Editing Pulp Fiction (section)

=== Filming ===
[[File:Willis in Pulp Fiction.jpg|right|thumb|Willis evoked one 1950s actor in particular for Tarantino: "[[Aldo Ray]] in [[Jacques Tourneur]]'s ''[[Nightfall (1957 film)|Nightfall]]'' [1956]&nbsp;... I said let's go for that whole look."{{r|n=AldoRay|r=Quoted in {{harvtxt|Dargis|1994a|p=10}}. Other sources have claimed that Butch was patterned after Ray's ''Nightfall'' role.<ref>{{harvtxt|Brooker|Brooker|1996|p=234}}</ref> Tarantino's one public statement on the topic, quoted in Polan,<ref>{{harvtxt|Polan|2000|p=23}}</ref> is clearly devoted to Butch's look and not his personality.}} His boxing robe, designed by [[Betsy Faith Heimann|Betsy Heimann]], exemplifies Tarantino's notion of costume as symbolic armor.{{sfn|Dargis|1994b|p=17}}]]

[[Principal photography]] commenced on September 20, 1993.{{sfn|Polan|2000|pp=69, 70}} The lead offscreen talent had all worked with Tarantino on ''Reservoir Dogs''&nbsp;– [[cinematographer]] [[Andrzej Sekuła]], [[Film editing|film editor]] [[Sally Menke]], [[production designer]] [[David and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco|David Wasco]], and [[costume designer]] [[Betsy Faith Heimann|Betsy Heimann]]. According to Tarantino: "[W]e had $8&nbsp;million. I wanted it to look like a $20–25&nbsp;million movie. I wanted it to look like an epic. It's an epic in everything&nbsp;– in invention, in ambition, in length, in scope, in everything except the price tag."<ref name="T8">Enhanced Trivia Track, ch. 8, ''Pulp Fiction'' DVD (Buena Vista Home Entertainment).</ref> The film, he says, was shot "on [[Film speed|50 ASA]] film stock, which is the slowest stock they make. The reason we use it is that it creates an almost [[Film grain|no-grain]] image, it's lustrous. It's the closest thing we have to 50s [[Technicolor]]."{{sfn|Dargis|1994b|p=18}} The largest chunk of the budget&nbsp;– $150,000&nbsp;– went to creating the Jack Rabbit Slim's set.{{sfn|Polan|2000|p=69}}{{Sfn|Dawson|1995a|p=159}} It was built in a [[Culver City, California|Culver City]] warehouse, where it was joined by several other sets, as well as the film's production offices.{{sfn|Dawson|1995a|pp=159–160}} The diner sequence was shot on location in [[Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]] at the Hawthorne Grill, known for its [[Googie architecture]].{{sfn|Dawson|1995a|loc=p. 158: The Hawthorne Grill was torn down not long after the ''Pulp Fiction'' shoot}} For the costumes, Tarantino took his inspiration from French director [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], who believed that the clothes his characters wore were their symbolic suits of armor.{{sfn|Dargis|1994b|p=17}} Tarantino cast himself in a modest-sized role as he had in ''Reservoir Dogs''. One of his pop totems, [[Monster cereals|Fruit Brute]], a long-discontinued [[General Mills]] cereal, also returned from the earlier film.{{sfn|Hoffman|2005|p=46}} The shoot wrapped on November 30.{{sfn|Dawson|1995a|p=164}} Before ''Pulp Fiction''{{'}}s premiere, Tarantino convinced Avary to forfeit his agreed-on cowriting credit and accept a "story by" credit, so the line "Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino" could be used in advertising and onscreen.{{sfn|Biskind|2004|p=170}}