i cannot into pul[p fiction (nov 21, 25, 27)


ORDERING PULP FICTION CHRONOLOGICALLY

1. Scene 2: Hitmen Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield (under employment of Marsellus Wallace) shoot up Brett and co. They take the briefcase that Wallace wanted them to pick up that Brett allegedly stole. 

2. Scene 8 (The Bonnie Situation OVERLAP): Technically this is the same scene as the chronological first, but from a different perspective and far extended. 

This scene starts with a guy standing outside the door and hearing what happens. After the bible speech, and Brett + co. are killed ('cept for Marvin), he smashes through the bathroom door and tries to shoot Vincent and Jules. Every bullet misses them cleanly, and they kill the guy. They take Marvin, who was their informant (for Marsellus) and during the ride back and a discussion about miracles where it's revealed Jules is thinking about resigning as a hitman. When Vincent asks Marvin what he thinks about miracles, he accidentally kills him and blows his brains out all over the car. In fear of the cops or other complications, Jules goes to the friend who owes him a favor (Jimmy) who insists that they sort it out before his wife gets back from her job. Jules calls Wallace and it's stated that a "Mr. Wolf" comes to sort things out. He does, and they get the car cleaned up and the body taken care of. They go to breakfast at a diner.

2.5. Scene 1/Prologue OVERLAP: A small-time criminal Brit couple are discussing heist locations, then decide that a restaurant would be a good idea to stick up because they would be able to take the customers' wallets.

3. CONTINUATION OF 2., Scene 8: Once they arrive at the diner, they continue their discussion about miracles and Vincent goes to the bathroom. 

The stickup by the Brit couple begins. Jules and the guy in the couple, dubbed Ringo, have a face to face when Ringo notices the briefcase. After revealing what is in the briefcase (?) Jules turns the tables around and gets his wallet back, but gives the money to Ringo, to "pay [for] his life". There's more religious stuff, Vincent comes back and tenses things up a little bit but everything is sorted out and both the couple and the hitmen leave the restaurant. 

4. Scene 3 (Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace's Wife): Marsellus is speaking to Butch and paying him to lose or win his fights because he's betting on Butch, I guess?

Vincent and Jules enter the room. Meeting for the first time, neither Vincent nor Butch like each other. It is here that Marsellus hugs Vincent and asks him to take his wife Mia out to enjoy herself because he's leaving town for a few days. 

5. Scene 4: The next day, Vincent is picking up high quality heroin from his dealer Lance. He tries it out, and it's clear that it's the hard stuff. He drives back to get Mia (who does like, a heckton of cocaine), and together they go to a 50s/60s-ish themed restaurant. They dance until it gets late, then they go back to the Wallace's house. When Vincent goes to the bathroom to talk himself out of hitting on Mia, she finds the bag of heroin and snorts it, thinking it's coke (???). She passes out and Vincent comes back finding her in a bad state, taking her to Lance's house. They wake her up with an adrenaline injection and Vincent takes her back home again. They part on peaceful terms, both agreeing not to tell Marsellus. 

6. Scene 7: Butch dreams of his childhood where he as a child was given his dead father's watch. 

7. Scene 8: He wakes up, and it's time for his match. Although it is not shown, it is revealed (with masterful editing/directing!) in the same scene in his taxi drive back to his motel that he killed the man he was fighting instead of whatever Marsellus wanted him to do. His driver, Esmerelda, seems to be intricately fascinated with his opponent's death. 

Arriving back at the motel, he greets his girlfriend and they agree to take their money from winning the boxing matches and leave [the country???] in the morning. The next morning, Butch wakes up to the sound of a war/action movie on the TV (possibly referring to his father and the trauma Butch had to go through as a kid) and they prepare to pack until he realizes that the watch from his father is gone. After tearing up the apartment, Butch attempts to calm down and takes his girlfriend's car to his old apartment. Because of the fight, the entire time he is on edge and making sure that there is nobody (i.e., Marsellus's guys or Marsellus himself). He enters without problem and finds his watch, but lingers for a moment too long and realizes there is indeed someone else in the house with him when he sees a machine gun on a counter. 

It is revealed that that someone is Vincent, and Butch kills him (catching Vincent before he can react coming out of the bathroom). 

He leaves and thinks that it is over, driving away, but as he stops for a traffic light Marsellus turns and sees him in the road crossing before him. In a moment of recognition, before Marsellus can do anything, Butch hits him and swerves into a light post. Both pass out and wake up almost at the same time. A chase occurs, and both make their way to a audio? weapon? something? shop. Butch is about to kill Marsellus, but is stopped by the shop owner. 

Both are knocked out and wake up bound and gagged in the shop owner's basement, who implies that a "cop" named Zed is coming.

Zed arrives and the captives take out a leather slave/gimp guy to keep watch over Butch, while Marsellus is taken to be raped. Butch manages to get out of his bindings and knocks out the slave guy. He is about to escape when he hears Marsellus suffering and decides to turn back, taking a samurai sword with him. 

Arriving in the basement, he manages to sneak up on the store owner who is watching the rape and kill him. He manages to stall the rapist for long enough that Marsellus shoots him in the crotch with a shotgun, rendering Zed unfit to do much more than roll around on the ground. It is during this scene that Marsellus and Butch agree that "[they're] cool", and presumably, the boxing scandal is not brought up again. 

Butch leaves and picks up his girlfriend. On Zed's motorcycle. And they go. 

NOTES (and thoughts- do not read, half of it doesn't make sense it's just for my reference)

Nov. 6: you only get funny titles if there was something funny about the day

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

While Darren and Amarik went through the footage we captured on Monday afternoon/night, and I exported the ADR we got yesterday afternoon sending it their way as well, Joseph and I went through possible options for soundtrack and music for our film. Unfortunately, we had to find an alternative to our original wanted soundtrack from the video game L.A. Noire, because it was copyrighted. Luckily, I know of a very good royalty free music creator and composer, Kevin Macleod, who has hundreds of free-to-use songs on his website Incompetech. On there, Joseph and I sifted through dozens of pages of songs, in the Noir collection as well as anything that is tagged "unsettling". We found and managed to compile a list of songs that would be able to aid us in our own scenes and is below.

IB LEARNER PROFILE

We had to be tireless in our search and picky with what song would fit what scene. I think that meant we had to be principled and reflective on what we were doing to get the ideal soundtracks for each scene, and keeping that discipline was tough (it got boring fast). 

LIST

i knew a guy- car scene
comfortable mystery 4 for monologues (and maybe 3)
night on the docks (trumpet or sax)- ????? it's very sad and slow; reflection type music
oppressive gloom- rooftop
thunder dreams- the fadey chords for the parts
wounded- final scene into credits for sure
impromptu in blue

Nov 3rd

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

After agreeing on a plan for how and what scenes we would shoot after school, everybody gathered around to finish the assembly edit (which it seems the editor and director were fine tuning/rough cutting at the same time) while we considered trying out ADR equipment. I know for sure that we'll need a pop filter, but hopefully we won't have to borrow any equipment from the film lab (we haven't had time to fill out the form) because Joseph has a microphone of decent quality of his own. We messed around a little with recording and playing back to see how we're going to set up ADR tomorrow afternoon as well. 

IB LEARNER PROFILE

Possibly open mindedness, since we need to keep an open mind for new ideas and possible solutions that might be better than the one we choose to go with. This is especially true for our ADR-ing, I think, and probably our shooting later today.