Interest in Pulp Fiction spiked after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth read the film’s Ezekiel 25:17, a made-up Bible verse, performed by Samuel L. Jackson, during a Pentagon prayer service.
Shot in an apartment, the scene arrived early in the iconic black comedy crime film when Jules Winnfield – a hitman portrayed by the actor – delivered the monologue in a bone-chilling way.
“He is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee,” he read before shooting the on-screen actor in front of him.
Though the Ezekiel 25:17 speech was fake, yet the fear was real, so much so that it could be cut with a knife.
But for Jackson, his favourite line was not his terrifying verse lines he unflinchingly delivered; instead, it was a little portion of what was unfolding in the interrogating scene.
‘My favourite line from Pulp Fiction is, “What country you from?” What? “What” ain’t no country I ever heard of. They speak English in “What?” ‘I like that little segment,” he previously told GQ.
Pete Hegesth read the fake Pulp Fiction Ezekiel 25:17
Cut to the drama which unfolded after Hegesth, at a Wednesday service at Pentagon, shared how U.S. special forces rescued the downed pilot in Iran.
Sharing the fiery details, according to A Public Witness, he claimed to have recounted a prayer delivered at the mission’s beginning and urged his audience to join him.
But what Hegesth read was not the Bible’s Ezekiel 25:17, but a fake verse that Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino had previously shared, taken from Bodyguard Kiba, a 1970s Japanese movie.
