During the preparation of “Birds of Prey”, actress Margot Robbie asked a small favor from Quentin Tarantino: slip a nod to “Pulp Fiction” in the film. A request accepted by the filmmaker.
In the feature film Birds of Prey, there is a bit of… Pulp Fiction! But you may not be aware of it, the nod to the Quentin Tarantino classic having been slipped not IN the film starring Harley Quinn, but during its filming. We explain to you.
Duringan interview with MTV News for the promotion of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which saw her collaborate for the first time with Tarantino, Margot Robbie confirmed to the obviously well-informed journalist that the working title of Birds of Prey was Fox Force Five. A title that refers to a cult scene from Pulp Fiction.
“In Pulp Fiction, when Uma Thurman and John Travolta get their five dollar milkshake, she’s describing the pilot she starred in. I believe the dialogue Quentin wrote was based on Uma actually starring in a pilot of this type. A dialogue in which she therefore speaks of the Fox series Force Five”says Margot Robbie alongside Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, who did not know the anecdote at all.
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Famous scene from Pulp Fiction sees Mia Wallace telling Vincent Vega that she starred in “a story of female secret agents called “Pouliche Force 5” (Fox Force Five in VO, editor’s note). Filly because we are chicks. Strength, because we are tough. And 5, because we are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.”
“In Birds of Prey, there are five heroines and we always talked about ‘tarantinesque’ references that we would like to inject into the film. We thought it fit well”continues Robbie, lead actress and producer of the DC film. “I asked Quentin if he would mind if I used Fox Force Five as my working title. He thought it was very funny.”
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