23. When Tarantino and his writing partner Roger Avary won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (the only one the film would win out of its seven nominations), the telecast accidentally cut to black—a gaffe Avary later took credit for.
“I paid off a cameraman 500 bucks to have the camera turned off on Quentin when they announced the award,” Avary revealed to Vanity Fair, wanting to pull one over on his prank-loving old friend. “So if you watch it online, you’ll see it cuts to black briefly, and then they cut to me. Gotcha.”
24. For the notorious “Gimp” scene, Tarantino intended to use The Knack’s hit song “My Sharona.” However, another 1994 film had already acquired it: Reality Bites.
Instead, he chose The Revel’s “Comache,” and Tarantino ultimately was grateful he didn’t get his first choice, telling Rolling Stone, “It would have been too cutely comic. I like using stuff for comic effect, but I don’t want it to be har, har, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know?”
