Oh, Susan, that’s the one that bugs me the most. I mean, it’s the very last line in the movie. Like someone said, “OMG, maybe they’ve watched the whole movie and haven’t figured out the title on their own yet. We better spell it out before they shuffle out of the theater!” And I really like that movie, so it makes me mad to have to criticize it.
Ms2001
June 16, 2003, 11:17pm
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“I’m just so tired of all these star wars .”
*Originally posted by Mr Tambo *Reservoir Dogs ? I saw an interview with Tarantino; about the title, he said he didn’t have a clue what ‘Reservoir Dogs’ meant, but he greatly enjoyed the various interpretations fans had come up with, and as far as he was concerned, they were all equally correct. **
According to the imdb.com Trivia entry for Reservoir dogs , :
The title refers to a customer whom Tarantino served while working as a video shop assistant. When Tarantino suggested hiring a French film Au revoir les enfants (1987), the customer apparently replied, “I don’t want no Reservoir Dogs!” The director decided this would be a good title for his script.
There he is!
*Originally posted by Mr Tambo *Reservoir Dogs ? I saw an interview with Tarantino; about the title, he said he didn’t have a clue what ‘Reservoir Dogs’ meant, but he greatly enjoyed the various interpretations fans had come up with, and as far as he was concerned, they were all equally correct. **
How much more obscure can you get? When the guy who made it up doesn’t even know what it means, that’s obscure!
I actually kind of like this phenomenon, so long as the insertion of the title into the movie isn’t too awkward.
What if the title of the movie/book isn’t precisely the same as the quote, but close?
“We have to live without sympathy, don’t we. That’s impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren’t like that really. I mean…one can’t be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold…do you see what I mean?”