Did Vincent & Mia Win The Dance Contest? Pulp Fiction Secretly Told You
Pulp Fiction has one of the most memorable dance scenes in film history, and it’s revealed moments later that Mia and Vincent’s dance moves helped them win the dance contest… but they might have actually gotten that shiny trophy through other methods. Quentin Tarantino’s career as a filmmaker began in 1992 with the crime movie Reservoir Dogs, and while it was a critical hit and opened many doors for him in the film industry, his big break arrived two years later with Pulp Fiction, also a crime film but told in a non-linear style.
Pulp Fiction is divided into segments told out of order, with each one focusing on one or two characters and all of them crossing paths at some point. The characters leading these segments are hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), their boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), his wife Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman), and boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), and while they all star in at least one segment, the ones often considered the leads of the movie are Mia and Vincent, and they are also at the front and center of one of Pulp Fiction’s most memorable scenes.
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Vincent and Mia are the stars of one segment as Vincent agrees to escort Mia while Marsellus is out of town. Vincent and Mia go out for dinner at Jack Rabbit Slim’s, a 1950s-themed restaurant, where after ordering some food and milkshakes and chatting for a while, they decide to take part in the restaurant’s twist contest. Neither Mia nor Vincent are professional dancers, but their choreography made it one of the most iconic scenes in film history, and it's assumed that those strange but fun dance moves are what made them win
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