Most media encourages certain public values, identities, or
themes. This media helps nurture a sense
of belonging and community identity. However, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dog’s does this is in a fairly
unique way. Even though there are some of the main characters that an audience
member would overall dislike, Tarantino wrote the events that each of the main
characters go through in such a way that you would like each of them at least once
throughout the movie.
Mr. White
Many people who like Mr. White like him for a number of
reasons. Mr. White seems to be the most
serious and most controlled member of the group. Unlike how Mr. Pink is always talking about
being professional, Mr. White is, in fact, the professional. Mr. White knows both how to kick arse and
deal with obstacles while carrying out the job.
Also, he at first seems to be the most loyal of the group, and follows
orders putting the other members first. He
is definitely the wisest member of the group.
Overall, he is the perfect criminal that the audience would want to be
if they were in the world of crime.Mr. Pink
There were those moments when any audience member has to
admit Mr. Pink was kind of annoying.
Such moments were when he is whining about being professional,
complaining about his alias, or cowardly hiding while Mr. White, Joe and Nice
Guy Eddie have their standoff. Many
people like his character because of his big mouth and comic relief. Everyone wants to be funny. But even more so, you would never expect this
kind of character to be the only one who left the warehouse alive and with the
diamonds.
Mr. Orange
He seems to be the most normal member of the group, and it
can be easier for audience members to relate to him. Not to say that his character was bland or
not unique, but he is more relatable.
Aside from the scene where Mr. Orange is bleeding out in the car, Mr.
Orange remains calm and collected throughout the rest of the movie. Also he is the undercover cop, and through
the eyes of society, cops are the good guys and undercover cops are cool. So everyone wants to be the cool good
guy. Mr. Orange is also the one to gun
down the crazy Mr. Blonde and save the life of the other cop. His monologues are also very crafty and
brilliant, making Mr. Orange seem very clever or intelligent.
Mr. Blonde
Even though he is the craziest member of the group that
began shooting random civilians during the heist and the scene where he hacks a
cop’s ear off, many people still like the heck out of Mr. Blonde. Many people on the
Internet like him because he is the “coolest” or because he is a “badass”. I don’t agree with the Internet’s opinion on
this. I originally thought that he was a
sick, coldhearted, emotionless person, but his most redeeming factors of his
character was the thing you didn’t see him do in the movie. After Mr. Orange guns Mr. Blonde down, he
tells the others that Mr. Blonde was going to stab the group in the back and
make off with the diamonds alone. But
this is his redeeming factor: Nice Guy Eddie tells them how when Mr. Blonde got
caught in another job for them, instead of selling out his group for freedom,
he took the bullet and went to prison for four years. While Mr. Blonde seemed to be a crazy,
self-indulgent character, he was probably the toughest of the group; he was ironically
the only person to be selfless enough to take the fall for the best of the
group.
