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Imagine Cool Hand Luke, the Hustler or even Butch Cassidy somehow making it all the way to his sunset years. Then imagine him measuring out those years as an unemployed, virtually unemployable, construction worker in one of those small, featureless upstate New York towns -- still a knothead, still a wise guy in revolt against the conventional wisdom, still very recognizably Paul Newman. That, in essence, is Nobody's Fool...
Regardless, for our amusement. Duran did leave his gray Chevy truck out on Pennsylvania Avenue, decorated with witty bumper stickers, advising the President to "Fire Butch Reno." And: "Those who beat their guns into plows will plow for those who don't." Whatever that means...
...getaway car. A specialist (Keitel) drops by to supervise the cleanup. At a diner, the henchmen's breakfast is interrupted by a thrill-crazy young couple (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) staging a holdup. He and Vincent go to see Marsellus, who is telling an aging boxer named Butch (Willis) to throw his next fight. Later, Vincent buys some potent heroin, then escorts the boss' sexy wife Mia (Thurman) for a toxic night on the town. Vincent gets out the needle. Butch double-crosses his boss, wins the fight and plans to skip town, but soon must decide whether...
That is the story. (Tarantino wrote everything except the Butch episode, which was created by the director's occasional collaborator, Roger Avary.) But it is presented out of chronology, so as to alternate fierce melodrama with behavioral comedy, and vengeance with revelation. Tarantino pulls the string around one story while setting up the next in the bustling background. He played neat tricks of a similar sort in Reservoir Dogs. "It's not like I'm on this major crusade against linear narrative," he says. "What I am against is saying it's the only game in town...
...BOSTON MANAGER BUTCH HOBSON ON THE EVE OF THE BASEBALL STRIKE, DESCRIBING THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE RED SOX LOCKER ROOM