Proving the egalitarian nature of the internet, they then made the green screen version, which prompted user danoone to use it in an empty classroom with the caption, " MRW no one tells me the class is canceled".Ī few days later, the /r/ConfusedTravolta subreddit was born, which highlighted ingenious remixes of the footage, which had the bewildered hitman stumbling through The Shining’s Overlook Hotel, replacing Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman, running for the Republican presidential nomination, and even Frank Scorpio’s lair in The Simpsons. As if Pulp Fiction wasn’t popular enough, this scene bred new online virality into the groundbreaking crime drama once the internet got hold of it.Īfter user karmafrappuccino used the original scene as a reaction on Imgur, ILikeToWonkaMyWilly posted a Confused Travolta GIF in the toy aisle that reached over 2.8 million views in just 10 days, along with 370 comments. Looking for your car in a parking lot? So is Confused Travolta. Wondering where Fred and George Weasley disappear to in Harry Potter? So is Confused Travolta. Looking for a toy doll? Confused Travolta is with you in the aisle. ![]() Wondering why a European parliament is fighting? So is Confused Travolta. Thanks to greenscreen technology and internet user ILikeToWonkaMyWilly, Vega was cut out of the original living room scene and reborn as the Confused Travolta meme, which was remixed into other iconic movies, film clips, news footage and everyday occurrences. It’s the beginning of a sequence that sees the hitman and Mia take to Jack Rabbit Slims for a conversation on vanilla shakes before their iconic dance floor shaking, which culminates in Vega plunging a syringe of adrenaline into Mia’s heart after she mistakes Vega’s heroin for cocaine. Before a date with crime boss Marcel Wallace’s wife Mia (Uma Thurman), Vincent Vega (John Travolta) high on heroin, is in a lackadaisical trance that makes finding Mia’s voice on the intercom an almost insurmountable task. Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater were on the wish list for more than one role - none made it to the film.Almost as iconic as the rapper’s weird dance in the music video is John Travolta’s confused slink through a lounge room in Pulp Fiction. Patricia Arquette was the front runner for Lance's wife Jody but her sister Rosanna was eventually cast. Dressing gown-wearing drug dealer was written for John Cusack and went to Eric Stoltz, the second choice. Several actors ended up playing the characters that were written for them - notable, Tim Roth as robber Pumpkin and Amanda Plummer as his girlfriend Honey Bunny. Other possibles were Gary Oldman - whose name appears against every male role on the typed sheet but didn't eventually play any - Alec Baldwin and Michael Keaton. As it happened, Mr Madsen was committed to the Kevin Costner-directed Wyatt Earp and so Mr Travolta was cast in his place. The role was written for Michael Madsen, however, who starred in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut Reservoir Dogs. ![]() Hitman Vincent Vega was the role that resurrected John Travolta's career from Hollywood oblivion and fetched him an Oscar nomination. ![]() A document that appears to be director Quentin Tarantino's cast wish list for Pulp Fiction has been posted on Reddit and is causing quite a flutter because it seems that John Travolta would not have played Vincent Vega if the actor the part was written for had been cast instead.
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