10 Off-Screen Movie Moments Audiences Deserved To See
4. The Heist - Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino is rightly hailed as one of the greatest and most popular filmmakers of his generation, possibly ever, and it’s not hard to see why. From the very beginning of his career, with his debut movie Reservoir Dogs, he set himself apart from everyone else in the business.
The movie’s opening scene would go on to become iconic, as it showed the core group of main characters discussing Madonna and the principle of tipping at length before going on to perform a heist. However, this heist itself is kept well away from screens.
The next scene after the opening credits showed Mr. White and Mr. Orange in a blind panic with the latter bleeding out after the heist went wrong. They are eventually joined by the likes of Mr. Pink, Mr. Blonde, Joe, and Eddie, but the closest audiences ever get to see of the heist is Mr. Pink running away, and Mr. Orange getting shot. Both after the fact.
Realistically, Tarantino found a way to create his movie, in which the heist is the most pivotal scene of all, without actually showing it. There is enough information given and alluded to that everything works without it, but wouldn’t it have been fantastic to see? Even if just for the full extent of Mr. Blonde’s brutality and insanity.