How Nick Fury Connects To Samuel L Jacksons Pulp Fiction Character

How Nick Fury Connects To Samuel L. Jackson’s Pulp Fiction Character

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The MCU & Tarantino’s movie universe are very different, but Nick Fury has a connection with Jules Winnfield beyond being played by Samuel L. Jackson.

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How Nick Fury Connects To Samuel L Jacksons Pulp Fiction Character

There are various movie universes in the entertainment industry, and most of these will never cross paths, but they can add some subtle references to others in their movies, just like Marvel did with Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction through Nick Fury. The Marvel Cinematic Universe began in 2008 with Jon Favreau’s Iron Man and has been pretty much unstoppable ever since, with over 20 movies and more coming in the near future.

Meanwhile, Tarantino has also been building his own movie universe, though one with a peculiar organization. Tarantino’s movie universe is divided into two levels: the “real than realer” world, and the “movie universe”, which are the movies the characters in the first level watch. His most famous work, and the one regarded by many as his masterpiece, Pulp Fiction, is part of the “real world” side of his universe, and stars one of his frequent collaborators who also had a big role in the MCU: Samuel L. Jackson.

Known as Jules Winnfield and also as Nick Fury, Samuel L. Jackson is the biggest link between the MCU and Tarantino’s universe, and it’s a fun detail that Marvel had to eventually seize – and it finally did in Captain America: the Winter Soldier.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s Pulp Fiction Reference Explained

The MCU loves to mess with its audience by supposedly killing big characters only to bring them back later on in the same movie. Captain America: The Winter Soldier was no exception, and it had Nick Fury faking his death during a big part of the movie, to the point where his tombstone was shown on screen – and that’s where a Tarantino reference can be found. Fury’s epitaph reads “The path of the righteous man: Ezekiel 25:17”, which is how Jules Winnfield’s most famous quote in Pulp Fiction begins.

Speaking to SlashFilm back in 2014, Winter Soldier directors Anthony and Joe Russo spoke about how they decided to add that specific Pulp Fiction reference. The Russo brothers explained that they couldn’t figure out what Fury’s tombstone should look like and went through many versions until someone (possibly their effects supervisor, Dan Deleeuw, though they couldn’t quite remember) came up with the idea to add the (misquoted) bible verse from Pulp Fiction. The Russos were obviously on board with adding a subtle nod to one of Tarantino’s finest works, and that’s how the reference came to be. There will never be an MCU and Tarantinoverse crossover, but little details like this are fun to find and create subtle connections between two very different worlds.

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