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The Ninth Configuration...


In the "connections" section for Pulp Fiction, it is mentioned that the movie contains a reference to The Ninth Configuration. It's one of my favourites but don't see any overt references to it in Pulp Fiction. Anybody got any ideas what it could be?

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If I had to take a guess, it would be that both movies involve discussions about divine influence versus randomness/coincidence(between Jules and Vincent AND Cutshaw and Kane, respectively).

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see

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that's not a reference.

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In an old Chinese interview, Quentin said: "I have never intended to use my movie to show such philosophical thinking. I will never try to think what does this part mean and what this part about. Sometimes, doing so can put me in a very awkward position. I am just telling a story with some of my thoughts burying inside. I don’t want to be the god on the set, telling actors that their roles are vessels of some kind of thinking, doing this by this way and doing that by that way. I am just trying to let them give full play to their acting talent, and follow their roles. The existentialism you mentioned is kind of a state of living. It’s presented through events and objectively exists in the story."

Source: https://popcultmaster.com/2018/11/10/billed-to-kill/

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