Jules Winnfield's iconic profanity-laced wallet from the 1994 masterpiece Pulp Fiction actually belonged to director Quentin Tarantino in real life, who simply handed it to Samuel L.

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Jules Winnfield's iconic profanity-laced wallet from the 1994 masterpiece Pulp Fiction actually belonged to director Quentin Tarantino in real life, who simply handed it to Samuel L. Jackson to use as a prop during the legendary diner robbery scene. Instead of sourcing a custom leather good from the prop department, the director just reached into his own pocket and casually offered up his personal billfold, perfectly encapsulating his incredibly confident and self-indulgent style. The wallet's inscription was an homage to the theme song of the classic blaxploitation film Shaft, which is ironically a character Jackson would go on to play years later. Thousands of edgy college freshmen have since purchased cheap replicas of this exact wallet, completely oblivious to the fact that they are just carrying around a mass-produced knockoff of Quentin Tarantino's pocket trash