1) Butch’s Redemption –Â Pulp Fiction (1994)
No scene in Tarantino’s canon offers more joy than that of Butch’s redemption. After screwing over Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) and winning a boxing match he agreed to lose, Butch (Bruce Willis) encounters the gangster boss once again and the two eventually find themselves tied up by a hillbilly pervert called Maynard beneath his pawn shop. After Maynard calls his friend Zed and the two take Marcellus Wallace out back to rape him, Butch manages to get himself free and escape.
But he stops on the way out and thinks: Can he really leave Marcellus behind? Nope. So Butch looks around the pawn shop for a weapon to use, and after picking up a few oddities, comes across a samurai sword. He ventures back downstairs and rescues Marcellus, who agrees to let Butch off the hook if he leaves L.A. and never speaks about what the heck just happened.
[zergpaid]It’s an amazing sequence, perfectly edited, acted and directed, and it’s the kind of scene that gives you a buzz every time you watch it. Hilarious, too, and revealing in its character moments, this is exactly why we go to see Quentin Tarantino‘s movies. Hell, this is why we go to the cinema full-stop.
So, which of your own favorite scenes have we missed? Let us know in the comments section below.
