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.

 

Ringo is the petty British thief who is way out of his league in an L.A. coffee shop where criminals come to reassess their careers. Ringo's introductory speech on the perils of holding up liquor stores stands tall among Tarantino’s finest and most democratically offensive moments with a pen.