One of the most iconic monologues in movie history unfolds in this unforgettable scene from Pulp Fiction. Before pulling the trigger, Jules Winnfield delivers his legendary Ezekiel 25:17 speech, turning an ordinary hit into one of cinema's most memorable moments.
Starring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, this classic scene perfectly captures the sharp dialogue and unforgettable style that made Pulp Fiction a cultural phenomenon.
What’s the movie about? Intertwining stories of crime and redemption unfold in Los Angeles, where hitmen, boxers, and gangsters cross paths in unexpected ways.
This transcript consists of several disjointed scenes featuring characters from a crime drama. It depicts a tense interrogation involving a betrayal, a confrontation between a boss and a boxer regarding a fixed fight, and casual, erratic conversations between associates involving social boundaries and body piercings.
We happy?
Vincent!
We happy?
Yeah, we happy.
I'm sorry, I didn't get your name.
I got yours, Vincent, right?
But I never got your-
My name's Pitt, and your ass ain't talking your way out of this ----.
No, no, no.
I just want you to know, I just want you to know how sorry we are
that things got so f***ed up with us and Mr. Wallace.
We got into this thing with the best intentions, really.
I never-
Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?
I didn't mean to do that.
Please, continue.
You were saying something about best intentions?
What's the matter?
Oh, you were finished?
Oh, well, allow me to retort.
What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
What?
What country you from?
What, what?
What ain't no country I ever heard of?
They speak English and what?
What?
English, f***er, do you speak it?
Yes.
Then you know what I'm saying.
Describe what Marcellus Wallace looks like.
What?
Say what again.
Say what again, I dare you.
I double dare you, f***er.
Say what one more goddamn time.
He's black.
Go on.
He's bald.
Does he look like a f***er?
What?
Does he look like a f***er?
Then why you try to f*** like a b***h, Brett?
I didn't.
Yes, you did.
Yes, you did, Brett.
You tried to f*** him.
Marcellus Wallace don't like to be f***ed by anybody except Mrs. Wallace.
You read the Bible, Brett?
Yes.
Well, there's this passage I got memorized.
Sort of fits this occasion.
Ezekiel 25, 17.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish
and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley
of darkness.
For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt
to poison and destroy my brothers.
And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
I think you're gonna find when all this s*** is over.
I think you're gonna find yourself one smiling motherf***er.
Thing is, butch, right now you got ability.
But painful as it may be, ability don't last.
And your days are just about over.
Now that's a hard f***ing fact of life.
But that's a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about.
See, this business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherf***ers.
Motherf***ers who thought their ass would age like wine.
If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does.
If you mean it gets better with age, it don't.
Besides, butch, how many fights you think you got in you anyway?
Two?
Boxers don't have an old times day.
You came close, but you never made it.
And if you were gonna make it, you would have made it before now.
You mind?
Certainly appears so.
Night of the fight you may feel a slight sting.
That's pride f***ing with you.
Pride.
Pride only hurts.
It never helps.
You fight through that s***.
Because a year from now, when you're kicking it in the Caribbean,
you're gonna say to yourself, Marcellus Wallace was right.
I got no problem with that, Mr. Wallace.
In the fifth, your ass goes down.
Say it.
In the fifth, my ass goes down.
Oh, Vincent Vega, our man in Amsterdam.
Choose Winfield, our man in Englewood.
Get your asses out in here.
Nigga, what's up with them clothes?
I don't need more than enough.
Where's the big man?
Big man's right over there taking care of some business.
Why don't you hang back for a second or two, you know?
When you see the white boys leave, just go on over.
How you been?
I've been doing pretty good. How about yourself?
All right.
So I hear you're taking Mia out tomorrow.
At Marcellus's request.
Have you met Mia?
Not yet.
That's not ******* funny.
You haven't got a damn thing.
I got the piss.
Look, you're an idiot, all right?
That's a big man's wife.
I'm gonna sit across from her, chew my food, my mouth closed, laugh at her jokes, and that's it.
Hey, my name's Paul, and this ----'s between y'all.
Then what'd you ******* ask me about it for?
You a pack of red apples?
Filters.
All right.
You looking at something, friend?
You ain't my friend, palooka.
What was that?
I think you heard me just fine punch you.
Got some vegans in the house?
Miami black.
Pack of red apples.
L40.
Get some matches.
It's as if it turns every part of your body into the tip of a penis.
Wow.
I'll let it do.
It's great for a gun piercing.
Well, you see how they use that gun to pierce your ears?
They don't use that to pierce your nipples.
So you do them.
Get that gun.
That gun goes against the entire idea behind piercing.
Oh, my piercing?
18 places on my body.
Every one done with a needle.
****.