Throughout the film there is dark lighting and lots of smoke involved, this is to convey a dark thuggish image which can make the audiences watching feel on edge. Not only this but it's so cliche to create mise en scene like this thus meaning that the audience are tense as they know what will be coming. Clothing and make up used is very 70's throughout. The women seem to wear black tight leather a fair bit. This gives other women watching it the urge to want to look as sexy as they do and gives sex appeal to the men watching. The males in the film either wear suits and ties, looking smart as a rich gangster would, or if they are poor drug dealers, they seem to wear the cliche dirty white vest top and jeans.
John Travolta as Vincent Vega: Tarantino cast Travolta in Pulp Fiction only because Michael Madsen, who had a major role—Vic Vega—in Reservoir Dogs, chose to appear in Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp instead. ravolta accepted a bargain rate for his services—sources claim either $100,000 or $140,000—but the film's success and his Oscar nomination as Best Actor revitalized his career. Travolta was subsequently cast in several hits including Get Shorty, in which he played a similar character, and the John Woo blockbuster Face/Off. In 2004, Tarantino discussed an idea for a movie starring Travolta and Madsen as the Vega brothers; the concept remains unrealized. Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield: Tarantino had written the part with Jackson in mind, but the actor nearly lost it after his first audition was overshadowed by Paul Calderón's. Jackson assumed the audition was merely a reading. No film score was composed for Pulp Fiction, with Quentin Tarantino instead using an eclectic assortment of surf music, rock and roll, soul, and pop songs. Dick Dale's rendition of "Misirlou" plays during the opening credits. Tarantino chose surf music as the basic musical style for the film, but not, he insists, because of its association with surfing culture.
