Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down.” Anonymity gives these professional baddies (and one rat) a dangerously uninhibited amount of ego in the face of their mounting suspicions of one another. Amusingly, a seemingly random line of dialogue in the scene where boss man Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assigns each member of the team their Crayola codename suggests exactly how the story will unravel: “ You get four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. What strikes me to this day is how Tarantino turns the deceptively simple set-up into a complex character-driven extravaganza, all while barely revealing anyone’s name. The blueprint of an extraordinary style the writer/director would take to new levels in every feature that followed.

Reservoir Dogs was my introduction to Tarantino’s kinetic brand of non-linear storytelling. Because with Quentin Tarantino, the details are in the dialogue, and like Detective Holdaway (Randy Brooks) tells Freddy (Tim Roth) in the famous “Commode Story” scene, “It’s the details that sell your story.” We don’t know the characters yet, hell, we barely get to know them at all, but the fact that they’re reciting dialogue written by this particular filmmaker makes us sit up in our seats, afraid of missing a single syllable. Eight guys seated around a table in some diner, their personalities emerging and clashing as each one shares his opinion on the topics at hand: the real meaning behind Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and the politics of tipping. He had me from the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites.Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is out! Get your tickets here! Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, submissions or preferences. Wire service provided by Associated Press.

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