Reservoir Dogs trivia

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• Set in the The Realer Than Real World Universe

Trivia

• The warehouse in the film is a funeral casket storage.
• Comic Books: Tarantino makes more than one reference to comic books in this film. Mr. Orange describes Joe Cabot as looking like the Marvel comic book character, The Thing. Also, we see a poster for another Marvel comics character, The Silver Surfer on Mr Orange's apartment wall. The Silver Surfer coincidentally also betrayed the trust of his master, Galactus. This is most likely a reference to the remake of Jean Luc Godard's film Breathless (1983) where the main character Jesse played by Richard Gere was obsessed with the Silver Surfer. That film was one of Tarantino's early cinematic influences that inspired the script for True Romance.
• TV Shows: Get Christie Love, Honey West, Tops Of The Pops.
• Music: Tony DeFranco and The DeFranco Family (Heartbeat Its A Love Beat), Madonna (Like A Virgin, Lucky Star, True Blue), Vicki Lawrence (The Night The Lights Went Down In Georgia), Edison Lighthouse (Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes), War (The World Is A Ghetto).
• Historical references: John Dillinger: The Depression era bank robber (played in a film by Lawrence Tierney).

The Film in Chronological Order

1. Joe & "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot assemble a gang of professional criminals that don't know each other to do a jewely store heist.
2. An undercover cop is trained to go undercover and infiltrate the group.
3. The gang led by Joe and Eddie meet up to plan the robbery. They remain anonymous to each other, and are given color code names.
4. The robbery is underway but ends in a bloodbath partly because the police are waiting for them there and also because Mr Blonde starts killing people for fun. Some of the gang members, as well as civilians and policemen are killed. The surviving members of the gang escape.
5. Mr. White and Mr. Orange make their way to the pre-arranged warehouse rendezvous point. But Mr. Orange is shot while commsandeering a car from a woman with a baby.
6. With Mr. Orange now wounded and bleeding badly, Mr White drives to the warehouse rendezvous and meet Mr. Pink. Mr. Orange is unconscious while Mr. White and Mr. Pink argue over whether they were set up or not.
7. Mr. Blonde arrives at the warehouse. He has a policeman as hostage.
8. Nice Guy Eddie arrives at the warehouse, learning that Mr. Pink has hidden the diamonds. Eddie, Pink and White leave to recover the stash, meanwhile Mr. Blonde tortures the cop Marvin Nash. Mr. Orange kills Mr. Blonde to save his fellow policeman Marvin.
9. Eddie, Pink and White return. Eddie kills the cop to demonstrate his unimportance. Eddie doesn't believe Mr. Orange's story about what happened to Blonde (how he intended to kill them and take the jewels) and is angered.
10. Joe Cabot arrives at the warehouse and claims he knows that Mr. Orange is the undercover cop. Mr. White has none of it and draws a gun on Joe when Joe tries to shoot Orange for revenge. Eddie defends his father by pointing his gun at White. White kills both Eddie and Joe who himself gets shot. Mr. Pink runs away with the diamonds
11. The cops most likely arrest Mr. Pink, but this is never shown onscreen.
12. The police arrive and Orange tells White that he was in fact the cop. White is outraged and is now dying himself from the gunshot he took. White kills Orange and the police kill White.