Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs is the 1992 debut feature film of director Quentin Tarantino. It incorporates many of the themes and aesthetics that have become Tarantino's hallmarks—violent crime, pop culture references, memorable dialogue and nonlinear stories. It features Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi and Lawrence Tierney. Tarantino has a minor role, as does criminal-turned-author Eddie Bunker. The film portrays what happens before and after a badly botched jewel heist, but not the actual heist itself.

Six men in dark suits named Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink and Mr. White - are eating breakfast at a diner, accompanied by Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son, "Nice Guy" Eddie (Chris Penn). Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino) discusses his comparative analysis of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and "True Blue" while the rest listen. When they are going to leave the diner, Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) expresses his anti-tipping policy. Everyone disagrees with him, but Mr. Orange (Tim Roth). Then they leave the diner accompanied by "Little Green Bag" by George Baker Selection.

The scene jumps to a car, where Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) has been seriously injured by a gunshot to the lower abdomen, and Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) is attempting to comfort the hysterical Mr. Orange while trying to navigate the car. They arrive at a warehouse and discover that they are the first to arrive at their meeting place. Mr. Orange begs Mr. White to drop him off at the hospital and swears that he won't tell the police anything if he's arrested. Mr. Orange lies on the warehouse floor bleeding profusely when Mr. Pink comes in and suggests that the jewel heist was a set up. Mr. White says that Mr. Brown has been killed by the cops, and Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker) is missing.

Both Mr. White and Mr. Pink express their anger over the fact that Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) shot and killed several of the hostages after the alarm was set off, argue over whether or not to leave the warehouse in fear of being apprehended by the police, and discuss whether or not to take the unconscious Mr. Orange to a hospital. Mr. White reveals that he told Mr. Orange his first name in the car to comfort him, and Mr. Pink accuses him of being an undercover cop. The argument turns violent, and both men point loaded pistols at each other. Mr. Blonde steps in and speaks up; he has been watching for some time now, and tells them not to leave the warehouse because they are waiting for Nice Guy Eddie. Mr. Blonde takes them outside to his car and opens the trunk to reveal a captured police officer (Kirk Baltz). During the flashbacks, Joe Cabot offered Mr. White, whose real name is Larry, a heist job with five strangers. In a different scene, Joe and Eddie also offered Mr. Blonde, whose real name is Vic Vega, the same heist job.

Meanwhile, Eddie is driving towards the warehouse while talking on a cellular phone and discussing a conversation he had with Mr. Blonde concerning what went wrong. At the same time, Mr. Pink and Mr. White beat the officer excessively and Mr. Blonde ties him to a chair with duct tape. Eddie arrives at the warehouse, and orders Mr. Pink and Mr. White to come with him to retrieve the stolen diamonds from the hiding spot, while ordering Mr. Blonde to stay with the dying Mr. Orange and the tied-up cop. The officer denies knowing anything about the setup, and begs to be released. Mr. Blonde then draws a straight razor from out of his boot and tunes a radio to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the '70s" marathon, which is playing "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel. Dancing around with the music, Mr. Blonde slashes the officer's face and cuts off his ear. Mr. Blonde then walks out to his car to retrieve a can of gasoline from the trunk of his car and brings it inside. Mr. Blonde splashes gasoline all over the officer while he begs for mercy. Mr. Blonde prepares to ignite the gasoline with his cigarrete lighter, asking "How about a little fire, Scarecrow?" when suddenly a series of gunshots hit him several times in the chest.

The shooter is the now-conscious but dying Mr. Orange, who tells the officer that he is actually an undercover police detective named Freddy Newandyke. The officer, whose name is Marvin Nash, reveals that he knew this all along, having met Mr. Orange five months prior. Mr. Orange reassures Marvin that a large police force is waiting a few blocks down the road for his signal to advance. Marvin begs him to call in the force in light of both men's serious injuries, but Mr. Orange refuses to call anyone in until Joe arrives. During the flashbacks, Mr. Orange alias Freddy met a Police Detective named Holdaway (Randy Brooks) at a restaurant. Freddy told Holdaway that he secured a spot in a heist with Joe Cabot. Both of them talked about how Eddie picked up Freddy to the warehouse to have a meeting with others. Joe gave everyone their aliases, which made Mr. Pink protest about his alias because it sounds like "Mr. Pussy" and Mr. Brown says his name sounds too close to "Mr. Shit". Holdaway provided a script which Freddy had to memorize, a false story about how he was almost caught by sheriff's deputies and their German shepherd while carrying a bag full of marijuana whilst in the men's room at a train station in a detailed fashion. The reason was to gain everyone's trust and made them comfortable with him. During the heist, Mr. Brown was driving and bleeding from a gunshot and crashed into a car, with Mr. White and Mr. Orange. They were fleeing from the police immediately after the robbery. When the police car came around the corner, Mr. White fired his guns and killed the officers. Because Mr. Brown is dead, both Mr. White and Mr. Orange hijack a car, when the female driver takes a revolver from the glove compartment and shoots Mr. Orange. Mr. Orange shoots her and kills her instantly. Mr. White then drives away with the car while Mr. Orange howls in pain.

In the present, everyone returns to the warehouse to find a dead Mr. Blonde. Mr. Orange tells them that Mr. Blonde was going to burn the officer, and then kill Mr. Orange and the rest of the gang, when they returned, so that he might take the diamonds for himself. Eddie doesn't believe the story and furious with Mr. Orange, he shoots Marvin and kills him. Joe walks in and tells everyone that Mr. Blue was killed by the police. Both Eddie and Joe accuse Mr. Orange of being an undercover cop which makes Mr. White adamantly defend Mr. Orange. Joe is going to shoot Mr. Orange when Mr. White points his gun at Joe, and Eddie points his gun at Mr. White; the three of them pose a mexican standoff. They are threatening each other and open fire at once, killing the father and son. Mr. Pink stares in shock at the carnage, grabs the valise full of diamonds and runs out the warehouse. A fatally wounded Mr. White pulls Mr. Orange close to him, and Mr. Orange confesses to Mr. White that he is a cop and that he is sorry. Mr. White, horrified by this confession, puts the gun to Mr. Orange as he tries to control his emotions. The police storm inside the warehouse and demand that Mr. White put down the gun. But Mr. White, in tears, shoots Mr. Orange and gets bombarded by the police's gunshots. The film immediately cuts to the credits, accompanied by "Coconut" by Harry Nilsson.

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