This was filmed on a limited budget and much like a play would be. In acts with a lot of dialog and in just a few settings. This was a masterclass on how a story can be told when resources are limited. 5 stars for a directorial debut.
Of course the limitations on the budget influence the setting and the rest. Though this is not the where the “ masterclass “ is. The masters class is how a : out of no where videos store clerk gets in contact with havrey Keitel, 1 convince him to produce the film 2 sell the film to the studio etc etc etc Without Harvey being involved this would have been some good script never to being seen. As there’s 100s out there !
When he's snapping, he's attempting to light his zippo lighter. It's kind of a fancy way of doing it. Him being unsuccessful is demonstrating just how out of sorts Harvey's character is because of the failed robbery and how it went down.
@@andrewkline5611 Roth is English, but he's really good with accents. He's really good with everything. English actors are on another level completely.
So, to finance this movie, Quentin sold two other scripts he had written. Both were made into movies - True Romance and Natural Born Killers. Both are great movies worthy of a reaction. True Romance, in particular, has an unbelievable cast, including but not limited to Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Val Kilmer, with several of them putting out career best performances. It’s also my favorite movie of all time, but that’s not really relevant. To paraphrase Vincenzo Coccotti, “This movie. What it offers you. That’s as good as it’s gonna get. And it won’t ever get that good again.”
@suffersystemstudios Yes, you are absolutely correct, getting Keitel is how they secured $1.5 million in financing, through Richard Gladstein. I know because my sister worked for Gladstein.
@orbislame Uh no, that did not merely help too....that was the catalyst for the entire production. Tarantino only had $30,000 from the True Romance script sale and NBK had not yet been sold, merely optioned for 10k to producers Don Murphy and Jane Hamsher, with the stipulation that his friend would direct it, in black and white. later it was sold to Oliver Stone by the producers, AFTER the success of Reservoir Dogs. Based on the script sale of True Romance and the option for NBK, it was nowhere near enough. He would have had to shoot it as originally planned....with his friends on a budget of $30k in 16 mm black-and-white...and likely nobody would have ever seen it. Keitel was the spark, period. Tarantino wound up never spending the True Romance/NBK money at all, since they secured the financing through Gladstein. The original post is simply inaccurate.
Theres tons of easter eggs in the Tarantino catalog. When you get through them all check out some of the theories that they all take place in the same universe. Fun stuff
Reservoir Dogs reception in the early 90's: Oh my God, why is this so violent, what's wrong with society that such a violent film is popular, antagonistic interviews. Reservoir Dogs reception in 2025: I don't know why they held back so much on the gore...
Great reaction! This is one of my favorite Tarantino films, at least in part due to the simplicity of the story and limited locations. It took an immense amount of skill on the part of Tarantino to create a compelling story that's driven almost entirely by dialogue, and to have it be one of his earliest films showed how talented he was from the start. As to the title, the story I've heard is that Tarantino knew a producer who called their unproduced scripts "resevoir dogs" because the scripts had to battle for survival among the various producers, directors, etc. at the production company with the winner eventually being made. Tarantino just liked the name and decided to use it for the title of a script he was writing and, assuming the story is true, it has no more meaning than that.
The meaning of Reservoir Dogs is simple. In a large city, the municipal water reservoir is often in an old quarry, or a low-rent part of town. As it is not visited often by man, the rats grow to an enormous size. Hence the term “reservoir dogs “ to denote an exceptionally large rat i.e. the size of a dog. Mr. Orange in the movie was an obvious “reservoir dog” as he was a police undercover operative, and as such an enormous rat…Or it could refer to actual dogs that survive and live in harsh conditions such as deserts but keep fighting until they find a reservoir and sustenance, a way to survive until the next reservoir that's few and far between.
Doesn’t mean it’s not true ! Quentin is just explaining how he sold his story. But now even though it might be unconsciencely he came up with that title
You guys should watch Pulp Fiction, the next one and most famous Tarantino movie, and perhaps "the most Tarantino movie". A cult classic and peak cinema.
No one ever takes into account the ENORMOUS guilt Orange would have if he lived through this. He killed a civilian. His life was over either way so of course he confessed to Larry. Tarantino’s characters always have a code of honor, not ethics, not morals, but honor. It was also honorable to admit his involvement to Larry. Also, the minimal skeletal aspect of the sets puts the film in the realm of theater. The dialogue and acting propels the film. Think “My Dinner with Andre”
There's a video game for ps2 that came out that goes deeper into what happens outside of the meet up spot. If it's Canon or not I don't know but it was fun to play at the time.
Even after all the absolutely crazy bloodbath scenes that Tarantino has filmed throughout his career I still think the ear scene is the most brutal thing he’s ever done.
Yall should do like a couple min of reading trivia about the movie you just watched on imdb love hearing all the cool stuff that happened during the filming
There's gasoline all over the floor, mr blonde was gonna burn down the wharehouse, So mr orange is believable. Eddie just cant see past his friendship with mr blonde, wich is what happens with mr white until the end.
Reservoir Dogs was either banned or heavily surprised in many countries. This was due to the violent nature of the movie. In Britain for example: the film was given an X (18) rating and did ok in the cinemas, for an independent film. Word of mouth made it a surprising little “must see” hit. However the film was banned on VHS video home release as it got caught up in a time when England was debating strongly about excessive violence in films. There were many debates at the time due to some high level murders and films like Reservoir Dogs were thus in the limelight. All this publicity helped promote Pulp Fiction. Many went to see what all the fuss is about. This also reignited interest in Reservoir Dogs and garnered it a second blooming and elevation into cult status 😊
Such a cool movie. Tarantino has tons of cross connections with his movies, one reason you have to seriously pay attention, particularly the dialogue. Next is Pulp Fiction and then True Romance which he wrote but sold to get the money because he really wanted to make this movie first. It’s a wild ride. Has a great cast. His most recent movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is one of my favorite movies by him. It’s centered around the time of the Charles Manson murders. Since you guys are still fairly young, it might be a good idea to do just a little research on the subject, because I would assume you aren’t very familiar with those events.
This was made on a shoestring budget. Producer Lawrence Bender played the cop that chases Buscemi's car down the road shooting at it. Chris Penn wore his own clothes. Tarantino had two scripts to sell and approached Tony Scott and showed him this. Scott wanted to buy it but Tarantino said "no, I'm making this" and gave him True Romance (which should be on your list). The radio DJ is my fave comedian, the legend Steven Wright.
Tarantino's decision not to film the diamond robbery was twofold: for budgetary reasons, and to keep the details of the heist ambiguous. By not showing the robbery and having the characters describe it, Tarantino explained, the film is allowed to be "about other things", similar to the way in which the burglary in Glengarry Glen Ross and its 1992 film adaptation is discussed, described, and debated, but never shown. Tarantino compared the technique to the work of a novelist, and said he wanted the film to be about something not seen and to "play with a real-time clock as opposed to a movie clock ticking".
the guy that looks like jonah hill is chris penn, sean penn's younger brother, who died in 2006. this is Tarantino's directorial debut. his first screenplay was "True Romance" with Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, which i HIGHLY recommend. great movie.
Just like in the stage play and 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross (which was released around the same time as Resevoir Dogs) the robbery is never seen on camera.
Tristan looks so much like Martin Henderson from The Ring (2002). Hopefully you'll watch that at some point (it's a really great remake of a Japanese horror film), unless you've already seen it.
@or2ak you are simply wrong. But so self assured.. 🤡🤣🤣🤣 Voice counts as cameo and both in H8 and JB his voice is in there. And KB originally was made as one movie and only got edited in two, because the studio demanded it, he himself says it basically is one movie split in two. Sooo you maybe got like 0.5/3 points for that... Please explain why you are like that 🤦♂️😅
@@or2ak no it is not different, it's a cameo either way. Please stop living in denial just because you are wrong. And I simply don't appreciate people claiming wrong stuff in such an overconfident way like you did.
Wes Anderson's first film, "Bottle Rocket," drew some amount of inspiration from this. Check it out if you want to see a light-hearted, quirky character comedy where decent, honest people try to convince themselves they're like this out of boredom.
Possibly my favourite movie of all time. This and bad lieutenant both with Harvey Kietel. A movie that is criminally overlooked. I reckon he would have won an Oscar, but the movie was rated NC17. It well worth watching. It's grim though.
Suggestion: two excellent 'crime caper gone awry' films from the classic studio era: "The Asphalt Jungle" 1950 - directed and co-written by John Huston, and starring Sterling Hayden (the bad cop in 'the godfather') with an early appearance by Marilyn Monroe. "The Killing" 1956 - directed by Stanley Kubrick
One of the very first Tarantino I saw on VHS back in the 90's. John Carpenter's THE THING was a major influence on this movie as it involves characters from different backgrounds coming together, only to discover that one of their own is not who they say they are.
Total nonsense. The etymology of the title is because a customer at Video Archives, where Tarantino worked, asked for a recommendation....so Tarantino recommended "Au Revoir Les Enfants" by Louis Malle....the customer could not pronounce it and said he didn't want "Reservoir Dogs". There is no proof whatsoever for your nonsense as "reservoir dog" was nowhere in the lexicon until this film. There were no "wild dogs" who hung around living and hunting at reservoirs and that is why they were called that. It is a happy coincidence that this guys go at each other. You posted this nonsense a long while back in another Reservoir Dogs reaction.
@USCFlash you're thinking of a body of water when it refers to water channels that are generally empty in and around LA . The thing the T1000 drove that semi into chasing John Conner on his dirt bike in T2 , that's a reservoir . The term reservoir dogs def existed well before this movie
@ ronpaul1082 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh yeah? Find me just ONE EXAMPLE of the term "Reservoir Dogs" existing before this film was released in 1992. Just one. And by the way, that is NOT a reservoir they were in for the T2 Chase, genius. That was the Los Angeles Drainage Canal System: It was filmed over ten miles of that major drainage waterway. A reservoir IS IN FACT, exactly what I am thinking of, not water channels as you claim, but water STORAGE sites, that are "generally empty" in and around L.A. You do not know what the hell a reservoir is. Let me assist you: Merriam Webster dictionary : an artificial lake where water is collected and kept in quantity for use Cambridge dictionary: :a place for storing liquid, especially a natural or artificial lake providing water for a city or other area Collins dictionary: a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc. Kindly parade your ignorance elsewhere, please. You are completely wrong.
Is that what you would call dedicated acting, when you have someone like Michael Madsen who dont like violence, being that kind of character as Mr Blonde?
Yo - PLEASE watch True Romance (1993) next. Tarantino doesn't direct but he wrote it...best Tarantino movie ever. Natural Born Killers (1994) is another great one he wrote but didn't direct
This movie ruined one of my favorite songs for ALL time. It’s always pissed me off! Thanks Tarantino. Seriously though, his movies never leave your mind. One of my absolute favorites is Jackie Brown!
Why do reactors care more about where they've seen the actors before than what's going on in the scene. We all know they are actors and they have been in other movies.
Mr. Brown directed this 😛Good catch when Mr. Blonde pulled the knife out of his boot like in Kill Bill. Quentin has given different answers to what the title means. One explanation the studios would receive lots of bad scripts (dogs) and they be thrown in the trash can (reservoir) so they were referred to as... The other explanation was from when he worked at movie rental store a customer mispronounced a french movie that it sounded like... Who's to say which is true.
@@USCFlash Although the second could equally be nonsense because (Are-voo-wah Les efants) doesn't sound like "Reservoir Dogs". Maybe it should be re titled "Reservoir Elephants"
@@petercofrancesco9812 Your French pronunciation is terrible & inaccurate. "Au revoir" is not pronounced "Are-voo-wah" It is pronounced "Aw-rey-Vwahr". My grandmother was French and I am fluent. "Les Enfants" is not pronounced "Les efants"...it is pronounced "lays on-fon." The "Reservoir" is quite easily heard, and since you do not pronounce French properly, I doubt he did either and was not paying attention to the second part and simply thought "Dogs" because he misheard it, or simply was annoyed at the recommendation and said "Dogs" because he was flustered and it was the first thing he thought. Since you cannot pronounce it properly with it spelled out in front of you on the page, it is very plausible he couldn't understand hearing it quickly either.
Tipping Culture in US is crazy, it is not the job of the customer to pay the staff, it is the job of the employer! McDonalds example is on point, nobody tips them.
True. But it’s wrong that we take it out on the employee. I always tip big coz I get that the server is just a pawn in the game. Not tipping to prove a point is like beating up the nerd to raise awareness about bullying.
@@PaulWinkle just so you know, waitresses and waiters often get paid way less than an hourly employee like a McDonald's worker, that's why one gets tipped and not the other, it's all part of how American capitalism is skewed terribly and the ones at the bottom get screwed the most.
@zach4627 Why are there nerds (underpayed workers) in the first place? It is like destroying african economies via tariffs so you can donate once a year and feel better. And this third world scenario happens in the richest country on the planet!
To the choice of the title: Reservoir Dogs is a slang term for someone who snitches to the cops, similar to the slang term, rat. The movie is about who's the rat (which ends up being undercover cop, mr.orange) who snitched and gave their heist up to the cops, which caused everything to go awry
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This is Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut. He came out guns blazing, literally.
Quentin went from working in a video store as a clerk, to big time producer in 5 years. This is a classic!
This was filmed on a limited budget and much like a play would be. In acts with a lot of dialog and in just a few settings. This was a masterclass on how a story can be told when resources are limited. 5 stars for a directorial debut.
Of course the limitations on the budget influence the setting and the rest.
Though this is not the where the “ masterclass “ is.
The masters class is how a : out of no where videos store clerk gets in contact with havrey Keitel, 1 convince him to produce the film 2 sell the film to the studio etc etc etc
Without Harvey being involved this would have been some good script never to being seen. As there’s 100s out there !
@@APC3370 Master class at being at the right place at the right time, with a sprinkle of luck.
When he's snapping, he's attempting to light his zippo lighter. It's kind of a fancy way of doing it. Him being unsuccessful is demonstrating just how out of sorts Harvey's character is because of the failed robbery and how it went down.
You guys should do True Romance. Tarantino wrote that before Reservoir Dogs.
True Romance is a MUST
Great love story!
The woman that Tim Roth shoots was his vocal coach for the movie.
That’s cool. She did a pretty good job with English.
@@andrewkline5611 Roth is English, but he's really good with accents. He's really good with everything. English actors are on another level completely.
@@VincentNajger1 Yeah, meant American accent.
LOL, what are your references for these well-known actors?! Hilarious. "That's the guy from the Adam Sandler movie!" had me rolling
Yeah it was an instant red flag
So, to finance this movie, Quentin sold two other scripts he had written. Both were made into movies - True Romance and Natural Born Killers. Both are great movies worthy of a reaction. True Romance, in particular, has an unbelievable cast, including but not limited to Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Val Kilmer, with several of them putting out career best performances.
It’s also my favorite movie of all time, but that’s not really relevant. To paraphrase Vincenzo Coccotti, “This movie. What it offers you. That’s as good as it’s gonna get. And it won’t ever get that good again.”
Ultimately, those script sales did not finance this movie.
@@USCFlash I think Harvey Keitel joining the cast allowed them to get the financing for the movie
@@suffersystemstudios Yeah that helped too
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Yes, you are absolutely correct, getting Keitel is how they secured $1.5 million in financing, through Richard Gladstein. I know because my sister worked for Gladstein.
@orbislame
Uh no, that did not merely help too....that was the catalyst for the entire production.
Tarantino only had $30,000 from the True Romance script sale and NBK had not yet been sold, merely optioned for 10k to producers Don Murphy and Jane Hamsher, with the stipulation that his friend would direct it, in black and white.
later it was sold to Oliver Stone by the producers, AFTER the success of Reservoir Dogs.
Based on the script sale of True Romance and the option for NBK, it was nowhere near enough. He would have had to shoot it as originally planned....with his friends on a budget of $30k in 16 mm black-and-white...and likely nobody would have ever seen it.
Keitel was the spark, period. Tarantino wound up never spending the True Romance/NBK money at all, since they secured the financing through Gladstein.
The original post is simply inaccurate.
Theres tons of easter eggs in the Tarantino catalog. When you get through them all check out some of the theories that they all take place in the same universe. Fun stuff
Reservoir Dogs reception in the early 90's: Oh my God, why is this so violent, what's wrong with society that such a violent film is popular, antagonistic interviews.
Reservoir Dogs reception in 2025: I don't know why they held back so much on the gore...
Great reaction! This is one of my favorite Tarantino films, at least in part due to the simplicity of the story and limited locations. It took an immense amount of skill on the part of Tarantino to create a compelling story that's driven almost entirely by dialogue, and to have it be one of his earliest films showed how talented he was from the start.
As to the title, the story I've heard is that Tarantino knew a producer who called their unproduced scripts "resevoir dogs" because the scripts had to battle for survival among the various producers, directors, etc. at the production company with the winner eventually being made. Tarantino just liked the name and decided to use it for the title of a script he was writing and, assuming the story is true, it has no more meaning than that.
The meaning of Reservoir Dogs is simple. In a large city, the municipal water reservoir is often in an old quarry, or a low-rent part of town. As it is not visited often by man, the rats grow to an enormous size. Hence the term “reservoir dogs “ to denote an exceptionally large rat i.e. the size of a dog. Mr. Orange in the movie was an obvious “reservoir dog” as he was a police undercover operative, and as such an enormous rat…Or it could refer to actual dogs that survive and live in harsh conditions such as deserts but keep fighting until they find a reservoir and sustenance, a way to survive until the next reservoir that's few and far between.
Close, but no.
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Doesn’t mean it’s not true ! Quentin is just explaining how he sold his story. But now even though it might be unconsciencely he came up with that title
That Jonah Hill lookalike is Sean Penn's brother, Chris. He died from a drug overdose years back.
He was a drug user, but the official cause of death was a heart attack.
You guys should watch Pulp Fiction, the next one and most famous Tarantino movie, and perhaps "the most Tarantino movie". A cult classic and peak cinema.
No one ever takes into account the ENORMOUS guilt Orange would have if he lived through this. He killed a civilian. His life was over either way so of course he confessed to Larry. Tarantino’s characters always have a code of honor, not ethics, not morals, but honor. It was also honorable to admit his involvement to Larry.
Also, the minimal skeletal aspect of the sets puts the film in the realm of theater. The dialogue and acting propels the film. Think “My Dinner with Andre”
I pulled out the fake bathroom story with my schoolmates when it came out and it worked. I was lucky they weren't cinephiles!
Great debut.
I like most of Tarantino’s stuff. But, to me, this is still his best movie.
Chris Penn's brother is Sean Penn, he was married to Madonna, but they got divorced in 1989 and Reservoir Dogs is from 1992
Yay my favorite Tarantino movie, my friends and I dessed up as Resevoir Dogs for Halloween one time. 😎😎😎😏😎
This was quentin Tarantino 's first movie...Michael madson was great in this!
Thanks to Sam and Tristan! 🎯 I saw this one in the cinema, too.
Definitely watch True Romance, excellent movie written by Tarantino. The cast is absolutely incredible as well.
There's a video game for ps2 that came out that goes deeper into what happens outside of the meet up spot. If it's Canon or not I don't know but it was fun to play at the time.
It had 3 different endings. So, I doubt it's Canon, but it was fun.
The DVD did have a limited edition release with the gasoline can....and a book of matches!
Such a great film and great reaction too! Awesome job guys!
Tristan Laughing is awesome 😂
You're 100% right, a friend of mine had the gas can DVD edition of this film too.
Even after all the absolutely crazy bloodbath scenes that Tarantino has filmed throughout his career I still think the ear scene is the most brutal thing he’s ever done.
Keep the reactions coming guys.. Love the content
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Yes, an excellent movie that few reactors watch, unfortunately.
Ah yes, my favorite childhood movie.
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Yall should do like a couple min of reading trivia about the movie you just watched on imdb love hearing all the cool stuff that happened during the filming
There's gasoline all over the floor, mr blonde was gonna burn down the wharehouse, So mr orange is believable. Eddie just cant see past his friendship with mr blonde, wich is what happens with mr white until the end.
Total classic. This to me is peak Tarantino. Though True Romance is the best I'd argue...
Reservoir Dogs was either banned or heavily surprised in many countries. This was due to the violent nature of the movie. In Britain for example: the film was given an X (18) rating and did ok in the cinemas, for an independent film. Word of mouth made it a surprising little “must see” hit. However the film was banned on VHS video home release as it got caught up in a time when England was debating strongly about excessive violence in films. There were many debates at the time due to some high level murders and films like Reservoir Dogs were thus in the limelight.
All this publicity helped promote Pulp Fiction. Many went to see what all the fuss is about. This also reignited interest in Reservoir Dogs and garnered it a second blooming and elevation into cult status 😊
This is definitely a favourite of mine 👍🏻
Nice Guy Eddie is Chris Penn, Sean Penn's younger brother.
Such a cool movie. Tarantino has tons of cross connections with his movies, one reason you have to seriously pay attention, particularly the dialogue. Next is Pulp Fiction and then True Romance which he wrote but sold to get the money because he really wanted to make this movie first. It’s a wild ride. Has a great cast. His most recent movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is one of my favorite movies by him. It’s centered around the time of the Charles Manson murders. Since you guys are still fairly young, it might be a good idea to do just a little research on the subject, because I would assume you aren’t very familiar with those events.
This was made on a shoestring budget. Producer Lawrence Bender played the cop that chases Buscemi's car down the road shooting at it. Chris Penn wore his own clothes.
Tarantino had two scripts to sell and approached Tony Scott and showed him this. Scott wanted to buy it but Tarantino said "no, I'm making this" and gave him True Romance (which should be on your list).
The radio DJ is my fave comedian, the legend Steven Wright.
Not really "shoestring". $1.5 million is very low, but is certainly not shoestring. "Clerks" was shoestring.
Tarantino's decision not to film the diamond robbery was twofold: for budgetary reasons, and to keep the details of the heist ambiguous. By not showing the robbery and having the characters describe it, Tarantino explained, the film is allowed to be "about other things", similar to the way in which the burglary in Glengarry Glen Ross and its 1992 film adaptation is discussed, described, and debated, but never shown. Tarantino compared the technique to the work of a novelist, and said he wanted the film to be about something not seen and to "play with a real-time clock as opposed to a movie clock ticking".
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the guy that looks like jonah hill is chris penn, sean penn's younger brother, who died in 2006.
this is Tarantino's directorial debut. his first screenplay was "True Romance" with Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, which i HIGHLY recommend. great movie.
Just like in the stage play and 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross (which was released around the same time as Resevoir Dogs) the robbery is never seen on camera.
Tristan looks so much like Martin Henderson from The Ring (2002). Hopefully you'll watch that at some point (it's a really great remake of a Japanese horror film), unless you've already seen it.
Reservoir dogs would generally be a gang of feral animals surviving by their wits
Tarantino has cameos in all of his movies in one way or another.. sometimes even multiple in one movie :D
No cameo in Hatefull 8.
No cameo in Jacki Brown.
No cameo in Kill Bill 2.
@or2ak you are simply wrong. But so self assured.. 🤡🤣🤣🤣
Voice counts as cameo and both in H8 and JB his voice is in there. And KB originally was made as one movie and only got edited in two, because the studio demanded it, he himself says it basically is one movie split in two.
Sooo you maybe got like 0.5/3 points for that...
Please explain why you are like that 🤦♂️😅
@gingerbaker_toad696
Why are you coming off so rude?
I wasn't rude.
A cameo and a voice cameo is totally different.
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@@or2ak no it is not different, it's a cameo either way. Please stop living in denial just because you are wrong. And I simply don't appreciate people claiming wrong stuff in such an overconfident way like you did.
@gingerbaker_toad696
I just looked it up, it's different.
Bye 🧌
Mr. Blonde is Victor Vega, Vincent Vega's brother.... :D
Wes Anderson's first film, "Bottle Rocket," drew some amount of inspiration from this. Check it out if you want to see a light-hearted, quirky character comedy where decent, honest people try to convince themselves they're like this out of boredom.
The budget was so small, they are wearing their own clothes! Yes Chris Penn owned that shell-suit.
Possibly my favourite movie of all time. This and bad lieutenant both with Harvey Kietel. A movie that is criminally overlooked. I reckon he would have won an Oscar, but the movie was rated NC17. It well worth watching. It's grim though.
Suggestion: two excellent 'crime caper gone awry' films from the classic studio era:
"The Asphalt Jungle" 1950 - directed and co-written by John Huston, and starring Sterling Hayden (the bad cop in 'the godfather') with an early appearance by Marilyn Monroe.
"The Killing" 1956 - directed by Stanley Kubrick
"Reservoir Dogs" is what Hollywood calls scripts being considered. Quentin Tarantino liked that.
One of the very first Tarantino I saw on VHS back in the 90's.
John Carpenter's THE THING was a major influence on this movie as it involves characters from different backgrounds coming together, only to discover that one of their own is not who they say they are.
Not as major an influence as Ringo Lam's "City on Fire"
I think the gas cannister is another film. Not a Tarantino movie - a Coen Brothers one. Well recommended indeed though...
It was this movie. They released a DVD in a case that looked like a gas can.
@Joker_JAK ah OK. When he mentioned it I thought he was referring to a certain oxygen tank in another movie
Great react! Can you watch Pride and Prejudice (2005)?? Maybe for valentines day since it's a romance. It has an amazing cast and cinematography. ❤
A reservoir dog is a wild dog that lives and hunts around reservoirs, so it means that these guys act like a pack of wild dogs.
Total nonsense.
The etymology of the title is because a customer at Video Archives, where Tarantino worked, asked for a recommendation....so Tarantino recommended "Au Revoir Les Enfants" by Louis Malle....the customer could not pronounce it and said he didn't want "Reservoir Dogs".
There is no proof whatsoever for your nonsense as "reservoir dog" was nowhere in the lexicon until this film. There were no "wild dogs" who hung around living and hunting at reservoirs and that is why they were called that. It is a happy coincidence that this guys go at each other. You posted this nonsense a long while back in another Reservoir Dogs reaction.
@USCFlash you're thinking of a body of water when it refers to water channels that are generally empty in and around LA . The thing the T1000 drove that semi into chasing John Conner on his dirt bike in T2 , that's a reservoir . The term reservoir dogs def existed well before this movie
@ ronpaul1082
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Oh yeah? Find me just ONE EXAMPLE of the term "Reservoir Dogs" existing before this film was released in 1992. Just one.
And by the way, that is NOT a reservoir they were in for the T2 Chase, genius. That was the Los Angeles Drainage Canal System: It was filmed over ten miles of that major drainage waterway.
A reservoir IS IN FACT, exactly what I am thinking of, not water channels as you claim, but water STORAGE sites, that are "generally empty" in and around L.A.
You do not know what the hell a reservoir is. Let me assist you:
Merriam Webster dictionary
: an artificial lake where water is collected and kept in quantity for use
Cambridge dictionary:
:a place for storing liquid, especially a natural or artificial lake providing water for a city or other area
Collins dictionary:
a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc.
Kindly parade your ignorance elsewhere, please. You are completely wrong.
He tells you who the cop is in the first scene.
Yall got to watch four rooms next also his latest one once upon a time in Hollywood is great about the manson murders in Hollywood
All of the Tarantino movies are related. there are characters named in other movies that appeared in other Tarantino movies.
Do True Romance, written by Tarantino.
A really good movie
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If you listen closely you can here Mr. Pink getting busted by the cops outside. He lived, but he did not get away with diamonds.
Not johna Hill Chris Penn Sean Penns brother ,
QT wrote directed & acted inThis
Movie as most of his movies
Is that what you would call dedicated acting, when you have someone like Michael Madsen who dont like violence, being that kind of character as Mr Blonde?
Pulp Fiction next!
✌️❤️❤️!...
You guys gotta check out True Romance
I like bananas on Raisin Bran
Do Jackie Brown and Hateful Eight if you both haven't seen them yet!
1992 dollar is around $5
Why has the guy never heard of any film ever?
Yo - PLEASE watch True Romance (1993) next. Tarantino doesn't direct but he wrote it...best Tarantino movie ever. Natural Born Killers (1994) is another great one he wrote but didn't direct
Nah Quentin said they messed up natural born killers and changed a lot
@snakecharmer3587 very true but I still think it's awesome
This movie ruined one of my favorite songs for ALL time. It’s always pissed me off! Thanks Tarantino. Seriously though, his movies never leave your mind. One of my absolute favorites is Jackie Brown!
Why do reactors care more about where they've seen the actors before than what's going on in the scene. We all know they are actors and they have been in other movies.
Mr. Brown directed this 😛Good catch when Mr. Blonde pulled the knife out of his boot like in Kill Bill.
Quentin has given different answers to what the title means. One explanation the studios would receive lots of bad scripts (dogs) and they be thrown in the trash can (reservoir) so they were referred to as... The other explanation was from when he worked at movie rental store a customer mispronounced a french movie that it sounded like... Who's to say which is true.
The second part is the truth. HE mispronounced "Au revoir Les Enfants" by Louis Malle. The trash can bit is total nonsense.
@@USCFlash Although the second could equally be nonsense because (Are-voo-wah Les efants) doesn't sound like "Reservoir Dogs". Maybe it should be re titled "Reservoir Elephants"
@@petercofrancesco9812
Your French pronunciation is terrible & inaccurate.
"Au revoir" is not pronounced "Are-voo-wah"
It is pronounced "Aw-rey-Vwahr". My grandmother was French and I am fluent. "Les Enfants" is not pronounced "Les efants"...it is pronounced "lays on-fon."
The "Reservoir" is quite easily heard, and since you do not pronounce French properly, I doubt he did either and was not paying attention to the second part and simply thought "Dogs" because he misheard it, or simply was annoyed at the recommendation and said "Dogs" because he was flustered and it was the first thing he thought.
Since you cannot pronounce it properly with it spelled out in front of you on the page, it is very plausible he couldn't understand hearing it quickly either.
HEY DUDE!! WHY ARE YOU TALKING OVER THE OPENING DIALOGUE AT THE TABLE WITH NONSENSE??? MY GOD...WATCH THE FILM AND LISTEN!!!😡😡
Tipping Culture in US is crazy, it is not the job of the customer to pay the staff, it is the job of the employer! McDonalds example is on point, nobody tips them.
True. But it’s wrong that we take it out on the employee. I always tip big coz I get that the server is just a pawn in the game. Not tipping to prove a point is like beating up the nerd to raise awareness about bullying.
@@PaulWinkle just so you know, waitresses and waiters often get paid way less than an hourly employee like a McDonald's worker, that's why one gets tipped and not the other, it's all part of how American capitalism is skewed terribly and the ones at the bottom get screwed the most.
@rhynisiris624 Is that true though? You dont tip in a fancy pricey restaurant? You ask every employee in every restaurant beforehand what they earn?
@zach4627 Why are there nerds (underpayed workers) in the first place? It is like destroying african economies via tariffs so you can donate once a year and feel better. And this third world scenario happens in the richest country on the planet!
@@PaulWinkle I'm not defending the American system but yes, It is legal to pay waiters and waitresses less than minimum wage.
To the choice of the title: Reservoir Dogs is a slang term for someone who snitches to the cops, similar to the slang term, rat. The movie is about who's the rat (which ends up being undercover cop, mr.orange) who snitched and gave their heist up to the cops, which caused everything to go awry
My favorite Tarantino movie by a longshot! (FYI Quentin Tarantino puts himself in all of his movies)
0/10, not enough feet
Tough guy wouldn't call his father "daddy" but "old man" or something 😎
Boo hoo
Dude should grow a beard.
Just some advice from one weak-chinned dude to another.
That's a straight razor Mr. Blonde had, not a knife.
Resevoir Dogs means rat.