If you're not thinking of buying a Bad Mother Fucker wallet then don't read any further, but if you are you might find this article quite interesting.
In 2004, having seen how popular the Bad Mother Fucker wallet had become, Miramax (the maker’s of Pulp Fiction) decided to jump on the bandwagon and asked a US firm called Neca to start making BMF wallets. The fact that they did this 10 years after the film’s release means that the Neca wallet can't be described as ‘original’, it’s 10 years too late for that!
Neither is it ‘official’ either, because as far as I know, no country in the world allows the copyright registration or trademarking of a word that is a profanity or which is offensive. That means that no one owns the copyright to the words Bad Mother Fucker, so no one can claim to be selling an ‘official Bad Mother Fucker wallet’ there’s no such thing! N.B. Miramax don’t even own copyright to the words ‘Pulp Fiction’ because you can’t copyright recognised phrases either. Don’t believe me? Then try putting those phrases into the trademark search engines at the US Trademark office (http://www.uspto.gov/) or the UK Patent Office (http://www.patent.gov.uk/)
With movie memorabilia items, usually a film company brings out the official item then one or two other companies bring out cheap fakes. Here the reverse has happened because since Pulp Fiction was released, several manufacturers have been producing good quality Bad Mother Fucker wallets made out of good quality leather, but now, 10 years after the event, the film company bring out their wallet and guess what… it’s made of plastic! That’s right the 'Miramax authorised' Neca wallet is made in a factory somewhere in the Far East out of grainy plastic with a flimsy nylon lining.
You’ll probably see it described as faux leather, simulated leather, PVC leather, pleather (whatever that is!) and you’ll even find one or two frauds actually trying to pass the item off as real leather. Believe me it isn’t! It’s plastic with a leather grain pattern embossed into it and you know what... some of those guys selling it have the cheek to say it’s just like Samuel L. Jackson’s one in the film... wrong! If Sam Jackson’s wallet was plastic then I’ll buy everyone at Neca a Big Kahuna Burger and I'll then go and give everyone at Miramax a foot massage!
So as The Wolf might say...pretty please, with sugar on the top… don’t buy a plastic Bad Mother Fucker wallet!
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