CineTv Contest: My Favorite Heist Movie - Reservoir Dogs.
The film by director Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs (1992), is a very well structured, elegant and violent film. With a good script and an excellent soundtrack.
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The film is a jewelry store robbery film in which we are never shown the robbery. It is an independent film shot with talent and skill. It balances simplicity and complexity, violence and elegance, intelligence and insanity.
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This jewelry heist turns out to be disastrous, and in addition there is an undercover cop among them. The dangerous criminal Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) heads this group, and working with him is his son Eddie, Nice Guy Cabot (Chris Penn).
To avoid problems with the law, the criminals in the film use colors as identification and in this way their real identity is a mystery.
Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), an old friend of Joe Cabot's, is a man who flaunts the words honor among thieves. He is the only one who cares that Mr. Orange was hurt and did everything he could to keep him alive, as he trusted him until he revealed his true identity.
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Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) was the last to join the team and was the undercover cop among them. He was shot during the heist and for most of the film he struggles to survive while the rest try to figure out what went wrong and who the traitor was.
Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), who doesn't care about the rest of the group and doesn't like being assigned that specific color as he associates it mainly with femininity, is the most selfish member of the group.
Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), the most violent and impulsive member of the group, starts shooting hostages, takes a cop hostage and tortures him, and arrives late to the warehouse after the heist goes wrong. He is an acquaintance of Joe Cabot.
Mr. Blue (Edward Bunker) is the most mysterious member of the group, as he was mostly quiet during breakfast and did not return to the warehouse.
Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino), delivered some excellent lines during the opening scene in the diner related to Madonna's Like a Virgin. He was shot in the head by a cop during the robbery and died while driving away with Mr. White and Mr. Orange.
The performances by Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn and Michael Madsen are absolutely memorable. Harvey Keitel immense, Steve Buscemi gives a remarkable performance, Tim Roth shows why he is one of the actors Tarantino likes to work with the most. The figure of Lawrence Tierney, uses the usual acid and witty dialogues that the director likes so much, in crazy situations and of little importance, these are sarcastic and biting, and Michael Madsen, is immortalized in the cinema by starring in one of the most memorable and emblematic scenes of the film.
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The opening scene where the thieves prepare to go to the robbery, tasting a coffee in a restaurant and discuss the meaning of the lyrics of the song Like a Virgin by Madonna is a declaration of principles where violence seems normal and everyday as a conversation without apparent sense.
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"Reservoir Dogs" is a cult film, which has excellently crafted dialogues accompanied with a series of songs where the viewer feels immersed in the decade of the 50s and 70s.
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The last scene of the film seemed to me very similar to a scene from Ringo Lam's 1987 film "City of Fire".
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This does not detract from what Tarantino tells us in the film.
The final shootout scene is epic: Joe Cabott (Lawrence Tierney) shoots Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), Mr. White shoots and kills Joe, Eddie shoots Mr. White and someone shoots Eddie and he falls to the ground. Then they all fall to the ground and Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) comes out from under the ramp where he had been hiding all this time and escapes with the diamonds.
To this day there is great controversy over who shoots Eddie. Some say it was Mr. Pink, others say it was Mr. White.
Mr. White is wounded but has the strength to crawl to Mr. Orange, already dying, there Mr. Orange confesses that he is the infiltrator, then Mr. White with much feeling kills his friend. At that moment the police arrive and shoot Mr. White.
In the background we hear the sound of sirens and gunshots, and we do not know if the police kill Mr. Pink, or if he manages to flee with the diamonds.
There is another theory that says that it is impossible for Mr. White to have killed Joe, since he only shoots him once, and if we see Eddie's body on the floor, he was shot in the head and in the mouth. So it is logical that Mr. Pink killed him when he was under the ladder.
The protagonists of the film are criminals, which is why I cannot side with them, they are professional robbers whose plan is thwarted by an infiltrator within the group, in this case a policeman. If the mastermind behind the robbery, Joe Cabot, had been more intelligent, he would not count on Mr. Pink or Mr. Orange for this misdeed for one simple reason: he does not know them. The film reflects a great friendship between Mr. Whithe and Mr. Orange, so much so that until the last minutes Mr. White finds it impossible to believe Mr. Orange's betrayal.
This is the film that started Tarantino's mania, with very well-crafted dialogues, high doses of violence, and an excellent soundtrack.
This is my entry this week in the CineTV Contest #56 - Favorite Heist Movie Link here. Thank you very much for stopping by, good luck to all the contestants.
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