Name: 【霸氣回歸】《霸道橫行》還能打嗎？ (Has Reservoir Dogs Aged Well?)
Uploaded: 2026-03-17T17:03:57.000Z
Duration: 9 min 9 s

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So in the very first sentence of the New York Times review of Reservoir Dogs, critic Vincent Canby wrote, it's been an unusually good year for the discovery of first rate new American film directors, then goes on to list four films that you've never seen by four directors that you've never heard of, none of whom lasted more than a decade making movies before continuing.

所以在《紐約時報》評論《Reservoir Dogs》的第一句話，評論家 Vincent Canby 寫道：「今年是發現一流新美國電影導演的非比尋常的好年份」，接著列出了四部你從未看過的電影，由四位你從未聽過的導演執導，他們沒有一位在繼續拍電影之前，活躍了超過十年。

Now add to that list the name of Quentin Tarantino.

現在，把 Quentin Tarantino 的名字也加到這個名單裡。

I guess when one out of five ain't bad, be okay, you're going to be okay.

我想，五分之一的機率不錯，沒關係的，你會沒事的。

25 years after that review, Tarantino is probably the most popular living, working director in the world after maybe Spielberg and Scorsese.

在那篇評論的 25 年後，Tarantino 可能是繼 Spielberg 和 Scorsese 之後，世界上最受歡迎的在世、仍在工作的導演。

His eight films have grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide, and

他的八部電影全球票房已超過 15 億美元，

writing about his work could fill a small library.

關於他作品的論述可以填滿一座小型圖書館。

The quarter century milestone is a good opportunity to look back at how Tarantino's first film has age, a slight obsession with firsts, with how things begin.

這二十五年來的里程碑，是個回顧 Tarantino 第一部電影如何隨著時間演變的好機會，對「第一」的些微執著，對事物如何開始。

And the first shot of Reservoir Dogs is probably the first that I think about the most.

而《Reservoir Dogs》的第一個鏡頭，大概是我最常想起的那個。

Okay, yeah, obviously I know this is not technically the first shot of the movie, but

好，對，我知道這不是電影技術上的第一個鏡頭，但是

I've always sort of viewed the diner scene that precedes the opening credits as a kind of overture to Tarantino's entire filmography.

我一直覺得片頭字幕前的這場餐廳戲，就像是 Tarantino 整體電影作品的序曲。

Traditionally, overtures are mood setters, a little bit of music that sets the tone for what's about to follow.

傳統上，序曲是用來營造氣氛的，用一小段音樂來設定接下來的基調。

It's only natural that in Tarantino land, the Overture is a 7 minute conversation about Madonna songs and the merits of.

在 Tarantino 的世界裡，序曲竟然是長達七分鐘關於 Madonna 的歌和優點的對話，這也很自然。

But no, society says, don't tip these guys over here, but tip these guys over here.

但不行，社會說，這些傢伙不用給小費，但那些傢伙要給。

So the first shot of the story proper is this.

所以，故事正式開始的第一個鏡頭就是這個。

And it's one of the most electrifying openings in film history.

這絕對是影史中最令人振奮的開場之一。

Like the first notes in the first Led Zeppelin album.

就像 Led Zeppelin 第一張專輯的第一個音符一樣。

Before you have a chance to blink, you're involved.

在你來得及眨眼之前，你就已經身歷其境了。

Your mind fans forward and backward through time.

It's usual in film for actions to have consequences, but here, consequences have actions.

電影裡通常是行動帶來後果，但這裡，後果卻引發了行動。

Actions, you begin to imagine the heist gone wrong.

行動，你開始想像搶劫失敗的樣子。

And just like you're in the past, you're also in the future, calculating how long this guy has left to live and what could be done to save him.

就像你身處過去一樣，你也身處未來，計算著這個人還能活多久，以及能做些什麼來拯救他。

Orange bleeding out, you can't escape the present either, because that's what pain is, a brutal and specific attention to the present moment.

在流血，你也無法逃避現在，因為那就是痛苦，一種殘酷而具體的對當下時刻的關注。

It's that pain, that panicked feeling of time running out that separates this film from others that begin in media res.

就是這種痛苦，這種時間緊迫的恐慌感，讓這部電影與其他採用 in media res 開場的電影區分開來。

Whenever I create anything, I always hold it up against the opening of Reservoir Dogs is the beginning as attention capturing as this, does it have the same kinetic energy launching you into the narrative?

每當我創作任何東西時，我都會拿它和 Reservoir Dogs 的開場比較，它是否像這樣引人入勝，是否擁有同樣的動能將你推入敘事？

It's here too, of course, that we're introduced to the technique that made Tarantino famous, the non linear structure of his storytelling.

在這裡，我們也見識到了讓 Tarantino 成名的技巧，他非線性的敘事結構。

In interviews, Tarantino compared the byzantine tracks of his early films to novel writing.

在訪談中，Tarantino 將他早期電影錯綜複雜的敘事比喻為寫小說。

Novelists have always had just a complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit.

小說家一直以來都有完全的自由，可以隨心所欲地講述他們的故事。

But while I think the comparison to fiction is apt, I also think that there is a relationship here, again with music.

雖然我認為與小說的比較很貼切，但我認為這裡也有關聯，再次是音樂。

One of the things that I think helped Reservoir Dogs age so well is Tarantino's instinctive sense for narrative momentum.

我認為讓 Reservoir Dogs 歷久彌新的其中一件事，就是 Tarantino 對敘事動能的直覺。

To me, the ordering of the movie is a lot like an under examined aspect of popular music, the sequencing of albums.

對我來說，電影的排序很像流行音樂中一個未被充分檢視的面向，也就是專輯的曲序編排。

One of the reasons I love Abbey Road, for example, one of the reasons I've listened to it so many times all the way through, is because the song sequence carries me through.

例如，我喜愛 Abbey Road 的原因之一，我之所以聽了這麼多次，是因為歌曲的編排一路帶著我走。

Even in the first half where there's no medley, the arrangement has thrust.

即使在上半部沒有組曲，編曲也充滿了衝勁。

I mean, just imagine the change in feeling if the album began with say, Maxwell Silver Hammer.

我的意思是，想像一下如果專輯以〈Maxwell Silver Hammer〉開頭，感受會有什麼不同。

Now imagine the change in feeling if Reservoir Dogs began here.

現在想像一下，如果 Reservoir Dogs 在這裡開頭，感受又會有什麼不同。

Say hello to a motherfucker who's inside cab is doing a job and take a big fat guess who wants on a team.

跟一個在計程車裡正在執行任務的混蛋打個招呼，然後猜猜看誰想加入團隊。

The sequencing in Reservoir Dogs has the same natural rhythm as an album cycle does, offering a variety in tempo, from intense to reflective and back, while linking corresponding scenes together.

Reservoir Dogs 的排序就像專輯的循環一樣有著自然的節奏，提供了從激烈到反思再回到激烈的節奏變化，同時將相關的場景連結在一起。

All Tarantino's films are constructed this way, like albums.

Tarantino 的所有電影都是這樣建構的，就像專輯一樣。

More like albums, I think, than novels, even the ones with more straightforward narratives.

我認為更像是專輯，而不是小說，即使是那些敘事更直接的作品。

And part of my thing, when I'm coming up with an idea is to go through that record room and go through those records and to kind of find the music or the personality of a given movie.

我在構思點子的時候，一部分的做法是去唱片室裡翻找那些唱片，然後為一部電影找到它的音樂或個性。

It's like I'm looking for the rhythm that this movie needs to play in.

就像我在尋找這部電影需要播放的節奏。

I'm looking for the spirit and the rhythm that this movie needs to play in.

我在尋找這部電影需要播放的精神和節奏。

The other thing that Tarantino is most known for is his dialogue.

Tarantino 最為人知的另一件事就是他的對白。

And of course, some of the references in Reservoir Dogs haven't aged so well.

當然，Reservoir Dogs 中有些參考資料並沒有隨著時間很好地發展。

You know, she looked like she looked like Christy Love.

妳知道，她看起來就像 Christy Love。

還記得那個電視劇《Get Christy Love》嗎？

《Get Christy Love》裡，她就是那個警察。

Nobody today remembers the show Get Christy Love.

現在沒有人記得《Get Christy Love》這部劇了。

But what's more important here is the concept.

Entertainment is still a common language between strangers taking genre characters and genre situations, alright, and

娛樂仍然是陌生人之間共通的語言，把類型片裡的角色和情境，好嗎，然後

giving them a Real life spin, have them sound like real people, like, you know, me and my friends and just other people, and

給它們注入真實生活的色彩，讓它們聽起來像真人，就像，你知道的，我跟我朋友還有其他人一樣，然後

Reservoir dogs translates into 2017 because the humanity and the comedy that Tarantino breathed into genre films is still felt all over Hollywood.

《Reservoir Dogs》之所以能翻譯到2017年，是因為 Tarantino 注入類型片中的人性與幽默感，至今仍瀰漫在整個好萊塢。

And in it, a great hero named Kevin Bacon teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butts that dancing is the greatest thing there is.

而片中，一位名叫 Kevin Bacon 的偉大英雄，教導一個全身僵硬的城市裡的人們，跳舞是世界上最棒的事。

I think the only context in which Reservoir Dogs hasn't aged so well is within Tarantino's own filmography.

我認為《Reservoir Dogs》沒有那麼「保鮮」的唯一脈絡，是在 Tarantino 自己豐富的作品裡。

For all the purchase it has on film culture and popular culture, it's still very clearly his most amateur movie.

儘管它對電影文化和流行文化有這麼大的影響力，它仍然是他最業餘的作品，這一點非常明顯。

It's impossible to say how it would be received today if it was released, because so much of cinema in the past 25 years is influenced by this style.

很難說如果它現在上映會受到什麼樣的歡迎，因為過去25年來，有太多電影都受到這種風格的影響。

But I think Siskel and Ebert got pretty close in their original reviews.

但我認為 Siskel 和 Ebert 在他們最初的評論裡，已經 pretty close 了。

我喜歡這部電影，就它所呈現的程度而言。

我希望它能走得更遠，嘗試更多。

I had the same reaction, Roger, that it was a lot of an exercise in style.

我的反應跟你一樣，Roger，覺得它很大程度上是風格的展現。

I mean, I understand what he's trying to do here, which is to show things in crime movies that crime movies don't show.

我是說，我懂他想在這裡做什麼，也就是呈現犯罪電影裡那些平常看不到的東西。

像是那種隨意感、那種幽默感。

但我們大概十五分鐘就看到了。

The missing piece to Reservoir Dogs is the deeper character studies and exploration of big ideas that you get in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

Reservoir Dogs 裡缺少的是，你在 Pulp Fiction、Jackie Brown、Inglourious Basterds 和 Django Unchained 中看到的更深入的角色研究和對宏大概念的探索。

However, I do think that there is one point in Reservoir Dogs where Tarantino does reach for something.

不過，我確實認為 Reservoir Dogs 有一個地方，Tarantino 有試圖去觸碰更深層的東西。

All of Tarantino's work comments on the nature of storytelling itself, but the part when Mr.

Tarantino 的所有作品都在評論敘事本身的性質，但其中 Mr.

Orange, an undercover cop, learns a fake story to sell the criminals on his credibility is one of the best instances of this in all his movies.

Orange，一個臥底警察，為了讓罪犯相信他而學習一個假故事，這段是他所有電影裡最棒的展現之一。

Orange learning the scene, Orange rehearsing the scene, Orange performing the story for an audience, then finally the story coming alive.

Orange 學習這個故事，Orange 排練這個故事，Orange 對觀眾表演這個故事，然後最後故事活了起來。

It's an elegant illustration of how words can transform into stories and stories into reality or into movies.

這精妙地說明瞭語言如何轉化成故事，故事又如何成為現實或電影。

And it's a nice touch that the only thing that keeps the cops from noticing the drugs is the same similar storytelling situation, because stories can keep us from seeing reality too.

而且很巧妙的是，唯一能讓警察不注意到毒品的就是這種類似的說故事情境，因為故事也會讓我們看不清現實。

Buddy, I'm gonna shoot you in the face if you don't put your hands on the fucking dash.

哥們，你再不把手放到該死的儀錶板上，我就一槍把你臉射穿。

As an exercise in genre and style, Reservoir Dogs is superb, one of the best in film.

作為一個在類型和風格上的練習，《Reservoir Dogs》非常棒，是影史上最頂尖的作品之一。

And if it falls just short of the transcendent heights that Tarantino would later go on to reach.

而且如果它離 Tarantino 後來達到的超凡境界只差一點點的話。

That's not really a criticism because, I mean, let's see you try to reach just short of transcendent with your first movie.

這其實不能算是批評，因為，我是說，你試試看用你的第一部電影達到超凡境界差一點點看看。

I think a good rule of thumb for how well films have aged is simply whether or not we keep watching them.

我認為判斷一部電影是否隨時間而老化的好方法，就是我們是否還會繼續看它。

25 years on, I'm still watching Reservoir Dogs, and

25 年過去了，我還在看《Reservoir Dogs》，而且

I'll bet that'll still be true 25 years and more from now.

我敢打賭，再過 25 年甚至更久，情況也會是如此。

What they do, they start em in your face.

他們怎麼做的，他們一開始就讓你目不轉睛。

Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching this episode was brought to you by VRV Verve.

哈囉大家，非常謝謝收看，這一集是由 VRV Verve 贊助播出的。

Verve is a service that pulls together a lot of great content channels like Rooster Teeth, Mondo Tested, Cartoon Hangover, Crunchyroll, and

Verve 是一個整合了許多很棒內容頻道的服務，像是 Rooster Teeth、Mondo Tested、Cartoon Hangover、Crunchyroll，還有

It's cool to have those two in the same place.

能把這兩個放在同一個地方真的很讚。

You can download the VRV app on Xbox, PlayStation, iOS or Android.

你可以在 Xbox、PlayStation、iOS 或 Android 下載 VRV app。

And if you get the VRV combo pack at this link you can get a seven day free trial.

而且如果你透過這個連結購買 VRV combo pack，就能享有七天免費試用。

Once you get that combo pack, I'd recommend that you watch a show called March Comes Like a Lion on Crunchyroll.

拿到 combo pack 後，我推薦你在 Crunchyroll 上看一部叫做《March Comes Like a Lion》的節目。

It's a show about a 70 year old shogi player.

這是一部關於一位 70 歲將棋棋士的節目。

Shogi is a Japanese form variation on chess.