On the other hand, Quentin Tarantino must make a cross on the basement where Butch and Marsellus are locked up. They’re very protective.” he said years later in the columns of Los Angeles Magazine. Stage manager Bob Craft is commissioned to tour Los Angeles in search of the pawn shop and other filming locations. For the pawn shop scene, where Butch (Bruce Willis) and Marsellus (Ving Rhames) are taken prisoner by the dastardly Maynard (Duane Whitaker) and Zed (Peter Greene), the director managed to get permission to shoot in a real pawn shop in Canoga Park. The storefront, belonging to a former bowling alley, is still visible at 1432 Flower Street in Glendale. A fictional place made entirely out of a warehouse in Culver City. The most expensive setting is Jack Rabbit Slim’s, the 1950s restaurant in which John Travolta and Uma Thurman dance to Chuck Berry. Unlike his first attempt, however, his more comfortable budget now allows him to count on several locations. Awarded a Palme d’Or at Cannes thanks to the insistence of Clint Eastwood, then president of the jury, it has given rise to a genre of its own.Īs with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino is keen to shoot his new film in and around Los Angeles. If the feature films in Quentin Tarantino’s filmography have a genuine cult following, Pulp Fiction remains the most celebrated. “You want that gun, Zed? Pick it up.” Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) Crown Pawn Shop - Photo credit: Google street view A reference often imitated but never equalled, having definitively installed Quentin Tarantino among the greatest filmmakers of his time. By skilfully mixing references to the heart of a fragmented story, Pulp Fiction gave birth to a style of its own.
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