This was always so stupid LOL, people wanted so badly to be clever that they unlearned what a McGuffin was
I did always like the soul theory tho. It kinda holds up! Especially when you consider Jules’ dialogue in the diner scene. The best MacGuffins are the ones that make you think, and few do that better than PULP FICTION.
A decade of youtubers doing two hour videos redefining purposeful omission as "Plot holes"
It’s odd because I prefer Pulp Fiction to Reservoir Dogs, which I loved at the time, but Reservoir Dogs is totally logical when you lay it out chronologically. Pulp is like, let’s start right after the heist, which was successfully pulled off by a crew of doofuses. Also idk what they stole
One of my greatest pet peeves is the degradation of “Macguffin” to mean “any object of desire.” What Hitchcock defined was an object/goal that kicks off the story but ultimately doesn’t matter. Like the money in Psycho, or the briefcase.
The final scene of this movie is Jules doing a monologue about how he’s been a bad person and has made a decision to seek redemption, say what you will about Tarantino but he’s not trying to outwit you
The Soul Stone in the MCU is such a close match in color to What's In The Briefcase that I swear someone did it intentionally.
I liked the soul theory. It didn’t detract from the film at all, it dovetailed nicely with Jules’ character arc, and it piqued our imagination in wondering why Marcellus’ soul was in a briefcase and how big brain Brett ended up with it.
It being the diamonds from Reservoir Dogs is a funner theory, anyway.
The soul thing was always meh to me. I liked to go with the jewelry from Reservoir Dogs.
I mean. I was 14 when it came out. The older kids said it was his soul in there. We didn’t understand the movie in the first place. Seemed to make as much sense as anything else.