The first disc offers 22 chapters for the 100 minute movie. MENUS: The menus on these two discs are a little hard to navigate, being somewhat counter-intuitive.
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SOUND: Audio is excellent with both DTS (English) and Dolby Digital 5.1 (English), plus DD 2.0, and on the second disc's full-frame version a DD 2.0 track, and Spanish subtitles (this set drops the English subtitles, but close captioning is available). The second disc offers the film in a 4:3 full-screen transfer. It is sharper, with much less grain (some have criticized it for being washed out, however). VIDEO: The re-mastered widescreen image (2.35:1), enhanced for widescreen televisions, on a single-sided, dual-layered disc (SS-DL), is a vast improvement over the previous barebones Artisan disc. Reservoir Dogs is a great film, itself open to interpretation, and Artisan's 10th Anniversary Special Edition double disc re-release gives the QT buff a chance to really dig into the film's meaning. But in the inimitable words of Joe Cabot, he "doesn't know jack shit." He lets himself be swayed by personal feelings. White (real name: Lawrence Dimick), is the one who can't interpret the truth. Part of the tragedy of the film is that the one guy who needs to understand reality the most, Keitel's Mr.
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I don't know how conscious Tarantino was, if at all, of the idea of interpretation when he was conceiving the movie (he probably didn't think about the film in those terms at all), but the theme is so consistently woven throughout the movie that it gives the film a sustaining, cohesive meta-text.
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Orange delivers an "audition" monologue about a tense but imaginary incident involving pot and a train station bathroom full of cops, the movie interprets the "amusing anecdote" for us, casting and directing it, creating the "movie" that the gangsters might see in their minds.Īnd dare one add that "theft," too, is an interpretive act? Not just the theft of jewels, but also the theft of other movies to bulk out one's own? What Tarantino did with Reservoir Dogs, in a script credited solely to him, was to borrow or pay hommage to a number of films ( City on Fire, A Clockwork Orange, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,The Killing) that augment or support his own project. To do this, he must be trained by an experienced undercover man (the restless Randy Brooks), who gives the cop pointers in "reading" his auditors. That's because he is an undercover cop (everyone knows this by now, right?) named Freddy Newendyke, whose success at burrowing into the gang is dependent on his presenting a "character" whom the other men can buy into without reflection. Orange (Tim Roth) needs to pass under the radar of the crew's scrutiny. The surviving gang members re-group and try to read back through recent events in order to figure out who is the snitch.īut in the biggest component of the story, a man must make sure that he is not interpreted. Pink analyses why his name isn't as cool as the others. Throughout the movie there are "interpretive" moments. Done with their meal, the black garbed crew exit to participate in a heist that they fail to "read" right. Pink) who needs to (futilely) explain that his refusal to tip is based on his analysis of a waiter's performance. Also there is the anti-tipper (Steve Buscemi's Mr. Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney), the organizer of the heist, is obsessed with an old telephone book he found in a coat pocket, going over the names again and again, trying to remember the people, to the irritation of Mr. It ends with a guy realizing that he had failed to interpret reality correctly.īut interpretation as the modus vivendi in the film is established in the opening scene. The movie begins with a guy explaining the meaning of a song (Madonna's "Like a Virgin").
The interpretive arts are employed at every single significant point in the narrative, and during most of the "insignificant" ones, too.
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