Reservoir Dogs- Tarantino

kubrick98 (40)in #cinema • 7 years ago (edited)

In 1990 Quentin Tarantino, a young and unknown employee of a video store in Los Angeles and a movie fanatic since age 7, began writing a screenplay of a thug movie entitled

"Reservoir Dogs". Tape that, according to the same Tarantino, had to be like "the Wild Gang of the years 90", and that thought to film with some friends in 16 mm, in black and white and with a meager budget of 30 thousand dollars.

Synopsis: Tarantino's script recounted how six professional criminals were hired by an old local gangster named Joe Cabot and his son "Nice Guy" Eddie for a job. The thugs did not know each other and remained anonymous, hidden under the names of colors: Mr. Naranja, Mr. Blanco, Mr. Rosa, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue. The band, led by Joe Cabot, carefully prepared the robbery to a diamond store, but the police appeared unexpectedly at the time of the robbery, turning it into a massacre that resulted in the deaths of some policemen, employees and also Mr. Blue and Of Mr. Brown. Everything made suspicion that there was a traitor in their ranks, which was effective because Mr. Orange was actually a police officer infiltrated by Los Angeles police to arrest Joe Cabot.

Gathered behind closed doors in an abandoned old warehouse, the survivors clashed with each other trying to discover who had led them to this extreme situation. The cool thing was that the assault never appeared in the movie. Thus, when each of the band members entered through the warehouse door, they would arrive with different visions and perspectives on what had actually happened, and the viewer would have to imagine what had happened and what had gone wrong.

The birth of the movie: After Tarantino finished the script and showed it to his friend, young producer Lawrence Bender, who had to go to Tarantino's department because he had no car and could not afford to make photocopies, Bender took an hour to read it. When he finished, he said it was the most extraordinary script he had ever read. Tarantino, who had been trying to take his career as an actor for five years, suggested that Bender help him film the film, but that he would not give in to one thing: the film would be directed by him or not. "I do not want to sit and wait for someone to give me a chance, especially if it turns out to be another one. In six months I'll be 28, and I want to make a movie before I reach that age, "said Tarantino, who blindly trusted his script, the same script that dazzled everyone who had a chance to read it. The British filmmaker Terry Gilliam, director of films such as "Brazil" and "The fisherman of illusions", in fact, after meeting Tarantino in a film workshop that was held at the Sundance Film Festival, would later report that "Quentin Had an incredible enthusiasm, and had a sensational script, which overflowed energy from all sides. The dialogues were phenomenal; In everything he did he was truly audacious. " Tarantino and Bender were able to enthuse producer Monte Hellman and Richard N. Gladstein, executive of Live Entertainment, with their project. Long before the cast had signed their contracts, Tarantino had already figured out what roles each would play.

With a budget of one million 300 thousand dollars, and after choosing as director of photography to the Polish Andrzej Sekula, Quentin Tarantino began the filming of his brilliant first film. The most difficult shots were taken inside the warehouse (which had previously been a funeral home), due mainly to the more than 38 degrees reigning due to the heat of Los Angeles and the outbreaks.