soul got stolen or end up in the hands of a bunch of dipshits? and so what if he has a bandaid on the back of his head? maybe he just cut himself shaving his head bald. and since when does the soul reside at the base of our skulls?
anyway, not my point. i think the contents aren't revealed because they are irrelevant. its not the point of the story. i feel like its more about self-discovery and personal growth. what does everyone else think?

Answer 1

I think it was just a clever plot device to add mystery and get people to ask the question. It made it a better story. If QT had a more deeper and plot connected subtext, I think only he knows. But he was still talented enough to introduce it and keep it hidden from beginning to end, so it just shows he's a gifted story teller. His dialogue is some of the best of any writer out there. I just wish his subject material wasn't so horrific in nature. But he's a great film maker, no question.

Answer 2

There have been many different interpretations of what's in the case. A popular theory is that it is the diamonds from Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino said that the case simply was used to motivate the characters and enhance the plot. However, in the bible the soul was extracted from the back of the neck hence the band aid on Marcellus's neck. Vince and Jules are Arch Angels that are recruited by Wallace to retrieve his soul. The "dipshits" are actually demons. Read the Bible. If anyone ever made a movie about the Bible, it would be the greatest movie ever made.

Answer 3

You're right on the money. Revealing the contents of the case would have distracted from the story, because then the story would have been about the contents of the case. But whatever it was, it was surely something tangible and not Wallace's soul. I think it was some super form of heroine and those dorks had picked it up by accident then held onto it thinking they could sell it.
As for the bandaid, that was just to cover up the scar on the back of the actor's head.

Answer 4

i hate long answers so im appologizing ahead of time

Speculation abounds as to the nature of the mysterious glowing contents of the case:
Could it be Elvis's gold suit, seen worn by 'Kilmer, Val' (as Elvis) in True Romance (1993)?
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.
Or could it be simply a 20-watt light bulb?
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 5

Marsalis's soul was in the case at the end.....I haven't really put much thought into that movie other than it's so graphic....and what bothers me the most iswhen travolta and jackson where in the car with that kid and blew his head off by accident....they acted like it was nothing....I know it was a movie but still ...yikes. Qunton T is a bit out of his mind, a touch physco ....

Answer 6

i do no longer think of Tarantino deliberate what replaced into in the case, as a results of fact actuality is it replaced into quite beside the point. the only reason a gold easy got here out is for parody. The shine and guy's expression could desire to be seen as humourous. the evident connotations of gangster stereotypes is that it replaced into probable gold bricks. Exaggerating it into vibrant easy replaced into purely yet another submit-cutting-edge count number.

Answer 7

i know whats in the case...
a light bulb.. tarantino thought it looked cool when it shined when it was opened...

Answer 8

i think pulp fiction was f***ing awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: )