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Quarter Pounder With Cheese

August 23rd, 2007

Toutes les personnes capable d’apprécier Pulp Fiction à sa juste valeur on certainement retenu le dialogue entre Vincent et Jules à propos des différences entre les États Unis et l’Europe, et notamment les différences de nom du Royal Cheese qui s’appelle “Quarter Pounder with Cheese”. Lors de mon voyage en Angleterre (oui c’est pas vraiment les États Unis, mais ils ont les mêmes Mc Donald), je n’ai donc pas pu résister à vérrifier si c’était vrai…

Voici donc le dialogue en version audio ou texte (tirée de godamongdirectors.com), suivi par un petit reportage photo prouvant les dires de Vincent…

2.      INT. '74 CHEVY (MOVING) - MORNING                    2.

 An old gas guzzling, dirty, white 1974 Chevy Nova BARRELS down
 a homeless-ridden street in Hollywood.  In the front seat are
 two young fellas -- one white, one black -- both wearing cheap
 black suits with thin black ties under long green dusters.
 Their names are VINCENT VEGA (white) and JULES WINNFIELD
 (black).  Jules is behind the wheel.

                          JULES
               -- okay now, tell me about the hash
               bars?

                          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 certain designated
               places.

                          JULES
               Those are hash bars?

                          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 a hash bar, 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, it's
               illegal for this to search you.
               Searching you is a right that the
               cops in Amsterdam don't have.

                          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
               Europe 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 Amsterdam, you can buy
               beer in a movie theatre.  And I
               don't mean in a paper cup either.
               They give you a glass of beer, like
               in a bar.  In Paris, you can buy
               beer at MacDonald's.  Also, you
               know what they call a Quarter
               Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

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

                          VINCENT
               No, they got the metric system
               there, they wouldn't know what the
               fuck a Quarter Pounder is.

                          JULES
               What'd they call it?

                          VINCENT
               Royale with Cheese.

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

                          VINCENT
               Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call
               it Le Big Mac.

                          JULES
               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 Holland instead
               of ketchup?

                          JULES
               What?

                          VINCENT
               Mayonnaise.

                          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!

La preuve !