Even now, audiences still enjoy revisiting its twisted tale and fans love learning any morsel of new information about the movie, especially for its secondary and overlooked characters. It’s impossible to deny that his sophomore work took his career to another level.
Pulp Fiction was only Tarantino’s second film and the first to garner mass critical and audience attention. Butch knocked him out and then when he passed out he hung himself." " In terms of backstory," Tarantino explained, " he was like a hitchhiker or somebody that they picked up seven years ago, and they trained him so he’s the perfect victim." He also clarified that The Gimp dies in the movie, saying, " It doesn’t quite play this way in the movie, but in my mind when I wrote it, the Gimp’s dead. The director also revealed information about one of his more salacious characters, The Gimp. In an interview with Empire Magazine, Tarantino discussed his whole body of work and shed light on a few canon classics. Related: Theory: Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction Take Place On The SAME Day Little is really known about the Gimp beyond his appearance in Pulp Fiction, but Tarantino has now revealed the backstory he had in mind for the unique character. In Pulp Fiction, Maynard leaves the Gimp to guard the pawnshop basement and he gets knocked out when Butch (Bruce Willis) later escapes. Maynard’s brother Zed (Peter Greene) is one of the movie's main antagonists. He is Maynard’s (Duane Whitaker) leather-clad servant, and it’s clear that the pawnshop owner has had him for a long time. In the 1994 crime film Pulp Fiction, The Gimp (Stephen Hibbert) is shrouded - literally and metaphorically - in mystery. Fan interest remains persistent after almost 30 years, to the point that writer and director, Quentin Tarantino, regularly fields questions about the movie, his script inspiration, and character backstories. Pulp Fiction is one of the most iconic films of the 1990s, a cult classic, and still screens in independent theaters. Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino reveals the origins of The Gimp.