10 Subtle Movie Homages You Definitely Missed

10. Nick Fury’s Grave - The Winter Soldier (Homage To Pulp Fiction)

Pulp Fiction is one of the quintessential movies of modern cinema, frequently topping lists of movies you must see before you die. Many movies have riffed off it since, drawing either dramatic inspiration or using Pulp Fiction’s darkest moments for comic effect.

However, Captain America: The Winter Soldier has possibly the subtlest homage of the lot, so it gets the nod here.

Samuel L. Jackson frequently gives iconic performances, as several entries on this list will attest to. Of these though, his biblical speech near the beginning of Pulp Fiction is perhaps his best known. Christoph Waltz is the only actor to get an Oscar from Tarantino’s direction, but Jackson surely deserved one here.

He quotes Ezekiel 25:17, a verse about ‘the path of the righteous man...’, but the rest of his speech was written by Tarantino himself rather than any biblical figure. Nevertheless, the opening is a direct quote from the Bible, and these words mark Nick Fury’s grave in The Winter Soldier as a nod to Samuel L. Jackson playing both parts.

As well as being paid homage to here, the next entry takes a look at a tribute to another movie in Quentin Tarantino’s classic itself.