Favourite sequence?
They've all got something to offer, but I have to go with Jules and Vincent retreiving the suitcase. Just hilarious and epic.
shareI think it has changed for me over time. As of right now I think I liked the end when there was the wallet grab robbery at the little diner. I liked the line: "You're the weak...and I'm the tyranny of evil men". Also, I liked how powerful the two felt until they ran into the gangsters. I could of wish he didn't give him all of that money out of his wallet.
share"The Bonnie Situation." Which I rather think QT himself favored -- he saved it for last and he is in it(and quite good in it.)
Though "the main event" is Travolta's accidental shooting of the young man(too young, you ask me, to be such a comic victim) and the clean-up and disposal of the car with Winston Wolfe...this sequence is "bracketed" on both sides by the film's existential key: Jules and Vega getting shot at point blank and totally missed; Jules belief that this was an Act of God, divine intervention. This scene sets up "The Bonnie Situation" and then after that situation is solved...we're off to the coffee shop(and clearly now, back in time) for Jules final discussions with Vega(who is alive again...but not for long.)
It may be "cheating" to link these three scenes(shot at the apartment; cleaning up the body; finale at the coffee shop) into one whole, but I think they are. Jules and Vega are at once bonding more deeply and breaking apart -- their arguments are hilarious -- and as the film ends, we know one thing clearly(Vega will soon die) and one thing less so(will Jules quit and STAY quit? I'll be he will after he learns of Vega's death.)
I mainly like this sequence for the high maintenance of comedy:
Jules and Vega reacting to beign shot at and not killed; they look at their shooter, they look at each other, they look back at their shooter and shoot him.
The bloody sudden explosion in the car when Jules gun goes off. Is there, in movie history, a greater example of sudden violence generating such a huge LAUGH? Not to mention Jules' yelling and screaming and the brain matter in his curly hair.
QT dressing down Jules("I know my coffee's good") and about no sign for dead er, body storage and -- movingly -- claiming that what he DOESN'T want is to lose his wife over this. Great dialogue here. What I love about this scene is how Jules -- one menacing, merciless, cold-blooded killer in his scene with the kids at the apartment -- here suddenly becomes sheepish and contrite.
Winston Wolf. Everything about him, start(a gambling party at 8:00 am, the methodical taking down of names for those he will meet) to finish(at Monster Joe's.)
Jules and Vega arguing in the car cleaning it up:
Vega: I'm a racing car, and I'm on red, I'm just warning you!
Jules: Oh...oh...OH! I'm the f'in guns of Navarone back here! In fact, what the f am I doin' on f'in brain detail..YOU get back here and clean this up!
And the spray-down of the two in the backyard, with shirts given to them that make them look, says QT, "like a couple of dorks." ("They're your shirts MFer," replies Jules.)
Just great, all of it.