Pulp Fiction

Johnny Depp could have been part of Quentin Tarantino’sPulp Fiction , but had he been cast , it would have actually been a mistake . Quentin Tarantino has explore a variety of musical style in his movies since the early 1990s , and while his first movie , Reservoir Dogs , was a critical success , his magnanimous break get in two days later withPulp Fiction . Thanks to its non - one-dimensional narrative , characters , and the carrying out of its cast , Pulp Fictionis widely regarded as Tarantino ’s best body of work , and it continues to reach new generations of viewers .

Pulp Fictionis formed by segment arranged in a non - analog path , with each one led by two fibre , and all of them crossing paths at some peak . However , due to how the movie was marketed and their roles in their various segment ( and in others ) , the master character inPulp Fictionare considered to be Jules Winnfield ( Samuel L. Jackson ) , Vincent Vega ( John Travolta ) , and Mia Wallace ( Uma Thurman ) , but there are many others that are of the essence for the overall story of the motion-picture show to progress . Among them is Ringo a.k.a . Pumpkin ( Tim Roth ) , who only appears at the beginning andend ofPulp Fiction , and who was almost play by Johnny Depp , which would have been a mistake .

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How Johnny Depp’s Pumpkin Would’ve Been Different To Tim Roth’s

While speaking on the podcast2 Bears , 1 Cave , Tarantino sharedthat during the casting cognitive process forPulp Fiction , he had a listing of actors he want for the main type . For Pumpkin , his first selection was Tim Roth , follow by Christian Slater and Johnny Depp . Producer Mike Medavoy preferred to have Depp as Pumpkin , but Tarantino clap back by asking if he think Johnny Depp take on a character who is only in the scuttle and mop up scenes would “ add that much to the box office ” . At the timePulp Fictionwas in pre - production , Depp was best known for his roles inA Nightmare on Elm Street , Cry - Baby , andEdward Scissorhands , all very different fromPulp Fiction .

Surely , Depp would have brought a more striking , almost - rack level to the character of Pumpkin , especially in the scene where he ’s being cornered by Jules and switch his mind about the robbery . Depp would have necessarily sacrifice Pumpkin a “ bad boy ” image , very different from the cool and unagitated way Roth gave the eccentric , which would have vary the aforementioned vista where he ultimately make up one’s mind to leave the diner withHoney Bunny ( Amanda Plummer)and not continue with the robbery , perchance making this modification in Pumpkin hard to think .

Tim Roth Was Great As Pumpkin (& Johnny Depp Would’ve Been Worse)

Tim Roth ’s performance as Pumpkin inPulp Fictionis one of the many great carrying out in the moving picture , and even though he just appear at the beginning and the end of the movie , he made a capital impression . While Depp would n’t have been a bad Pumpkin , he would n’t have been as great as Roth was , as it was that coolheaded but also slimly nervous position he gave him that made Pumpkin vulnerable , thus making his variety of brain at the end ofPulp Fictionbelievable . mush Fictionaddresses the theme of redemption through different characters , among them Pumpkin , and Johnny Depp ’s acting fashion would n’t have fitted Pumpkin ’s ready road to redemption as well as Tim Roth ’s did .

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