Reservoir Dogs is absolutely a character study punctuated by moments of violence, almost all of Tarantinos films are. To say that it’s a callback to grindhouse as a sub genre is absurd
There’s also some interesting contrasting intertextual interplay between this Taxi Driver phone call and the phone call in Sideways. Miles drunkenly calls his ex wife and the camera registers it from a brutal proximity. Slightly blurred, but too close for comfort.
Illustrated here are two formidible examples of poetic one-shot scenes, but my favorite single take for technical brilliance is Henry taking Karen to the nightclub in “Goodfellas”.
Good post. Strong case can be made that the 1970’s was the best era for American films. Especially when you consider that the major studios were releasing classics like this, The Conversation, Network etc on a yearly basis it seemed.
Reservoir Dogs is absolutely a character study punctuated by moments of violence, almost all of Tarantinos films are. To say that it’s a callback to grindhouse as a sub genre is absurd
There’s also some interesting contrasting intertextual interplay between this Taxi Driver phone call and the phone call in Sideways. Miles drunkenly calls his ex wife and the camera registers it from a brutal proximity. Slightly blurred, but too close for comfort.
Illustrated here are two formidible examples of poetic one-shot scenes, but my favorite single take for technical brilliance is Henry taking Karen to the nightclub in “Goodfellas”.
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Good post. Strong case can be made that the 1970’s was the best era for American films. Especially when you consider that the major studios were releasing classics like this, The Conversation, Network etc on a yearly basis it seemed.
Cool analysis I studied Taxi Driver in a course in college never caught this
The reason for the similarity is that Tarantino is a shameless plagiarist.
Great video, thanks for sharing
Nice little homage.