18 Things You Somehow Missed In Reservoir Dogs
How did we not see who the rat was from the start?!
Quentin Tarantino’s nine-film-long back catalogue boasts some of the most iconic movies and moments in the history of cinema. While Pulp Fiction is arguably at the top of that particular list in the eyes of many, right there with it is the director's first major movie, Reservoir Dogs.
Even now, 30 years later, the movie is almost universally beloved, and it wouldn’t be too unrealistic to suggest that Tarantino’s first movie is his greatest. Even with a relatively short runtime, at least compared to his other eight movies, of just over 90 minutes, there is so much crammed into it.
This is the way Tarantino typically makes his movies, and the attention to detail is honestly perplexing. So much so that there is absolutely no way to pick up everything that he has put down on the first viewing.
Whether it be threads that connect the movie to the rest of the Tarantino-verse, very subtly foreshadowing some of the story’s grandest moments far in advance, or even mistakes that raised certain intriguing underlying questions about the entire narrative, there is plenty in the movie that just flew under the radar.
18. Related Characters
As with just about every Quentin Tarantino movie, there are connections within Reservoir Dogs to many of his other works. Despite the fact that this was his directorial debut, that didn’t stop him from bringing to life characters that would be related to other characters further down the line.
Of course, the most famous connection throughout the entire Tarantino-verse is that between Vic Vega and his brother, John Travolta’s Vincent Vega. The Pulp Fiction character, though potentially not quite as intense, feels like just as much of a loose cannon as Mr. Blonde, and it’s easy to piece them together as brothers.
Another familial connection that is not quite so obvious is the Nash family. Marvin Nash is one of the few characters whose full name is revealed throughout Reservoir Dogs, and can be connected to the unseen (sort of) Gerald Nash, another boy in blue from Natural Born Killers.
Along with the not-so-well liked Seymour Scagnatti, Vic Vega’s parole officer, and his brother, Natural Born Killers’ Jack Scagnatti, there is one more sibling pairing, this one once again connecting Reservoir Dogs to Pulp Fiction. Mr. White is actually the brother of Pulp Fiction’s Jimmy Dimmick. Apparently, Jimmy just chose to ignore the fact that Mr. Wolf looked exactly the same as his late brother.