Vincent Vega is a character which isn’t first shown to the audience but is a character which runs through out the film even though the structure of the film is very different to many.
To start with the Vincent Vega’s occupation is not clear as he is in the car with Jules Winnfield and they are talking about normal things and the idea that he is a hit man isn’t clear. He could be seen as a business man with the suit on and that the other character is his partner. He speaks as if he is well travelled compared to the other character because he is talking about how the ‘cinemas sell beer in Amsterdam’ and that in 'Paris they call a 'quarter-pounder with cheese', a 'royale with cheese’ this shows that he maybe well travelled. The way he talks is very chatty as he is with his friend instead of a hard nosed style of speaking which is conventionally used for hit men and hard men. From the way he dresses we could say he is a business man or a hit man, who he is, this allows the audience to have questions of the character. The suit is conventional to a hit man but as he is with another character he could have another job which involves using a suit.
We then are able to see that he has a gun in the boot of the car and he puts it in his waist and this is conventional to having a hit man in a film that he has a weapon. There are suggestions that the character is violent because he has the weapon and the audience sees the character as a killer. Also when he has the gun this gives questions for the audience of the character because at this point we don’t know he is a hit man.
Vincent is a lot more careful in the way he acts as a hit man compared to his partner Jules Winnfield he takes a back seat whereas Jules is more forth coming and more the leader of the pair. But in the time which we see him he is a bit more volatile and will snap at any point.
Jules Winnfield-Samuel L. Jackson
Jules also is a character we don’t see for the first part and he only as a few parts within the film compared to the whole which Vincent does feature for most of the film.
Just like Vincent the occupation of Jules isn’t apparent until they go to the boot of the car and take the guns out this then becomes clear that they are not business men but maybe gangsters or even hit men because of the guns. He doesn’t seem to be as well travelled compared to Vincent as he doesn’t know about what Europe is like. When they are talking the way Jules speaks is the opposite way to Vincent as he has the hard nosed approach of speaking.
When he gets to the place of the hit he takes control which gives him this sort of leader to the pair as he takes charge when he gets in the flat and then questions the people in the flat. He uses words which will calm but can be seen as a very crazy in the way he talks to them. He shows he can be very smart as he quotes a passage of the bible and uses it as a reason to kill them. The quote* is from Ezekiel 25:17 this makes him sound like he is intellectual. After he has quoted the bible he shoots the man and Vincent also unloads his whole clip on him.
The way Jules speaks you can see that there is some anger in the way he speaks but also that he is only doing his job because he is only talking in this way when he is on the hit. Jules can be said to be a bit crazy but also a man who will do his job.
*This is the quote which Jules says
Jules: There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you."
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