https://tvovermind.com/why-the-butch-coolidge-storyline-wasnt-necessary-for-pulp-fiction/
shareHuge amounts of time in QT films are dedicated to things that aren’t necessarily needed to move the plot forward. Think about all the things that don’t happen if Butch is not a character.
Nahhh, Pulp Fiction is perfect as it is.
It's a great movie as is. But a more tightly focused film that just followed the misadventures of the two hitmen would been great too.
shareYou take the Butch Coolidge storyline out and you remove Christopher Walken spending his entire time as a POW with Butch's father's watch shoved up his ass.
shareLook at it this way: there's a reason Pulp Fiction is a classic that will live forever, while "Jeffrey Bowie Jr" is an obscure filmmaker who is simply Writing about it.
shareI agree that the Butch story kinda drags the movie down a bit. It’s fine on its own but the shift away from Jules and Vincent is a little jarring imo.
I actually showed my wife Pulp Fiction for the first time years ago. I forgot why but we only had time for a shorter movie and as an experiment, I decided to show her the movie while skipping over the Butch story. It still worked as a solid movie. I think showed her Butch’s story separately a day or two later which also worked as a nice short film.
Funnily enough I prefer the Butch story to the Vincent/Mia storyvand always skip said Vincent and Mia parts. I admit I can't stand the OD scene.
shareI'm not sure it was an OD, rather Mia snorting heroin thinking it was cocaine(something about drug users knowing that cocaine goes in a bag and heroin goes into a baloon).
This is from the script :
" But wait, her fingers touch something else. Those fingers bring out a plastic bag with white powder inside, the madman that Vincent bought earlier from Lance. Wearing a big smile, Mia brings the bag of heroin up to her face.
MIA: Disco! Vince, you little cola nut, you've been holding out on me.
Mia has the unbeknownst-to-her heroin cut up into big lines on her glass top coffee table. Taking her trusty hundred dollar bill like a human Dust-Buster, she quickly snorts the fat line.
CLOSEUP – MIA
Her head JERKS back. Her hands go to her nose (which feels like it's on fucking fire), something is terribly wrong.
Then... the rush hits..."
That's a take, all right.
Pulp Fiction was co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. Avary wrote his bit first, which became the centerpiece, the core of the plot. Tarantino wrote everything else around it.
The part that Avary wrote was the Butch storyline.