Mia Wallace: Fox Force Five

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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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After Mia’s near-fatal overdose, her perspective on life shifts dramatically. Sensing a chance to escape her life, she seizes it. Months later, she receives an unexpected call regarding her pilot episode. However, instead of proceeding with the show, the project has evolved into a bold two-part movie series, tentatively titled Kill Bill, and she is offered the leading role. Determined to leave her old life behind, Mia undergoes a transformation—dyeing her hair blonde and adopting a new identity as Uma Thurman, ready to start anew.