低俗小說(shuō) PULP FICTION

1、 PULP FICTION By Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary PULP pulp n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. American Heritage Dictionary: New College Edition INT. COFFEE SHOP ?MORNING

2、 A normal Dennys, Spires-like coffee shop in Los Angeles. Its about 9:00 in the morning. While the place isnt jammed, theres a healthy number of people drinking coffee, munching on bacon and eating eggs. Two of these people are a YOUNG MAN and a YOUNG WOMAN. The Young Man has a slight working-class

3、English accent and, like his fellow countryman, smokes cigarettes like theyre going out of style. It is impossible to tell where the Young Woman is from or how old she is; everything she does contradicts something she did. The boy and girl sit in a booth. Their dialogue is to be said in a rapid pace

4、 HIS GIRL FRIDAY fashion. YOUNG MAN No, forget it, its too risky. Im through doin that shit. YOUNG WOMAN You always say that, the same thing every time: never again, Im through, too dangerous. YOUNG MAN I know thats what I always say. Im always right too, but ? YOUNG WOMAN ?but you forget about it i

5、n a day or two - YOUNG MAN ?yeah, well, the days of me forgittin are over, and the days of me rememberin have just begun. YOUNG WOMAN When you go on like this, you know what you sound like? YOUNG MAN I sound like a sensible fucking man, is what I sound like. YOUNG WOMAN You sound like a duck. (imita

6、tes a duck) Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. YOUNG MAN Well take heart, cause youre never gonna hafta hear it again. Because since Im never gonna do it again, youre never gonna hafta hear me quack about how Im never gonna do it again. YOUNG WOMAN After tonight. The boy and girl laugh

7、, their laughter putting a pause in there, back and forth. YOUNG MAN (with a smile) Correct. I got all tonight to quack. A WAITRESS comes by with a pot of coffee. WAITRESS Can I get anybody anymore coffee? YOUNG WOMAN Oh yes, thank you. The Waitress pours the Young Womans coffee. The Young Man light

8、s up another cigarette. YOUNG MAN Im doin fine. The Waitress leaves. The Young Man takes a drag off of his smoke. The Young Woman pours a ton of cream and sugar into her coffee. The Young Man goes right back into it. YOUNG MAN I mean the way it is now, youre takin the same fuckin risk as when you ro

9、b a bank. You take more of a risk. Banks are easier! Federal banks arent supposed to stop you anyway, during a robbery. Theyre insured, why should they care? You dont even need a gun in a federal bank. I heard about this guy, walked into a federal bank with a portable phone, handed the phone to the

10、teller, the guy on the other end of the phone said: We got this guys little girl, and if you dont give him all your money, were gonna kill er. YOUNG WOMAN Did it work? YOUNG MAN Fuckin A it worked, thats what Im talkin about! Knucklehead walks in a bank with a telephone, not a pistol, not a shotgun,

11、 but a fuckin phone, cleans the place out, and they dont lift a fuckin finger. YOUNG WOMAN Did they hurt the little girl? YOUNG MAN I dont know. There probably never was a little girl ?the point of the story isnt the little girl. The point of the story is they robbed the bank with a telephone. YOUNG

12、 WOMAN You wanna rob banks? YOUNG MAN Im not sayin I wanna rob banks, Im just illustrating that if we did, it would be easier than what we been doin. YOUNG WOMAN So you dont want to be a bank robber? YOUNG MAN Naw, all those guys are goin down the same road, either dead or servin twenty. YOUNG WOMAN

13、 And no more liquor stores? YOUNG MAN What have we been talking about? Yeah, no more-liquor-stores. Besides, it aint the giggle it usta be. Too many foreigners own liquor stores. Vietnamese, Koreans, they cant fuckin speak English. You tell em: Empty out the register, and they dont know what it fuck

14、in means. They make it too personal. We keep on, one of those gook motherfuckers gonna make us kill em. YOUNG WOMAN Im not gonna kill anybody. YOUNG MAN I dont wanna kill anybody either. But theyll probably put us in a situation where its us of them. And if its not the gooks, it these old Jews whove

15、 owned the store for fifteen fuckin generations. Ya got Grandpa Irving sittin behind the counter with a fuckin Magnum. Try walkin into one of those stores with nothin but a telephone, see how far it gets you. Fuck it, forget it, were out of it. YOUNG WOMAN Well, what else is there, day jobs? YOUNG M

16、AN (laughing) Not this life. YOUNG WOMAN Well what then? He calls to the Waitress. YOUNG MAN Garcon! Coffee! Then looks to his girl. YOUNG MAN This place. The Waitress comes by, pouring him some more. WAITRESS (snotty) Garcon means boy. She splits. YOUNG WOMAN Here? Its a coffee shop. YOUNG MAN What

17、s wrong with that? People never rob restaurants, why not? Bars, liquor stores, gas stations, you get your head blown off stickin up one of them. Restaurants, on the other hand, you catch with their pants down. Theyre not expecting to get robbed, or not as expecting. YOUNG WOMAN (taking to idea) I be

18、t in places like this you could cut down on the hero factor. YOUNG MAN Correct. Just like banks, these places are insured. The managers dont give a fuck, theyre just tryin to get ya out the door before you start pluggin diners. Waitresses, forget it, they aint takin a bullet for the register. Busboy

19、s, some wetback gettin paid a dollar fifty a hour gonna really give a fuck youre stealin from the owner. Customers are sittin there with food in their mouths, they dont know whats goin on. One minute theyre havin a Denver omelet, next minute somebodys stickin a gun in their face. The Young Woman vis

20、ibly takes in the idea. The Young Man continues in a low voice. YOUNG MAN See, I got the idea last liquor store we stuck up. Member all those customers kept comin in? YOUNG WOMAN Yeah. YOUNG MAN Then you got the idea to take everybodys wallet. YOUNG WOMAN Uh-huh. YOUNG MAN That was a good idea. YOUN

21、G WOMAN Thanks. YOUNG MAN We made more from the wallets then we did the register. YOUNG WOMAN Yes we did. YOUNG MAN A lot of people go to restaurants. YOUNG WOMAN A lot of wallets. YOUNG MAN Pretty smart, huh? The Young Woman scans the restaurant with this new information. She sees all the PATRONS e

22、ating, lost in conversations. The tired WAITRESS, taking orders. The BUSBOYS going through the motions, collecting dishes. The MANAGER complaining to the COOK about something. A smiles breaks out on the Young Womans face. YOUNG WOMAN Pretty smart. (into it) Im ready, lets go, right here, right now.

23、YOUNG MAN Remember, same as before, youre crowd control, I handle the employees. YOUNG WOMAN Got it. They both take out their .32-caliber pistols and lay them on the table. He looks at her and she back at him. YOUNG WOMAN I love you, Pumpkin. YOUNG MAN I love you, Honey Bunny. And with that, Pumpkin

24、 and Honey Bunny grab their weapons, stand up and rob the restaurant. Pumpkins robbery persona is that of the in-control professional. Honey Bunnys is that of the psychopathic, hair-triggered, loose cannon. PUMPKIN (yelling to all) Everybody be cool this is a robbery! HONEY BUNNY Any of you fuckin p

25、ricks move and Ill execute every one of you motherfuckers! Got that? CUT TO: CREDIT SEQUENCE: PULP FICTION INT. 74 CHEVY (MOVING) ?MORNING An old gas guzzling, dirty, white 1974 Chevy Nova BARRELS down a homeless-ridden street in Hollywood. In the front seat are two young fellas ?one white, one blac

26、k ?both wearing cheap black suits with thin black ties under long green dusters. Their names are VINCENT VEGA (white) and JULES WINNFIELD (black). Jules is behind the wheel. JULES ?Okay now, tell me about the hash bars? VINCENT What so you want to know? JULES Well, hash is legal there, right? VINCEN

27、T Yeah, its legal, but is aint a hundred percent legal. I mean you cant walk into a restaurant, roll a joint, and start puffin away. Youre only supposed to smoke in your home or certain designated places. JULES Those are hash bars? VINCENT Yeah, it breaks down like this: its legal to buy it, its leg

28、al to own it and, if youre the proprietor of a hash bar, its legal to sell it. Its legal to carry it, which doesnt really matter cause ?get a load of this ?if the cops stop you, its illegal for this to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam dont have. JULES That did it, man ?Im fuckin goin, thats all there is to it. VINCENT Youll dig it the most. But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is? JULES What? VINCENT Its the little differences. A lotta the same shit we got her