Date:  Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:25:42 -0600

From:  "Kathleen M. O'Neill" <koneil1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIC.EDU>

Subject: Re: "going medieval"



>>This was used in the movie "Pulp Fiction."

>

>To be more precise, the character in question (criminal boss Marcellus

>Wallace) is swearing vengeance on the hillbilly Zed who...well, it's a long

>story. Anyway, Marcellus is promising to torture said hillbilly with

>boiling oil and other devices of that age, saying "I'm gonna get medieval on

>yo' ass." So the connection to medieval is explained in the movie, but

>since then, I've only heard it used in the sense that you heard, and only by

>people (like myself) who have seen the movie at least two or three times. I

>know of no usage of it either prior to the movie or by people who haven't

>seen the movie, so it's probably an invention of writer/director Quentin

>Tarantino.



Thanks, Stewart -- after I sent that off,

I went scampering about the web, looking

for a site with a Pulp Fiction script,

and couldn't find the aforementioned quote.

But methinks you hit the nail on the proverbial head.



=^]



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