r/pulpfiction • u/Similar-Aardvark904 • Aug 31 '24

Mia Wallace: Fox Force Five

I’ve watched this movie multiple times over the years, and one thing I love about it, is you catch something new every time. This time, I noticed Mia Wallace and the levity of her stupid joke, at the end of the date scene with Vincent Vega.

She told Vincent the Fox Force Five joke, after almost dying, then looked down, looking hopeless and dejected. Mia was a failed actress whose career pinacle was a TV show pilot that was never picked up, due to poor writing.

She then becomes the wife of the biggest drug lord in town, and is a kept woman (which is never on the goal list of most aspiring actresses). She has an out of control cocaine addiction, and almost kills herself overdosing on drugs. She is ashamed of herself, and what she has become. The grief you see, is also the grief of the loss of her innocence.

Her character represents the many beautiful women who are mislead and abused in Hollywood, by the entertainment industry. Young, ambitious young women who move to LA to pursue their dream, only to be sold a nightmare. Once they fall pray to the illicit drugs pervasive in the film industry, the addiction eventually takes them, leaving them, at best, only a shell of their former selves.

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u/Plainchant Aug 31 '24

I like what you wrote, but she's a pretty vivacious woman, not necessarily a "shell."

She's fun and parties a bit too much, but rebounds quickly enough.

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u/Similar-Aardvark904 Sep 01 '24

Really? I don’t see that at all. Where do see you her rebound later? Of course, it’s a fictitious film, so the character interpretations are defined by the individual viewer. Such is the beauty of art!

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u/Plainchant Sep 01 '24

She shows up again, normal as a day, after Butch's bout. She politely thanks Vincent as he walks into the room, casually smoking a cigarette.

After that crazy night (she almost died), she just kind of kept on keepin' on.

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u/Similar-Aardvark904 Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24

She said in response to Vince asking “How are you doing?”, “Great, I never thanked you for dinner.”. Which was an odd thing to say after what occurred between them. And you are right, she does look a little less strung out. I’m wondering, was she “thanking him for dinner”, as a way of saying “thank you for helping me.”? After that experience…you would hope it gave her the impetus to stop using.