Great scene, and unusual in that it's all about character and NOT AT ALL about plot. In simple story terms all that has to happen in Brett's apartment is killing Brett and his pals, getting the briefcase and the incident -- or miracle -- with the point-blank shots missing the hitmen. Everything else simple reveals Jules -- the way he thinks, his style of peculiar 'performance art'; and his relationship with Vincent, who tolerates him with baffled amusement. It feels expansive, alive, unexpected for precisely this reason ... as Hans Landa's scene with the French farmer startles us in "Inglorious Basterds". The conversation is NOT a bunch of required exposition and boilerplate, as in most films. It's vivid and u predictable and, most of all, fun. Tarantino values eccentricity of character ("You're a character; that doesn't mean you HAVE character," as Wolf points out)above the mechanics of narrative. Most film-makers, don't value the former and have never mastered the latter. Michael Bay, take note.

Steve, great analysis. And amazingly, today's Scene Description Spotlight is on the very scene you mention in Inglourious Basterds.