thecrow174 wrote :
What WAS in that suitcase anyway?

Quentin Tarantino's career.

I meant briefcase, but thanks anyway.

Seriously, I guess we'll never know.

I can't remember if I watched the interview or read an article about it, but Quentin Tarantino said something like he couldn’t think of the perfect thing to be important in the briefcase. So it was intentionally left empty and left up to the viewer to decide.

Then again, it MAY have been hinted at what was in the briefcase considering that Marcellus has a band-aid at the back of his head and the combination of the briefcase...

SilverMagician wrote :
I can't remember if I watched the interview or read an article about it, but Quentin Tarantino said something like he couldn’t think of the perfect thing to be important in the briefcase. So it was intentionally left empty and left up to the viewer to decide.

Then again, it MAY have been hinted at what was in the briefcase considering that Marcellus has a band-aid at the back of his head and the combination of the briefcase...

So what would that lead one to assume is in it? Any guesses?

The only thing coming from the briefcase was a gold light. Is it possible the script for Pulp Fiction, Part II was in there?

The Ark of the Covenant.

The Holy Grail

"Did you just order a $5 shake?"

Pulp Fiction is 20 years old this week.  Here's an oral history of the way it got made. In this you can read:

• Tarantino's writing method is completely insane.
  
  
• That time Samuel L Jackson was recently confused for Laurence Fishburne? Not the first time.
  
  
• Who almost got certain parts --  I like to imagine alternate history of films. Pulp Fiction would have been a completely different movie if all those casting battles came out differently.

There's much more of course.  Those were the most interesting bits to me but come back and say what you think of it.

I remember learning one time while watching the movie on AMC's "Story Notes" that some of the stars had to take huge pay cuts.