Pulp Fiction is 30 My 90s students were full of theories about it like: ‘Marsellus has a bandage on the back of his neck because in some cultures the soul is taken out through it. That’s what’s in the briefcase.’ Ving Rhames: ‘I cut myself shaving.’

LOL that was the prevalent theory on Usenet

College professor: the TDK was significant in Blade Runner because they made disks and tape and were associated with memory Visitor giving a talk a week later: oh, those were random glowing signs we found in the prop warehouse

*Both can be true*

I saw the premier of "Call Me by Your Name" at Sundance and someone asked a lengthy, earnest question about the symbolism of the flies in the movie and the director just responded that it was Italy in the summer.

In a previous incarnation one often had to remind students of philology about the (sometimes not so) fine line between analysis and phantasmagoric projection . . .🫠😊

It was a great sight gag to reincarnate Reservoir Dogs’ tip hating Mr Pink as a miserable waiter in Pulp Fiction

I see your students read "The Invisibles then; they could have done worse.

I sincerely thought it was a point about the everyday racism of bandaids back in the 90s

That remains my headcanon no matter what anyone says.

I remember hearing one theory that he was the antichrist and the band-aid was covering his 666. That one in particular really made me laugh.