Reservoir Dogs (1992) - 9 questions

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

The "questions" section is for any random questions that occurred to you while watching this film, or anything you didn't entirely understand, and which Google or the IMDb can't help with. Submit them as a question, and hopefully someone will answer (the bold comments in brackets) - check back regularly. If the answer is wrong, or missing information, please use the "clarify answer" option. Don't feel limited - want to know what music played in a certain scene? Whether this was the first film to use a certain effect? Here's the place to ask!

Entry If Mr. Orange had not been killed would have he had to face charges for shooting the woman in the car, despite being a cop on an infiltration job? [There would defiently have been an investigation. But it was also self defence and /or a reflex action of being shot himself. Also he could claim that Mr. White shot her.]
Entry After we learn Mr. Orange is the "rat", we see him talking to a co-worker in a diner, which looks really familiar. Is this the diner that Honey Bunny and Pumpkin attempted to rob in Pulp Fiction? [The diner in reservoir dogs is much smaller than the one in Pulp.]
Entry On the 10th Anniversary Special Edition DVD, why does the widescreen disc have 22 chapters, while the full screen disc only has 8? [With eight chapters you can't always find the precise moment of the movie, though with 22 chapters you can find the moment you wish to view easier without having to chose the closest chapter and wait 5-10 minutes. More and more new DVDs have a high number of chapters.]
Entry How does Joe know that someone didn't throw in a buck simply by holding the bills? Shouldn't he at least have counted it? [He's been around money long enough that he can count it quickly just by looking at it.]
Entry Why does Mr. White snap his fingers when trying to light his cigarette lighter? [It's a way of lighting a zippo lighter. If you snap your fingers close to it, your middle finger will strike the wheel and light it.]
Entry Is there any particular significance to the thieves' color-coded aliases, or did Quentin Tarantino merely assign them at random? [Not sure if QT assigned the names in any particular order, but I believe that the inspiration to use colours as names was taken from the excellent movie "The Taking of Pelham 123" starring Walter Mathau.]
Entry Were there any alternative scenarios created for this film, in which someone other than Mr. Orange is the cop? [To the best of anyone's knowledge, the only scenario ever created was that Mr. Orange was the cop.]
Entry Why is the film called "Reservoir Dogs"? Is there any special significance to why Tarantino chose the title? [When Tarantino worked in a video store, he once recommended to a customer "Au revoir les enfants". The customer screamed back that he "did not want any Reservoir Dogs!". Tarantino must have thought it sounded cool.] Answered by Twotall
Entry Does White shoot Orange at the end? [Yes, you can hear his gunshot, whihc causes the police to then shoot him.]

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