could someone plz tell me, what was that thing that was glowing in the suitcase in the movie pulp fiction??
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"What's in the briefcase in "Pulp Fiction?" -- The Long Explanation.\n\nThe contents of the briefcase are never revealed. It's not explained in the screenplay either. What we know is that people are willing to go to extremes to get it and keep it, and that when the case is opened it gives all a visible glow. (In both cases when it is opened, it is facing away from the camera.) Also, people are very impressed by what they see when they see it.\n\nDid Quentin Tarantino, the director, screw up? Did he accidentally cut out some line of dialog that explains it? No, the omission was intentional.\n\nThe contents of the briefcase is a "MacGuffin," a narrative device that serves to move a story forward. In other movies it is the secret plans, the microfilm, the computer disk, or magic formula. It really doesn't matter what it is, only that characters in the story want it.\n\nThe MacGuffin is used by many film makers, but it was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock who used it very effectively. In his interviews with Francois Truffaut he describes how in his earlier movies he would have an explanation of what exactly was the secret plan or vital formula and why it was important. This explanation would come at the end of a movie, after some exciting climatic action. Hitchcock found these scenes were tedious and anti-climatic and later would make them as short as possible. In "Pulp Fiction" Tarantino simply takes the MacGuffin to a logical extreme, he eliminates the explanation all together. By adding the glow it makes all the simple conjectures implausible (drugs, money, guns). It is intentionally ambiguous and unexplained, leaving it to the imagination of the viewers. It's more fun, it tweaks the viewer, it's more effective.\n\nIn interviews Tarantino never explained the contents. When John Travolta was asked, he said it was two lights and a battery." thx to this link for the answer
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Yeehaw! Now we get to find out if Libby is truly dead or not! Also, did you hear that Locke and Eko are supposedly going to find The Flame in this one? In the previews, they lift up the plane thing and underneath it was something that resembled a underground hatch door (much like The Staff.) I'm betting that someone finds The Pearl as well.\n\nBrodie Banky, just cuz the season is over doesn't mean you have to stop with the Lost craze. Have you been following The Lost Experience? It is agame that connects with the show and mostly has to do with The Hanso Foundation. I presume that it will continue even when Lost is done.\n\nHere is my take on the game.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak0sQekCwb77msKPN7cZJ7Hsy6IX?qid=1006050428990
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One of my favorites was a two part episode where JJ has invited a girl to the prom,but he didn't know that she was a junkie(she used heroin).Anyway,instead of going to the prom,they ran off and ended up in a hotel room. After they left,Florida & the family discovered her secret when they found her purse. They found JJ and told him about it,but he wouldn't believe them,until he discovered she was gone. Talk about an episode with a message!
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I once read that in the Bible they had a passage that said that they remove your soul from your body from your neck behind your head.  That is why Marcellus has a band-aid on his neck and apparently his soul is in the briefcase.  I don't know but it sound cool.  In reality it is just a cool gimick Tarantino used.
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I gave you a thumbs up on this question.....sounds like a great movie......I'm hoping someone will have the answer......sounds like one of those "Night Gallery" shorts too.\nOk anyone?!
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The actual existence of a suitcase nuclear weapon has never been fully proved despite being a staple of thriller films.  After the breakup of the Soviet Union, one Russian official went on record as saying the the Soviet Union has 250, 100 of which were unaccounted for.  He was resoundingly criticized and his account was discredited by both the Russian and U.S. governments.\n\nDespite not having been confirmed, it is a very strong possibility that they do exist.  In the 1960s, the United States had a man-portable nuclear device called a Special Atomic Demolition Munition or SADM.  It was about 16 inches by 24 inches and weighed about 150 pounds.\n\nGiven that such an item was of such a small size in the 1960s, it would not be a great leap to imagine that a nuclear device could be made significantly smaller 40 years later.
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I know what you're talking about, I have it recorded on video tape off of t.v., I don't think it's short though. The version I have is movie length with no breaks or to be continued's...it is dark. So I'm not sure if the version I have was taken from this show you're talking about, but I remember the evil witch selling hair combs and then the apple and a corset too, I think and doesn't the evil witch explode in the end and she's like glass or something? I hope you can find it! I looked at the link you posted, and that picture of Snow White on the cover, is not the Snow White I remember, but I know what movie you're describing and I don't think this one available is the one you're looking for. I could make a copy of my tape and send it to you if you wanted, but it's not the greatest quality. sgrjackson1@yahoo.com
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Hostel..and no I haven't seen it.  Unless I can find a sitter..I'll be waiting till it comes out on DVD.  :(  It really does look like a great movie tho!
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1. Who knows (I think so) \n2. see #1\n3. Nobody knows\n4. They were kept hidden.  We aren't even sure if the black smoke was them.\n5. Nobody knows, but that could explain the hatch door getting to the beach... maybe there was no explosion\n6. Looked like northern russia - or at least sounded Russian, looked more like antartica - who knows???\n\nCAN'T WAIT TO FIND OUT!  BEST SHOW EVER!\n\nEdit: a couple other things that bother me:\n\nIf desmond crashed the plane totally by accident, what's with the coincidence of Desmond having encountered so many people from the plane in the previous years?  \n\n...and...\n\nWhat the hell is with that 4-toed statue??
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its from "the Candyman" [movie]
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Hello Dr. Education! Here is my answer: My Luggage.
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It's never defined. According to Roger Avary, who co-wrote the script with Quentin Tarantino, the original plan was to have the briefcase contain diamonds. This seemed neither exciting nor original, so Avary and Tarantino decided to have the briefcase's contents never appear on screen; this way each filmgoer could mentally "fill in the blank" with whatever struck his or her imagination as best fitting the description "so beautiful". The orange light bulb (projecting shimmering light onto the actors' faces) was a last-minute decision and added a completely unintended fantastic element.\n\nIn a radio interview with Howard Stern in late 2003, Quentin Tarantino was asked by a caller the contents of the briefcase, and he answered, "It's whatever the viewer wants it to be."
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i love final destination im like the biggest geek about it i saw the first one when i first got high lol the movies are super great and really freaky its like they way they die u wouldnt ever image it that way .like the airplane part in the first movie was so serious .but ya back to your question i thought the movie was good but i honeslty liked part 1 and 2 better but it doesnt matter i would watch part 3 any day .the part that scared me the most was either the roller coaster part or the part where the 2 girls gotburned in the tanning salon .damn it that movie was so f*cking  great i feel like watching it right now really really bad =] GREAT QUESTION
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It might be what we call in spanish "triboluminiscencia", sorry but I don't know this word in english. I've heard of this phenomenon that happens some times when you unwrap a candy, and its a reaction with the nitrogen in the air.\nI've never seen it, I guess we are all going to try this in a moment.\n\n\n---addition----\n\nFound this in wikipedia, Triboluminescent:\n\n"Ordinary friction tape (the cloth type -- not the shiny electrician's tape) displays a glowing line where the end of the tape is being pulled away from the roll. Also when sugar crystals are crushed, tiny electrical fields are created, separating positive and negative charges that then create sparks while trying to reunite"\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescent\n\nhttp://pages.towson.edu/ladon/wg/candywww.htm
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If I recall, after that scene where his brother Yuri dies, he goes back to New York and gets caught by that weapons inspector, "something Valentine".  \n\nMr. Valentine brings in Nicolas Cage into interrogation and Nicolas Cage tells Mr. Valentine that someone will come knocking on the door to set him free as weapons trade is a necessity in the world.  Soon enough, some army man comes and talks to Mr. Valentine and Nicolas Cage's character is set free, back to selling more weapons to world leaders.  \n\nSomewhat shocking, in a sense, because the movie is based off of real events.  Even if that's not what really happens, you cannot deny the amount of firearm in the world today.  Makes you wonder, do you feel lucky, punk?
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Yup!  They used it in the movie E.T., and it flew!  I'm sure you can find it on Ebay or something.
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Dean's Leather Jacket is hot. I spent the past few minutes searching and all I found out was the costume designer for the pilot was Bobbie Manix...I don't know if that will be any help though :)