Pulp Fiction Briefcase

[daryn]

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P.S. If you think it's marsellus's soul;

#1 Why is it glowing?
#2 Why did Brad and the boys have it?
#3 WTF is it doing in a suitcase?
#4 Get a clue.


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#1 souls glow, duh
#2 they were obviously delivering it to the devil (666 pw)
#3 how would you carry it??
#4 i actually don't believe this, it's clear that it's a mcguffin, but anyone could come up with answers to these questions.

[ThaSaltCracka]

dude, the McGuffin answer is soooooo lame though, come on people, lets think here, what could it be? Maybe it contains Q's self control.

[daryn]

yeah the truth is always more boring.

[ThaSaltCracka]

yeah, tonight I will think about McGuffins to help me go to sleep.

[Daliman]

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P.S. If you think it's marsellus's soul;

#1 Why is it glowing?
#2 Why did Brad and the boys have it?
#3 WTF is it doing in a suitcase?
#4 Get a clue.


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#1 souls glow, duh
#2 they were obviously delivering it to the devil (666 pw)
#3 how would you carry it??
#4 i actually don't believe this, it's clear that it's a mcguffin, but anyone could come up with answers to these questions.

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#1 Some souls suck IN light, like a black hole. Not naming any names, but a certain owner in NY comes to mind...
#2 Why would he have brad and the boys deliver it? Everyone knows the best person to have sell something to the devil is David Arquette.(does he STILL have BOTH a career AND Courtney?)
#3 Soul Handbag
#4 Bah on you.

[daryn]

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[Daliman]

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I rise (or lower) to the occasion at times.

[Blarg]

It's not really a MacGuffin because it doesn't function in a way that nothing else could equally well stand in for without further plot development.

A MacGuffin is an exposition deleter, a time saver and a plot cutter. The glowing briefcase deletes nothing, adds time and interest without explaining it rather than cuts it and glossing over it, and has no effect on the plot at all.

The gangsters could just be owed money, pure and simple, and that would perform the identical function with no more work for the director and writer(same guy in this case) and no less clarity or drive to the story, and no less scenery to chew through in order to propel the story. It would even make more sense.

A MacGuffin is a cheat, in a way. The glowing briefcase doesn't cut corners, it adds them in.

What it is is a simple homage to the mysterious, unexplained glowing briefcase in Kiss Me Deadly.

[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.

[Blarg]

Or you could use logic.

Tarantino didn't invent the concept, by the way. He has absolutely zero more authority than anyone else to say what's a MacGuffin and what isn't.

He can use English however he wants, but I'll take a logical interpretation over the answers of a director throwing reporters a bone to get them off an annoying topic.

Ever read a Hitchock interview? He's famous and hilarious for telling them whatever they want to hear, or whatever comes off the top of his head, especially when they ask him stupid questions about things best left to the imagination.

"What's in the suitcase" is a classic example of a very stupid question that won't go away and whose only proper answer is, "It's best left to the imagination." That's the whole point.

And that's the end of the point. But if you want to follow dead ends further, I'm sure Hitchcock would be happy to roll over in his grave to laugh at you and Tarantino would be happy to tell you whatever is necessary to shut you up and get you onto a more productive, less mercilessly obvious topic.