There’s nothing like a crime gone awry to uncover the true colors of your cohorts, right? In Reservoir Dogs, director Quentin Tarantino makes his debut with the story of a group of miscreants who band together to perform a major jewelry heist that goes terribly wrong. While the viewer never sees the robbery take place, you don’t have to. This movie isn’t about the crime — it’s about the groups chaotic unraveling as they turn against one another to avoid getting busted. In Tarantino’s signature cinematic style, the film starts with a look into the ensemble’s bond pre-robbery, as they carelessly chat while eating breakfast at a nondescript restaurant. But by the end, the crew’s friendship has literally devolved into a violent bloodbath, as they kill each other one-by-one while trying to determine who double-crossed them. While Reservoir Dogs may not be the most heartwarming show of bromance, one thing is sure: That’s one heck of a bad day.
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1985 adaptation of the novel by S.E. Hinton was full of tough thugs and mean mugs — and plenty of leather jackets. The Greasers, a gang of poor, wrong-side-of-the-tracks boys played by Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio and C. Thomas Howell, live in Tulsa, Okla., where they have to fight to keep their territory from being overrun by the Socs (pronounced soashes). The Socs are wealthy, preppy jerks who don’t understand the plight of the Greasers. The two groups clash repeatedly and one of those clashes results in a fatality, sending two of the Greasers on the run. While the film is chock-full of machismo and bravado, it’s also tinged with the sentimentality and philosophical edge that made the novel a teen classic.
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