Despite the fact that mostly all of this happens while the camera closes up on Keitel’s face, much of it is pretty obvious through the body movements and the gunshot sounds. Despite warnings, White shoots Orange out of spite, and is supposedly taken down by the cops on scene. An almost heartbroken White starts wailing even as Orange repeatedly feels sorry having wronged him for trusting him, as swarming cops evidently surround the two. Groaning in pain, a shot down White cradles Orange in his lap, still believing the two will survive, as he tries explaining to a flailing Orange that they might have to do a little time, as the sound of police sirens draws closer, and he submits to his supposed fate, before Orange actually makes the revelation of being an undercover cop and having set up the entire heist. That is when we come to the beginning of the ending. The Mexican standoff is thus staged, and goes off when Joe shoots the already dying Orange, Edie shooting White, and White, before falling, shoots both Joe and Eddie in a matter of seconds. Enraged by all this, Eddie, too, points a gun at White for humiliating his father. During the Mexican standoff, White stands up for him and defends Orange, who Joe points a gun at and accuses of being a snitch based on his “instinct”, and his inability to doubt Blonde according to Orange’s made up story, that he was willing to ambush all of them and flee with the diamonds since Blonde is a trusted ally to the Cabots as revealed in his back story when he is offered the job: he doesn’t snitch on Joe once in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. Orange who then makes the revelation to Nash that he indeed, was the undercover cop.įrom the very beginning of the film, it is evident that White harbours a soft corner for Orange, with him bleeding out in his arms after being shot by a woman passenger whose car they hijack in the aftermath of the heist. Blonde had kidnapped as he flee keeping him at gunpoint after torturing him to within an inch of his life, shot dead by Eddie, and Mr. Blue, who is revealed to have died by Joe Cabot when he turns up at the warehouse, making only a brief appearance in the film in the opening conversation, Marvin Nash, the cop that Mr. Brown (Tarantino himself) who was shot in the head during the heist, Mr. As it so happens, even at this point in the film, quite a few people have turned up dead, including Mr. It is these observations that we wish to cast a light upon through this conversation.įor the sake of discussing the ending, let us rewind to the beyond iconic Mexican standoff between Mr. However, there are a few interesting observations in there that really warrant a discussion, as they have over various forums on the internet over the years. Read on.Īs far as the iconic ending of ‘ Reservoir Dogs’ is concerned, there is little that remains ambiguous about it, more than two and a half decades since its release. Here, we present an analysis of the ending of the Tarantino film that everybody saw after ‘ Pulp Fiction’. This is where it all began, and this is where he first did all things Tarantino that you know him today for.
(Remember the opening discussion about Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’?) While it is nowhere near his best work, the director having exceeded himself on several occasions after this one, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ for me will remain his most definitive work in ages. It’s all there, the non-linear storytelling, the stylized violence on the beats of 70s and 80s classics, the irreverent dialogue and the long drawn, seemingly normal conversations that go on and on only as you see yourself sucked into those unwittingly so. ‘ Reservoir Dogs’ is a classic in every right and a benchmark in indie filmmaking, introducing to the world the force that was Quentin Tarantino, and his uniquely bizarre style of filmmaking.
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