Bender gave the script to his acting teacher, whose wife gave the script to Harvey Keitel. Quentin Tarantino had been working at Video Archives, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California, and originally planned to shoot the film with his friends on a budget of $30,000 in a 16 mm black-and-white format, with producer Lawrence Bender playing a police officer chasing Mr. White shoots Orange and collapses as gunfire erupts. In the background, Pink is heard attempting to escape and possibly being arrested, as the police storm the warehouse off screen and order White to drop his gun. As White cradles the dying Orange in his arms, Orange confesses that he is an undercover officer White sobs in betrayal and reluctantly presses his gun to Orange's head. Pink, the only uninjured person, takes the diamonds and flees. All three fire both Cabots are killed, and White and Orange are hit. Eddie promptly aims at White, creating a Mexican standoff. He is about to execute Orange, whom he suspects is the traitor behind the setup, but White intervenes and holds Joe at gunpoint, insisting that White does not believe Orange is responsible.

Joe then arrives with news that the police have killed Blue. Eddie impulsively kills Nash and accuses Orange of lying, as Blonde was a longtime friend of his father. Shortly thereafter, White becomes friends with Orange.Д«ack in the present, Eddie, Pink, and White return, Orange tries to convince them that Blonde planned to kill them all and steal the diamonds for himself. Orange then reveals to Nash that he is an undercover police officer and the police will arrive shortly.Д®arlier, Orange вЂ“ real name Freddy Newendyke вЂ“ uses an elaborate tale of drug delivery to gain acceptance into the gang. Blonde then retrieves a gasoline can from his car, and is about to set Nash on fire, but Orange suddenly wakes up and shoots Blonde to death, saving Nash's life. Whilst dancing to Stealers Wheel's 'Stuck in the Middle with You', Blonde tortures Nash before cutting off his right ear with a straight razor. Eddie arrives and orders them to retrieve the stashed diamonds and ditch the getaway vehicles, leaving Blonde in charge of Nash and Orange. In the present, White and Pink beat Nash for information. Blonde insists that he wants to get back to 'real work,' and they recruit him for the heist. To reward him for not having given Joe's name to the authorities for a lighter sentence, they offer him a no-show job. Sometime earlier, Blonde meets with the Cabots, having completed a four-year jail sentence. They stand down when Blonde arrives with a kidnapped policeman, Marvin Nash. He argues with White over whether or not they should get medical attention for Orange, and the pair end up having a fight and draw guns at each other. White informs him that Brown is dead, Blue and Blonde are missing, and Blonde has murdered several innocent civilians during the heist White is furious that Joe, his old friend, would employ a 'psychopath' like Blonde. At one of Joe's warehouses, White and Orange rendezvous with Pink, who believes that the job was a setup, and that the police were waiting for them. After discussing the Madonna song 'Like a Virgin' and arguing over Pink's habit of not tipping, the group leaves the diner to perform the heist.ДЄfter the heist, White flees with Orange, who was shot in the stomach by an armed woman during the escape and is bleeding severely in the back of the getaway car. Led by Joe Cabot and his son and underboss 'Nice Guy' Eddie Cabot, all other criminals use aliases: Mr. A soundtrack was released featuring songs used in the film, which are mostly from the 1970s.Д®ight men eat breakfast at a Los Angeles diner before carrying out a diamond heist. It achieved higher popularity after the success of Tarantino's next film, Pulp Fiction (1994). Despite not being heavily promoted during its theatrical run, the film became a modest success in the United States after grossing $2.8 million against its scant budget. Although controversial for its depictions of violence and use of profanity, Reservoir Dogs was generally well received, with the cast being praised by many critics.

The film is regarded as a classic of independent film and a cult film, and was named 'Greatest Independent Film of all Time' by Empire. It incorporates many motifs that have become Tarantino's hallmarks: violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling. Kirk Baltz, Randy Brooks, and Steven Wright also play supporting roles. The film depicts the events before and after the heist.

It stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, and Edward Bunker as diamond thieves whose planned heist of a jewelry store goes terribly wrong. Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length debut.

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