Esmeralda Villalobos
Jake Patterson
can't help but imagine that the cabbie character, Esmeralda Villalobos,
(played by Angela Jones) who drove Butch (the Bruce Willis character)
away after the boxing match, must be a vampire. It must be the cool
accent and the way she matter-of-factly asked Butch how it felt like to
kill a man.
I see her as a Gangrel, quite possibly sizing up Butch as a candidate for
the embrace. We do only see the Esmeralda character at night, but, we
would have to regard her statement that she had never met anyone who had
killed a man as a lie in order to consider her vampiric.
Now, I am not claiming that QT intended that character to be a vampire,
but it's fun to think of her that way. Has this occured to anyone else
here while watching Pulp Fiction? How about other characters in other
films that scream out "vampire" to you?
Michael Pearson
>
> Now, I am not claiming that QT intended that character to be a vampire,
> but it's fun to think of her that way. Has this occured to anyone else
> here while watching Pulp Fiction? How about other characters in other
> films that scream out "vampire" to you?
The Wolf. The man just screams Ventrue.
o When he enters the room, people pay attention (Presence)
o When he says something, people obey (Dominate AND Presence)
o He's interested in hiding the fact that two thugs just did in some
poor bastard, who's brains are splattered all over the car in a very
obvious fashion. He's cleaning up a Masquerade breach.
o He knows what to do, when to do it, and who to delegate it to.
That's leadership, that is. Ventrue stereotype all over.
Never mind that he appears in daylight. That's a minor inconsistency
in my little fantasy plot. It was a really good movie; you can ignore
plot holes, right?
Other possibilities are Marcellus Wallace as a Giovanni, Mrs. Wallace
as a Ravnos or Toreador, etc etc.
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Jake Patterson
> The Wolf. The man just screams Ventrue.
> o When he enters the room, people pay attention (Presence)
> o When he says something, people obey (Dominate AND Presence)
> o He's interested in hiding the fact that two thugs just did in some
> poor bastard, who's brains are splattered all over the car in a very
> obvious fashion. He's cleaning up a Masquerade breach.
> o He knows what to do, when to do it, and who to delegate it to.
> That's leadership, that is. Ventrue stereotype all over.
> Never mind that he appears in daylight. That's a minor inconsistency
> in my little fantasy plot. It was a really good movie; you can ignore
> plot holes, right?
> Other possibilities are Marcellus Wallace as a Giovanni,
What, just because he's a mobster?
> Mrs. Wallace as a Ravnos or Toreador, etc etc.
As long as we are ignoring the sun, Jules might bring to mind a
warrior-philosopher type Brujah.
Michael Pearson
Yeah, pretty much.
Actually, I was more thinking of him as a Ventrue, Brujah, or Giovanni
ghoul/bloodbondee.
> > Mrs. Wallace as a Ravnos or Toreador, etc etc.
>
> As long as we are ignoring the sun, Jules might bring to mind a
> warrior-philosopher type Brujah.
Tarantino's a Malk, but less Malk than Terry Gilliam.