See title.
If you swim around in Sebastianâs excellent website really hard⊠Iâm sure you can find the answer.
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Haha I almost clicked on that 
I think there was some French movie called Au Reservoir or something andâŠOK maybe I donât know what Iâm talking about
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The theory Ive always believed is that RESERVOIR DOGS is a hybrid of The French New Wave film and the 70s American Exploitation film. The âReservoirâ represents the French New Wave crime films and the âDogsâ is from Straw Dogs the violent Sam Peckinpah film.
But weâll never know for sure.
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[quote]The theory Ive always believed is that RESERVOIR DOGS is a hybrid of The French New Wave film and ĂâĂ the 70s American Exploitation film. The âReservoirâ represents the French New Wave crime films and the âDogsâ is from Straw Dogs the violent Sam Peckinpah film.
But weâll never know for sure.[/quote]
YOu got it Vic! Give this man a prize. That is straight from Tarantinoâs mouth
The title refers to a customer whom Tarantino served while working as a video shop assistant. When Tarantino suggested hiring a French film Au revoir les enfants (1987), the customer apparently replied, âI donât want no Reservoir Dogs!â The director decided this would be a good title for his script.
Was on IMDB, so Iâll go with that.
When QT worked in a video store, he referred to the French film âAu Revoir Les Enfantsâ as âthe reservoir filmâ because he couldnât pronounce the title. He combined this with âStraw Dogsâ, a Sam Peckinpah film from 1971, to produce the title âReservoir Dogsâ.
The funny thing is that Iâm pretty positive in Italy itâs called âLe Ieneâ, meaning âThe Hyenasâ. I wonder how other countries translated the name âReservoir Dogsâ.
[quote]The funny thing is that Iâm pretty positive in Italy itâs called âLe Ieneâ, meaning âThe Hyenasâ. I wonder how other countries translated the name âReservoir Dogsâ.[/quote]
The german title is Wilde Hunde - wild dogs.
But to be honest, I never ever heart someone who used this name. Everyone said ResDog.
But why did Tarantino call the movie Reservoir Dogs? There has to be some meaning.
I always found it interesting that he was originally supposed to be Mr. Pink, but he had to change to Mr. Brown once the movie had enough cash to hire a real actor.
Or that the âLike a Virginâ speech was originally written for Mr. Pink, then switched to Mr. Brown.
Or that it went at the same time that Joe was trying to figure out the Chinese name of Toby from his black book.
Or that Mr. Brown said the word âd!ckâ so many times that it prompted another member of the octet to say 'How many dncks is that?'
Or that, if you count, that was eight d!cks.
Or that, Mr. Brownâs explanation of âLike a Virginâ was so off. Itâs about a girl that has had so much sex that now she feels pain because this guy is so good? Madonna herself has said itâs about love, about a girl that is experiencing sex on the emotional level for the first time. It doesnât matter that her pnssy has been penetrated, sheâs like a virgin because sheâs never experienced emotional sex.
Or that, as soon as Mr. Brown finished his explanation of âLaVâ, Joe realized Tobyâs name. âWongâ he shouted.
Or that, Mr. White cared so much for Mr. Orange. Youâd think after all the jobs he has pulled, he wouldnât feel this way anymore. What did Mr. Orange do that caused Mr White to feel so much pain. And why was Mr White, probably the most experienced of the group, given the color White? A color that is ususally âshiny and newâ?
Or that a reservoir is generally a man made body of water that has been damed up. Iâve even head the term, a reservoir of emotion.
Or that cats are sometimes referred to as pnssy cats. And a dog is the opposite of a cat.
Anyway, when I figure all this stuff out, maybe Iâll get around to figuring what the title means.
i heard that thing about it being about the french new wave crime films and straw dogs, but QT also said it might have something to do with the fact that there is a rat in the house and that a rat is kind of like a reservoir dog.
you dig?
yeah i had always heard and read âreservoir dogâ was slang for âratâ and that relates to the movie too, obviously.
Why is it called Reservoir Dogs?
There are actually multiple reasons whyâŠnot just one, all of which have been mentioned here.
[quote]The funny thing is that Iâm pretty positive in Italy itâs called âLe Ieneâ, meaning âThe Hyenasâ. I wonder how other countries translated the name âReservoir Dogsâ.[/quote]
In Sweden the movie is called âDe hĂÆĂ€nsynslĂÆösaâ which means âThe Recklessâ or something like that âŠ
Here in Holland it wasnât translated at all. It was just called Reservoir Dogs. Guess no-one here in Holland wondered what it meant anyway.
I think that it shouldnât be translated, like in Holland, because the title doesnât mean anything.
There was a famous french film called âAu revoir les enfantsâ, but QT couldnât pronounce anything in French, so he called it âThat reservoir movieâ. Reservoir Dogs is a lot like a film called Straw Dogs (according to my mother). So, he combined the two. At least, thatâs the most prominant theory.
yeh, I think it involved his days at Video Archives in which he would call it the âreservoir movieâ to the customers, something like that anywayâŠ
The guys in the movie are given the mission to get something for their bossâŠ
like dogs who have to retrieve something for their owner, when he throws something in the waterâŠthey jump in the water and get itâŠreservoir dogs
But like IMDB says, he probably liked the mix upâŠjoked around with his buddies in the video store about it and so it kinda becomes a reference to those daysâŠlike he put other references in his movies to his collegeus/buddies at the video storeâŠ
plus it kinda fits the discription of what the guys need to do: get something for their bossâŠ
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The funny thing is that Iâm pretty positive in Italy itâs called âLe Ieneâ, meaning âThe Hyenasâ. I wonder how other countries translated the name âReservoir Dogsâ.
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yeah I donât like how they changed the title!