“Reservoir Dogs” The spirit of yakuza movies that pervades Tarantino *Note! It touches on the ending of the movie.

Who shot Eddie? A mystery told among fans

What I want to focus on is the last part of this work. It's a scene in which Joe (Lawrence Tierney), White (Harvey Keitel), and Eddie (Chris Penn) confront each other with guns drawn. The next moment, within about two seconds, the muzzles of the three men's guns fired almost simultaneously, and each of them was hit and fell to the ground. This is what is called mutual revenge.

However, this scene sparked controversy among fans. "Who the hell shot Eddie?" he asked.

Let's check what happened in those two seconds by playing the DVD frame by frame. First, Joe points a gun at Orange (Tim Roth), and in response, White points the gun at Joe as a countermeasure, as if to say, ``If you shoot, this gun will catch fire too.'' In order to protect his father Joe, his son Eddie points a gun at White and says, ``In that case, so do I.'' This creates a three-way corner, but at this point none of the guns are pointing towards Eddie.

And the next moment, something happened. First, Joe's gun catches fire and Orange gets hit. In response, White shoots Joe, and Eddie shoots White. After this, the triangle is completed when an injured White shoots Eddie, but before White turns around and shoots Eddie, Eddie in the video appears to have already been hit. After all, it only happened in two seconds. It is impossible for actors to act while understanding it in their heads. It is not hard to imagine that he would have given himself over to reflex movements.

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In the end, only a mystery remained. "Who shot Eddie?" According to the performers later, this was actually caused by a single mistake.

The original plan was for White to shoot Joe, then turn around while being hit and shoot Eddie. However, before that could happen, the gunpowder placed in the costume of Chris Penn, who played the role of Eddie, exploded a moment too soon, causing a discrepancy in the composition. As a result, it appeared that Eddie was shot before White did. Apparently they were aware of this mistake on set, but they didn't have enough time to retake the shot. As a result, it was decided to ``continue as is'', leaving some mystery behind.

But what do you think? Normally, it would be a fatal mistake that would have been criticized, but in this work, it feels like it's actually a good ``tsukkomi''. Of course, since it happened in just two seconds, the audience didn't know exactly what happened, and many probably didn't care at all. Or, towards the end, my train of thought was completely blown away by the eel's rising voltage, and all I could do as a spectator was to watch the story unfold with sweat in my hands. Isn't that one The Truth? In any case, at this point, this work had achieved such an ``overwhelming presence'' that mistakes did not matter at all.

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