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Possible 'Reservoir Dogs' connection/inspiratio n?

posted 11 years ago by shempXIV
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It just hit me: I saw "Violent Saturday" for the 1ST time this past Saturday (irony?) and it's possible Lee Marvin's character was the inspiration for "Mr. Blond" (Michael Madsen's character) in Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs." While the other guys in the gang(s) simply wanted to make off with the big score (cold professionalism), Marvin's and Madsen's characters seemed to really want to kill somebody.

In "R. Dogs," the thieves refer to Lee Marvin, by the way.

[–] ecarle (14979) 3 years ago

8 years later, I check in to say:

Absolutely. I saw that connection the moment Marvin started going "mad dog" and of course ended up killing someone.

And I think the thing is, with both Madsen and Marvin, in their earlier scenes with their fellow gang leaders (Laurence Tierney in Reservoir Dogs; Stephen McNally in Violent Saturday)...they are polite men, respectful of their bosses and "cool."

You have to figure nobody had good intelligence on either of them and their proclivity to go nuts and gun crazy on the job...

[–] ProFromDover (286) 10 months ago

I have never read QT make reference to this picture. Though I may have missed it? But there had to be some references even if inadvertent.
Several Gladiators in this film!