25 Things You Didn’t Know About Pulp Fiction

1. Honey Bunny Was Named After Tarantino's Friend's Pet Rabbit

If the name of Pumpkin was inspired by a prior Tarantino creation, the genesis of Pumpkin's partner Honey Bunny was something entirely different. Honey Bunny was in fact the name of the pet rabbit belonging to Tarantino's friend Linda Chen.

Though Chen eventually served as Pulp Fiction's unit photographer, she had a far more intimate role in Pulp Fiction's initial creation, sitting with Tarantino in diners as he fleshed out the script and even typing up his handwritten screenplay for him.

The job took three months when it was expected to take two weeks, due to Tarantino's terrible standard of handwriting and penchant for writing words phonetically.

To that end, Chen said, "He's a functional illiterate. I was averaging about 9,000 grammatical errors per page. After I would correct them, he would try to put back the errors, because he liked them."

Never change, Tarantino. But thank God computers are everywhere now, right?