Confused Travolta (Confused Travolta)- a meme with a man in a black suit and long black hair, who spreads his arms and looks around in bewilderment. The episode is taken from the movie Pulp Fiction, where John Travolta plays gangster Vincent Vega.
There is a scene in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction where Vincent Vega (John Travolta) arrives at his boss Marsellus Wallace's house on his behalf to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) to dinner. But Mia hides and speaks into the microphone, confused Vincent cannot understand where the sound is coming from (from 1:00 on the video).
Despite the fact that the film was released in 1994, the episode with the confused Travolta became a meme only in 2015. An Imgur user with the nickname ILikeToWonkaMyWilly cut out the video with Vincent Vega and moved the character to a toy store. The gif was captioned, "I asked my daughter what she wanted for Christmas and she said, 'A doll.'
The “Confused Travolta” meme is used as a GIF and as a picture, it is ideal for situations when a person is confused, discouraged and does not know what to do.
John Travolta, who played the hero Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino, has become the new hero of the Internet, writes TJournal.
A short fragment from the tape became an example for describing life situations that cause confusion. In the original version, Vincent Vega tries to understand where the voice of Marsellus Wallace's wife comes from.
The user of the Imgur photo hosting site ILikeToWonkaMyWilly was the first to use such a joke.
He cut out Travolta with the help of video editing tools and superimposed on a picture of a children's toy store.
The resulting image was captioned as "my reaction when my daughter asked for a doll for Christmas." In less than a week, the video meme was viewed by more than 2 million users.
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Short guides for creating such videos using Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere are also gaining popularity on the Web.
21 years ago, John Travolta played a gangster named Vincent Vega in the cult film Pulp Fiction, and recently his famous character has found a second life as an Internet meme. As always, for some unknown reason, the choice of restless users fell on Vincent Vega, who was elevated to a fashionable meme and began to stamp hilarious photo-toads. The subject of the photo-toad was the moment in the film when Vincent called in to pick up the wife of his boss, Marsellus Wallace, but cannot understand where her voice is coming from.
It all started when Imgur user ILikeToWonkaMyWilly cut out Vincent's figure from a video using a video editor and overlaid it on a photo of a toy store.
One of the brightest and most iconic paintings Quentin Tarantino“Pulp Fiction” is over 20 years old. However, advanced age does not prevent black comedy from becoming an increasingly large source of quotes and trends on the Internet. This number includes memes and koubs. Charming bandit Vincent Vega - character John Travolta from Pulp Fiction, looking around and not understanding what is happening, now expresses bewilderment on the Web for any reason. He was turned into the main character to illustrate various life situations that cause confusion.
By the way, Travolta dreamed of being a pilot as a child, he has no other education other than pilot courses. In his youth, John collected model airplanes and also enjoyed watching flight exercises at a military base close to home.
Growing up, he got to know the military better and decided that he would leave his career as a pilot. Then Travolta devoted himself to dancing and acting career in order to earn a lot of money and buy his own plane.
The most popular role in "Pulp Fiction" went to Travolta almost by accident. Gangster Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's film was supposed to be played by Michael Madson, but he fell ill at the last moment. Literally at the last moment, the role was given to Travolta. The actor's fee for filming Tarantino's film was only 150 thousand dollars. After the release of the picture, it increased to $10 million.
The history of memes began with the publication on Imgur, an online picture and photo sharing service. One of the subscribers complained to users about the difficulty of fatherhood. The man could not choose a gift for his daughter: for Christmas, the girl asked her dad for a doll. The blogger accompanied his comment with a short animated image of John Travolta in a toy store.
"My reaction when my daughter asked for a doll for Christmas"
For those who do not remember the original scene from Pulp Fiction, we recall that the reason for the confusion of the hero Travolta, who came to the wife of the harsh boss Mia Wallace, was the loudspeakers installed in the room. Vega is initially lost and amusingly spreads her arms in search of the source of the voice.
Original from the movie "Pulp Fiction"
The witty idea was immediately picked up by other users. "Confused Travolta" (Confused Travolta) immediately went around the world and is now invariably surprised by any event that is actively discussed on the Web. Now everyone can offer their own options for situations that could confuse John Travolta.
Today, Travolta thrives against a backdrop of scenery ranging from snow-covered parking lots and nightscapes to a kindergarten, a queue at a Russian clinic, and a Microsoft Windows desktop.
Travolta suffers RuTracker ban
"Who is last?" In line at a Russian clinic
“When you came to kindergarten for a child and remembered that you have no children”
When I came to school on Sunday
“When I chose a suit, but there is no seller”
"When looking for a car in the parking lot after a snowfall"
Fought with Yatsenyuk
Travolta wedding witness
Russian users even sent John Travolta to the stands of the tennis court to watch the game Maria Sharapova.
In Runet, the coub "John Travolta on the frontal place" is also popular. In it, Travolta was on the set of "Dom-2".
However, Travolta was not always loved in Russia. When the role of a dancer in the film "Saturday Night Fever" at one point made him a superstar and brought the Hollywood handsome man his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor, the Literary Gazette criticized the film for deceit, lack of ideas and lightness - they say, a working guy should not live by dancing.
The hero of "Pulp Fiction" unexpectedly got into Quentin Tarantino's film "Inglourious Basterds".
He also found himself in the movie "Scream", "Hulk".
Travolta annoys the Hulk
Over time, the abundance of memes with Travolta began to scare users.
Confused John Travolta was also "forced" to advertise a Belarusian shoe store. Director Andrey Levkovich made a funny video where the actor playing Travolta is perplexed by the empty shelves in the store.
