2008-09-22

Indian Pulp Fiction


                                     JULES
                         – Okay now, tell me about the hash? 
                      

                              
       VINCENT
                         What so you want to know?

                              
       JULES
                         Well, hash is legal there, right?

                              
       VINCENT
                         Yeah, it's legal, but is ain't a 
                         hundred percent legal. I mean you 
                         can't walk into a restaurant, roll a 
                         joint, and start puffin' away. You're 
                         only supposed to smoke in your home 
                         or during certain religious festivals.

                              
       JULES
                         Those are the Puja's?

                              
       VINCENT
                         Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's 
                         legal to buy it, it's legal to own 
                         it and, if you're the proprietor of 
                         large Ganesha statue, it's legal to sell
                         it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't 
                         really matter 'cause – get a load of 
                         this – if the cops stop you, you just
                         give them a few hundred rupees and they
                         will act like they have never seen you.

                              
       JULES
                         That did it, man – I'm fuckin' goin', 
                         that's all there is to it.

                              
       VINCENT
                         You'll dig it the most. But you know 
                         what the funniest thing about India 
                         is?

                              
       JULES
                         What?

                              
       VINCENT
                         It's the little differences. A lotta 
                         the same shit we got here, they got 
                         there, but there they're a little 
                         different.

                              
       JULES
                         Examples?

                              
       VINCENT
                         Well, in Hyderabad, you can smoke in 
                         the restaurants. And I don't mean 
                         in a little cigarette either. They give you 
                         a giant hookah, like in an Opium Den. In 
                         Bangalore, you can smoke a Hookah at 
                         MacDonald's. Also, you know what 
                         they call a Quarter Pounder with 
                         Cheese in India?

                              
       JULES
                         They don't call it a Quarter Pounder 
                         with Cheese?

                              
       VINCENT
                         No, they don't serve beef
                         in McDonald's there and, AND,
                         they got the metric system there.
                         They wouldn't know what the fuck a 
                         Quarter Pounder is. 

                              
       JULES
                         What'd they call it?

                              
       VINCENT
                         Super Chicken with Cheese.

                              
       JULES
                              (repeating)
                         Super Chicken with Cheese. What'd they call 
                         a Big Mac?

                              
       VINCENT
                         Big Mac's a Chicken Maharaja Mac. A 
                         Maharaja Mac...

                              
       JULES
                         The Maharaja Mac. What do they call a 
                         Whopper?

                              
       VINCENT
                         I dunno, I didn't go into a Burger 
                         King.  But you know what they put on 
                         french fries in India instead of 
                         ketchup?

                              
       JULES
                         What?

                              
       VINCENT
                         Capsicum Spice!

                              
       JULES
                         Goddamn!

                              
       VINCENT
                         I seen 'em do it. And I don't mean a 
                         little bit on the side of the plate, 
                         they fuckin' drown 'em in it.

                              
       JULES
                         Uuccch!

Also everyone Stateside is saying 'Burn After Reading' is great. I can't see it for at least a month.

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