Sometimes great movies like Pulp Fiction leave a loose end or two. Characters in the movie hint at escapades yet to unfold.
In Pulp Fiction, Butch Coolidge calls “Scotty” on a pay phone after changing clothes in the back of a taxi heading out of town, after the fight he was supposed to throw, mentions Knoxville. I do not recall learning anything about Scotty other than the betting results.
I sometimes imagine what became of Butch and Fabienne after they rode the chopper to Knoxville. Butch was a wild card, so anything could happen.
Imagine he was talking to Scott Hamilton, still jaded about the backflip noise, getting a cut he thought he shoulda coulda woulda had. Hiding out in a Justin boot factory in Juarez waiting on Butch and Fabienne. Forced into the deal by a cartel. Jody is smuggling Vincent’s heroin to Amsterdam to sell, trying to get out, but Fabienne steals her purse. Now they are being followed, and mistakenly identified as deep cover Interpol detectives, but Butch dies landing the plane, gives Fabienne the watch. She hides the watch in the Choco heroin. Scott Hamilton is eaten by a chupacabra right after he texts his kids good night. Thirty years later Fabienne’s son Cody picks up a photo of his dad his wife received from the funeral home and a note slips out of the old frame as it comes apart. Cody is in Tennessee, 24 hours from Juarez. It’s raining outside. The note tells him he hid the xyz in a Dolly Parton crate in a catacomb under Juarez, an ancient bat cave network. He uses the note to roll a joint and watch Lone Ranger high af. Miss you, pop.
Note: No matter what happens, the movie ends in Juarez, but it begins in a jail in New Orleans with three criminals in a jail break.
Fabienne falls in love with a famous online skeptic Ronny Tables who is debunking ghost stories in profane videos he shoots with his camera operator Woody. Danny McBride plays Bill Burr playing Ronny Tables.
Credits, following Woody (SLJ), low-key Jules Winnfield in a studio and archive, edits ghosts out. Opening scene is the footage of mummified remains of a fugitive bootmaker, lovingly displayed in a boot factory in 1950s, cut scene to its rediscovery in Iron Mountain in 2028. Next is him re-reviewing footage, getting a call to fly to Juarez. He calls Fabienne to remind her to mail the watch back to Tennessee, erases the scene of finding the watch in Juarez the previous year in a 1640s graveyard along with a pack of Red Apples. That is where the Dolly Parton crate is, but you do not get that until the end where the scene picks up with the watch. Editing ghosts out. He takes the train. Everyone is wearing slightly silly clothes.
Scene 2: Jim Jarmusch films the entire train sequence. Ghost on the train. Jules must fly back to Juarez because he gives Tables the wrong tape.
Scene 3: The one with ghosts. Cartel forces Tables to reanimate Tony’s mummified wife. She knows where the (contents of the large Dolly Parton edition crate) is hidden in Juarez. But when Tables reanimated Kimiya, the ghost haunting Butch’s Dolly Parton crate in a Juarez catacomb torments them, even Cochamama with growing ferocity.
Scene 4: Cochamama releases the Dark Needle. It hunts everyone down who is present at the Cartel Seance, kills them, in order stall from the proto ghost that absorbs their souls through the Dark Needle. Ghosts activate. When other ghosts activate, the proto ghost must consume and then lose the ghosts it consumes. It begins to lose power, which can be restored if it gets the magnetic dust in the crevices of the watch. The proto ghost is from the catacomb, and part of its brain is stuck in the crevices of the watch. Like an AirTag for monsters. The watch is a beacon, and the proto ghost haunts it. Its name is never mentioned. The proto ghost is a kind of machine trapped in this dimension, entangled.
Scene 5: Michael Keaton figures all of this out because he wired Scott Hamilton’s house and tennis court and slips into Juarez to bust a cartel capo but stumbles into something bigger. He is eaten by a chupacabra at the bottom of a well, reanimates grotesquely by Cochamama’s love, but is run over by a smuggler’s lights-out e-truck one night. Haunts the roadside, called El Espectro Electronico. Comedy relief.
Comes back as a ghost that pioneers the “ghost on a cell phone just scrolling” sightings that follow for the next two centuries. Has an ATEDtalk (Afterlife Technology, Entertainment, Design talk). You must use overt wind noise and fog machine in from below pinhole lighting to achieve portal driving tech activating magnetic dust from the ruins in the Cueva del Murciélago Verde under Juarez. Died looking up what it was that ate him. Ends up in heaven anyways purely by chance. He dialed 911 on his ghost phone and someone answered in real life, and he was released from his spell in limbo.
Fabienne has two love interests but is unable to love neither Tables nor her instagram boyfriend Chad. They only talk about films.
7: When the mummy reanimates, she goes to destroy Tables and Winnfield but fails in a large confrontation. Involves magnetic dust and the watch.
8: The scene is Ronny and Woody talking in the catacomb. Woody’s real identity is revealed. Woody comes clean about the ghosts. Tables appears momentarily in the afterlife in Cleveland before leaving with the proto-ghost machine creature. His parting two word is cut off, but the partial catchphrase is back propagated through every scene, “Go fu.” Becomes a catch phrase, product, everything.
Jules exits the train 24 hours earlier with his equipment and gets an air taxi.
Scene 9: Butch wakes up before a match on another table in a new skin on a different planet for a fight he is supposed to throw against Gofah. You only see chupacabra firsthand a laptop.
Credits:
Jules wakes up in heaven, curses. Ronny sees him and waves, says “Go Fu- “ends.
credits
Chupacabra running wild and eating famous people in credits roll, including Chad. Chad was disproving glowing orbs. He was presenting his TedTalk at the time of his demise.
A closer look:
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