Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time list – it is worth checking that to see how many of those gems you have seen, I have 737 so far, and many of them are reviewed on the plug I am promoting here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time list – it is worth checking that to see how many of those gems you have seen, I have 737 so far, and many of them are reviewed on the plug I am promoting here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

 

10 out of 10

 

We have been talking about Quentin Tarantino at the…sauna, indeed, there is an article in The Economist, about saunas, which are ‘so hot’ right now, they have launched a scheme, business with saunas, where you pay $45 for a session, but you get techno music, therefore, we are much better off with ours for now

 

Once Upon Time in Hollywood https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/once-upon-timein-hollywood-written-and.html was the topic of discussion recently, because we have Titus in our group, who is a fan of Tarantino, albeit he does not really sees movies, so it is strange to hear him praise those films so much  

I for one admire Reservoir Dogs – here is my previous note on the same work https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/reservoir-dogs-written-and-directed-by.html - and Pulp Fiction, the latter is also part of TIME’s Best 100 Movies of All-TIME list, and an undisputed magnum opus

 

Being part of the history of film, as one of the best made, Reservoir Dogs – aka The Professionals of Crime as it is translated in our parts – has been studied, included in documentaries about American Cinema and film in general, and we get to hear some of the inside stories, how it was made, who helped with it

Quentin Tarantino had been a cinephile, he had worked in one of those places that used to rent video cassettes – this is how we got to see some, Top Secret, History of The World by Mel Brooks, during the Ceausescu regime, they would smuggle some and audiences would gather more or less underground to see those

 

Tarantino had this marvelous script, but he did not have the backing of a major studio – in order to understand how movies were made, back in the day, you could read Easy Riders, Raging Bulls https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/easy-riders-raging-bulls-how-sex-drugs.html or some other good book on the subject

Nevertheless, the gifted writer did have some luck, because he met Harvey Keitel -Mr. White in the motion picture – who is co-producer and invested the money needed for the production to be color, otherwise the feature would have been in black and white, not necessarily a bad thing, but the way it is, we could call it perfect

 

The opening scenes are – what else – magnificent, with that splendid dialogue about tipping, society tells you to give here, but not in the other place, why not tip at McDonalds, and give it to waiters, on the other hand, the latter depend on backsheesh, there was a about piece where one explained that if they do not get extra…

 

They have to put money from their own pocket, then we get to see Mr. Orange aka Tim Roth – perhaps the best role of his career, I do not like him in the parts he took in the past years, maybe decades – losing blood all over the car driven by Mr. White, they get to this meeting place where Mr. Pink aka astounding Steve Buscemi arrives first

Mr. Pink had been upset by the name allocated to him, but the master mind said ‘it is my way, or the highway’, then Mr. Blonde gets in, and there is a conflict between Blonde and White, they get a policeman out of the trunk of a car and the mad Blonde gets to torture the cop, to get information and because he is a sadist

Quentin Tarantino explains in that documentary how he filmed from different angles the scene where the (spoiler alert) ear is cut, and how he opted for the version that does not show all the horrible act, but we have an angle whish is much better, we do not have to see all that blood, to know how terrible this is

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’