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
Pulp Fiction Villalobos, a cab driver who aids Butch's escape. Her casting and character were inspired by her performance in the 1991 short film "Curdled", which was later remade into a 1996 feature film which Jones also starred in and Tarantino was involved in financing. Duane Whitaker, Peter Greene, and Stephen Hibbert played Maynard, Zed, and the gimp, respectively. According to "The Daily Beast", these "three psycho hillbillies" that torture Butch in Maynard's shop's basement are a reference to the film "Deliverance". Roger Avary wrote the first element of what would become the "Pulp Fiction" screenplay in the fall of 1990: The