Opening Pulp Fiction with – you guessed it – a lengthy diatribe, this one about the relative safety of robbing banks over liquor stores, petty thieves Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (aka Ringo and Yolanda) eventually kick off the action by pulling out their guns and yelling: “Everybody be cool!” The rest of the movie duly complies.

 

Yolanda doesn’t appear in Pulp Fiction for very long, but she leaves an impact in the film’s opening. The coffee shop robber alternates between doting lover and hard-boiled criminal with the flip of a switch. When Yolanda whips out her little gun, she becomes electrifying.