20 Facts From Reservoir Dogs

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mattstaff
Apr 4, 2017 10:00 AM EDT

Here are some nuggets of truth from the set of one of Tarantino's masterpieces. 

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    Photo caption - @pappingremlins ALLEY On a day off during the shoot, Lawrence Tierney was arrested for allegedly pulling a gun on his nephew. According to Quentin Tarantino, Tierney "was taken from his bail arraignment to the set."
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    Photo caption - Quentin Tarantino added the opening diner scene to give Mr. Blue some lines because he was the only character without any. @poppingremtirns
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    Adaptation - leppppngremlins Chris Penn's blood squibs accidentally went off too early in the big stand-off scene, forcing him to fall to the floor, There is not, as is commonly believed, a mystery round being fired off-screen.
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins The actress who plays the lady Mr. Orange shoots was Tim Roth's dialect coach. Roth insisted that she take the role, as she was very hard on him.
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    Photo caption - Michael Madsen had difficulty filming the torture scenes due to his strong aversion to violence of any kind, and was particularly reluctant when he was required to hit actor Kirk Baltz. When Baltz ad-libbed a line that his character has a child at home, Madsen, who had just become a new father himself, was so disturbed by the idea of leaving a child fatherless that he almost couldnt @poppingremlins finish the scene.
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    Photo caption - During filming, aparamedic was kept on the set to make sure that Mr Orange s (uim Roth) amount of blood loss was kept consistent and realistic to that of a real gunshot victim. @poppingremlins
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    Text - According to an interview on the DVD, @poppingremins Michael Madsen says that Kirk Baltz asked to ride in his trunk to experience what it was realy like. Madsen agreed, but decided as he went along that this was time for his own character development. So he drove down a long alley with potholes, and then a Taco Bell drive-through before taking Baltz back to the parking lot and letting him out. The soda he ordered at said drive-through is the same one he can be seen drinking during his cha
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    Land vehicle - @poppingremlins The budget didn't stretch to obtaining police assistance for traffic control so in the scene where Steve Buscemi forces a woman out of her car and drives off in it, he could only do so when the traffic lights were green.
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    Eyewear - @poppingremlins Tim Roth refused to read for the film. He did insist on going out drinking with Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Keitel, He agreed to read for them when they were all drunk.
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    Adaptation - @poppingre lins The warehouse where the majority of the movie takes place was once a mortuary, and thus is full of coffins. Mr. Blonde doesn't sit down on a crateg it's actually an old hearse he perches on.
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    Hairstyle - @poppingremlins Madonna who is the main topic of the opening conversation really liked the film but refuted Quentin Tarantino's interpretation of her song Like a Virgin She gave him a copy of her 'Erotica album, signed To Quentin. It's not about dick, it's about love. Madonna."
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins The film's budget was so low that many of the actors simply used their own clothing as wardrobe; most notably Chris Penn's track jacket. The signature black suits were provided for free by the designer, based on her love for the American crime film genre. Steve Buscemi wore his own blackjeans instead of suit pants.
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    Photo caption - @poppingre lins At many points, Tim Roth had lain in the pool of fake blood for so long that the blood dried out and he had to be peeled off the floor, which took several minutes.
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    Hair - Hor R C al @poppingremlins Robert Kurtzman did the special make-up effects for free, on the condition that Quentin Tarantino write a script for From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) based on a story by Kurtzman.
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    Forehead - @poppingremlins Quentin Tarantino wanted James Woods to play a role in the film and made him five different cash offers Woods agent refused the offers without ever mentioning it to Woods as the sums offered were well below what Woods would usually receive When Tarantino and Woods later met for the first time Woods learned of the offer and was annoyed enough to get a new agent
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    Hair - @poppingremlins Quentin Tarantino was originally going to play Mr Pink, although he made a point of letting all the other actors audition for the part. When Steve Buscemi came in to read for it, Tarantino told him that he really wanted the part for himself and that the only way Buscemi could possibly wrestle it from him was to do a killer audition. Buscemi duly complied.
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    People - Sypoppingremlins In the opening scene while the men are having breakfast, before they all stand upQuentin Tarantino can be seen raising his hand to stop filming however the men all stood up and left so he just carried on and the scene remained
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    Land vehicle - Mr.Blonde's Cadillac Coupe de Ville actually belonged to Michael Madsen because the budget wasn't big enough to buy a car for the character. @poppingremlins
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    Photo caption - SILVER SURFER @poppingremlins Mr. Orange's apartment was actually the upstairs to the warehouse where most of the movie takes place. The filmmakers redecorated it to look like an apartment in order to save money on finding a real apartment
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins One of the radio ads heard in the background is for "Jack Rabbit Slim's", the fictitious 1950's-themed restaurant and "home of the $5 milkshake" that was also featured in Tarantino's second film, Pulp Fiction (1994)
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