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It almost feels like a lifetime since veteran director Quentin Tarantino dropped another banger of a movie that millions love to hate and hate to love. Much like every other director, Tarantino had humble beginnings.
In 1992, the director released an iconic film titledReservoir Dogs,which was his first proper production. The film received rave reviews and critical acclaim, partly due to what Tarantino chose to keep in it.
Quentin Tarantino fought for hisReservoir Dogs!
Reservoir Dogswas a different movie. It wasn’t an average Hollywood flick where some thieves would steal and then disappear. The heist movie did not feature a heist scene at all and starts after they stole some diamonds.
Well, it was completely Quentin Tarantino’s vision and we respect the director for that. However, back then, he wasn’t a well-established director, and not many people were able to fully understand Tarantino’s concepts.
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The director revealed toFilm Commentthat one iconic scene inReservoir Dogs, which featured Steve Buscemi and Harvey Keitel, received some negative reviews (on the script) since people thought it was a play on a stage and not a part of the movie.
That was actually a problem [when] trying to get the film made. People would read it and go, ‘Well, this isn’t a movie, this is a play, why don’t you try and do it in an Equity Waiver house?’ I was like, ‘No, no, no, trust me, it’ll be cinematic.’
He further continued,
I don’t like most film versions of plays, but the reason I had it all take place in that one room was because I figured that would be the easiest way to shoot something. To me, the most important thing was that it be cinematic.
That is where the genius of Quentin Tarantino shined the most. The film did feel like a theater play where the characters were many and the set pieces fixed.
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That is how theveteran director intended the film to be madesince there was no way that the characters could just leave a set and not come back. They all had to be there to make sense of things.
Quentin Tarantino wanted it to be that way
It was 1992 and Hollywood was different back then. Movies weren’t really made with so much graphic violence and brutality (some exceptions, of course) and Quentin Tarantino was a lover of cinema.
From being a video store employee to being a director with a screenplay in hand,Quentin Tarantinowas new to the field. The acclaimed director had a unique vision of the world.
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As the interview further continued, the director revealed that he always wantedReservoir Dogsto look like a theater play in the format of a cinematic movie.
One of the things I get a big kick out of in Reservoir Dogs is that it plays with theatrical elements in a cinematic form—it is contained, the tension isn’t dissipated, it’s supposed to mount, the characters aren’t able to leave, and the whole movie’s definitely performance-driven.
Some would call it luck, some would call it skill, butReservoir Dogsbecame an underrated gem of a movie. It got Tarantino in contact with the right people and his career skyrocketed due to his different taste for the ’70s cinema.
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Released in 1992,Reservoir Dogscurrently stands at a rating of 8.3/10 on IMDb and a whopping 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.The film is available to stream on The Roku Channel in the U.S.
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
