Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)
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Pulp Fiction and the Butch Narrative
The Coen brothers take things that are normally banal features of everyday life, and they center plots around it. The main driving purpose of the butch narrative is all about the watch. That's why he goes back to the house,. shoots John Travolta, has the whole thing with Marcellus Wallace and Zed. And then, yeah, the rug is what gets him involved in this whole convoluted plot. It's all he really wants is his rug man.
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