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Why doesn't Vincent freak out after he accidentally shoots Marvin?

posted 4 months ago by TMC-4 (19446)
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Not that he didn't at all freak out, but he's considerably calm about what just happened when compared to Jules and his reaction.

I don't know if that was the intent, but I feel horrible for finding the scene darkly funny. Maybe a lot of it has to do with how casual John Travolta makes it sound like ("I just shot Marvin in the face!"). He makes it sound like a minor nuisance like accidentally spilling a cup of coffee and staining your carpet.

Maybe, since Vincent is a professional hitman (i.e. he kills people for a living), he sort of become desensitized to the seeing blood and murder. And I would assume that hitman by nature, have to be somewhat emotionally detached in order to function, which could be why Vincent seems so composed.

If anything though, Vincent is more panicked when Mia ODs while on his watch than him accidentally shooting a man to death.

[–] ebhaynz (3539) 4 months ago

He's drugged up.

[–] TMC-4 (19446) 3 months ago

Vincent has to be the sloppiest hitman to ever live. What the hell was Vincent thinking when he had his gun out in plain view with Marvin in the back seat in the first place? If you aren't intending on using it, then put it in your holster. I don't care if you think that the safety is on.

And Vincent later leaves his weapon out (again, with the safety off) when he goes to use the toilet at Butch's apartment. You can't say that Vincent didn't know or anticipate Butch's arrival, because why else was Vincent there in the first place?

Here are some past articles that detail his incompetency:
https://nedhardy.com/2023/02/13/vincent-vega/

https://screenrant.com/pulp-fiction-why-marsellus-wallace-uses-vincent-vega/

[–] BKB (6245) 4 months ago

Vincent's character calls for being calm, cool & collected and considering he just shot some dude to death no more than probably 5 minutes earlier, it didn't phase him. Mia Wallace on the other hand was his Boss's wife and he was entrusted to take her out and her dying from an overdose would've probably cost him his life..

[–] N2Far (14) 8 days ago

And it wouldn’t have been a quick end either. He tells Lance that he’ll be “forced” to tell Marcellus what happened. We saw what was done to Zed. The same type of torture would have applied to Vince.