Opening breakfast table scene.
Original title sequence.
Mr. Pink and Mr. White stressing over the situation which just occurred.
Mr. Pink and Mr. White discussing what went wrong at the bank heist.
Mr Pink's shootout with the cops when escaping the situation at the bank.
Mr. Pink and Mr. White getting heated over the situation.
Mr. Blonde coming in to the safe house and calming things down.
Mr. Blonde showing Mr. Pink and Mr. White the cop he took hostage and kidnapped.
Mr. Pink and Mr. White violently interrogating the cop trying to get answers out of him.
The cop in fear as Mr. Blonde is about to torture him with a switchblade and gasoline.
Mr. Orange conversing with the cop about how he is an undercover cop.
A snippet from Mr. Orange's backstory.
Mr. Orange's fake story he told the rest of the crew to seem like a normal criminal.
The "mexican standoff" between Joe Cabot (the boss), Nice Guy Eddie, and Mr. White.
Mr. Pink sneaks out of the safe house after the three aforementioned individuals shoot each other.
Mr. White screaming in rage as he figures out the man he cared for, Mr. Orange, was a cop the whole time, resulting in him shooting Mr. Orange and in turn getting lit up by the entering cops.
Quentin Tarantino’s debut film Reservoir Dogs premiered in 1992. The film follows the build up, execution, and aftermath of putting together a jewelry heist; but not necessarily in that order. The film is different than most heist films in the sense that it forces you to live in the same world of the criminals. Dealing with all their anxiety, fielding the same questions, so on and so forth. As aforementioned, the film doesn’t follow a chronological flow. It goes out of order to tell the story in an inventive way.
Crime is the grand underlying theme in Reservoir Dogs, it’s the underlying reason why the characters are brought together, why they carry out their actions, and why the events unfold in the way they do. A life of crime usually doesn’t draw together the most polite people, or manner friendly crowd. Nor does it lead to a life of safety and wholesome endings. Reservoir Dogs demonstrates the harsh reality of being a criminal while retaining an exquisite story telling factor which drives the film forward.
Reservoir Dogs is a movie about a gang of criminals (Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, and Mr. White) who conduct a heist on a diamond warehouse in which everything that can go
wrong, does go wrong. The story takes place primarily in a safehouse after the robbery. In the warehouse the rest of the story is told through flashbacks: arranging these six criminals to work together, and introducing them individually - how they came to be. As the film unravels in the safehouse it becomes eminent there is a police informant in the group - a rat. With one of the thieves bleeding out, and two waiting for the rest of them, the drama and anxiety rises. As further members of the heist unit arrive, tensions grow higher due to prior actions during the robbery. With police sirens closing in on the warehouse the man bleeding out reveals he was the police informant. One of the criminals being torn due to the relationship he built with the man, yet frustration from being fooled, points his gun at the bleeding man. The cops enter and exclaim for him to put the gun down. Instead he shoots, and so do the cops.
A routine jewelry robbery turns into a failure of an operation, and the fugitives who make it out alive begin to speculate one of them is an undercover cop.
Keywords: CRIME, GORE, PANIC, SKEPTICISM, UNDERCOVER
Mood board 1.
Mood board with elements from the movie.
A title sequence with emphasis on simple graphic elements working together in sync with the soundtrack.