Shakespeare’s Pulp Fiction

ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.

J: And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?
J: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike
Are strange to ours, with their own history:
Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.
V: What say they then, pray?
J: Hachis Parmentier.
V: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?
J: Cream is but cream, only they say le crème.
V: What do they name black pudding?
J: I know not;
I visited no inn it could be bought.

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Linkage Four

The Ice Pirates is one of those movies that inexplicably became a milestone in my own movie upbringing. When we watched this as kids, we decided we could make a movie at least as good as this and set out to make our own cardboard props and filmed a dew minutes with a VHS camera before we realized that no, we couldn’t really.