Reservoir Dogs (film)
Reservoir Dogs is the 1992 debut feature film of director Quentin Tarantino. The film portrays what happens before and after a botched jewel heist, but not the heist itself.
It stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi and Lawrence Tierney. Tarantino has a minor role, as does criminal-turned-author Eddie Bunker.
Tagline
Seven Total Strangers Team Up For The Perfect Crime. They Don't Know Each Other's Name. But They've Got Each Other's Color
Four perfect killers. One perfect crime. Now all they have to fear is each other.
Let's go to work.
Every dog has his day.
Let's get the job done
Reservoir Dogs opened in 19 theaters with a first week total of $147,839 domestically. The film was never released to more than 61 theaters and totaled $2,832,029 at the box office domestically The vast majority of people who saw the film saw it on videotape, especially after the popularity of Pulp Fiction. However, in Britain, the film was a success and gained recognition from its fans, hence the big push to put it into the Sundance Film Festival.
Tarantino (who had been working as a video store clerk in Los Angeles) was originally going to shoot it with his friends on a budget of $30,000 on 16 mm with producer Lawrence Bender playing Nice Guy Eddie. However, actor Harvey Keitel became involved via the wife of Bender's acting class teacher, who had managed to get a copy of the script to him. He agreed not only to act in the film, but to co-produce. Harvey Keitel then was cast as Mr. White, alias Lawrence "Larry" Dimick. With Keitel's assistance, the filmmakers were able to raise $1.2 million to make the film, a fairly large sum of money for an independently-financed film.
Reservoir Dogs (soundtrack)
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Reservoir Dogs
Soundtrack by Various Artists
Genre Soft Rock, Pop Rock Pop
Length
30:50
Label MCA Records A Band Apart
Producer Quentin Tarantino
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Reservoir Dogs
(1992) Pulp Fiction
(1994)
Reservoir Dogs:
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's film
Reservoir Dogs.
Track listing
"And Now Little Green Bag-"
(Dialogue extract performed by Steven Wright)
"Little Green Bag"
by The George Baker Selection
"Rock Flock of Five" (Dialogue extract
performed by Steven Wright)
"Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede
"Bohemiath" (Dialogue extract performed by Steven Wright)
"I
Gotcha" by Joe Tex
"Magic Carpet Ride" by Bedlam
"Madonna
Speech"(Dialogue extract performed by Quentin Tarantino, Edward Bunker and
Harvey Keitel)
"Fool for Love" by Sandy Rogers
"Super Sounds"
(Dialogue extract performed by Steven Wright)
"Stuck in the Middle With
You" by Stealers Wheel
"Harvest Moon" by Bedlam
"Let's
Get A Taco" (Dialogue extract performed by Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth)
"Keep
on Truckin'" (Dialogue extract performed by Steven Wright)
"Coconut"
by Harry Nilsson
"Home of Rock" (Dialogue extract performed by Steven
Wright)
Cast
Harvey Keitel - Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
Tim Roth - Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
Michael Madsen - Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
Chris Penn - Nice Guy Eddie Cabot
Steve Buscemi - Mr. Pink
Lawrence Tierney - Joe Cabot
Randy Brooks - Holdaway
Kirk Baltz - Marvin Nash
Edward Bunker - Mr. Blue (as Eddie Bunker)
Quentin Tarantino - Mr. Brown
Steven Wright - K-Billy DJ (voice)
Rich
Turner - Sheriff #1
David Steen - Sheriff #2
Tony
Cosmo - Sheriff #3
Stevo Polyi - Sheriff #4
Plot
The movie opens with six men dressed in dark suits (Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker), Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino), Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) and Mr. White (Harvey Keitel)) eating breakfast at a diner, accompanied by Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son, "Nice Guy" Eddie (Chris Penn). Mr. Brown discusses his comparative analysis of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and "True Blue" while the rest listen and Mr. Pink expresses his anti-tipping policy. They leave the diner accompanied by "Little Green Bag" by George Baker Selection.
The film then jumps to a scene in a car where Mr. Orange has been injured by a gunshot to the lower abdomen. Mr. White is attempting to comfort the hysterical Mr. Orange while navigating the car. They are the first to arrive at the rendezvous point (a warehouse). Mr. Orange lies on the floor bleeding profusely when Mr. Pink appears and suggests that the jewelry heist was a set up. Mr. Brown has been killed by the police; Mr. Blue and Mr. Blonde are missing.
Mr. White and Mr. Pink are angry
that Mr. Blonde shot and killed several of the civilians after the alarm was set
off. They argue about whether or not to take the unconscious Mr. Orange to a hospital.
The argument turns violent as they point loaded pistols at each other. Mr. Blonde,
who has been watching the action for some time, steps in and speaks up. He tells
them not to leave the warehouse because Nice Guy Eddie is on his way there. Mr.
Blonde takes them outside to his car and opens the trunk to reveal a captured
police officer called Marvin Nash (Kirk Baltz).
Mr. Pink and Mr. White beat the officer excessively and Mr. Blonde ties him to a chair. Eddie arrives at the warehouse and orders Mr. Pink and Mr. White to come with him to retrieve the stolen diamonds from the hiding spot, while ordering Mr. Blonde to stay with the dying Mr. Orange and the tied-up cop. The officer denies knowing anything about the setup, and begs to be released. Mr. Blonde then draws a straight razor and tunes a radio to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the '70s", which is playing "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel. Dancing around to the music, Mr. Blonde slashes the officer's face and cuts off his ear. He then splashes the officer with gasoline and prepares to ignite it with his cigarette lighter when Mr. Orange suddenly shoots him several times in the chest. He tells Marvin that he is actually an undercover police detective named Freddy Newandyke. He reassures Marvin that a large police force is waiting a few blocks down the road for his signal to advance, but refuses to call anyone until Joe arrives.
Mr. Orange's flashback reveals how he went undercover to catch Joe Cabot. Joe hands out the thieves' aliases (to Mr. Pink's chagrin) and plans the heist. The flashback then goes to Mr. White and Mr. Orange right after the robbery and shows Mr. Brown's death (by a bullet to the head). Mr. White and Mr. Orange hijack a car but the female driver shoots Mr. Orange in the gut. We then see part of the car scene from the beginning of the movie before the view jumps back to the present time at the warehouse.
Everyone returns to the warehouse to find a dead Mr. Blonde. Mr. Orange claims that Mr. Blonde was going to kill the officer, Mr. Orange and the rest of the gang so that he could take the diamonds for himself. Eddie doesn't believe the story and, furious with Mr. Orange, shoots Marvin and kills him. Joe walks in and tells everyone that Mr. Blue was killed, and accuses Mr. Orange of being an informant, which makes Mr. White adamantly defend Mr. Orange. Joe points a gun at Mr. Orange as Mr. White points his gun at Joe. Eddie then points his gun at Mr. White as the three of them pose a Mexican standoff. All the guns go off almost simultaneously; Joe and Eddie are killed, and Mr. White and Mr. Orange are injured. Mr. Pink, who stayed out of the fray, leaves with the diamonds, the sounds of yelling and gunshots are heard outside of the warehouse suggesting that Mr. Pink is perhaps being killed or subdued by the police officers who have just arrived (although his fate is not confirmed). Mr. White cradles Mr. Orange who reveals that he is a cop. Mr. White is devastated and puts his gun to Mr. Orange’s head just as the police enter. As they urge Mr. White to put down his gun, Mr. White shoots Mr. Orange and subsequently is shot by the police.
Reservoir
Dogs has frequently been referenced in other works due to its cult status. Especially
the opening, slow motion credit sequence and the ear-cutting scene. In the 1996
film Swingers, the characters mention the Reservoir Dogs opening credits as "a
great scene"; as they leave to go to a party, they are shown walking in slow
motion in a similar fashion. Reservoir Dogs have been referenced In two episodes
of The Simpsons: "Jazzy and the Pussycats", Lisa walks down the street
with her new pets in a similar style to the same music, and "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed
Grunt)cious", the ultra-violent cartoon characters Itchy and Scratchy are
shown re-enacting the ear-slicing scene and end up decapitating Tarantino The
album cover for Answer That and Stay Fashionable by AFI was inspired by the slow-motion
scene as was Rammstein's 1997 music video "Du hast". In episode 4 of
the satirical news show CNNNN, Chas Licciardello, the Brussels correspondent,
is shown tied up with an assailant like Mr. Blonde dancing around him with the
same song playing. The shot cuts away just as the assailant brings out a knife,
with the explanation of a "Technical Problem". Singer Alecia Moore took
her stage name after watching the movie with friends, who agreed that she resembled
the character Mr. Pink. In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas there
is a movie theatre in downtown Los Santos that is playing a film titled Reservoir
Dregs. The game is set in 1992, the year of Reservoir Dogs' release.
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