Alone with the unconscious Orange, Blonde tortures the officer for his own amusement and cuts off his ear with a razor. Eddie arrives and asks White and Pink to come with him to get the diamonds. Together, they pummel the young officer to get information on the potential betrayer. Said Blonde arrives at the warehouse with an enchained police officer in his trunk. White is angry at his old friend Joe for employing the ‘psychopathic’ Mr Blonde, who is responsible for the murdered civilians at the store. White and Pink discuss who could be ‘the rat’ in the team, while Orange lost his consciousness because of his blood loss. Apparently, when the alarm went off, the police was at the store much earlier than to be expected, thus, they must have been informed about the heist. Mr Orange, severely wounded by a shot in the belly, and Mr White escape to the said warehouse, where they meet with Mr Pink who escaped as well, with the diamonds transported to a secure location. Instead, the narrative jumps back and forth in time, introducing the character’s background and version of the happenings at the jewellery store, since the diamond heist ends in a massacre with shot civilians, policemen and two of the criminals (Mr Blue and Mr Brown) dead. the robbery itself is not shown in the whole film. The story is not narrated stringently, e.g. They chit-chat about Madonna’s hit ‘Like a Virgin’, before their planned armed robbery of a jewellery store.
It starts with a group of six well suited men (all using aliases) and their two bosses (Joe and his son Eddie), having breakfast at an American Diner. The story of Reservoir Dogs is mainly set in a warehouse in an American city.
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The quintessence of Tarantino’s idea of film making is already identifiable in his rough debut: cool characters and violence combined with deadpan humour plus a fantastic soundtrack. Tarantino’s debut became cult over the years, considered to have notably inspired further independent cinema. In the case of ‘Stuck in the middle with you’ and the ‘infamous’ torture scene in Tarantino’s debut film Reservoir Dogs (1992), this statement does fully apply, as the song originally is about an annoying record biz dinner that Eagan and Rafferty had to attend.
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Moreover, we must agree with Quentin Tarantino, who said ‘that certain pop songs have been used so successfully in certain movies that in a sense the movie blots out all other associations and ‘owns’ the song. Without knowing the linkage of the song to one of the most iconic scenes in later film history, these comments make no sense at all. Another user asks if anyone could listen to the song, ‘without thinking of torture anymore’ (YouTube, 2016). For instance, user ‘nosferotica’ writes: ‘Last time I listened to this song I cut someone’s ear off.’ (YouTube, 2016). Comparing the top comments to the video shown, some incoherence becomes visible. The original music video shows the band with Joe Eagan alternately performing in a big, empty building and him being at a banquet table, surrounded by odd guises, unsuccessfully trying to get some food from the table.
The number of clicks is considerably impressive: the most popular video on the website counts more than 44 million views since July 2010. Looking for the song ‘Stuck in the middle with you’ (written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Eagan performed by their group ‘Stealers Wheel’) on YouTube (2016), displays the immense popularity of this song more than 40 years after it was published on the 1972 Stealers Wheel debut album. Analysis of the song ‘Stuck in the middle with you’ (Stealers Wheel) in Tarantino’s debut film ‘Reservoir Dogs’
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