Essay/Term paper: Reservoir dogs

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Movie Reviews

"I don't give a fuck what you know or don't know, but I'm gonna

torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's so amusing for

me to torture a cop. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you

aint

gonna get."

Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs, 1992

This guy was the most twisted and sickly perverted guy in the whole

movie. He had no reservations about killing people. He was brutal. He

loved torture and death. By his own admission he liked to see the peoples'

expressions when they died. He was totally ruthless. He had no conscience.

I can't really explain why I liked this character so much. I don't EVER

want to be like him or do the things he did. There was just something

attractive about all his negative personality traits. Before he really

starts

getting into torturing the cop, he casually turns on the radio as if he

needed

some music to accompany the grizzly acts he was about to commit.

He was a man who insisted on having total control. He liked

controlling situations and people. When they were in the jewelry store he

advised the employees not to hit the alarm. When they did, he started

killing

them. This was his way of regaining control of the situation. At the same

time

he was acting out this concept, he was actually totally out of control. He

went fucking crazy in the store. He slaughtered the people lined up in the

store like he was shooting clay ducks in a local carnival shooting gallery. I

know this is a contradiction, but Mr. Blonde was a contradiction of himself.

He had double standards. He hated the cop just because he was a

cop. He didn't recognize him as a real person. Mr. Pink and Mr. White

confirm this at the warehouse when they discuss him shooting REAL people,

which cops are not. They say he just went crazy. They seemed to fear his

craziness. His calm facade was a cover for the monstrous things he did to

people.

When he was in the warehouse with the hostage cop and Mr. Orange

he appeared to be very calm. He sat smoking a cigarette while Pink and

White argued over the chain of events. He wasn't calm. He couldn't wait to

start torturing the hostage cop. You could see it in his face when Pink and

White left. He almost looked like a kid left alone to tend a candy store.

He

was up and going the second they left.

He was oh so gruesomely true to his belief that cops weren't people

that he begins to prove this through his torture "techniques". He treats the

cop like an object as opposed to a human being. He slashes off his ear and

speaks into it like it was a play phone. He dances over to the gas can,

swirls

around the warehouse floor and soaks the guy in gas. He taunts the man by

lighting a cigarette and holding it over the puddle of gas. This was a

thrilling

game to him. He wanted to see this man suffer before he finally died.

He was also true to his fellow thugs. When everyone else was

panicking, he remained cool. He insisted they stick to their original

plan...to

the end. He told them he had spoken to Nice Guy Eddie and everything was

to be done according to the original plan.

Mr. Blonde was a messed up dude. His whole personality was a

contradiction. Maybe that's why he was so hypnotizing. His bizarre behavior

and calm facade made for a very unique character.