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How many of you thought about Quentin Tarantino...

posted 15 years ago by Ricc0
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while watching this film.. it really did occur to me that Tarantino learned a lot from Kubrick's works..

[–] tarmcgator 15 years ago

I just saw RESERVOIR DOGS for the first time recently (I don't get out much), and THE KILLING immediately came to mind as the obvious template. Give him credit -- he could have chosen something a lot worse.

[–] cherubalways 15 years ago

I agree. Just watched The Killing today, striking possibility of influence on Tarintino's Reservoir Dogs.

[–] hoyo-mont 13 years ago

I saw Reservoir Dogs new in the theater back in the day and thought it was practically a remake of Killing. Saw both of them together the other night, first time I'd see each in a while, and really didn't think the same about it. I'm not a QT hater, but I think Killing holds up better at 55 years than Reservior at 20.

[–] flaiky 15 years ago

Yep! I love Tarantino, but Reservoir Dogs now seems a lot less original lol. I just looked it up, and Tarantino admits he was doing 'his own version' of The Killing. I guess these 'homages' are what his films are all about...

[–] abrelosojos18 14 years ago

Actually he just ripped this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093435/

[–] They_have_no_reflections 11 years ago

That's because his not original, Reservoir Dogs is a reworking of the Hong Kong crime film City On Fire.

Only Gosling forgives

[–] sleeepyhead 14 years ago

I know I did... every five minutes.

[–] eltotox 14 years ago

Yup, no doubt about it. I was thinking of recommending it to a friend who's a Tarantino fan by telling him that, in this film, Kubrick pulls a couple of "Tarantinos".

[–] Enrique-8 14 years ago

I never think about Quentin Tarantino.

Enrique Sanchez

[–] saturnchick 13 years ago

Yup, I definitely thought of Reservoir Dogs several times while watching The Killing.

Looks like we're shy one horse.
You brought two too many.

[–] beersandshots 13 years ago

Didn't think of QT, but at the airport after --SPOILERS AHEAD-- the suitcase popped open all I could think of was the end of 'Die Hard' and the bearer bonds snowing down. And thinking the stupid dog should have had a C-note in it's mouth when it came back.

"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

[–] megArnold 13 years ago

Not a single moment. Honestly. I had other things to think of while watching it.

But this might be beacuse in the meantime we have aready become so accustomed to this narrative device that we don't think much about it anyway...

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Hmmm?