#RESERVOIR DOGS TORTURE SCENE MOVIE#

We were shooting the movie by then, and still didnвЂ™t have the rights to the song and needed those rights before we shot the scene and it was coming up fast. However, if you are inclined to give a break to a talented artist coming up, we beseech you, he is the one.вЂ™ Pat was bowled over by the letter and respected Stacey enough that she had to consider us. She wrote, you donвЂ™t have to do this, if the money situation is too much to overcome. She laid it on thick вЂwe think Quentin could be another Kubrick or David Mamet.вЂ™ These were her words. вЂњStacey was a great friend of the project, and she wrote Pat a letter, sang my praises, and said, weвЂ™ll send you the script. She knew Lucas from clearing songs for The Fisher King. Tarantino said that an introduction was brokered by Stacey Sher, who most recently produced the upcoming Aretha Franklin film Respect and co-produced the Academy Awards and such films as Erin Brockovich and TarantinoвЂ™s The Hateful Eight, and Django Unchained and was EP on Pulp Fiction. Nothing about that scenario seemed promising, but I needed that song.вЂќ вЂњВ At that moment, not only was this a dinky little movie, but who knew if it would be good or if it would even see the light of a projector bulb? We had no money, and were asking for a song that would be played during a torture scene where a guy gets his ear cut off. When I wrote that script and when I was in preproduction, I wanted вЂњStuck in the Middle with You. Nobody wanted to monkey around and mess that up. Back in the вЂ90s, the big cash play for a hit song was to be part of a commercial, where you could get $150,000 or $200,000. EMI owned the rights to the Stealers Wheel song вЂњStuck in the Middle with You ,вЂќ but we had no money. The film was not guaranteed a theatrical release before I started making the movie it could have been a straight to video movie. вЂњThis was way before Miramax, when the film was financed by Live Entertainment, the video arm of Carolco Pictures. вЂњShe was a genuine hero of Reservoir Dogs,вЂќ Tarantino told Deadline. After all, this was way before Pulp Fiction, when all Daly had to judge by was his script, and the knowledge that Gerry RaffertyвЂ™s hit song might be indelibly linked to a brutal torture scene. He still sounds a bit surprised that fortune smiled on him when Daly said yes. It was a shocking, career launching moment. Tarantino suggest you cannot hear that song even now and not think of Michael Madsen dancing around a kidnapped police officer trussed to a chair, as Madsen dances around him in menacing fashion, cutting off his ear and planning to set him aflame. While I wait to get more details from her distraught family, Quentin Tarantino asked to memorialize Lucas and express his forever gratitude to her taking a chance on an unproven filmmaker and granting rights to the Stealers Wheel song вЂњStuck in the Middle with You вЂњВ for use in his directorial debut Reservoir Dogs. Pat Lucas, the former EMI Music executive who was a longtime friend to filmmakers she licensed songs to for their films, has died after a long battle with cancer.

Reservoir dogs torture scene