When it screened at the 1994 New York Film Festival, a man in the audience fainted just as Vincent sent the needle into Mia’s chest. “They stopped the film,” says Stoltz.

Well, not much, really, but Fall Out Boy came close, bringing in a dozen Wallace look-alikes to dance in the group's production of Uma Thurman at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards.

For example, Pulp Fiction acts as reality, but Kill Bill Vol. 1 is a movie that, say, Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) or Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) could theoretically see at the historic theater where ...