20 Things You Somehow Missed In Pulp Fiction

There are several key scenes throughout Pulp Fiction that take place in a moving vehicle. Jules and Vincent travel together a lot, Vincent of course drives Mia to Jack Rabbit Slim's, Lance’s house, and back home with an OD in between, and Butch aims to leave town in his own car after shooting Vincent in the bathroom.

In each of these scenes the background of the car journey is brought to life by way of green screen movie magic. This is nothing groundbreaking, new, or special, but there is something very strange about Butch’s cab ride with Esmeralda Villa Lobos.

In fairness, there is a whole laundry list of what you could call weird about this journey, mainly the driver’s obsession with knowing what it is like to kill a man. If you focus on this too much, or on looking at the two characters in general, you may have missed that the background is completely black and white.

Scouring the internet, there is no definitive reason known for this particular decision, though it certainly isn’t the only time Quentin Tarantino has utilised black and white in his movies. It could be that he just liked the look of it, or it could have been something of a nod to the illusion of movie-making, and that really he could do whatever he wanted. For the time being however, you’ll have to make up your own mind on this one.