For the first half, you wonder if you'll ever see the heist. Although it's not exactly `Rashomon,' you do get a sense of the characters' different perspectives when they talk about what happened. "But I always liked the idea of never seeing it, and I kept that. "At one point the reason for not showing the heist might have been budgetary," said Tarantino. He originally planned the film as his $30,000 directing debut, but once Keitel became enthusiastic about the script and offered to produce the picture, it jumped to a final budget of $1.5 million. One big difference is that he never shows the heist. "I didn't go out of my way to do a rip-off of `The Killing,' but I did think of it as my `Killing,' my take on that kind of heist movie," said Tarantino. Like Stanley Kubrick in his 1956 heist movie, "The Killing," Tarantino uses flashbacks to show how these self-described professionals make a bloody mess of the attempt.
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The story of a botched jewelry heist and the blackly comic consequences, the movie stars Lawrence Tierney as the organizer of the heist and Tarantino, Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn and Steve Buscemi as the crooks who do the bungling. After Brazil, Tarantino will take it to the London Film Festival next month, although he says he's "festivaled out" at this point. Since its debut last January at the Sundance Film Festival, "Reservoir Dogs" (which opens tomorrow at the Varsity) has been winning rave reviews and awards, including a Toronto festival prize for best first film and Sitges festival awards for best script and director. It's the mixture of comedy and music and brutality that upsets people." The sugary bubblegum-rock songs take the edge off some scenes, but in that scene the music actually makes it worse. "I wanted it to be happening in `real time,' with the audience being stuck there along with the characters, as the radio goes on all day playing hits from the 1970s. "I knew I was going to get that kind of response. "I'm not an infant," said the 29-year-old Tarantino, whose enthusiasm suggests the gee-whiz manner of David Lynch, another director known for his macabre work.
Tarantino's movie even got by with an R rating, unlike such recent shockers as "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." It's the ex-convict's breezy attitude, his brutally amoral contempt for the cop's feelings, that makes the scene so horrifying. I wanted that scene to be disturbing."Īs with the shower murder in Hitchcock's "Psycho," which resulted in numerous walkouts 32 years ago, the scene is not as graphic as it seems. "For some people the violence, or the rudeness of the language, is a mountain they can't climb. "It happens at every single screening," said Tarantino by phone from Los Angeles, just before taking off for a Brazilian film festival. Yet everywhere "Reservoir Dogs" has been shown, people head for the exits during an extended torture scene in which an ex-convict (Michael Madsen) dances to a 1970s rock song while tormenting a young policeman. The number of killings in Quentin Tarantino's prize-winning "Reservoir Dogs" can't begin to compete with the hefty body count in Steven Seagal's "Under Siege," which is now the No.
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