In honour of the controversy-slaying success of Quentin Tarantino's newest hit Django Unchained reaching our cinemas, a recent Tarantino movie night with myself and my friends posed a long running fan theory that I have debated with practically anyone who will listen. With his latest success booming, I thought it good to return to where it all started and take a peek at Tarantino's earliest mainstream films, Reservoir Dogs and Pup Fiction, and see if the latter truly could prove to be a sequel all along. So let's flashback momentarily to the hectic climax of Dogs. Mr White aka Lawrence Dimmick and Mr Orange are clutching each other as they continue to spill more blood on the floor than Wes Craven could get on the ceiling, and Mr Pink has made a quick dash outside with the diamonds as the police nail down the warehouse. Mob boss Joe Cabot and 'Nice Guy' Eddie are dead, and Mr Blonde aka Vic Vega, is slurping a slushy no more. The credits hit, gunfire is heard aplenty yet nobody's fate is known, aside from Mr Pink who is heard screaming "Don't shoot me, I'm already shot!". Now, we cut to Pulp Fiction. Vincent Vega (Vic Vega's brother) and Jules are running around in suits attempting to hunt down a briefcase with unknown contents, whilst inexplicably shooting Marvin in the face. What exactly is in that briefcase though? Jules explains to small time crook "Pumpkin" that he has worked way too hard to hand the case over. The orange glow has more than fuelled the fire of fan theory, with the wildest story stating that it contains new mob boss Marcellus Wallace's soul. However outlandish that may seem, it has become a generally accepted idea, although in this particular case we are going to go out on a limb and say the orange light is nothing more than a display feature of the case. Like a refrigerator light. Tarantino has already confirmed that both films are set in the same universe and that the Vega brothers are indeed related, going so far as to say he is considering a film bringing the two together. So, this is the generally accepted idea, give or take a few minute details; after escaping, Mr Pink stashes the diamonds somewhere safe, perhaps the trunk of the parked car to do Tarantino's crazy camera shots proud. He then gets shot by the arriving police but survives, as does Mr White. Both are shipped off to hospital where they have bullets plucked out of them, before heading for a long prison term. With the death of both Cabot Sr and Cabot Jr, the crime family somehow is handed to Marcellus Wallace, who takes over all of its dealings. from illegal boxing to diamond heists. His number one objective is to find those diamonds, which happen to have been collected by Marvin and his Kahuna Burger-loving friends, who agree a trade off, with a complimentary orange glowing briefcase for good measure. Trouble is, they want a bit too much for Wallace's liking.
Donning very similar suits to the Reservoir Dogs, Jules and Vega, who agrees to the job to honour his deceased brother, head out to find out what's taking them so long, say, six months or so. In that time, the wealth and power of the mob family means that Mr White has made a very early parole, where he returns to his legendary alias of Mr Wolfe just in time to shower Marvin chunks out of Samuel L. Jackson's groovy doo. Meanwhile, Mr Orange is dead, unsurprisingly, but the reason for him working in the unenviable undercover cop business is simple: his brother and sister-in-law, a couple on the other side of the law, were arrested and saw release in return for his co-operation. Hence, Honey Bunny and Pumpkin found their way to the Coffee Shop where the Bad Motherf***er awaited them for the final showdown. Vincent then joins his brother in being shot down repeatedly, Marcellus himself goes on to enjoy a post-Gimp life as a mob boss and Jules, Butch, Mia and the coffee shop robbers all live happily ever after. Any Quentin Tarantino fan knows that the director loves to reference his own movies inside each other. The Bear Jew Donny Donowitz is in fact Lee Donowitz of True Romance's father. Some say Jules changed his name and grew a braided beard to star in Jackie Brown, or even that he turned to the cops and uncovered a phobia of snakes for, well, you know what. There has been speculation that Kill Bill is a movie-inside-a-movie, that Uma Thurman's Pulp Fiction character Mia, an aspiring actor, actually went on to become or previously portrayed The Bride. Even Django Unchained has already seen a Django/Jules ancestry link established in the archives of fan theories. Whether someone will hit up FindMyAncestors and prove this fact remains to be seen. Maybe Tarantino is waiting, and once every brick in the proverbial movie wall is laid he will release his final film and tie everything and everyone together in one 'inglourious' masterpiece of cinematic triumph, even flawlessly excluding Death Proof entirely. Or he could just make a movie about the Vega brothers, who knows?