I've been watched The Big Combo recently and noticed similarities between it and Tarintino's Reservoir Dogs. For example the torture scene with the policeman (The hearing aid!!), the name of the pyschopathic chief villian Mr Brown and the behaviour of his henchmen.
Has anyone else noticed any of this?
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The sliced-off ear was taken from DJANGO.
Maltin says in his movie guide that it was THE ASPHALT JUNGLE which inspired RESERVOIR DOGS but I don't see that many similarities regarding scenes. Both deal with the aftermath after a heist.
I'm suprised that THE BIG COMBO is seen by so few people. Only 678 votes.
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Reservoir Dogs was a near scene-by-scene remake of Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987), in which Chow Yun-fat plays the undercover cop, opposite of Danny Lee who plays Harvey Keitel's part. It is the same great actor combo seen in John Woo's The Killer (1989), and almost works better here (than in The Killer) based strictly on the dramatic acting (there is far less action unfortunatly). :)
The main difference in Reservoir Dogs is that is shown mostly in flashbacks and aftermath while City on Fire is more linear, and I don't deny that Tarantino had multiple inspirations to go by.
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I think if Tarantino was going to rip something off (no pun intended), he'd go the whole way and also steal the soundtrack going silent when Brown pulls the hearing aid out before killing the guy. I think its an absoultely fantastic use of no-sound and one of my favourite scenes in the whole of noir.
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yeah i noticed some similaritiesWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
The radio/earpiece scene is pretty obvious, though I suspect QT also saw Dead Reckoning, which has Bogart being beaten up by a bad guy who turns on the radio and dances around while wailing on him...
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soundtrack going silent when Brown pulls the hearing aid out before killing the guy. I think its an absoultely fantastic use of no-sound and one of my favourite scenes in the whole of noir.
I saw no similarities at all. Mr Brown crossed my mind, and the point you make about ear torture is a good one.
If Reservoir Dogs owes debts to any films noir - and it does - it would be The Asphalt Jungle, Kansas City Confidential, and The Killing.
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