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besides "the bad motherfucker" image.
He recites Biblical passages before he kills you, he remains calm and in control during a diner robbery, he just says cool shit and makes complete sense.
QT then comes in as some suburban husband in a bathrobe, chewing Jules out with the n-word and Jules is taking it. It shows that even this "anti-hero type bad motherfucker" knows when to shut up.
QT never really utilizes archtypes the way other people do.
Look at Mr. Pink in "Reservouir Dogs". He was the one whining, freaking out, and all that throughout the whole movie, but in reality, when you think about it, his idea to split WAS the good idea. You had Madson over here being the psycho, Keitel over there being the loyal, bad guy-with-a-heart-of-gold, and then you had Tim Roth, who was the good guy who caught a bad break. Amidst all the chaos going on, Mr. Pink was telling'em "Look, we need to go. We robbed a bank, cops got shot...we need to fuckin go".
In the end, who was the only one who lived? Mr. Pink. He broke out...because he was the one in the whole movie TELLING them to break out lol It's not complicated or plot twisty.
Jules stopped being the archtype bad motherfucker anti-hero that everyone loved, shut up, and took it. He started being appologetic even. There was a hole...a contradcition in the archtype. Avatar? E-Boogs and Nayi
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