If you intrinsically believe (and it is a belief) that the medieval period is the Dark Ages, and very bad, then you read stuff like this and just assume people are gross and dirty, even if there’s no real evidence of that. So “going medieval” means really, really having fun causing. What does it mean if somebody says to you, 'A long dry spell is about to come to.
after Butch saves Marsellus from rapists:You okay?:Naw man. I'm pretty fuckin' far from okay.:What now?:What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch.
You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.:I meant what now between me and you?:Oh, that what now. I tell you what now between me and you.
There is no me and you. Not no more. :Butch runs into Maynard's pawn shop being chased by MarsellusCan I help you with somethin'?:Shut the fuck up!:Hey you just wait a god damn minute now! What the fuck you up to?:Marsellus enters, Butch wrestle him to the floor then starts to punch himCome here motherfucker! Feel that sting, big boy?
That's pride fucking with you! Gotta fight through that shit!:You better kill me!:Brings up a gunYeah, somebody gonna get killed. SOMEBODY GONNA GET THEIR FUCKING HEAD BLOWN OFF!:Points a shotgun at themHold it right there, goddammit!:It's none of your business, mister!:I'm making it my business. Toss the weapon.:You don't understand, man!:Toss the weapon.:Butch throws the gun awayGet yer foot of the nigger, put yer hands behind yer head and spproach the counter right now.:Hits Butch with the shotgun then makes a callZed?
It's Maynard. Yeah, spider just caught a couple of flies. :I think you gonna find. When all this shit is over and done. I think you're gonna find yourself one smilin' motherfucker. The thing is, Butch, right now. You got ability.
But painful as it may be, ability don't last. And your days are just about over. Now, that's a hard motherfuckin' fact of life. But that's a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about.
You see, this business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to Vinegar. If you mean it gets better with age.
Besides, Butch, how many fights you think you got in you anyway? Boxers don't have an old-timers' day. You came close, but you never made it. And if you were gonna make it, you would have made it before now.handles Butch an envelope with money:stretches out his hand for the envelope:pulls the envelope backYou my nigger?:Certainly appears so.grabs the envelope, waits for Marsellus to release it and hides it bosom.
Other phrases about:.What's the meaning of the phrase 'Get medieval'?Use violence or extreme measures. What's the origin of the phrase 'Get medieval'?The expression 'get medieval' was coined in the USA is fairly recent years.
It joins a list of figurative phrases of the 'become crazy' form. These include venerable expressions like ', ', ' and, more recently, '.The allusion in 'get medieval' is clearly to the forms of torture that were in use in the Middle Ages, the best-known of which was the rack. This grisly stretching apparatus was used to extract retractions of faith from both Protestants and Catholics during the 15th and 16th centuries in England. A notable victim was Cutbert Simson, who is shown in the accompanying image, which records his torture in 1558.
He was probably relieved when he was released from the rack, but not for long - he was burned at the stake soon afterwards.The person who brought the phrase 'get medieval' to the public's attention is Quentin Tarantino, who, with Roger Avary, wrote the screenplay to the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. In the film, the character Marsellus Wallace swears revenge on an attacker:I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'm gonna git Medieval on your ass.Tarantino leaves it to our imagination what the revenge will be but, as Wallace says it is going to involve 'a pair of pliers and a blow-torch', we can assume a degree of unpleasantness.Tarantino and Avary didn't coin the phrase however. It was in occasional use by the 1970s. The earliest use that I can find of it is in another form of pulp fiction, a cartoon strip in the Ohio newspaper The Lima News, October 1971. The cartoon suggests that the expression wasn't then used as a reference to extreme violence.See other.