White cares too much. Blonde cares too little. Orange is incapacitated and the rat. Brown and Blue are dead. Joe and Eddie also care too much. Pink is definitely the only professional.
@@omarkhan3768 he shot up the store, took a cop to get out as a hostage, put the cop in the trunk after roughing him up sadistically, went to a burger joint, then came here lol. He's a psycho and one of my favorites honestly even knowing he was written cooly for that intention
I like Mr White because he has compassion to Mr Orange. Mr Blonde may be a sick fuck, but he is cool in some way. I don't know how. Mr Pink is the best of them all because he is the smart one and the most professional one.
Ave Srbija, Mr White got played by Mr Orange, it's the undercovers job to get there hooks into the criminals their supposed to be infiltrating. As Mr White later regrets at the end in his crying out
Buscemi's delivery and intonation on certain words is so unique. Almost sounds corny when he says things but it shows he's a sharp criminal whodoesnt like to use slang
tipping tha opposite of solidarity, tipping is hobbling urself financially 2 compensate for tha stinginess & greed of restaurant businesses bc u feel emotional & guilty dat tha employees bein affected usually has vaginas
Reservoir Dogs just may be...quietly...Tarantino's best film. That Dialogue in every scene, it's so raw and so down to earth gritty and surreal. It's credible. My friends and I would quote scenes from this movie more than any of the other films. This scene included!
This movie is all meat and no fat. Stripped down, lean and mean. Just like the crew. His later, longer movies all have these self-indulgent moments where I zone out or lose interest. I love his work, especially the Kill Bills, Inglourious Basterds and OUATIH but RD is my fave, maybe because it was fresh, exciting and you left the cinema knowing you'd seen something incredible. I think 2003's Oldboy was the next time I had that experience.
Mr. White acted too much on emotion, which was his downfall. Mr. Blond's flaw was he was psychotic. Mr. Pink survives because he focuses on looking after himself and thinking logically.
"I'll bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan, aren't you?" When Michael Madsen says that line, I always think it's a shame that Lee Marvin died in 1987 because if he hadn't, Tarantino definitely would've used him in a film.
I just realized something about this scene. I always wondered what the purpose was of Mr. White's jab at Mr. Blonde about his fries and drink. Conflict? Sure, it adds a little more to Mr. White's contempt for him, but I think it says something more about Mr. Blonde. After this heist, in which there was a shootout both inside *and* outside the building, one would think they'd all lie low and make their way to the warehouse as soon as possible. But not Mr. Blonde. He had the balls to go get fast food and *then* makes his way to the safe house (with a cop in his trunk, at that). It shows how conceited he is, how confident he is with himself in not getting caught. Tarantino just showed this to us by way of Blonde's lax reaction to White, but that little piece of dialogue just adds a little bit more to Blonde, I think.
The same can be said about Mr. Blonde without Mr. White's jab, that Mr. Blonde was acting normal and did what he would have (presumably) done any other day. It is understood that Mr. Blonde is much more relaxed and cool than the rest of the guys and the soda (and sunglasses) symbolizes that as you pointed out. According to your analysis the fries are just redundant to the soda, reinforcing the idea, but not adding anything. The purpose of the comment about the fries is to show that Mr. White is skeptical about trusting Mr. Blonde, as they are already in the safe house and there is a suspected rat and now he is being lured outside of the safe house right after Mr. Pink says Mr. Blonde is the only one he "can really trust." The comment adds to Mr. White because he is still looking after himself instead of just going along with the group. You had the right idea to begin with, but then took 4 right turns.
Rumor has it that the actor for the hostage cop wanted to know what it felt like to ride in the trunk of a car - Madsen decided to get a bite to eat with him in the trunk, and when he arrived on scene with the drink Tarantino rolled with it.
One thing I always liked about this scene is how Mr. Blonde can get caught up on all the relevant information without having to say a thing. His silence and cool demeanor essentially force Mr. Pink to do all the talking, which Mr. Pink happens to be very good at. I always figured something happened to Mr. Blonde in prison that made him snap or that prison simply brought out the psychopath that was always just beneath the surface.
He was supposedly meant to actually play the part in Pulp and it be the same guy as here but Set before (obviously lol) but he had other filming commitments so Tarantino made Travolta a brother character instead.
Imagine a movie based on the Vega brothers before Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. It could be set before Mr Blonde goes to the prison and Vincent Vega goes to Amsterdam, and maybe the movie tells us about how they ended up going those routes. Maybe they were on a job and Mr Blonde ended up getting busted, Vincent managed to escape and went on the run to Europe. It would be set in the 1980's. Of course it would be hard to make now because John Travolta and Michael Madsen are older now so they would have to use younger actors but with the right script and director i'd say it would be an awesome movie.
I met Michael Madsen one month ago in a villa in the south of France, near Saint-Tropez. I was assisting a photographer for a fashion shoot, and the villa owners had invited their friend Mr. Blonde for the night and we had dinner all together. Reservoir Dogs was my cult movie before, so when I saw him I could hardly keep my heart inside my chest ! Surreal.
+shyjames83 Which is kind of stupid if you think about it because the cop didn't have duct tape over his mouth so people would have noticed the sound come out of his trunk at the drive-thru.
+Bluemgwes they probably thought "Eh we ain't paid enough to get involved in any of that shit." Also I think the movie happens in LA? Or a fictionalised version. Probably see and hear that shit every day so become jaded to it haha
I'll NEVER forget watching this in 'real' time. Read the review in The Washington Times the Friday it was released and thought.. "WOW". At the time it was REALLY intense, the plot line. ALLLL the actors, outside of HKeitel, were relatively unknown as was Tarantino. An AMAZING experience..
While these 3 were arguing and accusing each other,, Mr. Orange was probably laughing inside his head since they couldn't find out he was the undercover cop who set them up.
Uh yea. what the other guys said. Orange was out of it, there was no way he'd be credible enough in his current state. He was done for. Which is why, if you look back where he was shot by the female motorist, they stayed on his face so long. He was done for at that point. Finished. What luck, eh?
I had the chance to play Mr. Blonde at my college in a student directed play “Resevoir Dogs”. Had a lot of fun in that show. It paid off in the end because it was one of the best shows my school has put on. Good timez
I find it ironic how Blonde was the one who lost his cool the most during the heist. Yet is the one whose staying the coolest in the aftermath. I guess you can put it down to him not realizing the gravity of the situation.
I've watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time in my life today... I enjoyed this film soo much, it's amazing how it's seems to be only dialogue and still there's so much going on.. it got me right from the first scene,.. I was telling a friend about it today, and felt like quoting the whole movie..
Great flick, but this movie never made sense that cops just sat outside the whole movie, knowing their man was in there. Even if not, they would not camp, after cops and civilians killed. Guns would be blazing.
Because they were waiting for Joe to show up, the old guy who put together the whole job and the one who gave them their names. When he showed up they would finally come
Fun fact. The soda White is drinking is from a Taco Bell. The cop (played by Kirk Baltz) asked to ride in the trunk to experience what it was really like. Michael Madsen drove down a long alley with pot holes then a Taco Bell drive through.
Throughout the film Mr White does refer to Mr Blonde as a psycho. Well I will say Mr Blonde does show some Psychopathic traits in this scene (i.e. Lack of Remorse and Empathy, Callous attitude and as we can all tell Coolness under pressure)
Mr. Blonde Does 4 years in the joint for the organization Immediately after getting out decides to take a job Murders the employees at the store Kidnaps cop Stops to get some fast food Cuts off cops ear then tries to light him on fire. Does all of this without showing any emotion except quiet laughter. I think this guy might be a psycho.
The dubber of Mister Blonde in my language, which is Italian, has got a voice that sounds a lot like original Madsen's voice, for true! Nice coincidence!
So good to rewatch..its been a while (more than 16 years), need to rewatch it all. Shoutout to my late Mum, she loved the subtle cleverness of all the dialogue in every good movie that watched with her (Tarantino films easily being big time ones) but specifically remember her laughing heaps at Steve Buschemi as Mr Pink saying ''..he's (Mr White) too homicidal to be working with the cops..'' and ''let's just try figure out who the bad guy is'' (we dont have a square-cut whitebread societal idea of 'good' and 'bad' in my family, we're more afraid of the countless arsehole cops with inpunity etc...but great line).
