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...Jerky Boys deny any responsibility for "Red: Phone Pranks Can Kill a Man," the 35-minute movie starring Lawrence Tierney (of Reservoir Dogs fame) that features those calls, punk...
These words, spoken by Mr. Blonde to a kidnapped cop in Quentin Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs, are prelude to a scene of exquisitely choreographed brutality. Mr. Blonde pretends that he is going to shoot the cop in the face to make him writhe in terror, and then, to the bubble-gum-70s sounds of Stealers wheel's "Stuck In The Middle With You," he slices the cop's face with a straight razor, hacks his ear off and then coldly pours gasoline all over him, ignoring his pleas, and light his Zippo before he is blown away...
...trademark scene from a seductively disturbing film. And while it is hardly new for a movie to be made popular because of its orgies of blood-letting, Reservoir Dogs is different. The pain and death in this movie are not mere two-dimensional ketchup-intensive scenes from a low budget Friday the 13th sequel or romanticized gunfights from the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger flick: Reservoir Dogs, and its sibling in the emerging genre of films such as it and Pulp Fiction being blazed by writer-directors like Tarantino, it on a new level. They are films more than movies...
...with the critical acclaim has come a growing cult of Quentin Tarantino fans. This is especially evident in the ranks of the college-age generation, cultural trend. Posters of Reservoir Dogs decorate the walls of countless dorm rooms across the campus and across the nation; in my own room we have watched my roommate's copy of the movie probably 30 times or more in the past term...
LEON: Dead Ducks The odor of death hangs over the artificial lake near this Mexican industrial city where 25,000 migrating waterfowl have died since mid- December. Water samples from the Silva Reservoir show high concentrations of the pesticide endosulfan, though local farmers and tanneries in the area deny using the chemical. As officials search for clues, the National Water Commission patrols the reservoir in a boat equipped with a siren, and volunteers set off fireworks to scare waterfowl away. Though the water has been declared dangerous for use in homes and in some kinds of agriculture, farmers continue...