“How many dicks is that?” and “What’s special? Take you in the back and suck your dick?” are two of my favorite lines in the whole movie. Blue ( Eddie Bunker), and he genuinely deserves it with his short yet unforgettable contributions to each of the dialogues. Brown’s presence at the table giving his explanation of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.” But it’s also the only scene we can give to Mr. Some might wish to give the opening scene to Mr. Check out the clips (spoiler warning if you still haven’t seen the movie) after the break. And I think each is a scene that best represents my fondness for its corresponding character. Not enough of a challenge, I decided to select eight scenes, one for each of the Dogs. Of course, it doesn’t help matters that there are only really a handful of scenes in the movie. In fact, like our trouble with The Princess Bride a few weeks ago, it’s difficult to highlight scenes we love from Reservoir Dogs because every scene is a scene we love. And like so many of the film’s fans, I didn’t see it until the video came out the following Spring, at which time the torture bit became just one of numerous memorable moments. I’m certain it never hit my town in the suburbs, but I recall the first time ever hearing about it via a drawing of an ear in Entertainment Weekly illustrating a short note about the famously violent scene (my memory of this could be slightly off).
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cinemas, which followed a debut at Sundance and appearances at Cannes and Toronto, not to mention earlier openings in parts of Europe, Reservoir Dogs never played on more than 61 screens, yet it earned close to $3 million.
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those lines from the posters, which also feature Chris Penn in a suit), the many copycats, the ska album samplings and even the overshadowing success and popularity of Pulp Fiction as the director’s big breakthrough to remain a significant pioneer and classic of American independent cinema.ĭuring its run in U.S. Never mind the movie’s immediate legacy, though, because two decades later the story of “five total strangers” who “team up for the perfect crime” has outlasted the oddly inaccurate marketing (i.e. This Tuesday is the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release of Reservoir Dogs, the film that not only put Quentin Tarantino on the map as an era-defining filmmaker but also gave the 3rd wave ska scene its own Phenix City Story (or Guns of Navarone or Dr.