Reservoir Dogs - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Reservoir Dogs or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Reservoir Dogs

[lynn]

Colours as 'noms de criminalité' was previously used in 1974's 'The Taking of Pelham 123' (that gang was Mr. Brown, Mr. Blue, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Green)

[ruby]

The actress who played the lady Mr. Orange shot was Tim Roth's dialect coach. Roth insisted that she take the role, as she was very hard on him.

[carla]

Voted best independent film ever by Empire Magazine. It also was voted most influential movie in the past fifteen years by the same magazine.

[michele]

Quentin Tarantino wrote the first draft in three and a half weeks.

[norma]

The line "Let's go to work" is often attributed to this film, but in fact comes from The Professionals (1966), one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies.

[richard]

Quentin Tarantino and Tim Roth had the following exchange at the urinal: "Who do you want, Pink or White?" "Orange!" "Orange?"

[jesus]

WILHELM SCREAM: (At around twenty minutes) The famous scream is heard when Mr. Pink pushes a pedestrian on the sidewalk while being pursued by cops during his escape from the failed jewel heist.

[phyllis]

The budget wouldn't cover police assistance for traffic control, so in the scene where Steve Buscemi forces a woman out of her car and drives off in it, he could only do so when the traffic lights were green.

[wallace]

Supposedly Mr. Blonde and the character Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction (1994) are brothers In a deleted scene of Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega tells Mia Wallace that the singer, Suzanne Vega is his cousin, and that makes Suzanne Vega Mr. Blonde's cousin as well.

[christina]

Lawrence Tierney and Edward Bunker had met before: they got into a fistfight in an Los Angeles parking lot sometime in the 1950s. (According to Bunker, Tierney didn't recall the incident.)

[amber]

The warehouse, where the majority of the movie takes place, was once a mortuary, and thus is full of caskets. Mr. Blonde doesn't sit down on a crate, it's actually an old hearse on which he perches.

[gerald]

Quentin Tarantino was originally going to play Mr. Pink, although he made a point of letting all the other actors audition for the part. When Steve Buscemi came in to read for it, Tarantino told him that he really wanted the part for himself, and that the only way Buscemi could possibly wrestle it from him was to do a killer audition. Buscemi duly complied.

[kristina]

The fictional radio station is called Kbilly - in 2010 Kill Bill was released

[victoria]

In the script, it was Mr. White who doesn't tip, not Mr. Pink. Also, it was Mr. Pink who had the first lines about "Like a Virgin".This was when Quentin Tarantino still intended to play Mr. Pink.

[jim]

In the scene where Nice Guy Eddie talks on his cell phone about the botched robbery, an orange balloon can be seen, being pulled along int the air current behind the car and seemingly following the car. Some believe that this was intentional, as to foreshadow Mr. Orange as the rat. However, Quentin Tarantino claims that it was accidental.

[ava]

Quentin Tarantino and producer Lawrence Bender used to joke that they were the most inexperienced people on the set.

[gerald]

Many people have asked Quentin Tarantino why Mr. Orange confessed to being a cop to Mr. White at the end of the movie. They argued that he only had to keep quiet for sixty more seconds and he would be in the clear. He mentions this in the DVD commentary for the film. His response to these individuals is that they did not truly understand the movie if they are asking this question. Tarantino says that in all of the Asian countries, in which that this movie was released, this question was never once asked. He says that in Japan they have a word for this called "jingi". Without an English equivalent, it basically means that this was something that Mr. Orange had to do as a man. Something that he owed Mr. White. Furthermore, he could only do it in those sixty seconds, when Mr. White would have the opportunity to do whatever he deemed necessary.

[toni]

In Mr. White's flashback, Joe asks him about a girl named Alabama. This is a reference to Patricia Arquette's character from True Romance (1993). Quentin Tarantino has stated that he originally intended this character to meet up with Mr. White and to become partners in crime. When True Romance (1993) was released, the ending was changed, and this backstory became inconsistent. Alabama never went on to meet up with Mr. White.

[manuel]

Viggo Mortensen auditioned for a role. He read for a Hispanic character in a scene to be performed with Harvey Keitel. More than twenty years later, Quentin Tarantino offered him a role in The Hateful Eight (2015), but Viggo couldn't commit, due to scheduling conflicts.