In "Pulp Fiction", why did Butch go back to save Marcellus?

Butch simply had a belated attack of conscience. He just couldn't leave even Marcellus with those rapist rednecks. I'm sure he also wanted vengeance for himself. And as it turned out, Marcellus let him go and even keep the money he'd given him to take the dive he didn't take, as long as he stayed out of L.A. Worked out pretty well all around.

He saw it as his chance to get Marcellus to agree not to kill him later.



You're my wife now.

Agreed.

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hobnob53 is correct.

The two also had a long working history together, they just had a falling out at the end. But despite that, and what everyone else has said... just because you don't like someone, doesn't mean that you want them to be a kept-rape-slave.

Will Hays is my shepherd, I shall not want. Wills prod and Will's gaff, they confound me.

never underestimate the power of true theton love

just because you don't like someone, doesn't mean that you want them to be a kept-rape-slave Is the converse also true?

In an earlier segment of the picture, as Marcellus is instructing Butch to throw the fight, Marcellus says to Butch, "Now, the night of the fight you might feel a slight sting. That's pride *beep* with you."

The suggestion is that even considering that Butch's life has taken a nosedive and his career as a fighter is failing and about to end, he still has pride. And now the gangster Marcellus is buying even Butch's pride...and in the process his manhood.

Butch rescues Marcellus from the redneck rapists to prove to the gangster that he still has not only his pride and his manhood, but also a sense of honor. It's sort of a guy thing.



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