Quentin Tarantino revealed during his appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” this week that his working relationship with Harvey Weinstein got off to a rocky start once Miramax became the distributor of his feature directorial debut “Reservoir Dogs.” Weinstein allegedly wanted to remove the film’s torture scene, which Tarantino admitted always led to walkouts during “Reservoir Dogs” film festival screenings.
The scene, in which Mr.
Blonde (Michael Madsen) tortures a police officer (Kark Baltz) by slashing his face and cutting his ear off (all set to Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You”), is the film’s most famous sequence.“His reasoning was, ‘Look, Quentin, this is a movie that anybody can watch.
But with that torture scene, you’re gonna alienate women; they’re not gonna wanna see this.
So you’re literally putting your own movie in a little box.
But without that scene, anybody
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