Reservoir Dogs (1992) on Netflix
Joe Cabot brings six robbers to a diamond heist, handing each a color alias. When the job falls apart, the survivors gather at a warehouse and wonder who among them talked.
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Plot summary
Six experienced robbers, strangers to one another, are hired by crime boss Joe Cabot for a diamond robbery, with his son Eddie helping run the crew. They go by Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue. An alarm trips during the job, police arrive within moments, and the crew scatters. White drives the wounded Orange away from the store and refuses to take him to a hospital. At the warehouse hideout, Pink reports that he stashed the diamonds nearby and argues that the job was a setup. White is furious that his old friend Joe put a loose cannon like Blonde on the team, and he feels responsible for Orange.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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- Quentin Tarantino originally planned to shoot Reservoir Dogs with friends on a $30,000 budget in 16 mm black-and-white, with himself as Mr. Pink and producer Lawrence Bender as both Nice Guy Eddie and a cop chasing Mr. Pink.
- Harvey Keitel signed on as co-producer after reading the script, helping Tarantino and Lawrence Bender raise $1.5 million and paying for New York casting sessions where they found Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth.
- Tim Roth's agents wanted him for Mr. Pink or Mr. Blonde, but he chose Mr. Orange so he could be "an English actor pretending to be American playing a cop pretending to be a robber"; Michael Madsen auditioned for Mr. Pink but Tarantino insisted he play Mr. Blonde.
- Jon Cryer backed out of auditioning for Mr. Pink at the last minute, James Woods was considered for the part but his agent turned it down without telling him, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan read for Mr. Brown before Tarantino decided to play it himself.
- Lawrence Tierney was fired at the breakfast table during the first week of production after yelling at Tarantino, and the crew broke into applause; Tarantino called him "a f—ing nightmare" who was "completely insane".
- The warehouse scenes were shot in an unused mortuary filled with caskets, funeral equipment, embalming fluid and a hearse, with Mr. Orange's apartment set up on the second floor; the building has since been demolished.
- Michael Madsen struggled to finish the ear-cutting scene, especially after Kirk Baltz ad-libbed the plea "I've got a little kid at home"; 15 people walked out of a Sitges screening, including director Wes Craven and makeup artist Rick Baker.
- Tarantino was accused of plagiarizing Ringo Lam's City on Fire and denied it at the 1994 Cannes festival, saying "I steal from every movie"; Lam said he was not bothered by the similarities.
