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Apr 20, 2020 · In a new interview, 'Pulp Fiction' director Quentin Tarantino says The Gimp was supposed to die by the end of the film.
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Apr 23, 2020 · The Gimp is a mute character in a leather bondage suit who appears in a basement scene with Butch and Marsellus. Tarantino reveals that he was dead by hanging after Butch knocked him out, and that he was a hitchhiker they trained for seven years.
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May 21, 2014 · How did Tarantino create the most notorious scene in his crime-story anthology? Learn about the actors, the props, the references and the soundtrack of the pawn shop sequence.
May 24, 2014 · The Gimp has become an emblem of creepiness — an essential part of the adrenaline machine that was Pulp Fiction. So, who was the man behind the mask?
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Posted: Apr 27, 2020 11:11 pm
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino reveals in a new interview what happened to (and his own backstory for) one of Pulp Fiction's most notorious side characters, the Gimp.
SPOILERS ahead for Pulp Fiction!
Dressed head-to-toe in leather bondage gear, the mute Gimp (portrayed by Steve Hibbert) is the S&M slave imprisoned in the basement of Maynard's pawn shop where a bound and gagged Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) and Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) are held captive. The Gimp is present when Maynard and security guard Zed rape Marsellus and then when Butch frees Marsellus.
In a fan Q&A with Empire, Tarantino revealed his backstory for the Gimp and what happened to him after Butch left. (I think we all can imagine what "medieval" fate was in store for Zed). "It doesn’t quite play this way in the movie, but in my mind when I wrote it, the Gimp’s dead. Butch knocked him out and then when he passed out he hung himself," Tarantino revealed.
So what do you think of Tarantino's Gimp revelations? Let us know in the comments.
And for more on Quentin Tarantino, read up on that time he played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls as well as what he had to say about making a Star Trek movie and a Bounty Law TV series inspired by his film Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.
The Gimp is the mute S&M slave in the basement of Maynard's pawn shop, where he is raped and tortured by Zed. Quentin Tarantino reveals in an interview that he imagined the Gimp to be dead after Butch knocked him out and hung himself.
Apr 25, 2020 · The Gimp is a kidnapping victim who has been held captive in bondage gear for seven years by two perverted men. He dies after being knocked out by Butch Coolidge in a gun shop scene, according to Quentin Tarantino's interview with Empire.
