Reservoir Dogs runs until Oct. 6 at the Emerald Cafe at 421 Meredith Rd. N.E. Call 515-2370. One of the most brazen and bloody films of the 1990s is making its way to a Calgary stage. Reservoir Dogs was the 1992 breakout debut of writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Unsettling and brutally violent, the film nevertheless found a huge mainstream audience with its sharp dialogue and charismatic characters.
Violence has consequences.
If someone pulls the trigger of a gun, someone get hurts very badly or dies. And he goes through great lengths to show the results. Reuger found there were several challenges in scaling down a big-budget Hollywood movie into a small, tightly budgeted play. I adapted the script myself from Tarantino's original screenplay. It took me about three weeks to bend my head around how I was going to shape it.