Watching Reservoir Dogs for the First Time Ever! // Reaction & Commentary //
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
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This movie would have never had a release without Harvey Keitel. The world owes QT's success to him. Just imagine the movies we would have never seen.
Yeah , we would not have those specific movies Tarantino did , but thanks to his knowledge of movies , hes been able to copy lot that was made before .
Sam Peckinpah was master of blood bath , the Wild Bunch , battle of bloody porch , that beats Stallone and Arnold flicks in body count .
Sergio Leone put his own experience of revolutions to , Duck , You sucker !... also lot of violence in that one . Then we had Paul Verhoeven era of violent movies .
Kinda? Tarantino planned to make the film as an indie project self-financed on black and white 16mm with a budget of around $30,000 (the same method Kevin Smith used to make Clerks). He planned to cast his friends in it and play Mr. Pink himself. Keitel heard about the film (one of the producers showed the script to his acting coach whose wife knew Keitel and gave him a copy) and proceeded to raise $1.5 million and financed the casting calls for the roles.
I think Tarantino would still have had success, but it would have taken longer.
He was one of my favorite parts of Pulp Fiction. His “Pretty please with sugar on top” line never fails to make me laugh.
you wouldnt have tarantino movies but you could still see all scenes bc mf steals everything
Rip Chris Penn. Such a great talent
I was going to recommend "rumble rish" for her next movie reaction
But at least officer Polanski is off the street.
Used to come to my bar in Encino, the year he died. Boy could throw them down.
Any Chris Penn fan who hasn't watched "At Close Range" should do so.
I still miss him
The opening scene tells you so much about each character. The moment he's asked, Mr. Orange on instinct rats on Mr. Pink for not tipping. Mr. White is the only one not afraid to stand up or talk back to Joe. Mr. Blonde shows intense loyalty to Joe and a willingness for violence, even jokingly. And of course, Mr. Pink is selfish and concerned with nothing but himself. We learn Mr. Brown is a pop culture analyzing horndog but that never comes back later and it's basically Tarantino introducing himself and his style to the world. "This is what we're gonna talk about, this is how we're gonna talk, it's going to be reference heavy and vulgar af and if you don't like it, leave now before it gets worse."
It's all from 48 hrs with Eddie Murphy.
Like a Virgin = Roxanne.
Wong? = Henry Wong.
Charlie f**kin Chan = Dick f**kin Tracy.
I don't tip = I don't f**k my old friends over (tip-off)
The "Ice" heist crew mirrors the 48hrs crew that robs the "Iceman"
Mr pink concedes and throws in a buck, Reggie Hammond concedes and works with Cates.
Mr Blonde is Albert Ganz, the psycho who loves blondes.
The gas tank Mr Blonde gets from his trunk mirrors Billy Bear asking for water to cool his truck engine and Ganz mocks him, "FIREWATER right Tonto?" (Gasoline)
Nice Guy Eddie and Vic playfight after Vic is released from prison.
Billy and Ganz fake fight leading to Ganz escaping jail.
Never ends.
All Tarantino films, all Hollywood films...all do this.
Like The Comedian said in Watchmen...it's all a joke.
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yeah "characters", not people
hate this movie.
too fake.
Tim Roth's performance in this movie is amazing. He conveys so much in the moments when he has no lines. The cool control under stress, and those outbursts when the situation won't tolerate anything less. One of my favorite performances. I think sometimes he's under-appreciated due to the presence of Keitel, Buscemi, and Madsen.
The scene where Keitel shoots the cops riding up and Roth's reaction as he knows he's letting Keitel kill cops but he has to go along with it to get the ringleader later. Low key but you see the conflict in Roth's face. Also his face when he shoots the woman who shot him.
@@jd190d Absolutely!
Try BBC's version of "Heart of Darkness" with Roth as the guy who goes in to get kurtz.
Totally agree, also add the fact that he is English and has to put on an American accent while screaming in fear and agony, covered in fake blood.
Such a talent!
@@jd190d that's not why he didn't kill Mr. White there.
Saw this in an empty cinema (mid-afternoon, mid-week showing, a couple of months before the venue closed.) Saw it as double feature along with Pulp Fiction. Was my first exposure to Tarantino, and one of the best movie theatre experiences of my life.
Wow!
I tried to watch three films in one guy but the seats were so uncomfortable I just couldn't make it through the 3rd one - Star Wars Trilogy, original extended enhanced versions.
@@sidrat2009 "I tried to watch three films in one guy but the seats were so uncomfortable..."
No wonder. Couldn't have been that much room in there lel
I likewise saw this in an almost-empty cinema when it opened. I felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach by the end, it was so tense.
ohh yeah. No idea what happened there.
No one apart from my butt was harmed while trying to watch three films in on sitting.
I've just made it sound worse.
No one else was involved. No public lewdness occurred.
What a typo!
That's pretty cool! That's a damn good double feature!
This movie made me love Tim Roth & Steve Buscemi so much!!
This movie made me want to see more Tim Roth, Four Rooms is the one that really sold me on him. Great performance. I also really liked him in his TV lead roll on Lie to Me. Underrated show (could be rose-colored glasses).
@@monarch-black I loved Lie To Me too!! It was such a good show!! I was uber pissed when they canceled it, they always cancel the goods ones early.
If you haven't seen the HBO series Boardwalk Empire some of Steve Buscemi best stuff
@@harryballsak1123 Boardwalk Empire was absolutely one of the best shows out there. I was obsessed with it the whole time it was on. My Hubby even started watching it and now he loves Steve as well. Have you been watching him and Daniel Radcliffe on this show called Miracle Workers? It’s on season 3 now on TBS. OMG it’s hysterically funny. Each season they have a different theme and they play different characters and they are over the top crazy with it. They have like 5 or 6 regular people each season for sure, but they also add others to the mix as well. This past week Daniel had to do this sexy, crazy half naked dance in full half drag and it was glorious. All the more funny is his character is a reverend. Steve is playing a famous outlaw called Benny the Teen (a play on Billy the Kid lol) and it’s an Oregon Trail story this season. Give it a try if you like funny stuff & love Steve.
Michael Madson should have had so many more roles. Love his characters in every film he's been in.
apparently Madson is not easy to work with, and has a love of Coccaine that makes him intolerable
@@Matt-Culture Yeah I think Madson has hindered himself which is a shame because he is an incredible screen presence.
He was supposed to play the Travolta role in Pulp Fiction but he was engaged in the Kevin Costner Wyatt Earp flick and could not get out of it. And he was pretty pissed. lol I think he would have been great in another Travolta role in The Big Shorty. As well as other QT movies like Deathproof in the Kurt Russel role. Or the George Clooney role in From Dusk Till Dawn.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 He wouldn't have been nearly as good as Kurt Russell in "Deathproof" , imo. Madsen is great , but I don't think he could have brought the layered performance that Russell did.
@@adgato75 Good point, yea. I think Madsen would have done a good job at playing serial killer stuntman but he's plainly not as great an actor as Kurt.
IMO Harvey should be on the walk of fame and in the HoF - if he's not already. Like Gary Oldman, he's insanely great as a supporting actor.
Forget "supporting actor". All that means is: "Actor who isn't regarded as sexy, by the target demographic"
He's a great lead actor too. "Mean Streets", "Bad Lieutenant" (which opened the same week as "Reservoir Dogs")
@@ashscott6068 no it doesnt..
Quentin Tarantino has no bad movie to his name at all. the man is a genius and it’s crazy he never went to film school to learn film
It would have probably made him a worse director.
He's a genius because he didn't go to school...
Jackie Brown is probably my least favorite Tarrantino movie, having said that it's still pretty amazing
Some of the best auteurs in history have done amazing things that they didn't realise were remarkable, simply because no authority figure was there to tell them not to. School produces conformity, not exceptionalism.
@@ThePartisan13 Jackie brown might well be my least favourite, but then 9.5/10 is less than 10 /10.
I love this movie so much. Still can't hear Stuck in the Middle without seeing Micheal Madsen dancing around with that razor! For a couple of different films with a Tarantino tangential connection I'd recommend True Romance and Killing Zoe. Both excellent films!
“I don’t want to miss annyything” talks over 3 lines immediately after
One of my favorite lines for that matter: “what’s special? Take you in the back and suck your dick?” She talked right over that hilarious line. I wish reviewers would either stop the movie when they talk or talk when the characters aren’t. They often miss out on some of the greatest dialogue.
15:56 This is a split diopter shot that allows two subjects to be in focus at two different depths. You can see it in "Carrie" as well.
DiPalma used it in almost all of his films
Yup. There’s a great shot in JAWS with the diopter lens as well.
There is blur in the middle.
I didnt remember it when it came on. I’ll have to check the dvd (good excuse to rewatch!)
The best used of this shot is used in Come and See, with the change and what is to follow
5:20 I totally agree about the strong opinions thing. I think sometimes I can fall into the trap of wanting my characters to be likeable so i make them too amenable where he has characters that we all love to watch but would often hate in real life
Kinda funny because thats kind of how he is irl as well lol
I loved Michael Madsen once talking about the two different reactions he gets when people see him on the streets. Little kids see him and go, "Look Mommy! From Free Willy!" The mom looks at him, pulls the kid away, and says, "Stay away from that man."
Madsen said people also were scared of walking into elevators with him.
The part where half the screen is blurry is due to a split diopter, it's a way to focus on something close on one side and something further on the other side.
EDIT: I just finished and saw you addressed this lol. Great reaction as always.
Director Brian DePalma uses the split diopter lens in a whole bunch of his movies.
I dunno. There's something about that technique that just puts me off.
@@mondegreen9709 Yeah, that's why it's rarely used. It's kind of a film nerd thing, Tarantino loves to use obscure film techniques as much as possible. He uses a diopter in a few of his movies
@@deltoidable now i gotta google diopterm... thanks xd
A shot in Jaws came to my mind when I saw the RD shot. It’s used a lot more than you may think. Especially in the 70s.
Two things:
White combing Orange's hair is so heartbreakingly sweet.
Eddie calling Joe "Daddy" always cracks me up for some reason.
I’m pretty sure a big tough violent gangster calling his father “Daddy” is intended to be funny.
If you just count his writing..I still say "True Romance" is his absolute best.. Tony Scott in top form. An amazing cast. And just the action.. music. Everything on point.
True Romance is pure gold.
"Don't you con-den-send ME man! I'll f*ckin' KILL you!"
@@chrisleebowers LOL. Such a great scene.
@@chrisleebowers &uckin' Floyd... You wanna pick up some cleaning products?? Lol
Walken and Hopper in the same scene together, with all that talent, is amazing!
IMO this is the best of Tarantino's films. Not a knock on the others, their all great, but I really dig this one.
I don't know if it's his best but it's the one I've watched the most.
@Kyle Lewis I agree. It's a minority opinion though.
It's my favorite by far. The least self indulgent even though I enjoy his other films.
I have said the same thing. I actually think Jackie Brown is his best directed film, but as it is not an original story by him I can't give him full credit for how wonderful that film is overall. Reservoir Dogs, on the other hand, is his pen to paper original story and characters and is masterfully directed. Especially for a first film and given that most of the scenes take place in one location.
Unpopular Opinion: This is his best movie. Pulp Fiction is good but at this point over rated. From Dusk Till Dawn is more fun.
Everything he's made after 2000 has been medicore to bad...
The "blur" in that one shot was due to a split diopter lens, so that Tarantino could have both a close-up and a distant image in focus in the same shot. EDIT: You mentioned it in the trivia discussion, so never mind. :)
I love that Keitel's character, Mr. White, drove the car white interiored car covered with blood, then as Mr. Fox in PF, he helps clean a car with a blood covered white interior.
Something tells me that wasn’t an accident..😏
Mr wolf not mr fox
@@dalehenrickson6243 aye! Thanks.
That thing about the ear scene being better off-screen, that's straight out of Shakespeare. In all his plays, the bloodiest action is always offstage and commented on by the actors before or after. That gives so much stronger of an effect, because your audience's imagination has its own infinite production budget and more CGI capability than any studio ever.
Famous for dialogue, not afraid to include violence and profanity, adapt and rewrite already existing stories into much better versions, acting roles in their own scripts. Shakespeare and Tarantino have a lot in common.
This and Pulp Fiction are my two Tarantino favorites. You should really also check out "Four Rooms" with Tim Roth. Hilariously over the top.
yes! came to the comments specifically to suggest four rooms.
@@njsmith8614 I'd wish someone would react to this. It's so overlooked but Sooo much fun!
for whatever reason, some reactors skip Jackie Brown. Please don't.
Love the foreshadowing in this movie. During the tipping scene Orange rats out Pink, and in the conversation between Pink and White in the bathroom the white and pink bottles are to one side and the Orange bottle is set apart. Tarantino been crushing it since the get.
Also, there's that orange balloon floating behind the car... which I had somehow never noticed before watching this video. 😱🤯
Most of the budget went on the dance number music rights! Excellent choice!
You’d love Django Unchained and Once upon at time in Hollywood. The acting and directing choices are at a 10. Leo and Tarantino are an amazing pair
django sucked
@@foreignmilk5589 you are incorrect. i've watched that one at least a dozen times.
@@jenniferri7735 you could watch it 100 times, that doesnt change anything lol
@@foreignmilk5589 why would i watch a sucky movie 100 times? people like you who deliberately make negative comments on reaction videos are so small-minded and annoying. django is fantastic - the acting, the cinematography, the script, everything is top-notch. in fact, your silly little comment made me want to rewatch it and i’m doing so right now. and i am enjoying it just as much as ever, thank you very much. now you go sit in the corner and have yourself a nice day.
Mr. Blonde's real character name was Vic Vega. Travolta's name in Pulp Fiction was Vincent Vega, his brother
I've watched a few reviews of this movie and everyone seems to be confused about the blur effected beside the cop's head after his ear gets cut off. The blur effect here is used to show the viewer the cop's vision and how screwed up his sensory system is after losing an ear. All your senses are tied together via your nervous system so if one is removed then the other senses might be effected.
The blur around 16:10 was because they were filming at two different focus lengths to keep both characters crisp. Wasn't as noticeable on most TVs at the time. AFAIK, cameras capable of handling multiple focal lengths are a more recent (or maybe just higher budget) technology.
So glad to see this! Maybe my fave Tarantino film. Excited to watch it with you. Here we go!
The look on your face when Orange shot Blonde! Absolutely terrific.
Lawrence Tierney, who plays the boss, Joe Cabot, started out in the Noir films of the 1940s and probably would have been a much bigger star had it not been for a chronic alcoholism problem that led to numerous violent incidents.
Steve Buscemi is an amazing actor.
You will never be able to hear "Stuck In The Middle With You" again without thinking about this movie. Ever!!
I've always liked the song but never had any imagery attached to it until I saw Michael Madsen dancing to it, holding a bloody severed ear. Now the two are inextricably linked.
Tarantino came out of the gate so incredibly strong with his first movie, with a style and voice that has rarely wavered his whole career.
Tarantino's first fully written and directed film. He did a bit of writing and acting in From Dusk till Dawn. And mostly wrote his fantasy life as a video store clerk, True Romance,. Which is a masterpiece, and star chock filled!
Blur that you see is the Tilt-shift lens. They make two focus in one picture. Half screen shows near object in focus, other one shows distinct one. Between them you can see small blurry zone
Reservoir Dogs is funny movie, but somebody who thinks the whole movie is one big comedy and laughs when somebody is tortured might be a sociopath.
I loved this movie so much, I actually used the "commode story" for a couple of auditions.
It's mostly a monologue.
"Okay ramblers, let's get rambling". A line that's also spoken by Georg Clooney in from dusk till dawn.
I don't know what you were ON in the beginning of this video, but I loved this "new" Shanelle. Keep it up. Till next time! ;-D
4 rooms is an interesting one. 4 stories, 4 different directors. Tarentino and Robert Rodriquez went on to do From Dusk Till Dawn after.
Alexandre Rockwell one of the directors, is a better writer then director, watch Little Feet. as far as Allison Anders the other director, she is actually a decent director who directed Gas Food Lodging with Ione Skye and Grace of my heart with Illeana Douglas and John Turturo
People sleep on four rooms but it might be my favourite time Roth performance
As a big horror fan, love to see your reaction to From Dusk to Dawn if you haven't seen it. Directed by both Quentin, a master of dialogue, and Robert Rodriguez, an amazing visual storyteller,. Add great performances by Harvey KeItel, George Clooney and Juliet Lewis and you have one of best genre flicks you'll ever see.
Yes, if you love Tarantino you have to watch From Dusk Till Dawn. He wrote the script, he acts in it, and the first half even seems to be in Tarantino's style to me. The director of photography went on to do Tarantino's Jackie Brown.
That wasn’t an ambiguous ending, everyone died.
Pink is either dead or arrested.
One of my favorites , another one is "The Boondock Saints" Willem Dafoe is AWESOME he always has me cracking up🤣
Shout out to Mr. Blue, Eddie Bunker, who wrote really great crime novels. Tarantino loved them and put him in the movie.
Notice that Mr. Orange was the one who gave away that Mr. Pink didn't tip
The commode story is brilliant because it's a 'flashback' story told during a flashback of a flashback.
I love your videos Shanelle your knowledge of movies and enthusiasm is infectious i love it 😍😍😍😍
The ‘blur’ you were seeing is a split shot. When shooting and focusing on characters that are at different distances, they split the shot so they can focus on both. In a regular shot, Tim Roth would be just as blurry as the footage surrounding the cops head. Hope I explained it well enough.
Oh damn... I haven't been able to listen to "Stuck in the Middle with You" by Steeler's Wheel since I say this movie!
That used to be one of my happy songs (along with Mr Blue Skys). Not any more.
And yes, hes Mr Wolf. But Harvey Keitel basically fronted the money for this movie. Stev is the waiter in pulp fiction! Mr Blonde also in sin city, the parole officer skagnetti, actually in the movie, natural born killers! And of course, he adapted this from an old Japanese samurai story about a rogue samurai, in a group.
I know you won't see this but I just wanted to say that I love how, after viewing a film, you read facts about it. I follow a few reactors and none of them do it and I feel they misunderstand, not only, the point of the film but what went into making it. Keep up the good work. Btw I do envy you if you haven't truly seen these films. It's such a joy to view true cinema for the first time.
Never thought I'd see someone smile so much during this one. :)
Just caught the "Scagnetti" reference of Mr. Blonde's parole officer. Detective Jack Scagnetti played by Tom Sizemore in NATURAL BORN KILLERS. Scagnetti was a pretty screwed up and murderous character himself.
The focus thing that's happening at around 16:00 is caused by a split-diopter lens, which is basically half a lens that goes over your primary lens and allows half the image to focus on something very close in the foreground. Because of the close magnification, it causes the background on that side to be blurry. It's not a post-production effect; it's all done in-camera. Directors like Brian De Palma, Sergio Leone and Robert Wise made extensive use of them, and Tarantino has used them here and there, as well.
I was a business administration undergrad, then was undeclared cause I didn't wanna study it anymore. Was undeclared for a semester, then saw Reservoir Dogs during vacation. That movie inspired me to change my major. I'm now a 2 year old alumni of USC for Film & Television.
Love it Shan. Love this flic. When released on DVD they made different covers of the different characters, I obviously bought “Mr. White”. Nothing better than betrayal and he got it the worst!
the blur is a SPLIT DIOPTER. most lenses with most lighting setups can't possibly have that deep a depth of field. so the split diopter has a different focal setting split in the middle.
so in that shot, the BACKGROUND is blurred while the cop is in focus because with the focus setting on the right side, it CAN'T focus on the bg.
The radio DJ was the legendary stand up comic Steven Wright...famous for his off the wall 1-liner jokes & deadpan delivery. Example: "I almost broke both of my arms trying to hold a revolving door open for a woman". Anyway, he and Mitch Hedberg were geniuses at that style of comedy.
And interesting that you kept the big clue in the edit at 12:11. I'm glad you kept it in. Otherwise I would've been curious to see if you picked up on it. Of course it would've been an unbelievable pick-up if you had. That's typically a 3rd or 4th viewing kind of thing.
Even though it was not always the case, Reservoir Dogs have become my Favorite QT flick over the years. I just appreciate the simplicity of it. I think QT performs at his best when he has limitations. That is why I loved Hateful Eight as well cause he is so good at dialogue and characterization and building tension and when you put a couple of characters in one room for a whole movie, I cannot imagine how it can be better for someone like that.
BTW Shanelle I feel like you must have been pretty funny as a child. The sort that will not shut up 😂
Quintin Tarantino is a master of dialogue and of monologues. Also, Kevin Smith is a master in his own right. Please give Clerks a chance. It had a smaller budget, but in my opinion is a better film.
@Nasty Mango That is so true. Jackie Brown has the best music, imo.
Tim Roth steals this movie for me, every actor does a FANTASTIC job here, but his subtle facial expressions when he sees Harvey Keitel's character Mr.White shooting his co-workers as well as when he reactively shoots the civilian woman under cover are just *chefs kiss*
When you thought you heard the name Jack Scagnetti. It is because Tom Sizemore later plays the violent cop in Natural Born Killers. He captures Micky and Mallory.
When Mr Pink and Mr White are talking in the back room and mr Orange is out on the loading ramp by himself, there are bottles of cleaning products on the shelf....pink and white together, and orange off by itself...
That Mr. Orange moment when he shoots Mr. Blonde is the early incarnation of Brandy sicking balls on Tex Watson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. You just completely forget that they're there. The commode story is straight out of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Act 3 scene 1- "Speak the speech..." often referred to as the "Advice to the players" (players=actors) Tarantino just throws in a little acting lesson in the middle of the film.
Tarantino is definitely aware of Shakespeare.
A little crazy bit of Tarantino trivia that I came across recently: the straight razor that Beatrix pulled out of her boot inside the coffin in 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' to cut her bonds was THE SAME straight razor that Mr. Blond took out of his boot in this film.
Michael Madden's character (Vic Vega) and John Travolta's character in pulp fiction (Vincent Vega) are brothers
2 points you missing 14:55 the transition from going outside and than back in, from the horror thats going on inside to the peacefull sight of good weather and kids playing outside, and than going back inside to the horror. other point missing 21:08 Steve is getting arrested on the background.
I really hope Quentin Tarantino will make an animated movie with the Vega brothers, they'd never be too old for that, they could voice their parts.
"I'm from Long Island..."
Says the most Long Island person I've ever seen. lol.
Mr Blue is a real lifelong criminal and bank robber who started writing crime stories while he was in prison!😮😮😮
And now you'll never hear Stealers Wheel without thinking of this movie.
It’s amusing to me that Steve Buscemi’s next role for Tarantino is as a waiter in Pulp Fiction
What a come-down.
@@ThreadBomb he wasn’t available for a bigger role
Yes, Mr. White is also Mr. Wolf in "Pulp Fiction". His name is Harvey Keitel. He's also in "From Dusk Til Dawn". My favorite Harvey Keitel film is"Saturn 3" with Kirk Douglas & Farrah Faucet
I’m sure someone has already pointed it out, but Mr Blond and Vincent(John Travolta) in Pulp Fiction are brothers. The Vega brothers. And the “Alabama” they talk about in this movie was originally the character from Tarantino’s True Romance(directed by Tony Scott).
This movie was filmed in my hometown, Highland Park, CA!
A diopter is a kind of lens (like a bifocal) that allows two different depths of field to be in focus at the same time. The blur between the depths is non-negotiable in analog filmmaking but non-existent in digital filmmaking. Tarantino used it alot in the early days.
*Probably should have watched all the way to the end before posting that... HOWEVER! The reason the diopter was a game changer was because the amount of light needed to keep distant objects in focus using 35 mm was enormous. Hitchcock needed literally every single light the studio had in order to create one similar shallow / deep focus shot in REAR WINDOW.
I really like that when Orange admits to White that he is a cop, in the background you can hear the police shouting at Pink to get his hands up. The first time I saw this movie I didn't hear that, so I had the question in my mind wondering if Pink got away.
Nice Guy Eddie was Chris Penn, Sean's younger brother. Chris died at age 40 from heart problems.
Opening a Tarantino movie reaction by saying you don't need to go to film school, just watch movies, is fucking perfect
This is the first time I've noticed that Mr. Blonde dances a little like his brother, lol!! Lawrence Tierney, the old bald guy, was a star of many film noir films from the 40s and 50s.
As you already know Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction is Mr. Blonde's brother. Mr. White mentions doing jobs with Alabama. Who Patricia Arquette plays in True Romance, which Tarantino wrote. And Mr. Blonde says his parole officer is Seymour Scagnetti, who is played by Tom Sizemore in Natural Born Killers (another script written by Tarantino and then rewritten by Oliver Stone). The early scripts of Tarantino were all loosely part of a shared universe.
The blur is a lens called a diopter. It keeps the foreground subject and background subject in focus. On a low budget movie, like Reservoir Dogs, there was probably no money to smooth it out in post.
Awesome movie! Great reaction. I like that you watch it from a filmmaking point of view. I'm the same way. It makes me appreciate the hard work and vision even more. I love Tarantino and all his unique work. So much fun and entertaining, the way film is meant to be. Not just watched, but Experienced.
Not only is Mr Blonde Vinces Brother, But his parole officer is Seymour Scagnetti. As in the character in Natural Born Killers. Partly written and developed by Tarantino but directed by Oliver Stone.
@16:00 this blur is a special lens that allows two separate depth of field.
in order for Mr. Orange and the cop to both be in focus in the same frame from this angle and distance requires a little "in-camera" trickery
14:33 - Tarantino actually filmed the ear-cutting scene two ways. One where there is an angle from behind the cop and we see the ear being sliced off. And two, the pan-away shot we see in the final film. Tarantino has said that the shot panning away from the ear being cut was much more powerful because it forces your imagination to take over and 'see' a much more gruesome and graphic image in your mind's eye than anything he could show you.
the blur in the scene after mr orange shoots mr blonde is a Split Diopter they used so both men are focused in the frame.
I saw this in 1992 at the Mayan Theater in Denver and I remember during the ear scene about 10 people walked out of the movie. I was only when I came back to see it again about a week later that I realized that you don't even see the ear being cut off but it was enough so that even at that screening several more people walked out during that scene.
Hell yeah. I just learned the "snap finger trick" with the zippo
In respect of awesome movies with minimal sets. You can't beat *"12 Angry Men (1957)"*
The dialogue combined with the calibre of actors. Made it the second best Courtroom drama ever. After "To Kill a Mocking Bird"... I personally think it should be first. It's riveting.
I didn't know how to say her name until she just said. It's a nice name. Also, The song that plays at the end of the movie was "the lime in the coconut" which is about a woman treating a stomach ache by drinking the very same drink that gave her the stomach ache in the first place
That blur between Marvin the Cop and Mr. Orange was the result of a Dual-Focus Lens wasn't it? Dual-Focus Lenses typically have a blur somewhere in the shot, the entire shot can't be in focus. But I don't know whether the blur was digitally enhanced, internesting.
Split focus lenses are used quite a bit in older (pre-digital, pre-CGI) films. Now that you know about it, you might notice it more often.
One of the things you need to know about this movie is when it was made. When it was made, NO ONE made movies like this. Movies like this and The Usual Suspects, they didn't happen, where parts of the movie jumped out and hit you in the face. People that watch these movies today are used to seeing this kind of storytelling. In a lot of ways they can even see it coming a mile away because to the, it is old hat. But upon release, these movies changed cinema for years to come.
When Orange tells White he's a cop, if you listen closely in the background you can hear the cops arresting Pink.
One thing I love is if you listen to the final scene closely, Mr. Pink gets shot and arrested right after escaping with the diamonds. All of which happens entirely off-screen… Steve Buscemi even said he thinks that Pink got karmic justice when he played the waiter at Jack Rabbit Slim’s where Vincent and Mia eat in Pulp Fiction, I love it!!!
Nice to know I’m not the only one to drink cold coffee in wine glasses. 😏
Victor and Vincent Vega are pretty strongly connected as brothers.