Reservoir Dogs corrections

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Reservoir Dogs (1992) - 22 corrections

Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Chris Penn, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Eddie Bunker, Kirk Baltz, Lawrence Tierney

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When Tim Roth is rehearsing his cover story, he relates that the events occurred in 1986, and that he was watching The Lost Boys on video. But The Lost Boys was not released in the cinema until 1987, so he could not possibly have seen it on video a year earlier. Irrelevant that the story's made up anyway - if you're rehearsing a cover story you'd make sure the facts are all accurate. [The point of rehearsing a story would be to try to get it right, which means that he might not have it right to begin with. The story might have even been written with a few factual errors, to imitate the imperfect way the story would naturally be told. This is a character mistake, if a mistake at all.]

Just after Nice Guy Eddie shoots the cop, you can see by his chest movements that he is still breathing. [He wouldn't necessarily die instantly by being shot in the chest.]

When Mr White has his guns drawn in the alley and is about to shoot the cops in the car, there are several men standing around in the background, calmly observing as if nothing unusual was happening. [There is a small boy at the right in the distance as Mr. White exits the car, well before he pulls his guns out. When he pulls the guns, nobody is in view and when he is shooting, we can see the boy is gone. No error here.]

Tarantino wrote the part of Mr. Pink for himself, though it was eventually played by Steve Buscemi. [He was meant to play the part of Mr White. He played that part when the movie debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.]

There are no female speaking parts in this film. [The waitress speaks in the beginning of the film.]

In the torture scene when Mr. Blonde cuts off the cop's ear, pours gasoline over him, and is about to light it you can see that the flame is lit when Mr. Orange shoots him. Wouldn't it fall into the gas and light him? [If you watch carefully, you'll see that the lighter clicks off as Mr. Blonde drops it.]

In the scene where Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) is in the bathroom with the cops, he goes to the hand dryer and pushes the button with his hand. When it cuts to a close up of the hand, his first finger is extended. [Orange presses the dryer button with his first finger both times.]

This film is set in LA, but every character has a sharp New York accent. [This is not a mistake. We already know that Mr. White is not from LA (he is from Milwaukee, WI). Who's to say everyone else is also from somewhere other than LA?]

Throughout the movie, each time someone in the crew fires their weapon, there's a different gunshot sound even though it appears that everyone is using the exact same type of chrome pistols. [The crooks are using Smith and Wesson pistols, many of which look very much alike, and can be chambered in different calibers. Also, in real life, when a gun is fired, the noise it makes can change depending on things like wind, angle, being indoors or outdoors, etc.]

Mr. Pink runs from the cops in one of the movie's first few scenes. He runs out into an intersection and gets hit by a car. He gets up, smashes the window and pulls the woman out, while firing at the cops a few yards away. Watch Mr. Pink's bag, which he's dumped on the ground beside the car. It disappears and reappears a couple of times. [It only disappears once - it's by the door, we cut away, then next time we see it it's gone. The time we're away from it is just long enough for him to have grabbed it and slung it in through the window.] Corrected by Jon Sandys

At the end of the movie when Joe, Nice Eddie and Mr. White have their guns drawn, Joe is pointing at Mr. Orange; Mr. White is pointing at Joe; and nice Eddie is pointing at Mr. White. They all shoot and they all go down, but no one is pointing a gun at Nice Eddie but he still goes down. Director Quentin Tarantino in a Bravo Channel interview was aware of the goof, but left it in. [Watch in slo-mo, and you'll see it makes perfect sense. Joe shoots Mr. Orange, and Mr. White shoots Joe a few frames later. Eddie then shoots Mr. White - as Mr. White falls he manages to turn his gun slightly and actually gets off TWO shots as Eddie, killing him too.] Corrected by Jon Sandys

During the opening scene, Mr. Blue's cigar goes from long to short and lit to unlit. [It went from long to short because he had been smoking it (yes they had been there long enough to smoke an entire cigar.) Also cigars need to be re-lighted often before the person smoking with it is finished.]

When Mr. White, and Mr. Pink are together in the bathroom Mr. White tries to light his cigarette, doesn't get it lit, but he still pretends to smoke it anyway. [This is not a mistake. Mr. White is shown TRYING to light his cigarette, out of his frustration for the moment he fails and decides to quit trying. He's never shown "pretending" to smoke his cigarette.]

Mr. Pink continues shooting at the cops even after his pistol locks back, indicating he is out of bullets. [In Pink's state of extreme panic it is understandable that he would continue to fire his gun not noticing that he has no more ammo.]

In the scene at the diner at the beginning of the film, Chris Penn is getting up to leave. He is wearing a pair of white sneakers. He can be seen wearing them during the opening credits, also. Later in the movie, when he arrives at the warehouse, he is wearing black boots. [We aren't given a specific time frame, but the time from the gang leaving the diner to Chris Penn's character arriving at the warehouse was, at the least, 1 or 2 hours. During this time, he was probably sitting at home waiting to hear from somebody. He could have changed shoes there, or took them off and grabbed a different pair in his rush to the warehouse.]

In the shot where we have a side view of the dead cop, Marvin Nash, strapped to the chair, with Tim Roth lying bleeding on the ramp in the background, observe the dead cop closely. We can see by the movements of his stomach that he is actually breathing. [If you're talking about the moments just before White, Pink and Eddie re-enter the warehouse, then the cop (Nash) is breathing because he IS still alive. He is later killed by Eddie.]

"Stuck in the Middle with you," the song played on the radio while Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) tortures the cop, plays longer than it should. It is obviously looped and when Mr. Blonde re-enters the warehouse after getting the gasoline, it is earlier in the song. ["Stuck in the middle with you" is not edited in the film. It's the regular 3:24 song.]

When Steve Buscemi is running away from the cops, he gets hit by a car, gets up, pulls the woman out from the car, opens the door, and leaves the diamonds on the floor to shoot the cops, he runs out of bullets, gets in the car and drives away. He never picks the diamonds up and puts them in the car. [Steve almost forgets the diamonds, but ends up grabbing them and putting them in the car.]

Five minutes before the end when White, Eddie and Joe draw their guns on each other, Joe and Eddie aim at White, White aims at Joe. All three guns go off at the same time. Why does Eddie die? Wasn't White - he shot Joe. Wasn't Joe - he shot White and he is Eddie's father. Wasn't Pink, he was hiding. Wasn't Orange - he was almost dead and used all his ammo shooting Blonde. Wasn't Blonde - he died ages ago. [Look closely. White shoots Joe then turns and fires a second shot at Eddie. Watch it repeatedly if you must because it is very quick.]

After the opening credits roll, we see Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) consoling Mr. Orange, who has been shot in the gut. Mr. Orange has some dialogue. Later, when we flashback to the scene, his dialogue is different. [The second bit of dialogue later in the film is just before the first bit of dialogue. After Orange says the new dialogue, he then carries on with the dialogue we hear at the beginning.]