20 Things You Somehow Missed In Pulp Fiction

20. Well Placed Board Games

Foreshadowing is one of the most simple, but often smartest aspects of movies. If done right, you couldn’t possibly notice anything until a second or even third watch, when something finally clicks and connects to a scene you know is coming later.

One of the finest pieces of foreshadowing in Pulp Fiction was that in the foreground, not even the background, of when Lance and Vincent are prepping Mia for her life-saving adrenaline shot, there are two board games that can be seen. These are Operation and Life.

Could there have possibly been any better props in the room where such an injection was about to happen? The make-shift surgeons that were Lance and Vincent held Mia’s life in their hands, and also their own, as they were certain to be killed by Marsellus should they be seen to be in any way responsible for her death. Just look at what he did to Tony Rocky Horror just for touching her feet.