Pulp Fiction Prop Research Thread

[Jedirick]

Originally posted by kapow@Feb 14 2006, 09:50 PM
And for the kids:
Knitted...gimp masks.. :confused
http://www.popdizzy.com/archives/popdizzy-...itted-gimp-suit

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Man you are not right. :lol

 

[Reel Fakes]

Just in case anyone's interested:

http://www.rpf.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=105201

Good stuff.
-Chris

 

[Fetthunter]

How about UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs t-shirts?

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I know you Cali people can probably pick one up on any street corner (), but those of us in "the boonies" aren't so fortunate.

I Googled it, with less than spectacular results. :unsure



J

 

[Prop Runner]

Googled hard enough you did NOT. Found this in under 10 seconds by copy-pasting your own key words

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$13.99 at the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs merchandise site:

http://slugstore.ucsc.edu/ePOS/store=721&a...amp;design=721#

They even allude to the shirt's appearance in the film:

This is definitely a collector's item. Designed by students, this t-shirt was worn by John Travolta in the movie "Pulp Fiction". This educated Slug reads Plato. Made of 99% cotton, 1% polyester.
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[Prop Runner]

Just got this in the mail a few minutes ago:


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It's not 100% accurate, but the quality of the leather, stitching, embroidery, and workmanship is top-notch. Best I've found out there... Now I have to go step on it, soak it, oil it, and wear it for a year to match the hero wallet.

Marcus (kurtboy) and I are looking into printing fake $100 bills - Jules had 15 of them in his wallet when he and Vincent were having breakfast at the Hawthorne Diner.

Jedipunk is offering cool Jules and Vincent California driver licenses - looks like this will be my SECOND wallet replica set (my Deckard wallet set from Blade Runner being the first)

 

[Jedirick]

Originally posted by Prop Runner@Feb 15 2006, 08:09 PM


Marcus (kurtboy) and I are looking into printing fake $100 bills  - Jules had 15 of them in his wallet when he and Vincent were having breakfast at the Hawthorne Diner.

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Already had my personal encounter with the Treasury Department. I'd take 10 LFL C&Ds over one chat with those boys. They are zealots with a capital Z.

Best bet would to be acquire some ebay "official" prop money or drastically alter size and or appearance of the bills.
Like stick Travoltas face on the bill, refer to it as pulp fiction tender, something rather noticable.
This ain't a time for accurracy. To be even safer, Don't even think about carrying the wallet and bills around with you. Should be a display only item.

Get caught with them and you'll probably find that there is not one single agent who has seen Pulp Fiction or any other film in the last decade. These guys tend to be focused on the job and only the job. To them if you own a printer, copier or any other means of duplication you are a counterfeiter.

 

[Prop Runner]

Sheesh - who ratted you out? :lol

- Gabe

 

[kurtyboy]

:angel

 

[Endless Wonder]

If you guys are serious about the $100s, I'd get some of that play money. It's close enough looking at first glance.

 

[KarlBud420]

Originally posted by Prop Runner@Feb 16 2006, 04:35 AM
Sheesh - who ratted you out? :lol

- Gabe

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It could have been his actual printer that gave him away. Check out this story from November of last month.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118664,00.asp

BTW, nothing meant to be implied at all JediRick. I just thought this was a good way to post about the article.

Bruce

 

[Prop Runner]

Phew.. Thanks God I have an ink jet printer. :lol

Gonna go crank me out some Benjamins now...

- Gabe

 

[dblank]

Thanks for the info on the bad mofo wallets I was always unsure which of the wallet makers to go with. Here's my Vincent and Jules busts.

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[Prop Runner]

AWESOME WORK.. :eek

Love how you gave Vincent that shifty-eyed look - most busts I've seen here have the eyes facing front, which is very boring. Nice touch... :thumbsup

 

[Jedirick]

Originally posted by Prop Runner@Feb 16 2006, 03:35 AM
Sheesh - who ratted you out? :lol

- Gabe

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Idid a stupid thing. I did a nice thing for a stranger.

For years our stores have checked for counterfeit bills with marker pens etc. When found, I have always turned these in to the bank or to the local Treasury department.

Few years back I got a 'Check due on delivery" shipment from a pet product specialty company. The main owner had sent his employee on a east coast delivery run.

When I paid the guy he asked where the nearest bank was where he could cash the check to cover travel expenses. I called his boss who confirmed he had told him to do so. Being the nice guy I am, I paid him out of petty cash to keep him from having to drive his rig in town to a bank. The total was about $1500 all in twenty's.

Five days later the guy shows up back in Texas, hands the money to his boss who finds $500 in counterfeit bills... he reports it to the Treasury dept. Who comes looking for me.

I got run through the mill. Got interrogated for a couple hours. All our petty cash comes from the bank as it is constantly reimbursed. We have many live animal COD shipments. The bank manager verified we cashed a petty cash check that day for almost a $1000, didn't matter. The delivery guy claimed he never counted the money, we had 3 witnesses who saw him count it. Didn't matter. The treasury guys came to my office, looked over our printer/scanners, told us they weren't they ones used, wanted to know what we did with the one we used. real A-holes.
I really figured I had given the guy counterfeit money and some how neither the bank or I had caught them. I mean $500 in bogus twentys not getting spotted meant these were some well made bills.

Then the counterfeit bills arrived in the local office. They call me down there again for more questions. I was eager to cooperate because I figured if the bills were that good and hadn't surfaced elsewhere that I was the primo suspecto.

I took one look at the bills and lost my temper. Totally just lost it.Did a jekyll/hyde. I mean I am a very big guy and have a large voice and I went off the deep end. Suddenly there were four very alert agents in the room with me and my attorney. I scared my attorney as he had yet to get as good look at the bills.

The bills had been xeroxed front and back. The same $100 same $50 bill used several times I never gave him any 100's or 50's. The bills were on regular white paper. Each bill was two pieces of xeroxed paper glued back to back with school paste. The edges were not even lined up or glued together.. The colors were all gray tones from using a black and white copier. The paper was wrinkley, stiff and lumpy from all the glue used. A ten yearold kid could have done better. A five year old could have picked them out as fakes.

I cussed those four guys out for jerking me around, for scaring crap out of my office girls, for embarassing me at the bank, for worrying my wife and for generally being idiots. I was in their face pissed. Then I walked out of the office before anybody could really say anything, well actually anything they said I shouted down. Had to wait at my car for my lawyer to catch up. Never heard another word from those guys.

I get a bogus bill now. I turn it over to the bank. Screw the Treasury guys. Somebody like that take a decent hard working business person and put him through crap like that over an obvious grade school art project has a mindset I will not deal with.

 

[Prop Runner]

So they called you back even though they KNEW you paid the guy in 20s and despite the fact that your prints never showed up on any of the bills? And the delivery guy wasn't the main suspect because...?

Whacky, whacky stuff.... :confused

- Gabe

 

[Jedirick]

Originally posted by Prop Runner@Feb 16 2006, 10:25 PM
So they called you back even though they KNEW you paid the guy in 20s and despite the fact that your prints never showed up on any of the bills?  And the delivery guy wasn't the main suspect because...?

Whacky, whacky stuff....  :confused

- Gabe

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These guys operate on guilty until proven guilty. Just an example of how these guys think and BATF is right behind them. Anyone operating under the premise their Sterling meets BATF demil specs is working with no net.

I couldn't prove I paid in 20's, my word against a guy in Texas who turned in the bills.

Obviously the the delivery guy over spent his stipend. Replace it with funny money and play innocent.

Sad thing is I lost a specialty distributor and he lost a major account. All over a stinking employee and $500.

 

[Chingon]

Originally posted by Prop Runner@Feb 15 2006, 02:17 AM
I have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER what shirt Jules is wearing...    Anyone?

- Gabe

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In the script it says Jules picks out an "I'm with Stupid" shirt from Jimmy's bag of clothes. Can't tell if the shirt worn in the film says that, though.

 

[Prop Runner]

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@Feb 15 2006, 02:17 AM
I have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER what shirt Jules is wearing...      Anyone?

- Gabe

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In the script it says Jules picks out an "I'm with Stupid" shirt from Jimmy's bag of clothes. Can't tell if the shirt worn in the film says that, though.

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I could be mistaken, but it looks to me like George Washington crossing the Delaware and behind him is a sista with an monster afro... I don't see any text or captions at this resolution... Gonna make me some screen caps now.

- Gabe

 

[ed-209]

I could be mistaken, but it looks to me like George Washington crossing the Delaware and behind him is a sista with an monster afro... I don't see any text or captions at this resolution... Gonna make me some screen caps now.

- Gabe


Gabe, I wonder what Sigmunf Freud would think of your interpretation of JuliusÂ’s shirt graphic?

The shirt is actually a blowup from a cartoon panel from KRAZY KAT. The graphic shows Krazy Kat being hit in the back of the head with a brick thrown by IGNATZ the mouse. The “sista” with the monster afro is…a tree....
See below for info on Krazy KatÂ….
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Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, Offissa Pupp and an assortment of other individuals. These cartoon characters were created in 1913 by George Herriman, a cartoonist for Hearst papers. The strip ran until the mid-1940's. In the cartoon, Krazy Kat, a cat of indeterminate sex, was in love with Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz, in turn, had a somewhat antagonistic attitude toward Krazy, which he demonstrated by tossing bricks at her head. Alas, Krazy took the hard knocks as a sign that Ignatz truly loved him. Meanwhile, Offissa Pupp, the local canine constable, also loved Krazy, and tried to protect her by attempting to catch Ignatz at his various criminal activities and throw him in jail. The eternal love triangle, with all the confusion, humor, violence and pathos, played out against the surrealistic setting of Coconino County, Arizona, land of the Grand Canyon.

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[Jedirick]

Anybody able to ID Jackson's T ?