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created on: 13/08/2015
by: VanlommelW (1957)

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Displayed (non textual) :	Person : Chris Penn This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Person : Harvey Keitel This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Person : Lawrence Tierney This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Person : Michael Madsen This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Person : Steve Buscemi This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Person : Tim Roth This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions.
Displayed (written) info :	FOUR PERFECT KILLERS ONE PERFECT CRIME NOW ALL THEY HAVE TO FEAR IS EACH OTHER RESERVOIR DOGS HARVEY KEITEL TIM ROTH CHRIS PENN STEVE BUSCEMI LAWRENCE TIERNEY MICHAEL MADSEN
Movie Genre :	Crime This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. , Drama This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions.
Originally released :	1991
Language - Spoken :	English
Rating :	MPAA (US) R – Restricted
Running time :	100
Movie credits (on artwork) :	Actor : Chris Penn This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Harvey Keitel This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Lawrence Tierney This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Michael Madsen This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Steve Buscemi This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Tim Roth This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Associate Producer : Monte Hellman This endpoint is pending, not fully approved yet. Associate Producer : Richard N. Gladstein This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Co-Producer : Harvey Keitel This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Costume Design By : Betsy Heimann This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Directed By : Quentin Tarantino This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Director Of Photography : Andrzej Sekula This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Executive Producer : Monte Hellman This endpoint is pending, not fully approved yet. Executive Producer : Richard N. Gladstein This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Executive Producer : Ronna B. Wallace This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Film Editing By : Sally Menke This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Music Supervisor : Karyn Rachtman This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Producer : Lawrence Bender This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Production Design By : David Wasco This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Written By : Quentin Tarantino This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. A Production From : Artisan Entertainment This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. A Production From : Miramax Films This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Presented By : Live Entertainment This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions.
Awards:	Toronto Festival (TIFF) FIPRESCI's Discovery Section Winner
Description (by producer & GT in English only) :	Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, Reservoir Dogs is the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one?

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Posted by DaveB. (6) on november 17, 2015

Reservoir Dogs was Quentin Tarantinio's debut film, and as such served as our first glimpse into a style of film making as influential as any the medium has ever encountered.

Joe Cabot (Laurence Tierney) and his son, Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn), are planning the perfect heist, guaranteed to net them a fortune in diamonds. To pull it off, they assemble a team of professional crooks, none of whom have met before. In fact, to ensure complete anonymity, Cabot assigns each one a color name, such as Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), and Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), so nobody will ever know anyone else’s actual identity. But the robbery doesn’t go according to plan, leading to a violent shootout with police on the busy streets of L.A. Those lucky enough to survive are convinced the authorities responded a bit too quickly, which means one of their group must be either a policeman or an informant. While hiding out in an abandoned warehouse, they piece together everything that happened, hoping to uncover clues as to who might have tipped off the cops.

Reservoir Dogs introduced us to a number of techniques Tarantino would utilize in later works like Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill, key among them being how he plays with the film’s timeline, shifting the action from present to past, then back again. As the movie opens, the main cast is sitting around a large table in a coffee house, enjoying breakfast and talking about everything from Madonna to why Mr. Pink doesn’t believe in tipping waitresses. Immediately after that scene ends, we cut to the interior of a car, covered in blood, with Mr. White driving frantically and Mr. Orange writhing around in the back seat, badly injured from a gunshot wound to the belly. The viewer’s response to such a dramatic jump in the story is, at first, confusion, then curiosity. What happened? Where’s everybody else? What’s going on? In the coffee house, the characters never discussed the robbery, meaning, at this point, we don’t even realize they’re crooks. A few details fall into place once Mr. White and Mr. Orange arrive at the warehouse, where they’re soon joined by Mr. Pink. But this scene throws yet another curve our way when Mr. Pink rants about a possible “rat” in their ranks. So, even as some riddles are answered (they’re thieves whose heist went bad), another is presented: who’s the rat?

“Novels do this all the time”, Tarantino said in a 1992 interview. “A novelist would think nothing of starting in the middle. I think movies should benefit from the novel’s freedom”. Reservoir Dogs definitely does benefit in that Tarantino and his characters are holding all the cards, which they meticulously turn over so we, the audience, can slowly fill in the blanks. More than a clever cinematic style, these shifts in the story grab us, forcing us to pay attention out of fear we may miss something. And Reservoir Dogs is so damned engaging that you won’t want to miss a single second of it.

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Submitted by : VanlommelW (1957)

on : 13/08/2015

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