Reservoir Dogs: The Heist Where You Never See the Heist

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The jewellery store robbery that the entire film revolves around never appears on screen. Six professionals in black suits and skinny ties walk into a job, and the next thing we see is one of them bleeding out across the back seat of a getaway car. Quentin Tarantino, twenty-nine years old and directing his first feature on roughly a million and a quarter dollars, made a heist film and then simply declined to show you the heist. That decision was born of a tiny budget — you cannot stage a robbery with squibs and stunt drivers on that money — and Tarantino turned the limitation into the film’s governing idea. Reservoir Dogs is about aftermath. It lives in the empty warehouse where the survivors gather to work out who tipped off the police, and it never leaves.

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Reservoir Dogs: The Heist Where You Never See the Heist