Tarantino's First! Reservoir Dogs (1992) Movie Reaction

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On Jake Loves Stories, I watch movies for the first time at viewer requests and I give my breakdown during the movie reaction using my screenwriting knowledge that I gained from 8 years of studying screenwriting and earning a Bachelors degree in Film, while also trying to just enjoy the film.

[@BigGator5]

"Relax. Have a cigarette." "I quit." "Alright." "Why, you got one?" Fun Fact: Madonna, who is the main topic of the opening conversation, really liked the film, but refuted Quentin Tarantino's "Like A Virgin" interpretation. She gave him a copy of her Erotica (1992) album, signed: "To Quentin. It's not about dick, it's about love. Madonna." Medically Accurate Fact: During filming, a paramedic was kept on the set to make sure that Mr. Orange's (Tim Roth) amount of blood loss was kept consistent and realistic to that of a real gunshot victim. Pacifist Panic Fact: Michael Madsen had difficulty filming the torture scenes, due to his strong aversion to violence of any kind, and was particularly reluctant when he was required to hit Kirk Baltz. When Baltz ad-libbed a line that his character has a child at home, Madsen, who had just become a new father himself, was so disturbed by the idea of leaving a child fatherless that he almost couldn't finish the scene.

[@dennydowling2169]

In the opening scene we learn a lot about some of the characters. Mr. Blonde asks if Joe would like him to shoot Mr. White. We later find out that he is a trigger-happy psychopath. When Joe asks about the tipping situation, Mr. Orange keeps snitching on Mr. Pink. We later learn that Orange is the rat.

[@JakeLovesStories]

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[@wakinglifepictures]

Dead as Dillinger.

[@StreetHierarchy]

He became legend! Seriously, though, Eddie Bunker is an interesting person in real life.

[@Esco33]

For some reason I always assumed he just had a heart attack or something. Just seemed infirm.

[@VR-gs9hd]

Just realized Michael Madsen will always play the aloof smooth talker like Michelle Rodriguez will always play the bad ass boss-girl in every role. It's like, do you even prepare for a role? LOL

[@AdamtheGrey02]

Love how they mention Pam Grier in the car then just 5 years later, Tarantino comes out with 'Jackie Brown' starring Pam Grier.

[@chrisleebowers]

Christian Slater goes to the Sonny Chiba triple feature on his birthday in TR and then Sonny Chiba makes Uma Thurman's sword in KB

[@chrisleebowers]

The plot and some of the shots and sequences are lifted directly from a Hong Kong movie called "City on Fire" 1987 by Ringo Lam, starring Chow Yun Fat and Danny Lee, the same lead pair in John Woo's "The Killer" The not-quite Rashomon structure where we see the sequence of events from each characters POV seperately was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" 1956, about a heist a horse track. City on Fire was a more linear story that starts with the cop being assigned to infiltrate the gang. Quentin thought it would be great to use Kubrick's structure gimmick to tell the story from the gang's point of view and tell their story first. He was inspired by John Carpenter's "The Thing." He said that he realized that the villain in "The Thing" was not the monster, it was the paranoia. He wanted to ratchet up that paranoia as far as he could before the reveal.

[@Esco33]

THE KILLING is so cool to watch after being intimately familiar with Reservoir Dogs. You also get the great mask/heist precursor to The Dark Knight as well.

[@dzenacs2011]

City on fire is last shotout that was stolen from leone movies and fingers story. Stop lying that it was more

[@mrtveye6682]

It's always good to notice remember time to time that there are no rules in any kind oft art. Not to say the "rules" have no purpose, they are usually good guidelines, it's stuff that "works". But a little rule breaking her and there spices things up, if you go by the book all the time and only play it safe, you end up with some mediocre run of the mill results more often then not.

[@cagnathedog2254]

Quentin is my favorite writer/director and even my least favorite QT movie is a great movie IMO. However, I must admit his overuse of the n word is the one thing that makes me cringe sometimes. I get it, from his perspective, only the CHARACTERS are overtly racist, he even played with the idea of making his final film be a remake of Reservoir Dogs with an all black cast (Which would have been interesting)

[@Jachinthebox]

The 70s thing is because this whole thing happens over the course of the morning and within a short span of time. Tarantino wanted to show that by having everything play out parallel to when a radio station is doing a 70s track.

[@Hank..]

I know people throw the term "deconstruction" a bit too much, but I think it applies here: Mr. Blonde is a deconstruction of the quiet, stoic action/adventure protagonist. His name even alludes to it; Blondie was Clint Eastwood's character in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The steely cool gunslinger is cool in fiction, but in reality, the kind of person that calmly guns someone down or cuts their face up isn't a cool hero. It's someone like Mr. Blonde; someone who can torture and kill without flinching because he's a total fucking psycho.

[@philmullineaux5405]

I've always thought pulp fiction was Quentin's homage to a couple of early Stanley Kubrick films, Dr strangelove, and The Killing! And a movie he named his production company after, A Band Apart. So I'm writing this to give u some pre pro tips, leading up to pulp fiction, so it's more about Quentin and his earlier credits, particularly reservoir Dogs! Before this, Tarantino had writing creds for Dusk til Dawn with George Clooney and True Romance! Which is a movie about himself being a video store clerk, but turning Hollywood fantasy! True Romance is action packed, completely unreal, and totally star studded! He also did co writing/directing with Robert Rodriguez on The Mariachi , with Antonio Banderas and Death proof, with Kurt Russell!! He often has dialogue heavy movies, and long segments in them, where actors seem to be out of character, and having a discussion in various life circumstances, like the breakfast scene here, or in reservoir Dogs, or the foot massage scene in Pulp Fiction here! Pro tips, Vic Vega from reservoir Dogs is Vince Vega's brother from pulp fiction! Eddie bunker as Mr Blue was a former Bank robber, who went to jail, and started writing crime stories, while in! Mr White put up 5 mil to get this movie made, so he could play Mr White! James Woods was up for either Mr White or Mr Pink roles, but his manager didn't give him the script. James fired him! Sam Jackson was supposed to play the role of the black dude undercover cop, but Tarantino said, wait im writing another part for you, which became Pulp Fiction! If u watch his movies, he uses the same actors over and over! Sam, harvey, Tim, and others, in several of his movies...Sam the most. This, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Hateful Eight, and a voice in Inglorious basterds. Nobody liked the Boss, most of the other actors wanted to beat his ass! He thought he was old school Hollywood royalty and above the other actors. Like several of his other movies, this is based on an old Japanese samurai story, about a group of samurai who get slaughtered in a revenge ploy. The few left realize, one of them is a traitor who tipped off a warlord. Also, search up, Reservoir Dogs posters....there are so many iconic shots from this movie, I have 4 posters as wall art! U may not like his language all the time, but in private moments, street level , homey folks, rednecks, the brothas on the corner, on the block, the crazy chicas....u know they be talkin to each other like this. The moral of this story? Always know the drugs u are about to take!😅 Also yes, Quentin has foot fetish! So in a way, Quentin lied...he daid he would only direct 10 movies. But if u add up movies he had a bit of writing or director time in, u have to add. True Romance, Death Proof, The Mariachi, and Dusk til Dawn. Pro tip....the OD shot scene, he has 2 board games on his table...life and operation! Since his 70s tv show, Welcome back Kotter, through every movie he did through the 2000s, Travolta always did a dance scene!

[@Esco33]

In regards to Tarantino and the excessive N word-I’m not here to justify it or not, but in regards to him being racist, I very much suspect not. During his school years he attended a majority Black school and when he was coming of age as a movie watcher he loved Blaxploitation. Plus, see his other works.

[@StreetHierarchy]

10:37 It's funny, when you think about it. A lot of times, people refer to actors as "not real people".

[@christopherschreiber5805]

As someone who grew up obsessed with Tarantino, I have to tell you I really don't think he's a racist. His stepfather was black so that might explain a few things (haha) but as far as I know they always more or less got along. He DOES bring it up a lot, but the vast majority of his movies (excluding Django) aren't really ABOUT racism, and I think it's actually kind of a fd up commentary on how the subject always seems to get tabled. And when he could no longer avoid addressing the subject directly, he said "Hey! I'm white! Why not a live-action Bugs Bunny cartoon on acid?" so there could be no dispute that it's really mostly white people he's making fun of. That concludes this segment of "Snowflake Rationalizations". Tune in next week, or don't if it's none of my business. Seriously though, I'd hate to see any aspiring filmmaker (especially one fixated on story) miss out on some of his work. The man has been responsible for some incredible films, as you will hopefully soon discover. :) For What It's Worth- I always liked him better as a writer than as a director, but it's pretty much always fun however he's involved.

[@mrtveye6682]

I have no idea about Tarantionos political views. But I consider it very good writing if the author finds the right words that the role, the character it is written for (!), would use. And yes, there are people out there that sill use non PC language, and even more 30 years ago when this movie was written (like those in this movie, there was nothing they said that wouldn't fit their character). And this should be portrait "correctly" in a movie. That has nothing to do with the personality of the writer, director or actor, and it's frankly quite narrow minded to draw such conclusions. But unfortunately, this is the norm theses days. People can't differentiate any more.

[@0okamino]

Yeah, I don’t think Tarantino is actually racist either. To me, it seems more like when Mel Brooks was having doubts about using those slurs in _Blazing Saddles,_ and Richard Pryor assuring him that if the characters are the sort who _would_ say it, then he _should_ have them say it. Also, Cleavon Little telling Burton Gilliam not to worry about saying it as the character, and it would only be a problem if he was using it out of character. A lot of scumbags are racist, and the characters using it in RD are not good folks. It’s effective in displaying that about them, and is certainly a realistic portrayal.

[@souldiving4197]

His wife is black in one of his movie and just step father was black who he was ver closed to as young boy, he would take him out to watch films, n most of the pple he grew up with were black n not white….as a black person I get ur angle but I don’t think he’s racist at all, I can tell when someone’s racist. If u notice he uses a lot of profanity in his movies not just the n word. Profanity is his style so you will see a lot of that in his other movies. Just be prepared

[@DevInvest]

Sukiyaki Western Django

[@philmullineaux5405]

The only new guy director movies that have this few scenes and dialogue heavy is Clerks 1-2

[@Anthony-kw4en]

Are people genuinely shocked that career criminals would drop the n-bomb left and right? 😅

[@Esco33]

Especially when something plausibly represents "real life", I never understood such criticism. We all agree racism exists, why would it not appear in works of fiction?? (Without the author having to be racist themselves.)

[@CT.1982]

Jackie Brown has to be his best work. Check it out

[@JakeLovesStories]

What's your favorite Tarantino movie? Mine is probably Django, but I've only seen 3 including this one.

[@Carl.Henriksson]

Inglourious Basterds, for sure.

[@StreetHierarchy]

Probably Pulp Fiction. It totally flipped my whole wig. In July of 1994, I turned 10, and I saw it not long after, my parents had rented it from Blockbuster Video.

[@markiv2942]

Inglorious Basterds is my favourite but Reservoir Dogs is simply the better film.

[@chrisleebowers]

It's hard to pick. They're all good for different reasons. Kill Bill may have been his magnum opus and it's just packed with so much good stuff. He is obviously a fan of action and when he goes full action-movie he makes some iconc sequences, but it feels like he's at his best when he's lean, with a low budget, a few kickass actors and minimal locations and no real big action set pieces; like this one, Pulp Fiction, and Hateful 8. Inglorious Basterds is a war movie and he still makes the most intense scenes about people talking in rooms. But I've always loved "True Romance" and I think it's still my favorite.

[@craigvancil4410]

Jackie Brown.

[@dzenacs2011]

Props not to skip n word part lol. Everyone did

[@teresas8173]

A lot of foreshadowing … in the dialogue at the beginning of the movie

[@seanr-m4262]

you were surprised when Buscemi dropped the n-word

[@markiv2942]

Still Tarantino's best. Then he got sloppy and famous. All the piss broke loose in his head. This movie is tight, tight. Rest of his movies are just more and more rambling and unnecessarily violent acts portrayed as "brave" and "groundbreaking". Once upon a time blah-blah is his worst. Just horrible use of film. Certain parts of each film are tolerable but rest fashionable nonsense.

[@Esco33]

I'd say this is a take very particular to you as many of us (including me) have quite a different opinion of his works to follow. One Upon a Time... for one may be my current favorite achievement of his. Although I may not use the adjectives "brave" and "groundbreaking" to describe it or the violence therein. For me it was one heck of a visceral experience in the theater. Side note: more recently I randomly watched a movie with a most unexpected ending [Drive, He Said (1971)] that I'm sure influenced the ending to some degree.

[@teresas8173]

His movies are too “ bloody” violent. At times the amount of blood in his film (I’ve not seen them all) is just so overboard and inaccurate it becomes ridiculous. Someone stated they had a paramedic on set here to make sure the blood loss was realistic. Either that paramedic was saying what he though Tarantino wanted or he was clueless. Has Tarantino made ANY non- violent films? With that said his films have great storylines, incredibly interesting characters played by some of the very best actors and the dialogue amazing. I just wish they weren’t all swimming in blood. I’d watch a Cohen brothers or Scorcese film over a Tarantino film anytime.