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White, enabling Tarantino and Bender to raise as much as $1.5 million for the budget. Keitel became interested, and ended up attaching himself to produce and star as Mr. Scott ended up buying the вЂњTrue RomanceвЂќ script for $50,000, which Tarantino planned to use to make вЂњReservoir Dogs.вЂќ However, BenderвЂ™s acting teacherвЂ™s wife was a friend of Harvey Keitel, and gave him the script.

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Tarantino was introduced to the late Tony Scott in 1990 by a mutual friend, one of the directorвЂ™s employees, and Scott read both вЂњ True RomanceвЂќ and вЂњReservoir Dogs.вЂќ Originally, Scott wanted to make вЂњReservoir Dogs,вЂќ but was told by Tarantino that heвЂ™d earmarked it for his own full directorial debut. Pink and regular producer Lawrence Bender as Nice Guy Eddie. TarantinoвЂ™s original plan was to make вЂњReservoir DogsвЂќ on a minimal budget on 16mm film, using friends in the cast, with himself playing Mr. Terry Gilliam and Monte Hellman advised Tarantino at the Sundance Institute, and Tony Scott wanted to direct the film. The film actually screened at the American Film Market and the Vancouver International Film Festival in October 1991, a few months before вЂњ Reservoir DogsвЂќ premiered at Sundance, although it ultimately skipped theaters, and aired on the USA Network in December 1992, before making it to video in 1993.Дў. His contribution was significant enough to вЂњPast MidnightвЂќ (which involves Hauer as a man released from prison after being framed for the murder of his wife, with Richardson as his social worker) that associate producer Catalaine Knell offered to split her credit with him, giving Tarantino his first screen credit outside of Dolph LundgrenвЂs workout video, on which he was a production assistant. Tarantino worked at the company CineTel for a time, who specialized in cheapo direct-to-video type pictures (вЂњ 976-EvilвЂќ might be their most well-known work, which say something about the rest of it), and on the DVD commentary for вЂњ True Romance,вЂќ Tarantino says that part of his job involved вЂњpage-one rewritesвЂќ on their scripts. Tarantino has confessed that he thinks the film was badly directed, but fortunately for him itвЂ™s barely been seen - almost half of it was destroyed in a lab fire, and itвЂ™s only seen the light of day in incomplete form at film festivals, although elements of the story were recycled in other scripts, most notably вЂњ True Romance.вЂќ Much less well known is вЂњ Past Midnight,вЂќ a potboiler of a thriller starring Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson, Clancy Brown and a young Paul Giamatti.

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Mostly free of genre tropes (Tarantino told Charlie Rose in 2010 that it was a вЂњMartin and LewisвЂќ sort of thing), the black-and-white picture sees Tarantino as Clarence, whoвЂ™s looking to do something for his best friendвЂ™s birthday. Working from a short script by co-worker Craig Hamann (and with вЂњ Pulp FictionвЂќ collaborator, and fellow video shop employee Roger Avary also assisting), Tarantino helped to expand it into a full 80 page script, as well as acting in it alongside Hamann, and directing the micro-budgeted feature. Relatively well-known is the fact that Tarantino co-wrote and directed вЂњ My Best FriendвЂ™s BirthdayвЂќ in the late 1980s, while still working at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach. But itвЂ™s not quite the first film with the Tarantino touch. ItвЂ™s inarguable that вЂњReservoir DogsвЂќ was the script and film that exploded Tarantino onto the world scene.

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вЂњReservoir DogsвЂќ technically isnвЂ™t the first Tarantino movie to be produced. And if you want to see it on the big screen again, it hits cinemas for one night only in December.ДЎ. To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, weвЂ™ve rounded up five facts that even the most dedicated Tarantinophile may not know about his debut.

One of, if not the most influential films of the 1990s (not necessarily for the better, as anyone whoвЂ™s sat through the many copycats and knock-offs can attest), TarantinoвЂ™s thriller - which follows the preamble to, and aftermath of, a diamond heist that turns disastrous - was a breath of fresh air, and remains a taut, hilarious and curiously moving crime classic. But even in the months beforehand, his feature directorial debut, вЂњ Reservoir DogsвЂќ had already started to upend the American independent film movement but with tremendously well received screenings at Sundance, Cannes and Toronto. Prepare to feel very, very old indeedВ - twenty years ago today, on October 23rd 1992, вЂњ Reservoir DogsвЂќ was released in theaters, introducing the world to a 29-year-old video store clerk turned filmmaker with an encyclopaedic knowledge of film named Quentin Tarantino.