Pulp Fiction to Mia Wallace's heart is on "Premiere"s list of "100 Greatest Movie Moments". The scene of Travolta and Thurman's characters dancing has been frequently homaged, most unambiguously in the 2005 film "Be Cool", starring the same two actors. The image of Travolta and Jackson's characters standing side by side in suit and tie, pointing their guns, has also become widely familiar. In 2007, BBC News reported that "London transport workers have painted over an iconic mural by 'guerrilla artist' Banksy ... The image depicted a scene from Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", with Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas
Technology in Star Wars deflector shields, are particle deflector shields, also known as "magnetic shields". In 2015, the American megacorporation Boeing built plasma-based force fields, similar in size and dimensions to the force fields used in "Star Wars" ground battles. Like the ground force fields in the "Star Wars" films, these shields cannot block or repel solid matter, but are instead built to protect vehicles from the force of explosions. In 2014, physics students at the University of Leicester developed a module of plasma-based deflector shields, inspired by the ones in "Star Wars" and other science fiction stories. However, the field poses some issues.