Pulp Fiction Briefcase

[daryn]

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It's not really a MacGuffin .... What it is is a simple homage to the mysterious, unexplained glowing briefcase in Kiss Me Deadly.

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i'm pretty sure QT has said specifically it was a mcguffin in interviews. i'll take the directors word over yours.

[Tyler Durden]

Can anyone give another example of a McGuffin? How common are they?

[Blarg]

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Can anyone give another example of a McGuffin? How common are they?

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Example: Everyone has to find a scrap of paper on which is written a secret formula that when recited would bring about the end of the world.

End of central plot point.

A lot of CGI efects ensue, many bullets are fired, somehow you wind up seeing a girl's breasts, but not the star's, and a love story seems to come out of nowhere and then disappear, only to mysterously resolve in a seemingly unmotivated kiss at the ending. Evil finds itself defeated...this time.

Example: Jack says something that Janet and Chrissy misunderstand on Three's Company, and hilarity ensues.

End of central plot point.

Actually, a simple and improbable misunderstanding has been created that anyone with any sense would ask about and talk over before things got too crazy, but somehow things progress into absurdity, and Mr. Roper winds up in a dress, and, after being hit on the head, thinks he's the flower girl at Jack and Larry's wedding.

[elwoodblues]

The movie Psycho is probably the best example I can think of. The whole first third of the movie is a McGuffin (about her stealing money from her boss then fleeing)

[bwana devil]

I saw the American premiere of Pulp Fiction in Austin. Tarantino was there and was asked the same thing. He said that he originally wrote it w/ money in the case. Then he said he replaced w/ diamonds. Then he just figured it was better for each individual person to put whatever they thought was most desired in the briefcase.

I'm sure he's been asked this a zillion times so I'm sure most people even fairly interested in movies have read or heard some response from him.

Years later I read an interview and someone asked him about Wallace's soul. He thought that was indicated that he had no intention of trying to imply that thought people were reading into the "signs" way too much.