Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut as a feature film director. It co-stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, and Lawrence Tierney. Tarantino also has a minor role. The screenplay, written by Tarantino, was inspired by Hong Kong director Ringo Lam's Long hu feng yun (City on Fire) from 1987, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Danny Lee. Reportedly one of Tarantino's favourite films, he borrowed much of the plot as well as many of the scenes. Tarantino was originally going to shoot it with his friends, but luckily he was able to get the script to Harvey Keitel, who loved it. Funds were raised partly from selling the script for True Romance and what money Harvey Keitel was able to raise. The final budget was a mere $1.2 million. The makers had so little to work with that many of the costumes used in the film belonged to the actors themselves. The film's story is about a gang of criminals who rob a diamond wholesaler. After the robbery goes wrong due to the early arrival of the police, the criminals who get away meet up at the rendezvous point and try to figure out how the cops could have known. The robbery itself is never seen; the majority of the film's conflict takes place between the criminals themselves as they attempt to sort out the events of the day. The film gained notoriety for the amount of profanity in the dialogue, and for the level of violence it contained. However, Tarantino has pointed out that there are actually very few scenes of overt violence shown: for instance, in the infamous "ear torture" scene, the camera focuses away from the actors at the critical point.

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\n* Reservoir Dogs (1992) on IMDb Category:1992 films\nCategory:Cult films