Reservoir Dogs was supposed to be an Indie post-college low budget type film so Tarantino could show people he could direct. However, when Harvey Keitel read the script he immediately poured money into the project and got top-notch actors to sign on. Secured a distribution deal for Tarantino and suddenly Tarantino was the hottest young director in Hollywood. Making a movie 10 times better quality than his peers for one-tenth the money. Sending Tarantino into legendary status.
"I've never associated this song with terror." -- and now whenever you hear it, this is the FIRST thing you'll think of. Tarantino and Scorsese both seem to be masters of contrast between on screen action, and the soundtrack of the scene.
You caught the implications of Blonde being gun-happy from the opening scene, that's cool, but there were other subtle character hints in there too (Orange, being the cop, rats out Pink for not putting in a dollar)
Mr Pink also being the only one not to tip, and gives extensive reasons for doing so, he always struck me as a hard thinker, no surprise he's the one who gets away alive in the end and with the money.
Two of the many remarkable things about this film: it's a heist movie in which you never see the heist, and with the exception of the flashbacks, it all takes place in that warehouse. You could practically play it on a stage.
This was Tarrantino's directorial debut but his first screenplay to be made into a movie was "True Romance" (which features Samuel L Jackson) and should very much be on your list.
So much this. The combination of Tarantino's script with Tony Scott's direction and *so* many great actors acting great...True Romance is one of the better films out there, period. Let alone among Tarantino projects.
Vic (Victor) Vega, aka Mr Blonde, is Vincent Vega's (John Travolta from Pulp Fiction) brother. There are a bunch of references across Tarantino's films that connect them to a cinematic universe. Such as the fictional brand of cigarettes, "Red Apple", that all the characters smoke.
Tarantino 2nd movie , directer by Tony Scott , True Romance 1993 , script Tarantino had to sell to make this one , he got $50 000 for it , only difference to original script is movie scenes are in chronological order , not a box office buster , people have not even heard of it , even when it has top casting .
As many have pointed out, Vic Vega is the brother of Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction. One of Tarantino's many unrealized projects was a movie called The Vega Brothers, which would've brought back Michael Madsen and John Travolta. Tarantino implied in an interview at some point that they would be playing the twin brothers of Vic and Vincent, since both characters die in their respective movies. However, the movie was never made -- Tarantino often talks about making sequels or spin-offs of his existing movies, but he never does it. IMO, it seems obvious that he genuinely loves his characters, so he always has fun speculating on what they get up to outside the margins of the films, but the appeal of pulling on those threads is never as strong as making a brand new set of characters (lots of people seem to believe he'll make Kill Bill Vol. 3 as his tenth and supposedly final film, but I'd be very surprised). Sam Jackson said in an interview for Pulp Fiction that he auditioned for Reservoir Dogs and didn't get it. It increased his resolve to get the role in PF. In the final confrontation, there is a notorious gaffe. Joe is pointing his gun at Mr. Orange. Mr. White is pointing his gun at Joe. Nice Guy Eddie is pointing his gun at Mr. White. Mr. White shoots Joe, Nice Guy Eddie shoots Mr. White. Everyone in the stand-off dies, but nobody was pointing a gun at Nice Guy Eddie. Mr. Blue was played by a real-life criminal named Eddie Bunker, who left crime behind by writing a novel based on his experiences called No Beast So Fierce, which was later turned into a movie called Straight Time (very good). He consulted on and appeared in lots of crime movies after that, similar to Danny Trejo, who he met in prison. His character has no story because Bunker is sort of a glorified cameo, a reference to his real-life exploits. There is no other cut of this movie. I really hope you guys watch Tarantino's Jackie Brown soon. I think it's one of his best movies but it is also one of his least-seen and/or least-celebrated, so it never wins polls, but I think it will blow you away. I do get the impression that you're going to do the whole Tarantino catalog, but I hope Jackie Brown isn't last. Also, for reasons I won't divulge, it should be paired with Out of Sight (1998), starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, and directed by Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean's movies), which is another underrated '90s masterpiece.
Watch it in 0.25 speed. You'll see that Mr White first shoots Joe, then swings his arm slightly to his left and shoots Nice Guy Eddie. Shoots him twice, in fact. Sequence is: Joe shoots Mr Orange. Mr White shoots Joe. Nice Guy Eddie shoots Mr White. Mr White shoots Nice Guy Eddie twice. The fact that they were able to get it perfectly in that sequence in such a short space of time is a testament to both the acting and the film-making. I'd love to know how many takes it took.
"Stuck In The Middle With You" was just a fun little song before I saw this movie. Now it's forever associated with Michael Madsen dancing around with a severed ear.
I had been listening to oldies station my whole life and had NEVER heard Stuck in the middle with you. The moment this movie started to pick up steam it became a staple of every oldies station. Quentin has done this for countless other songs.
I love the connection between this and Pulp Fiction is the Vega brothers. Both are kind of trigger happy, but Victor Vega is ten times moreso than his brother Vincent is in Pulp Fiction.
3:04 That is the legendary comedian Steven Wright, he delivers gags just like that. My favourite: "I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, “Steven, time to go to sleep.” I said, “But I don’t know how.” She said, “It’s real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left.” So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said “I thought I told you to go to sleep.”
"My grandfather used to put me in a small room, and he'd stand by my side. We'd just stand there, for 3 minutes, not looking at each other, not talking to each other. When I asked him why we did this, he'd say "elevator practice"".
"There's a light switch in my house that doesn't do anything when I flick it up and down. But last week I got a letter from a woman in Germany saying, 'Cut it out'."
1992 was a great year for dialogue in cinema: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs", Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men", & David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross".
I’ve been riding the Tarantino train since the beginning, when his films were considered Arthouse. Had to drag my date, now my wife of almost 30 years, to the theatre for Pulp Fiction when it premiered. By the end of that movie, I think the film won her over. Ever since, we’d both go to the latest film from him until Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
fun fact, the restaurant they are eating at in the beginning of the movie is still open to this day in Eagle Rock California. Its called Pat and Lorrain's and their food is awesome.
As far as the title goes, this is from imdb: The title for the film first came to Quentin Tarantino while visiting a production company and noticing that they had a pile of unsolicited scripts under the label "Reservoir dogs". All those scripts were fighting with each other for attention as dogs trapped in a reservoir tank. The name got stuck in his mind.
There is another story about the title as well, and I have no idea if either is correct. When Tarantino worked at a video store he suggested a French film “Au Revoir Les Enfants” to a customer, and the customer replied “I don’t want no reservoir dogs”. It stuck with Tarantino and he decided to use it as the movie title because the movie was heavily inspired by French cinema.
There are also other theories to the title, since Tarantino apparently changed the story as to how he got the idea for the title. Another one is that either he or a customer at the video store he used to work at got, the title for a french movie wrong. There's also a speculation that it might be slang or symbolism referring to rats (as in big rats in a reservoir).
I'm surprised George didn't bring up the time when Itchy & Scratchy parodied the torture scene! I recommend looking that up. I'm also really envious of you guys seeing this at an adult age. I learned this by heart when I knew zilch about anything so any element of surprise is forever lost to me. I wish I could forget this and Pulp Fiction and watch them for the first time again. If I get memory loss in my old days, I'm pretty sure that after I've forgotten my kids' faces and where my own hands are, I can still recite all the dialogue from these films.
It's worth mentioning that in that episode, the cartoon Quentin Tarantino comes out and proclaims "What I'm trying to say here is that violence is like everywhere...even our breakfast cereals man!" And some years later in Kill Bill, Vernita Green would hide a pistol in a box of cereal.
I was at university when it came out and we went to the local arthouse to watch it, mind blown. Back in those days they advertised that smoking was allowed in the theatre so distinctly remember skinning up and getting tutted at while getting stoned. It was the third great cinema moment of my life, with Empire Strikes Back and Ghostbusters preceeding it. (Maybe T2 also)
Debut film as a director and has absolute perfect control of narrative, camera, editing and the actors. I saw it when it came out at a midnight screening and I still think it's his best.
This was so different, so new, back when it came out in 93 or so. The style, the dialogue, the story were all unlike anything i'd seen up to then. I'm always amazed that no-one has done this as a play, as the main scenes are all in one setting, with only the events leading up to being in the warehouse being shot outside. Of course, a year later, in 94, Tarantino gifted us Pulp Fiction and confirmed there was a new maestro director in the world.
My favorite line in this movie is "you shoot me in a dream you better wake up and apologize", even not yet in the movie knowing for certain the men were criminals that line was ice cold gangster.
There's a line in the film where Joe says that Mr. Brown is"dead as Dillinger" that's because the actor Laurance Tierney played John Dillinger decades earlier.
Laurence Tierney was one of the toughest actors in movies. He was a legend. Many fist fights in Bars, on Movie Sets and elsewhere. It is fun to see him.
Yeah, I spotted that too. Similarly, in the Pulp Fiction scripr, Lance says to Vincent that something is "dead as disco", yet, in the film, Eric Stoltz (Lance) tells John Travolta that it is "dead as... dead, alright?" I've always thought that no-one had the heart to criticise disco to Travolta's face.
Tarantino has history of seeing cool names and just using them. With nothing more than 'it sounds cool' as the reason, so I wouldn't think too hard on it.
Hey George and Simone, the character subtext in this movie is so next level. Because Harvey Keitel feels responsible for getting Tim Roth shot. HE stops thinking like a criminal and starts taking on a father figure role, soothing Tim Roth as he bleeds out. He knows ROth's going to die, he feels responsible for it and it won't let him entertain the fact that Tim Roth is a cop. Tarantino's subtext is always next level and gives the meaning of events in the movie so much more psychological impact than would be in a normal shoot-em-up heist flick.
one of my favorite bits in the film, is when Mr. Orange is casing the store with Mr. White, you can tell he's getting soft with Mr. White with how he is joking and talking to him, but the moment Mr. White describes how to torture and manager to give up the safe, shows to us and Mr. Orange that despite how funny or interesting we see these guys, they are ruthless criminals willing to do anything for themselves and their goal.
Totally! Their scenes together are all so well done. You can really feel they liked each other and that they are acting way too unprofessional (even worse for Orange since he tried to get close to White for informations and ended up actually be fond of him... you can really feel his struggle) Just from the opening scene when they are all together you can already tell that this two are close just from their body language. Really well acted roles
Legendary comedian Steven Wright was also in a movie called Canadian Bacon where Americans were played by Canadians and vice versa to poke fun at each other. Wright played a Canadian Mountie. It's hilarious.
One thing that often gets overlooked. When Orange is telling his story, he gets asked why the buy was taking place at the train station with the drugs right there and why the brother was arrested. Orange was able to quickly give an answer without missing a beat, further validating the truth of his story. In contrast, when Eddie was telling the story of Lady E, he could not explain what things her husband "did" to her, thus destroying the credibility of his story.
What makes this reaction so amazing is that George and Simone never consider Tim Roth to be the rat until he shoots Vic Vega. The Cinebinge team falls for the psychological trick that Tarantino played with the characters. BEcasue Tim Roth was shot so early in the movie we absolve him of being the rat, even though Geroge says it earlier in the reaction, subconsciously he lets his human empathy mislead his logical thought process. This is the beauty of how Tarantino layers his character's progression throughout a movie. Tarantino knows how to mind fuck the audience like few others can.
@@krautgazer They say it, but their comments afterward negate it. Because they are sucked into the psychological dynamic happening between Tim Roth and Harvey Kitel.
The scene where Pink and White are discussing who the rat is, the only color in the room is the soap bottles against the wall. The _orange_ soap bottles. 🙂🤘
This film shows that if you make great characters and have incredible dialogue you can make a iconic movie. I mean it's a movie about a heist where you never even see the heist.
One of the best moments of foreshadowing is in that very first scene. When Joe asks “Who didn’t pitch in for the tip?” Mr Orange rats him out immediately!!
Simone's reference to Fargo saying Steve Buscemi is gonna take the diamond and bury them in the snow was so funny and brilliant! Really made me laugh! Great reaction too, guys!
As for why it's called "Reservoir Dogs"... The title for the film first came to Tarantino while visiting a production company and noticing that they had a pile of unsolicited scripts under the label "Reservoir dogs". All those scripts were fighting with each other for attention as dogs trapped in a reservoir tank. The name got stuck in his mind. As for Samuel Jackson, he actually auditioned for Reservoir Dogs but didn't work out well because Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth didn't show up and Jackson had to audition with unknown actors that were taking their place and they were "terrible" according to Jackson.
DJ is stand up comedian Steven Wright, one of my all time fave comedians. "So I put a skylight in my roof. The people in the flat above me are furious !" A great film with Stallone (really untypical non-hero role) with Harvey Keitel, Robert de Nero, and Ray Liotta is Copland.
Hey Simone and Geroge, I feel that the opening scene of them at breakfast establishes many things, but mainly each character is intensely passionate for whatever ideology they have come upon. The other thing is Harvey Keitel is willing to go against JOe, when he won't give him his notebook. Tarantino's dialogue is never there for fluff. it always takes us somewhere. We never understand until the movie credit roll, but it's there for a reason.
That scene also sets up all of the characters. Tim Roth immediately rats out Mr Pink for not tipping, letting us know he's the rat. Pink is selfish and refuses to tip, letting us know that he is only in it for himself and will want to split as soon as the job goes south. @Dave already mentioned Blond's finger guns. It's an incredibly well written scene.
The rat is revealed during the Tip scene, he immediately rats out Mr Pink that he was not the one to Tip. In the end before the stand off the old man alludes to it when he says he should have his head examined because he didn’t realize it at the tip scene.
That's some movie for a first time Director. What's amazing is how confident he was in doing his own vision. There are scenes where the camera stays on one character and doesn't do a reaction from the other character. The DoP would tell Tarantino, "want to shoot some reaction footage in case you decide you want it while editing?" and Tarantino would reply, "no, not necessary." I think he was going to make it with the $50,000 he got from writing True Romance. Then Harvey Keitel saw the script and said he wanted to be in it and need he'd talk some friends into doing it, too. Once Keitel was on board Tarantino was able to get some more money but it was still very low budget. That's why he put himself in it, so he wouldn't have to pay another actor.
Vic Vega: "You're gonna stand there and bark all day little doggy, or you gonna bite." Love it. Such epic lines, such epic dialogue. Thank you Tarantino for inventing the Vega brothers.
Such an amazing neo noir thriller from Quentin Tarantino! Following the aftermath of a failed jewelry heist, violent thieves begin to realize that one of their own might be a police informant, but which one? Saw this on VHS in 1996 and it's pretty impressive! Tarantino said that John Carpenter's THE THING was a major influence on making this movie, as the criminals suspect one of these guys is not who he appears to be.
When you watch this movie again. Notice that Mr. Blond ( Michael Madson's character) leaning against something when you first see him in the movie. What he is leaning up against, are coffins. When Nice Guy Eddie tells Mr. Blond to babysit these two. Mr. Blond is sitting on a hearse.
Yea the warehouse they were in waa formerly uses for embalming, one of the rooms they go to early on to argue had embalming fluid in drums sitting there
I saw this 3 or 4 times in a local independent theater when it first came out. Needless to say, I was mesmerized. Glad you two got a chance to experience it unspoiled.
0:59 “Does that mean, like, they’re all going to kill each other?” Goddamn, what? She called the ending of this movie in LITERAL seconds… That has GOT TO BE some kind of a record!
It is actually great interogation technic, to pretend that you are not interested in what the subject can tell you, and just interrogating him for your own pleasure.
George asks about Samuel L.Jackson being in this movie but it's hard to believe he may not have been in any Tarantino movies if Laurence Fishburne hadn't tuned down the role of Jules in Pulp Fiction.
I saw this in the theater back in 1992 and was blown away and had never seen anything so tense take place on one set. Such incredible writing. Made me an instant Tarantino fan (being securely cemented when Pulp Fiction came out a few years later). Edit - I know it didn't take place on one set, but the "present" story mostly does.
I saw an interview a long time ago in which Tarantino mentioned the 1987 French film, Au Revoir Les Enfents, and sort of misheard the title as Reservoir Dogs and he liked it so much that he wanted it to be the title of his first film even though it didn't really mean anything.
Love that movie. Very funny. Walter Matthau, talking about the lead bandit-Robert Shaw:"The guy who's speaking has a heavy British accent...so he's probably a fruitcake". Something like that.
People were really up in arms about the ear scene at the time but you never actually see the act but hearing the screams somehow makes it more terrifying
In the UK there was a lot of fuss about that. However, in the published screenplay, there is a photo of an alternate take where you actually see the ear being detached. Available to anyone of any age in shops.
It's amazing that there's actually nothing to censor. You can show that scene on TNT. Of course all the F-bombs would be gone from the movie, so it wouldn't be worth it.
Which is so insane to me that they made a huge deal about the violence in Tarantinos first two movies when they really weren't it's almost all talking and then CASINO came our a few years later lmao...
The camera makes a really unusual move: panning to the side, focusing on nothing in particular. This trick automatically gives you the feeling of looking away from the horror taking place in front of you.
Vic Vega is supposed to be Vincent Vega's brother. Tarentino intended to do a movie starring them both but the project never saw the light of day. But I think some of the ideas for it went into From Dusk till Dawn : With the "2 brothers, one level headed, and one psychopath" sort of plot.
Some more hints of Mr. Orange. In the scene where Mr. White & Mr. Pink are talking, on the right there are colored bottles. A bunch of pink ones and a white one on the left side of the shelf. On the right side are a couple of orange ones, seperate from the other group.
Tim Roth starred in the film "Four Rooms" , which is an unusual film with 4 parts , each directed by a different director ( including Tarantino and one by Robert Rodriguez ). It has the framing device of each of the segments being one room in the hotel Roth works in. Very worth seeing.
*Random trivia:* In the Tarantinoverse, Vic Vega (Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madsen) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction, John Travolta) are supposedly brothers. *Another random trivia:* The personal traits of Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) and Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) are said to illustrate the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath, respectively. And the title Reservoir Dogs would be something like these guys are the reserve hired hands that you pull in for a job.
One of the older legends about the origin of the title that I've read is that, when Tarantino was a video store clerk, he had trouble pronouncing the title of the French film "Au Revoir Les Enfants" and would refer to it as the "reservoir movie." He then mashed that together with the Sam Peckinpah film "Straw Dogs." There is another Tarantino universe connection aside from the Vega brothers. During the Mr. White flashback, Joe asks Mr. White about Alabama. Alabama, of course, was the Patricia Arquette character in True Romance.
The song at the end was "da lime in the coconut" a song about a woman with a stomachache and Orange had a gut shot the entire movie. Also I saw Simone's head bobbing lol 😆
In the Reservoir Dogs video game adaptation (2006), Mr. Blue’s character is fleshed out further, showing his escape from the heist and eventual death at the hands of the police in a movie theater. Although this alternate depiction may have been intended to provide a more comprehensive backstory for the character, it remains secondary to the original film’s narrative. Mr. Blue’s character serves primarily as a plot device to advance the story. His death, as explained by Joe, is a key event that sets the stage for the characters’ reactions and subsequent actions. His absence from most scenes allows the audience to focus on the main characters’ interactions and relationships.
Another subtle clue of who the rat was was in the bathroom scene between Pink and White. If you look at the bottles of liquid on the counter behind them, there are pink and white liquids together and orange liquid separated on the other side.
I think the reason that I can't lock down a favourite Tarantino movie is that I love this one so much, I'm hesitant to put anything ahead of it (even though he's certainly made "better quality" films). The writing, the casting, the soundtrack and the fact that it could largely be put on as a stage play just make this one an unforgettable classic.
Another great reaction! I have never been a huge Tarantino film, but I do like this film quite a lot. Quick recommendation: The use of colours for the aliases is an homage to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) which is an AMAZING heist film. Highly recommend!
One of the singer Pink's origin stories of her name are from this movie, she was Mr Pink in her crew. There are other stories I have heard her tell though.
I like how George gets the title mixed up with that of Reservation Dogs starring Jerry Seinfeld. Its tagline was, "Anybody can just take a reservation. You have to hold the reservation."
I believe the title "Reservoir Dogs" comes from someone mispronouncing the title of the film "Au Revoir, Les Enfants" when they requested it at the video store, that Quentin Tarantino worked in. He liked the mispronunciation so much, he made it the title of the film. Glad you guys liked this one. I remember seeing it in the theater as a young film student, and being completely blown away.
@23:12 @CineBinge He is in True Romance though, which I do believe got released before this movie, and Tarantino did write the script for that one and I think he wold've directed it but he sold the script for True Romance to finance Reservoir Dogs, either way ya'll should definitely react to True Romance, it's a great movie with a bunch of great actors.
I saw this at a college screening when it first came out. The best thing about it was that almost no one knew what it was, so it really blew everyone's mind. A year or so later, there were portions of a leaked script for Pulp Fiction that were all over the early internet.
The big thing with the Ear Scene is that there were two versions and we saw what Tarantino considered to be the more gruesome one. There's a take with a fake ear where Vega actually gets shown cutting it off, but Tarantino realized there was no way to make it as realistic as how people would imagine it if he moved the camera a few feet and you just HEARD it. Thanks for sharing your reaction with us guys!
I love Tarantino's first two movies. I just wish I had seen them in the cinema at the time but without the world wide web is was so much harder to get info on a movie. Tv shows about movies were often very commercial in nature (still are) so I got to know many of these movies by watching them on tv or buying them after reading the dvd reviews on Amazon back in the 90's.
Tarantino loves to work with the same actors in multiple films. Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel both had roles in Pulp Fiction, as did Steve Buscemi ( a very small role as a waiter). Michael Madsen had a significant role in Kill Bill Vol 2
I got to see that movie at the time of its original release, back when Quentin Tarantino was a complete stranger. Thanks to its playing at the 1992 Cannes Festival, it was released in France later that year, before it got to hit the American screens. One thing about Tarantino is that he's a huge fanboy of Wong Kar-wai, and he set up his own distribution company just so that Chungking Express could be seen in cinemas by American audiences. As regards the poster for Reservoir Dogs, several versions of it exist, but the tagline for this one is my favorite.
My favorite fan theory connects "Reservoir Dogs" with "Pulp Fiction" through Steve Buscemi. Reservoir Dogs would happen first, meaning that Mr. Pink managed to survive and escape from the police. Things obviously didn’t go well after that, with Mr. Pink on the run and unemployed, so he had to take a job that would allow him to keep a low-profile - and what better than one where you have to wear a disguise all day. Ironically, Mr. Pink was now being forced to work the job he criticized so much, and now he had to deal with non-tippers. Life is a roller-coaster, they say.
Not sure if it was answered, but it was called Reservoir Dogs because Tarantino liked a film by the late, great French director Louis Malle called, Au Revoir, Les Infants (Goodbye, Children). Tarantino could never remember/pronounce it so he just kept referring it to as Reservoir Dogs. When he wrote the script for Reservoir Dogs, the ill-used name fit perfectly for the gang of diamond thieves.
Mr. Blue was a guy named Edward Bunker, who was a real career criminal who had spent almost all of his early life in prison, but had also gone on to be an accomplished writer (if you want a spectacular example of that, watch "Straight Time", 1978- book and screenplay by Eddie Bunker.
This is a movie you're glued to the whole time but the last marvel movie I saw I almost fell asleep to i just didn't care about any of the stuff going on. Maybe the most exciting scene in this movie and maybe my favorite visually is just my pink running down the street with the camera dollying right next to him. Found that road on Google street view too lol
Anyone getting a laugh from Simone counting the “dicks” in the first scene should join the Patreon so they can see the True Detective episode where Simone counts the “butts” in the show’s intro.
You were wondering about the title. I'm sure I caught an interview with Tarantino when it came out where he said "reservoir dogs" was the neighbourhood slang for the enormous rats that used to live around the reservoir near where he grew up. It stuck with him and he thought it summed up the feel of the story he wanted to tell.
Scenes that make you imagine what is happening can be quite fun. For example, in the first Avengers movie when Thor holds his hand out to call for Mjolnir while fighting the Hulk. When Mr. Pink seems to get a clean getaway in this film you can hear the police shooting Mr. Pink to death outside and the scene plays in your imagination alone because this film delivers the mantra of "live by the sword, die by the sword" to every one of the characters.
The name Reservoir Dogs comes from Tarantino's mom, Connie, She called him and his friends, when he was a kid, a bunch of Reservoir Dogs back in his hometown, Knoxville, Tennessee. It is like a bunch of hooligans or a motley crue of little trouble makers.
Keitel should have at least gotten a nomination for this movie. It's probably my favorite role of his, but it was Tarantino's first movie and I'm guessing the Academy had no idea what to make of it.
Reservoir Dogs was supposed to be an Indie post-college low budget type film so Tarantino could show people he could direct. However, when Harvey Keitel read the script he immediately poured money into the project and got top-notch actors to sign on. Secured a distribution deal for Tarantino and suddenly Tarantino was the hottest young director in Hollywood. Making a movie 10 times better quality than his peers for one-tenth the money. Sending Tarantino into legendary status.
You don't need sets and green screen when the dialogue and performances are this good
the power of great writing.
@@cgmat7804 Heck, "My Dinner with Andre" (1981) is just two people talking.
incredibly nice synopsis of the happening of the movie.
Keep copy pasting comments on every reaction like a loser.
"I've never associated this song with terror." -- and now whenever you hear it, this is the FIRST thing you'll think of. Tarantino and Scorsese both seem to be masters of contrast between on screen action, and the soundtrack of the scene.
Yep, happened to me.
Fact, can’t hear that song without thinking about slicing someone’s ear off
Like playing Layla during Goodfellas when there are all the people killed.
@@jishin75I still call the piano interlude of Layla the “Theme From Goodfellas”
You caught the implications of Blonde being gun-happy from the opening scene, that's cool, but there were other subtle character hints in there too (Orange, being the cop, rats out Pink for not putting in a dollar)
Mr Pink also being the only one not to tip, and gives extensive reasons for doing so, he always struck me as a hard thinker, no surprise he's the one who gets away alive in the end and with the money.
@@mrdarkshoeHe gets arrested offscreen.
Two of the many remarkable things about this film: it's a heist movie in which you never see the heist, and with the exception of the flashbacks, it all takes place in that warehouse. You could practically play it on a stage.
Sort of similar to goodfellas in that regard
Which makes sense because it feels like a play.
This was Tarrantino's directorial debut but his first screenplay to be made into a movie was "True Romance" (which features Samuel L Jackson) and should very much be on your list.
True Romance features everyone, Val Kilmer, James Gandolfini, Dennis hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, and the list goes on.
He had to sell True Romance scrip to finance this movie , Reservoir dogs came out before True Romance and still lot of people have not heard of it .
true romance is so good, one of, if not my favourite tarantino movie, even though it's not directed by him.
Just thinking about that Hopper vs. Walkin scene gives me chills
So much this. The combination of Tarantino's script with Tony Scott's direction and *so* many great actors acting great...True Romance is one of the better films out there, period. Let alone among Tarantino projects.
Vic (Victor) Vega, aka Mr Blonde, is Vincent Vega's (John Travolta from Pulp Fiction) brother. There are a bunch of references across Tarantino's films that connect them to a cinematic universe. Such as the fictional brand of cigarettes, "Red Apple", that all the characters smoke.
There was even going to be a prequel featuring the two before the events of both films, but it ended up being cancelled.
In that universe there are a lot of people that look like Tarantino XD
Tarantino 2nd movie , directer by Tony Scott , True Romance 1993 , script Tarantino had to sell to make this one , he got $50 000 for it , only difference to original script is movie scenes are in chronological order , not a box office buster , people have not even heard of it , even when it has top casting .
Mr. White also shares a last name with Jimmy from Pulp Fiction: Dimmick.
Django was supposed to be in hateful eight because of the bounty hunters but it was dropped early on in development
As many have pointed out, Vic Vega is the brother of Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction. One of Tarantino's many unrealized projects was a movie called The Vega Brothers, which would've brought back Michael Madsen and John Travolta. Tarantino implied in an interview at some point that they would be playing the twin brothers of Vic and Vincent, since both characters die in their respective movies. However, the movie was never made -- Tarantino often talks about making sequels or spin-offs of his existing movies, but he never does it. IMO, it seems obvious that he genuinely loves his characters, so he always has fun speculating on what they get up to outside the margins of the films, but the appeal of pulling on those threads is never as strong as making a brand new set of characters (lots of people seem to believe he'll make Kill Bill Vol. 3 as his tenth and supposedly final film, but I'd be very surprised).
Sam Jackson said in an interview for Pulp Fiction that he auditioned for Reservoir Dogs and didn't get it. It increased his resolve to get the role in PF.
In the final confrontation, there is a notorious gaffe. Joe is pointing his gun at Mr. Orange. Mr. White is pointing his gun at Joe. Nice Guy Eddie is pointing his gun at Mr. White. Mr. White shoots Joe, Nice Guy Eddie shoots Mr. White. Everyone in the stand-off dies, but nobody was pointing a gun at Nice Guy Eddie.
Mr. Blue was played by a real-life criminal named Eddie Bunker, who left crime behind by writing a novel based on his experiences called No Beast So Fierce, which was later turned into a movie called Straight Time (very good). He consulted on and appeared in lots of crime movies after that, similar to Danny Trejo, who he met in prison. His character has no story because Bunker is sort of a glorified cameo, a reference to his real-life exploits. There is no other cut of this movie.
I really hope you guys watch Tarantino's Jackie Brown soon. I think it's one of his best movies but it is also one of his least-seen and/or least-celebrated, so it never wins polls, but I think it will blow you away. I do get the impression that you're going to do the whole Tarantino catalog, but I hope Jackie Brown isn't last. Also, for reasons I won't divulge, it should be paired with Out of Sight (1998), starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, and directed by Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean's movies), which is another underrated '90s masterpiece.
Watch it in 0.25 speed. You'll see that Mr White first shoots Joe, then swings his arm slightly to his left and shoots Nice Guy Eddie. Shoots him twice, in fact.
Sequence is: Joe shoots Mr Orange. Mr White shoots Joe. Nice Guy Eddie shoots Mr White. Mr White shoots Nice Guy Eddie twice.
The fact that they were able to get it perfectly in that sequence in such a short space of time is a testament to both the acting and the film-making. I'd love to know how many takes it took.
There's no gaffe in the final confrontation. Mr. White shoots twice. He shoots Joe and then Nice Guy Eddie.
@@davddd81 He shoots thrice, in fact.
Jackie Brown is an excellent film. True Romance is a _great_ film, though, and gets skipped over far too often by people watching Tarantino flicks.
yep the same way Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's movies are a shared universe with crossover characters
"Stuck In The Middle With You" was just a fun little song before I saw this movie. Now it's forever associated with Michael Madsen dancing around with a severed ear.
I had been listening to oldies station my whole life and had NEVER heard Stuck in the middle with you. The moment this movie started to pick up steam it became a staple of every oldies station. Quentin has done this for countless other songs.
@@waynecanning4122 LOL! Goes to show how old I am... I was hearing it when it was still considered Top 40s! ;-D
@@hendrsb33 That’s cool. You have to admit it re-popularized it. Such a good song
@@waynecanning4122 Yeah, I admit it. But then again, I still prefer the "oldies but goodies"!
I love the connection between this and Pulp Fiction is the Vega brothers. Both are kind of trigger happy, but Victor Vega is ten times moreso than his brother Vincent is in Pulp Fiction.
Mr. White also references Alabama from True Romance.
The black & white suits are also connected to pulp fiction.
Also natural born killers. Jack Scagnetti
@@jkhristian Good catch. Missed that reference.
Well, Vincent was rather loose with his trigger finger. He did casually shoot Marvin in the face mid conversation.
3:04 That is the legendary comedian Steven Wright, he delivers gags just like that. My favourite: "I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, “Steven, time to go to sleep.” I said, “But I don’t know how.” She said, “It’s real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left.” So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said “I thought I told you to go to sleep.”
"It's a small world. But I wouln't want to paint it." - S.W.
"My grandfather used to put me in a small room, and he'd stand by my side. We'd just stand there, for 3 minutes, not looking at each other, not talking to each other. When I asked him why we did this, he'd say "elevator practice"".
Once my grandmother gave me 5 bucks. She said "here's 5 bucks. Don't tell your mother". I said "it'll cost you more than that".
"Sometimes I like to sit in a full bathtub and put the shower on, and I pretend I'm in a sinking submarine".
"There's a light switch in my house that doesn't do anything when I flick it up and down.
But last week I got a letter from a woman in Germany saying, 'Cut it out'."
From now on whenever you hear "Stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers Wheel you will picture Michael Madsen dancing in the warehouse.
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1992 was a great year for dialogue in cinema: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs", Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men", & David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross".
I’ve been riding the Tarantino train since the beginning, when his films were considered Arthouse. Had to drag my date, now my wife of almost 30 years, to the theatre for Pulp Fiction when it premiered. By the end of that movie, I think the film won her over. Ever since, we’d both go to the latest film from him until Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
fun fact, the restaurant they are eating at in the beginning of the movie is still open to this day in Eagle Rock California. Its called Pat and Lorrain's and their food is awesome.
As far as the title goes, this is from imdb: The title for the film first came to Quentin Tarantino while visiting a production company and noticing that they had a pile of unsolicited scripts under the label "Reservoir dogs". All those scripts were fighting with each other for attention as dogs trapped in a reservoir tank. The name got stuck in his mind.
There is another story about the title as well, and I have no idea if either is correct.
When Tarantino worked at a video store he suggested a French film “Au Revoir Les Enfants” to a customer, and the customer replied “I don’t want no reservoir dogs”. It stuck with Tarantino and he decided to use it as the movie title because the movie was heavily inspired by French cinema.
Drowning puppies, all in the same bag, all doomed.
There are also other theories to the title, since Tarantino apparently changed the story as to how he got the idea for the title. Another one is that either he or a customer at the video store he used to work at got, the title for a french movie wrong. There's also a speculation that it might be slang or symbolism referring to rats (as in big rats in a reservoir).
@@samqualls1339 See 'City On Fire'.
I always thought it was a reference to the Hollywood Reservoir....
I'm surprised George didn't bring up the time when Itchy & Scratchy parodied the torture scene! I recommend looking that up.
I'm also really envious of you guys seeing this at an adult age. I learned this by heart when I knew zilch about anything so any element of surprise is forever lost to me. I wish I could forget this and Pulp Fiction and watch them for the first time again. If I get memory loss in my old days, I'm pretty sure that after I've forgotten my kids' faces and where my own hands are, I can still recite all the dialogue from these films.
IASIP did a great parody as well
There's also a parody of the "don't point that gun at my Dad..." scene in 'Shaun of the Dead'
It's worth mentioning that in that episode, the cartoon Quentin Tarantino comes out and proclaims "What I'm trying to say here is that violence is like everywhere...even our breakfast cereals man!" And some years later in Kill Bill, Vernita Green would hide a pistol in a box of cereal.
@@shadypelican I can't believe I didn't connect the dots between the Simpsons episode and Kill Bill.
I was at university when it came out and we went to the local arthouse to watch it, mind blown. Back in those days they advertised that smoking was allowed in the theatre so distinctly remember skinning up and getting tutted at while getting stoned. It was the third great cinema moment of my life, with Empire Strikes Back and Ghostbusters preceeding it. (Maybe T2 also)
Debut film as a director and has absolute perfect control of narrative, camera, editing and the actors. I saw it when it came out at a midnight screening and I still think it's his best.
Tarantino says that he originally wanted to play Mr. Pink (Buscemi's character) "which is why I gave him so many great lines".
Boy am I glad he didn't though.
This was so different, so new, back when it came out in 93 or so. The style, the dialogue, the story were all unlike anything i'd seen up to then. I'm always amazed that no-one has done this as a play, as the main scenes are all in one setting, with only the events leading up to being in the warehouse being shot outside. Of course, a year later, in 94, Tarantino gifted us Pulp Fiction and confirmed there was a new maestro director in the world.
Totally agree! I've seen this movie a bunch of times and every time I watch it I'm struck with how cool this would be as a 3 act play.
I wasn't in it, but my college did do it as a play, and they did it in sequential order.
@@EricAKATheBelgianGuy Glad to hear that someone took that step with it. I bet it worked well.
@@mr.gadfly6249 That's actually an accurate review of your comment. The irony!
Now you will never hear THAT song without thinking of that scene. Welcome to the club.
My favorite line in this movie is "you shoot me in a dream you better wake up and apologize", even not yet in the movie knowing for certain the men were criminals that line was ice cold gangster.
There's a line in the film where Joe says that Mr. Brown is"dead as Dillinger" that's because the actor Laurance Tierney played John Dillinger decades earlier.
Laurence Tierney was one of the toughest actors in movies. He was a legend. Many fist fights in Bars, on Movie Sets and elsewhere. It is fun to see him.
Yeah, I spotted that too. Similarly, in the Pulp Fiction scripr, Lance says to Vincent that something is "dead as disco", yet, in the film, Eric Stoltz (Lance) tells John Travolta that it is "dead as... dead, alright?" I've always thought that no-one had the heart to criticise disco to Travolta's face.
Tarantino has history of seeing cool names and just using them. With nothing more than 'it sounds cool' as the reason, so I wouldn't think too hard on it.
Hey George and Simone, the character subtext in this movie is so next level. Because Harvey Keitel feels responsible for getting Tim Roth shot. HE stops thinking like a criminal and starts taking on a father figure role, soothing Tim Roth as he bleeds out. He knows ROth's going to die, he feels responsible for it and it won't let him entertain the fact that Tim Roth is a cop. Tarantino's subtext is always next level and gives the meaning of events in the movie so much more psychological impact than would be in a normal shoot-em-up heist flick.
one of my favorite bits in the film, is when Mr. Orange is casing the store with Mr. White, you can tell he's getting soft with Mr. White with how he is joking and talking to him, but the moment Mr. White describes how to torture and manager to give up the safe, shows to us and Mr. Orange that despite how funny or interesting we see these guys, they are ruthless criminals willing to do anything for themselves and their goal.
Totally! Their scenes together are all so well done. You can really feel they liked each other and that they are acting way too unprofessional (even worse for Orange since he tried to get close to White for informations and ended up actually be fond of him... you can really feel his struggle) Just from the opening scene when they are all together you can already tell that this two are close just from their body language. Really well acted roles
Legendary comedian Steven Wright was also in a movie called Canadian Bacon where Americans were played by Canadians and vice versa to poke fun at each other. Wright played a Canadian Mountie. It's hilarious.
One thing that often gets overlooked.
When Orange is telling his story, he gets asked why the buy was taking place at the train station with the drugs right there and why the brother was arrested. Orange was able to quickly give an answer without missing a beat, further validating the truth of his story. In contrast, when Eddie was telling the story of Lady E, he could not explain what things her husband "did" to her, thus destroying the credibility of his story.
What makes this reaction so amazing is that George and Simone never consider Tim Roth to be the rat until he shoots Vic Vega.
The Cinebinge team falls for the psychological trick that Tarantino played with the characters. BEcasue Tim Roth was shot so early in the movie we absolve him of being the rat, even though Geroge says it earlier in the reaction, subconsciously he lets his human empathy mislead his logical thought process. This is the beauty of how Tarantino layers his character's progression throughout a movie. Tarantino knows how to mind fuck the audience like few others can.
I'm pretty sure they say at the beginning that him getting shot doesn't exclude him as the rat.
@@krautgazer They say it, but their comments afterward negate it. Because they are sucked into the psychological dynamic happening between Tim Roth and Harvey Kitel.
The scene where Pink and White are discussing who the rat is, the only color in the room is the soap bottles against the wall.
The _orange_ soap bottles.
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@@MrRezRising nice catch. Great info
This film shows that if you make great characters and have incredible dialogue you can make a iconic movie. I mean it's a movie about a heist where you never even see the heist.
One of the best moments of foreshadowing is in that very first scene. When Joe asks “Who didn’t pitch in for the tip?” Mr Orange rats him out immediately!!
Simone's reference to Fargo saying Steve Buscemi is gonna take the diamond and bury them in the snow was so funny and brilliant! Really made me laugh! Great reaction too, guys!
And then meet up with his two buddies at the bowling lanes. 😉
@@garybacica5709 That too
As for why it's called "Reservoir Dogs"... The title for the film first came to Tarantino while visiting a production company and noticing that they had a pile of unsolicited scripts under the label "Reservoir dogs". All those scripts were fighting with each other for attention as dogs trapped in a reservoir tank. The name got stuck in his mind.
As for Samuel Jackson, he actually auditioned for Reservoir Dogs but didn't work out well because Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth didn't show up and Jackson had to audition with unknown actors that were taking their place and they were "terrible" according to Jackson.
DJ is stand up comedian Steven Wright, one of my all time fave comedians. "So I put a skylight in my roof. The people in the flat above me are furious !"
A great film with Stallone (really untypical non-hero role) with Harvey Keitel, Robert de Nero, and Ray Liotta is Copland.
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Hey Simone and Geroge, I feel that the opening scene of them at breakfast establishes many things, but mainly each character is intensely passionate for whatever ideology they have come upon. The other thing is Harvey Keitel is willing to go against JOe, when he won't give him his notebook. Tarantino's dialogue is never there for fluff. it always takes us somewhere. We never understand until the movie credit roll, but it's there for a reason.
As George correctly guessed, the finger gun was absolutely foreshadowing.
That scene also sets up all of the characters. Tim Roth immediately rats out Mr Pink for not tipping, letting us know he's the rat. Pink is selfish and refuses to tip, letting us know that he is only in it for himself and will want to split as soon as the job goes south. @Dave already mentioned Blond's finger guns. It's an incredibly well written scene.
@@StormhavenGaming so true, so true.
@@StormhavenGaming I think it's less that he's selfish and more that he's a wild card. He doesn't really care much for established rules
0:40 Reservation Dogs (TV Series 2021-2023)
The rat is revealed during the Tip scene, he immediately rats out Mr Pink that he was not the one to Tip. In the end before the stand off the old man alludes to it when he says he should have his head examined because he didn’t realize it at the tip scene.
That's some movie for a first time Director. What's amazing is how confident he was in doing his own vision. There are scenes where the camera stays on one character and doesn't do a reaction from the other character. The DoP would tell Tarantino, "want to shoot some reaction footage in case you decide you want it while editing?" and Tarantino would reply, "no, not necessary."
I think he was going to make it with the $50,000 he got from writing True Romance. Then Harvey Keitel saw the script and said he wanted to be in it and need he'd talk some friends into doing it, too. Once Keitel was on board Tarantino was able to get some more money but it was still very low budget. That's why he put himself in it, so he wouldn't have to pay another actor.
Vic Vega: "You're gonna stand there and bark all day little doggy, or you gonna bite." Love it. Such epic lines, such epic dialogue.
Thank you Tarantino for inventing the Vega brothers.
Tim Roth was in a junkie-comedy movie alongside Tupac, "Gridlock'd". Worth checking out.
Such an amazing neo noir thriller from Quentin Tarantino!
Following the aftermath of a failed jewelry heist, violent thieves begin to realize that one of their own might be a police informant, but which one? Saw this on VHS in 1996 and it's pretty impressive!
Tarantino said that John Carpenter's THE THING was a major influence on making this movie, as the criminals suspect one of these guys is not who he appears to be.
When you watch this movie again. Notice that Mr. Blond ( Michael Madson's character) leaning against something when you first see him in the movie. What he is leaning up against, are coffins. When Nice Guy Eddie tells Mr. Blond to babysit these two. Mr. Blond is sitting on a hearse.
Yea the warehouse they were in waa formerly uses for embalming, one of the rooms they go to early on to argue had embalming fluid in drums sitting there
I saw this 3 or 4 times in a local independent theater when it first came out. Needless to say, I was mesmerized.
Glad you two got a chance to experience it unspoiled.
To think this film is where Tarantino started. Blows my mind.
"Easy, peasy, Gary Sinisee" is AWESOME
0:59 “Does that mean, like, they’re all going to kill each other?”
Goddamn, what? She called the ending of this movie in LITERAL seconds…
That has GOT TO BE some kind of a record!
It is actually great interogation technic, to pretend that you are not interested in what the subject can tell you, and just interrogating him for your own pleasure.
George asks about Samuel L.Jackson being in this movie but it's hard to believe he may not have been in any Tarantino movies if Laurence Fishburne hadn't tuned down the role of Jules in Pulp Fiction.
He was very close to getting the Randy Brooks part here in Dogs.
I saw this in the theater back in 1992 and was blown away and had never seen anything so tense take place on one set. Such incredible writing. Made me an instant Tarantino fan (being securely cemented when Pulp Fiction came out a few years later).
Edit - I know it didn't take place on one set, but the "present" story mostly does.
I saw an interview a long time ago in which Tarantino mentioned the 1987 French film, Au Revoir Les Enfents, and sort of misheard the title as Reservoir Dogs and he liked it so much that he wanted it to be the title of his first film even though it didn't really mean anything.
The code names are a homage to an older crime movie The Taking of Pelhem 123 (1974)
Love that movie. Very funny. Walter Matthau, talking about the lead bandit-Robert Shaw:"The guy who's speaking has a heavy British accent...so he's probably a fruitcake". Something like that.
Great movie!
People were really up in arms about the ear scene at the time but you never actually see the act but hearing the screams somehow makes it more terrifying
In the UK there was a lot of fuss about that. However, in the published screenplay, there is a photo of an alternate take where you actually see the ear being detached. Available to anyone of any age in shops.
It's a movie technic,camera pulls away,and your mind fills in the gap
It's amazing that there's actually nothing to censor. You can show that scene on TNT. Of course all the F-bombs would be gone from the movie, so it wouldn't be worth it.
Which is so insane to me that they made a huge deal about the violence in Tarantinos first two movies when they really weren't it's almost all talking and then CASINO came our a few years later lmao...
The camera makes a really unusual move: panning to the side, focusing on nothing in particular.
This trick automatically gives you the feeling of looking away from the horror taking place in front of you.
Vic Vega is supposed to be Vincent Vega's brother.
Tarentino intended to do a movie starring them both but the project never saw the light of day. But I think some of the ideas for it went into From Dusk till Dawn : With the "2 brothers, one level headed, and one psychopath" sort of plot.
No Samuel L. Jackson, although he did audition for the part of Marvin, the cop.
After this was released, Madonna sent Tarantino a letter. "Dear Quentin, It's about love. Madonna." LOL!
Some more hints of Mr. Orange. In the scene where Mr. White & Mr. Pink are talking, on the right there are colored bottles. A bunch of pink ones and a white one on the left side of the shelf. On the right side are a couple of orange ones, seperate from the other group.
Saw this during the first run, remember coming out of the theater, 'I'm feeling raw.' A watershed moment, witnessing a new genre.
Tim Roth starred in the film "Four Rooms" , which is an unusual film with 4 parts , each directed by a different director ( including Tarantino and one by Robert Rodriguez ). It has the framing device of each of the segments being one room in the hotel Roth works in. Very worth seeing.
Four Rooms is very underrated and absolutely hilarious.
I love Four Rooms and it showed that Roth has some serious comedy chops to go along with his more dramatic roles that he usually does.
*Random trivia:* In the Tarantinoverse, Vic Vega (Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madsen) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction, John Travolta) are supposedly brothers.
*Another random trivia:* The personal traits of Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) and Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) are said to illustrate the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath, respectively.
And the title Reservoir Dogs would be something like these guys are the reserve hired hands that you pull in for a job.
19:26 This is my favorite shot of the movie. The camera zooms in slowly and his eyes get wider and wider.
One of the older legends about the origin of the title that I've read is that, when Tarantino was a video store clerk, he had trouble pronouncing the title of the French film "Au Revoir Les Enfants" and would refer to it as the "reservoir movie." He then mashed that together with the Sam Peckinpah film "Straw Dogs."
There is another Tarantino universe connection aside from the Vega brothers. During the Mr. White flashback, Joe asks Mr. White about Alabama. Alabama, of course, was the Patricia Arquette character in True Romance.
The song at the end was "da lime in the coconut" a song about a woman with a stomachache and Orange had a gut shot the entire movie. Also I saw Simone's head bobbing lol 😆
This Is One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's,Nice Reaction Guy's
In the Reservoir Dogs video game adaptation (2006), Mr. Blue’s character is fleshed out further, showing his escape from the heist and eventual death at the hands of the police in a movie theater. Although this alternate depiction may have been intended to provide a more comprehensive backstory for the character, it remains secondary to the original film’s narrative.
Mr. Blue’s character serves primarily as a plot device to advance the story. His death, as explained by Joe, is a key event that sets the stage for the characters’ reactions and subsequent actions. His absence from most scenes allows the audience to focus on the main characters’ interactions and relationships.
Another subtle clue of who the rat was was in the bathroom scene between Pink and White. If you look at the bottles of liquid on the counter behind them, there are pink and white liquids together and orange liquid separated on the other side.
Simone's reaction at 18:57 is gold! Thanks for a great video you two :)
I think the reason that I can't lock down a favourite Tarantino movie is that I love this one so much, I'm hesitant to put anything ahead of it (even though he's certainly made "better quality" films). The writing, the casting, the soundtrack and the fact that it could largely be put on as a stage play just make this one an unforgettable classic.
I watched this movie back-to-back when I was a kid. I love it.
One Of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpieces Ever Made, Cool Reaction As Always Simone & George, You Both Take Care
Another great reaction! I have never been a huge Tarantino film, but I do like this film quite a lot. Quick recommendation: The use of colours for the aliases is an homage to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) which is an AMAZING heist film. Highly recommend!
One of the singer Pink's origin stories of her name are from this movie, she was Mr Pink in her crew. There are other stories I have heard her tell though.
I like how George gets the title mixed up with that of Reservation Dogs starring Jerry Seinfeld. Its tagline was, "Anybody can just take a reservation. You have to hold the reservation."
I believe the title "Reservoir Dogs" comes from someone mispronouncing the title of the film "Au Revoir, Les Enfants" when they requested it at the video store, that Quentin Tarantino worked in. He liked the mispronunciation so much, he made it the title of the film. Glad you guys liked this one. I remember seeing it in the theater as a young film student, and being completely blown away.
@23:12 @CineBinge He is in True Romance though, which I do believe got released before this movie, and Tarantino did write the script for that one and I think he wold've directed it but he sold the script for True Romance to finance Reservoir Dogs, either way ya'll should definitely react to True Romance, it's a great movie with a bunch of great actors.
I can't hear "Stuck in the Middle With You" anymore without thinking of that scene!
And you will now forever think of that scene when you hear Stuck in the Middle with You.
Stuck In The Middle With You is a really well known song - because of this movie. When it came out, most people weren't that familiar with it.
I saw this at a college screening when it first came out. The best thing about it was that almost no one knew what it was, so it really blew everyone's mind. A year or so later, there were portions of a leaked script for Pulp Fiction that were all over the early internet.
The actor who played Mr blue is an actual robber turned actor his role is just a cool little cameo
The big thing with the Ear Scene is that there were two versions and we saw what Tarantino considered to be the more gruesome one.
There's a take with a fake ear where Vega actually gets shown cutting it off, but Tarantino realized there was no way to make it as realistic as how people would imagine it if he moved the camera a few feet and you just HEARD it.
Thanks for sharing your reaction with us guys!
I love Tarantino's first two movies. I just wish I had seen them in the cinema at the time but without the world wide web is was so much harder to get info on a movie. Tv shows about movies were often very commercial in nature (still are) so I got to know many of these movies by watching them on tv or buying them after reading the dvd reviews on Amazon back in the 90's.
Tarantino loves to work with the same actors in multiple films. Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel both had roles in Pulp Fiction, as did Steve Buscemi ( a very small role as a waiter). Michael Madsen had a significant role in Kill Bill Vol 2
Madsen and Roth would later show up in The Hateful Eight.
@@Madbandit77 You are correct sir. Had forgotten about that.
You’re wearing an Orphan Maker shirt!!! 10/10 best thing ever!!
I got to see that movie at the time of its original release, back when Quentin Tarantino was a complete stranger. Thanks to its playing at the 1992 Cannes Festival, it was released in France later that year, before it got to hit the American screens. One thing about Tarantino is that he's a huge fanboy of Wong Kar-wai, and he set up his own distribution company just so that Chungking Express could be seen in cinemas by American audiences.
As regards the poster for Reservoir Dogs, several versions of it exist, but the tagline for this one is my favorite.
The razor blade Mr. Blonde uses to cut off the cop's ear is the same razor blade used by the Bride in Kill Bill 2. when she escapes the grave.
My favorite fan theory connects "Reservoir Dogs" with "Pulp Fiction" through Steve Buscemi. Reservoir Dogs would happen first, meaning that Mr. Pink managed to survive and escape from the police. Things obviously didn’t go well after that, with Mr. Pink on the run and unemployed, so he had to take a job that would allow him to keep a low-profile - and what better than one where you have to wear a disguise all day. Ironically, Mr. Pink was now being forced to work the job he criticized so much, and now he had to deal with non-tippers. Life is a roller-coaster, they say.
Not sure if it was answered, but it was called Reservoir Dogs because Tarantino liked a film by the late, great French director Louis Malle called, Au Revoir, Les Infants (Goodbye, Children). Tarantino could never remember/pronounce it so he just kept referring it to as Reservoir Dogs. When he wrote the script for Reservoir Dogs, the ill-used name fit perfectly for the gang of diamond thieves.
Mr. Blue was a guy named Edward Bunker, who was a real career criminal who had spent almost all of his early life in prison, but had also gone on to be an accomplished writer (if you want a spectacular example of that, watch "Straight Time", 1978- book and screenplay by Eddie Bunker.
The soundtrack(whatever form you prefer), is excellent….it’s like listening to a Steven wright radio show. Hope you react to Four Rooms.
$200 million marvel movies Vs a good story filmed mostly in a warehouse. Just goes to show how far the story and acting can carry a low budget movie.
Same with the usual Suspects. Minimal budget, killer script and acting.
This is a movie you're glued to the whole time but the last marvel movie I saw I almost fell asleep to i just didn't care about any of the stuff going on. Maybe the most exciting scene in this movie and maybe my favorite visually is just my pink running down the street with the camera dollying right next to him. Found that road on Google street view too lol
Quintan's newet flick "Rocks fall, Everyone dies"
Anyone getting a laugh from Simone counting the “dicks” in the first scene should join the Patreon so they can see the True Detective episode where Simone counts the “butts” in the show’s intro.
Michael Madsen dancing kills me everytime :)
You were wondering about the title. I'm sure I caught an interview with Tarantino when it came out where he said "reservoir dogs" was the neighbourhood slang for the enormous rats that used to live around the reservoir near where he grew up. It stuck with him and he thought it summed up the feel of the story he wanted to tell.
Scenes that make you imagine what is happening can be quite fun. For example, in the first Avengers movie when Thor holds his hand out to call for Mjolnir while fighting the Hulk. When Mr. Pink seems to get a clean getaway in this film you can hear the police shooting Mr. Pink to death outside and the scene plays in your imagination alone because this film delivers the mantra of "live by the sword, die by the sword" to every one of the characters.
As someone that has gone as Mr. Blond for Halloween, I agree it makes for a good costume. Haha.
The lady Orange has to shoot was Tim Roth's dialect coach. He pleaded for her to take the role, I guess because he knew what would happen to her.
The name Reservoir Dogs comes from Tarantino's mom, Connie, She called him and his friends, when he was a kid, a bunch of Reservoir Dogs back in his hometown, Knoxville, Tennessee. It is like a bunch of hooligans or a motley crue of little trouble makers.
Keitel should have at least gotten a nomination for this movie. It's probably my favorite role of his, but it was Tarantino's first movie and I'm guessing the Academy had no idea what to make of it.
See also the Winchester stand off in Shaun of the dead, " stop pointing that gun at my mum!! "