Quentin Tarantino ADMITS to STEALING the IDEA for Reservoir Dogs from a Hong Kong film  

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Everybody borrows and steals from someone. QT just has the balls and the respect to admit it and credit it

I love how he is unapologetic. He comes across as the least fake guy in a fake industry

He also admitted that the script got influence from The Killing (1956), starring Sterling Hayden, another heist movie, one of the first movies Stanley Kubrick directed. P. D: Can't believe how old Tarantino is now, I'm not ready yet to see his final film.

Peter Weller was doing a short film and he wanted to do a shot that he loved in Goodfellas. So he called Scorsese to ask permission. And Scorsese said to Weller “Use whatever you want, there isn’t an original shot in that movie.”

Reputedly, when Akira Kurosawa saw Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, he sat back in his chair at the end of the screening and said, “A very good film. Where’s my 15%?”

You steal from one person, it’s plagiarism; you steal from ten people, it’s research; you steal from a hundred people, it’s genius.

All good art is created like this. This the same as Dave Grohl talking about how he used disco beats in Nirvana. Everyone can listen to disco and watch hundreds of foreign movies but there's only one Dave Grohl and one Quentin Tarantino.

Tarantino has done this in every movie he's made, he's a massive film buff who literally owns the entire film store he first worked at. Which means he's seen the more obscure, and foreign movies that unfortunately alot of Americans haven't seen yet so of course he sees some stuff he likes and decides welp I'll use that. I don't think it's quite stealing, but then again some things are shot for shot added. Atleast it's specific moments and not entire plots or characters.

He reminds me so much of a producer to a hip hop song. The way he watches movies and chips them up in his mind and creates something entirely new in his head is like a J Dilla beat

Star Wars has scenes from Old Japanese films and they are some of the best scenes.

Reservoir dogs is a stageplay, brilliantly adapted by the author into a film. It's modern day Tennessee Williams.

Weak clickbait title. He literally explains why that's not the case.

This guy is so talented, he took the last 10 minutes of Ringo Lam's movie and made an entirely different movie about it. Ringo Lam must be proud.

It's not stealing, it's inspiration, it's referential, it's a huge part of art.

Steal from one person, and it's plagiarism. Steal from many people, and it's research.

I know exactly what he means; often while songwriting, I'll take a short sample of melody or chord structure from a song I like, then play with it and change it and mold it and expand around it until it's unrecognizable from the song it came from; then when I point it out to you, that part will be obvious, but until I do, it's hidden enough that you'd probably never know. I did this with a small line of melody from "Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins, and turned it into a song called "Save Me and Love Me".

This is the aspect people don’t understand about Tarantino’s films. He is not at all hiding that he’s borrowing ideas from other movies. There’s absolutely zero chance of that with how blatant it is. What his movies do is take these premises and indulge on them, celebrate them, and then in turn celebrate the transformative magic of movies and moviemaking. Reservoir dogs is essentially just a movie where you get to know the characters. It’s like if you take the robbery and robbery planning scene from goodfellas, then extrapolated and dissected it for a feature length picture.

He didn't steal it, he sampled it

All films and art, music, etc, are derived from older pieces. Whether it be music or painting, artists will make original works with inspiration from those that came before them.

QT REALLY loves to hear himself blabber on and on

QT always admitted he's borrowed, lifted, emulated other films. Ultimately creative talent must stem from inspiration AND trial an error. Nothing worse than one attempting to sound/look like their heros and falling flat. BAD EXAMPLE: recent film 'Den of Thieves' is a poor man's HEAT & Usual Suspects.. down to it's CRINGE worthy "twist-ending" (ok tho' fallin short of Mann's HEAT shoot out it was highlight of film). GOOD EXAMPLE: Little Richard's song "Keep A' Knockin" drum intro.. John Bonham of Led Zeppelin clearly used it for intro to their song Rock and Roll... but which do we like more? ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE: QT's camera pan during EAR SLICE was borrowed from Pay Phone scene in Taxi Driver. BOTH songs BOTH films are classics ..but which one of both sets impacted us more? People/critics undeservedly made QT the poster boy for cinematic theft and violence in film.. must be exhausting to continually defend oneself against such false claims. I really hope he continues making movies past #10.

Musicians take from other songs and make changes to create an entirely different song. It's called "Artistic License." Tarantino took an idea that was only part of a different movie and created something completely different. There's a huge difference between borrowing part of an idea, and actually stealing someone's idea. Almost every artist gets inspiration from other people's work. No harm.. No foul.

that's how Lucas made Star Wars, he took the best parts from his favourite movies and put it all together

Tarantino pays homage to everything, he’s one of the biggest movie fanatics

He’s an artist. This is what artists do because that’s how art works. This whole clip is like him explaining things to a five year old,

I love this guy, he copies tid bits from everyone and creates something superior and beautiful. A true artist.

I love seeing him be cocky. He always seemed very reverent and humble. He deserves to be cocky every once in a while.

shoutout to the incomparable Ringo Lam & the iconic Chow Yun Fat

This Is What Artists Do, we Take ideas and we Change them and make them our own. It's literally how influence works

Reservoir Dogs is one of the all-time greatest films in cinematic history. Nothing compares to it, not even the inspirational material.

He describes what he did so well. He’s like a disc jockey from the 80s making remixes.

The title of this video is clickbaity and misleading. Everybody ‘steals’ ideas to a degree. That’s what adaptation is, or to a lesser degree, just being influenced by something. But Tarantino did not PLAGIARISE it. The scenes are different. The characters are different. The story is different. The films are different.

“You made it a hot line. I made it a hot song.”

Apparently there are these exercises that ppl can do (usually when young) where you push your tongue forward on your palate and it pushes your face forward and makes you more attractive and keeps you from having a concave face. QT might have benefited from it.

I love how deep he explains all aspects of his movies!! Also, I love how he's willing to have intelligent conversations with people who have different opinions than himself!! A lot of celebrities aren't like that anymore!!

The last 10 minutes? There’s a lot of scenes from this movie that he stole. I respect that he’s honest about it though. Almost every director steals from other places.

I heard that Scorsese paid a million bucks to a Hong Kong film studio for the story he turned into The Departed.

Damn I really want enchiladas now😂

QT made his story from the last 10min of 龙虎风云. In terms of narration, he chose a very different way to tell the story. Reservoir Dogs the movie puts each character in the room firstly, and streamly shows threads to audience to know who they are and what they want. Until the middle of the movie when audience have already knows what is happening here, the fighting show is on. This is a brand-new way to for movie, it is more likely from Hitchcok and other suspense novels.

Reservoir Dogs is an amazing film. Tarentino is a gem.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Like Sam Hyde has said, his work is buried underneath so many influences that it has become his own. Whether you take one taste from one influence or saturate from several, what matters about your art is that it is essentially yours. It's your enchilada, you can use others' ingredients and techniques so long as you don't take their entire recipe

You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song

Both reservoir dogs and Pulp Fiction were absolutely ground breaking when they came out. Tarantino references all kinds of cinema so there are familiar notes but the overall presentation was completely unique.

NOBODY ever mentions Tin Men! That's why I dig Tarantino interviews. Super underrated flick, I highly recommend seeking out.

Love Tarantino. Every film has something from a film they love.

I hate when people complain about Tarantino "stealing". It ain't called stealing, its called good art. He's a massive film buff and just expresses his love of cinema in every frame of every one of his films. That's what makes him great.

The fact that he admitted to stealing even 5 seconds of another movie really surprised me

Love QT. Its like how you cut out words from magazines and newspapers to spell out a ransom note 😂

Tarantino has never been shy about his influences and about burrowing ot points, ideas, sometimes entire scenes. But he always makes it his own and his movies are nothing if not original.

Tarantino has a Michelin star in making whole ass enchiladas.

Tarantino has literally never pretended that he exclusively thinks movies up from scratch. His movies are homages to the films he himself loves, and he’s always willing to sing the praises of those films.

QT has some of the if not the best dialogue in Films

I like that he has no filter, what you see is what you get, unlike a lot of people.

That’s like saying Kill Bill is a Bruce Lee movie because of the inspirations that Tarantino took from those films

I see Tarantino almost like a hip-hop producer, using old school samples to create something completely new. Also he became known when Hip-Hop started to become huge. He makes collage of other films. What he brings though is really unique and interesting dialogues and very good writing characters.

He stole a lot from naked lunch to make pulp fiction. Like A LOT!!! One of the best books I’ve ever read. FYI there’s gay stuff in it so if you’re in the closet don’t read it. Those passages where he takes lines from the story you’ve already read to make the brion gyson cut ups are some of my favorite lines in any medium, ever. Edit* I often wonder if the homosexual parts of pulp fiction were deliberately made grotesque to appeal to the audience of that time. Naked lunch was literally (among many other things) a comparison between vanilla homosexual encounters and murderous and violent heterosexual encounters. I’ve never heard it spoken of as such but to me it was a great way to show that it’s not the hole you stick it in it’s the way you treat the other person you’re having sex with that makes it good or bad.

"Tin Men" is one of my favorite movies. Danny Devito praying at the smorgasbord is absolutely hilarious.

This is how everything advances. People build on the progress of others. That's the beauty of human advancement. Use something as a basis and build on it

I enjoy this man much more from behind the camera. He is so much lol

I hear Carlos Menzia use this logic all the time. Still not sure how I feel about it. All I know they made a ton of money.

He didn't admit stealing the idea from it, in the first 20 seconds he literally says there was a scene he took from it, but just a snippet, not the whole idea or movie

This dude owns what he does and will not take any shit. It’s probably the key to his success.

He's the movie director variation of "you made it a hot line, I made it a hot song"

That actually gives me an insight into tarantino’s process: his films always have a certain mood to them, different for every film. Maybe that’s what he starts with-a mood and an aesthetic that he develops the film around.

All the Chinese webtoons? All of their cartoons comics literally are the same. They all have black haired male leads with red eyes living in the North. And a revenge quest

Respect the honesty

What’s the source for this? I want to watch the full thing

Quentin Tarantino is just perfection 😗🤌

QT is such a film/movie geek even people who thought they were to had to reconsider alot after a single conversation with him lol. And his enthusiasm and passion about the art is completely sincere. I like QT, I do think hes overrated, but damn if Im not happy he came on the scene when he did. Thanks Quentin, even though you were never able to top Reservoir Dogs I had fun watching you try.👍

Reservior dogs is my favorite Tarantino movie actually. So much action and the characters are so good.

All artist are influenced by others and build on it. Musicians do it everyday. Quentin is just honest about it and I can respect that.

I didn't know Morrissey had such a great American accent and had a love of film

Every film director has taken or stolen from other film directors, only uncreative people will say that the great directors of our time or the past 50 years will say they stole when in fact great creators take inspiration from other great creators from the past to make a modernized version, and to me that's not stealing that's showing respect, I'd love to be an innovator of cinema so well respected that future creators use that to make their creation even better, or just as great as the past generation.

There is nothing wrong with inspiration, this is what movies are lacking these days, without inspiration there would be no good music or movies, everyone subconsciously takes ideas off other people and they’re liars if they say they don’t! Maybe this is why movies suck now days because they’re afraid of not being original

He didn't "steal" anything. Non creative people don't understand that "pure originality" is impossible and every creative person "steals" from multiple sources, that's what makes them creative. Trying to be purely original will always lead to subconscious "stealing"

There are several ideas to Reservoir Dogs and Tarantino has borrowed them an put them together into something new. One important idea in R.D, perhaps more important than City of Fire, came from Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing".

I love when film makers make entire films because of one small thing (except in Tarantino's case being 10mins lol). Like you sometimes watch a film and you just get to THAT scene where you "yeah this was the whole reason they made this" and it's just impressive to see the work that goes around building a coherent story to fit that in.

it's' almost like you didn't understand a single word he said lol

It's the dialogue, the music

Loving films so much that it compels you to create in tribute to them, is an art form in and of itself.

I love Asian Crime Movies! Especially, S. Korean Crime flicks. "I Saw The Devil" started it all. American directors and producers copy S. Korean movies quite frequently and the movies they copy are never as good at character development, action sequences and the fine details that make S Korean movies the cream of the crop. Hong Kong Flickr r gr8 too

Since tarantino got married, he has this much calmer tone in his voice.

He’s so fucking brilliant, honest, and clear about what he does that he’s fucking bullet proof to any criticism.

I love this man.

Andrzej Sapkowski: *sweating profusely*

A true artist

He gave credit so its all good👍 he promoted a movie that inspired him thats how you do it, he did not plagiarize a whole movie without acknowledgment

On another note, The Departed won Best Picture among multiple academy awards and was almost a shot for shot remake of Infernal Affairs, a Hong Kong Triad movie.

Tarantino looking good here. Very talented guy.

idk how obsessed with money he is but if not money motivated then he musta really loved that movie from hong kong or something.

At least he admits copying and taking ideas. Not many people are willing to admit that nowadays, everyone wants to be 'original'.

"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs

It was the 3rd movie he tried to make and no one would pay for True Romance or Natural Born Killers so he sold those scripts for stupidly cheap amounts of money just to shoot RD. Turning that 10 minutes into an entire movie was a brilliant way to save tons of money on sets and special effects and at the same time get your style across with tension and dialogue at the forefront.

If taking a sample or inspiration is stealing then the entirety of Hip Hop would be plagiarism.

The greatest movie debut of all time ( I know Citizen Kane is better.. but RD is first in my heart)

All Tarants movies are like tributes and homages, pop culture and genre mash ups done out of total love, appreciation and respect for film and cinema in general.

At last the TRUTH ! And it has to come from Tarantino himself because nobody took the time to actually see and compare the two movies ! I was really tired of hearing for years that Reservoir Dogs is "litterally a remake" of City on Fire. If you've seen City on Fire, you can see some similarities near the end sure but it's mostly a very different movie (with a romance, goofy comedy bits and all that) !!!

Wise man 🙌👏