This entire ending segment was ludicrous and always bothered me. brought down the otherwise fantastic film

So write a better ending. We'll wait.

>born again godman
>let's the robbers walk away with other guests' belongings
>awww they slowly walk away like some tortured, misunderstood teenage love couple
pulp fiction is for the twilight audiences

it's because Jules learned to adapt and Vincent didn't. The placement of the scene in the story, which is before Jules realisation, shows that the only thing that could happen for Jules if he doesn't learn to create his own destiny is death

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is the scene that made the movie you fucking redditor

vincent comes back from the bathroom and shoots that ginger gash in the head

>le preachy 7 min monologue in the middle of the day... in a restaurant during the robbery

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Okay, and then what? The people in the restaurant revile as her brains splatter against an empty booth and maybe a counter or the window?

And what does Ringo do? Would he not immediately go ballistic and start shooting wildly at whomever (however rightly) killed his partner in crime?

Is it that different than the relationship of Joules and Vincent, after all?

Would he not then have to be put down by the quick trigger of of either of them?

And then what? You have two corpses, the victims of their own failed attempt to rob all the patrons of a coffee shop, and the hurried exit of a couple of contract killers working for a clandestine network of organized crime escaping into the light of day.

Is that any different than the opening scene, where we meet them blithely discussing international attitudes toward drugs and sandwiches, utterly self-absorbed in their particular persona?

It's called "character development," or in a more lofty sense, "apotheosis."

So go ahead. Flesh out that winning scene. Type it up in a google doc and share the link.

Because I think you're completely full of shit.

It's the perfect ending

Vincent and Jules literally walk away without a scratch after being ambushed by a guy who unloads an entire clip on them at point-blank.

Jules decides to retire and walks away from violence, instead tries to promote nonviolence.
Vincent continues as usual and gets shot to death while taking a shit.

But some of you could argue that without Jules as his partner, he didn't have his usual backup when going up against Butch.

>Okay, and then what? The people in the restaurant revile as her brains splatter against an empty booth and maybe a counter or the window?
YES

[Vincent appears from the corner of the screen, immediately recognizing the situation as an impossible standoff. He takes a quick shot at her head, resulting in a collective gasp from from the diners as she crumples into a limp fetal position, her brains having been removed from the safety of her skull and splattered around like a microwave dinner that has been left in for too long.]

Ringo: Honeybunny... Noooooooooo [but before he can even draw a bead with his weapon, he is reduced to a crumpled, lifeless corpse by the pair, who have seen their share of life and death, and only know that as long as they are capable of maintaining the former, then the latter belongs to others]...

Vincent: We better get out of here.

Joules: Yeah.

[The two partners tuck their sidearms back into their sweatpants before leaving the establishment, and in the background you hear the rising tones of Misirilou]

Vincent: So, tell me more about Amsterdam...

-Fin

i can't believe you typed out this entire shitty ending

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Yeah, but what does that show in terms of how each character has developed in light of the events the audience has been shown?

See How is this not an endless loop in terms of those who kill and those who are killed?

Would you prefer a film that maintains the status quo, or one that challenges it?

Because the status quo is, quite frankly, fucking boring, and the bloodlust you are communicating makes me yawn.

I mean, I dunno; there's a certain sort of charm in the idea of the narrative looping back to the beginning, but you're right in that having actually done that would have been shitty, lol.

Nice yearbook photo, though.

They left with Jules money and not the bag of purses/wallets.

The funny thing is if Jules hadn't quit to walk a different path the day before he likely would have been with Vincent standing watch outside the bathroom and Vincent wouldn't have died.

watch the actual film

All of QT's movies are like this. Awful people getting away with destroying the lives of others is a recurring theme.

Vincent made his choice.

A theme of the film that I didn't pick up on until recently is that Vincent picked up a Heroin habit while in Holland and he's been sloppy ever since. It also causes his constipation. Tarantino is not a pro-drugs guy. The heroin in the film only causes problems. Vincent becomes a functional junkie but he becomes sloppy and dies because of it and he gets a mob gf almost killed because of it.

Why do so many important things in the film happen with the bathroom?
>restaurant robbery with Vincent in the can
>Vincent dies in the can
>the heroin/cocaine confusion while Vincent in the can
>guy hiding in the can before shooting at them

is there any reason the movie has a fucked up timeline?

Bathrooms are one of the only places of solitude in American culture. If you want to ensure that there are no outside influences in terms of what a character is thinking, doing, or saying, then you put them in a bathroom.

The only violation of this principle results in humor, and Pulp Fiction was not a comedy.