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Film screenshot of John Travolta as Vincent Vega

Image from Pulp Fiction, reproduced in Dana Polan (2000), Pulp Fiction (London: BFI). ISBN 0851708080.

Pulp Fiction (film)

Complete, as reproduced in Polan.

Yes

For use in article subsection "Critical analysis"/"Notable motifs"/"The mysterious briefcase". The image is used for explication of sourced critical commentary on the depicted action and performance and the widely discussed cinematic allusion they involve. This is one of the most widely discussed and analyzed moments in the motion picture (Ebert, Roger (1997). Questions for the Movie Answer Man, p. 186 (Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel). ISBN 0836228944). Underscoring its unusual importance, Tarantino's screenplay specifies the character's facial expression (Source: Tarantino, Quentin (1994). Pulp Fiction: A Screenplay, p. 28 (New York: Hyperion/Miramax). ISBN 0786881046); the image helps the reader to understand the emotional effect of that expression and assess its relation to its allusive source, a comparable moment in the film Kiss Me Deadly (Source: Gallafent, Edward (2006). Quentin Tarantino, p. 46 (London: Pearson Longman). ISBN 0582473047). The allusion to Kiss Me Deadly has attracted widespread critical attention and is considered crucial to an understanding of Tarantino's aesthetic approach to the creation of Pulp Fiction (Sources: Groth, Gary (1997). "A Dream of Perfect Reception: The Movies of Quentin Tarantino", in Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, ed. Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland, p. 188 (New York: W.W. Norton). ISBN 0393316734; Polan, Dana. (2000). Pulp Fiction, p. 20 (London: BFI). ISBN 0851708080). In addition, in the general context of the article, it also illustrates one of the most significant of the many cinematic allusions employed by Tarantino, and one of the most visual, as well (Source: Gormley, Paul (2005). The New-Brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, p. 164 (Bristol, UK, and Portland, Ore.: Intellect). ISBN 1841501190). The use of the image in this location and context makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone.

As a screenshot of a unique cinematic scene, any comparable image would be similarly under copyright, so no free image plausibly exists or could exist that would be a valid replacement.

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