LaMarr was in the room when Travolta’s Vincent cracked the case open, gazed into its glowing interior and reported “We happy.” So what was the actor looking at? “A light. 19 episode of the essential WolfPop podcast, I Was There Too, host Matt Gourley had a lengthy, insightful conversation with actor Phil LaMarr, who played Marvin - one of the doomed wanna-be criminals that feel the wrath of Jules’s furious anger for daring to steal something from Wallace. Well, you can stop your speculating, folks: We have the definitive answer at last. Other theories as to what’s in the briefcase include diamonds, a nuclear device, Elvis’s gold suit and the thing that Indiana Jones once out-raced the Nazis to find: the Holy Grail. Continuing that line of thinking, a Reddit user has put forth the proposal that Marsellus isn’t a victim of the devil… he is the devil. The idea that the illuminated object is Marsellus’s soul is one enduring theory, with advocates pointing to the briefcase’s hellishly easy combination (“666”) and the Band-Aid that adorns the back of Wallace’s head, covering the place from where his soul was supposedly stolen. Jackson and John Travolta) have been tasked with recovering for their boss, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames)? But in the two decades since the film’s release, few people can find common ground on the film’s most provocative riddle: What’s inside the glowing briefcase that Jules and Vincent (Samuel L. John Travolta gazes into the light in ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Miramax)Įveryone agrees that Quentin Tarantino’s gamechanging 1994 crime epic Pulp Fiction is one of the all-time great movies.