Pulp Fiction was a great movie released in 1994 that was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman) and Best Director (Quentin Tarantino), and won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. The movie had a lot of great dialogue and a number of memorable characters including Vincent Vega, Jules Winfield and Mia Wallace.
Vincent Vega was played by John Travolta. Vincent was a hitman who can find humor in anything.
Things you need for a Vincent Vega costume:
• Vincent Vega wig that looks like long, straight black hair that is tied in a long ponytail in back
• black jacket
• bolo tie
• white dress shirt
• black pants
• fake small gold hoop earring worn in his right ear (his ear was not pierced)
Jules Winfield was played by Samuel L. Jackson. Jules was also a hitman and Vincent’s partner on hits. He was very familiar with the bible and throughout the movie he makes biblical references. If you want to really be convincing as Jules, then you should familiarize yourself with some of this best quotes.
Things you need for a Jules Winfield costume:
• The most distinctive part of his wardrobe is his Jheri curl which is a permanent wave hairstyle that was very popular during the 1980s amongst African Americans.
• mustache and beard
• black jacket
• skinny black tie
• white dress shirt
• black pants
If you want to try something different, you can buy the same Santa Cruz Slugs shirts that Vincent and Jules wore.
Both Vincent and Jules changed into Santa Cruz Slugs shirts after Vincent accidentally shoots Marvin in the face while they were in the getaway car and blood gets all over Vincent and Jules’s clothes.
Uma Thurman plays Mia Wallace. She was Marcellus Wallace’s wife and Vincent’s date and dance partner when they go to have dinner at a 1950s-themed restaurant called Jack Rabbit Slim’s.
Later in the night, Mia convinces Vincent to participate in a twist content just announced by the DJ at the restaurant. The DJ starts playing the music for Chuck Berry’s song ‘You Never Can Tell’. During their dance, they do the twist along with the Adam West Batman dance called the Batusi dance, which was first seen in the episode ‘Hi Diddle Riddle’ and then later on in the episode ‘The Pharaoh’s in a Rut’.
If you want to do the dance properly, you have to start by making the V sign hand gesture with the index and middle fingers in a horizontal position and the other fingers clenched. While you are doing the twist along with the music, slowly move the V sign horizontally across your eyes. First with one hand and then the other.
Things you need for a Mia Wallace costume:
• black bob hairpiece
• white button-down shirt
• black nail polish
• grey trench coat with heroin in one of the pockets
If you need a recognizable costume for a couple that is really simple to make, then you can go as Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace or Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield.
