Influences

Pulp Fiction features many direct references to other films. Tarantino (a former video store clerk) is well-known for having watched nearly every movie in the store before going off to make his first mainstream film, Reservoir Dogs. The influence of this broad viewing remains prominent in Pulp Fiction.

* The passage from the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel 25:17 was first read in the 1967 film Karate Kiba.

* Don Siegel's The Killers (1964) concerned two wise-cracking hitmen dressed in tailored black suits.

* A similar dance sequence took place in Jean-Luc Godard's Bande ? part (in another ode, Tarantino eventually named his production company A Band Apart).

* The line "with a pair of pliers and a blow-torch" was originally used in the 1973 film Charley Varrick.

* Quentin Tarantino's personal life problems was his inspiration for Jules' self-reflection * As noted above Kiss Me Deadly and Repo Man both feature a case/container opening with nothing seen but a bright light.

* The 1978 film American Boy by Martin Scorsese features Steven Prince telling the story of a time when he had to inject his friend with adrenaline. He marked his friend's heart with a red magic marker, used a long-needled syringe, and injected the dosage directly into his friend's heart, after which he immediately became conscious again.

* The exterior shot of Jack Rabbit Slim's is a reference to the 1973 film American Graffiti.

* The dance sequence in Jack Rabbit Slim's uses the same dance moves and camera sweeps as the dance sequence in Federico Fellini's 8½.