While working there, Tarantino would often recommend little-known titles to customers, and when he suggested Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants (1987), the patron mockingly replied, "I don't want to see no reservoir dogs!" The fact if this last origin is true or just a funny story devised to answer the question of the origin of the title remains unclear. quote The german title is Wilde Hunde - wild dogs. I wonder how other countries translated the name Reservoir Dogs.
Reservoir Dogs is not my favorite Tarantino movie at all, in fact if I had to Rank them it would be 1. Apart from this origin, initially told by Tarantino in interviews, in recent years he started to tell another version that occurred via a patron at the now-famous Video Archives. quote The funny thing is that I’m pretty positive in Italy it’s called Le Iene, meaning The Hyenas. Answer (1 of 3): Reservoir Dogs is a great movie with great Acting, Interesting storyline and it is violent, 3 things that all great Tarantino movies have. The non-chronological aspect of it really hooked me in. Holdaway meets up with Freddy in a diner and briefs him about the gang. I like how the name of every scene comes up each time to let the audience know what is going on. Seen via flashback, Holdaway is friends with Freddy Newandyke, and works with him to bring down Joe Cabot and his gang of robbers.
All those scripts were fighting with each other for attention as dogs trapped in a reservoir tank. Holdaway is a a minor character in the film Reservoir Dogs, and he is mentor form for Freddy Newandyke. (1974) (1974) The black suits worn by the Dogs are a tribute to the John Woo action vehicle 'A Better Tomorrow II'. The title for the film first came to Quentin Tarantino while visiting a production company and noticing that they had a pile of unsolicited scripts under the label "Reservoir dogs". The concept of color names as aliases (Mr Pink etc) given to the gang by Joe Cabot was originally used by the robbers in the 1974 heist film The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3.