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Date Posted: 02:55:36 11/22/03 Sat
Author: Silk
Subject: The Bonnie Situation.

Saw Reservoir Dogs again the other week, and watched some deleted scenes following the end of the movie.

Just on deleted scenes, but is there any point to showing them? Unless they're edited from a film solely due to time constraints, it's obvious why they get the flick.

Anyway, there's a scene with Christopher Penn, Steve Buscemi, and Harvey Keitel driving in a car when they go to get the diamonds, (leaving Michael Madsen alone at the warehouse to tortue the cop).

Keitel's asking for medical assistant for Tim Roth, and Penn says he's tried three doctors without luck. But he knows a Nurse, named Bonnie, who can help, and that's about as good as help as Mr. Orange is going to get. Keitel's pissed, but Buscemi says it's better than anything they can offer.

Penn refers to this scenario as The Bonnie Situation.

Which was also used in Pulp Fiction, albeit in regards to Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta needing their car cleaned of a splattered corpse. Of course, this episode involves some of the greatest acting to ever hit the silver-screen.

Tarantino: "I don't need you to tell me how good my coffee is. I buy the coffee because when Bonnie buys it she buys shit."

Tarantino should really stay behind the camera. Actually, behind it. Actually, he should stick to writing and that's about it.

At any rate, Tarantino must've loved the sound of The Bonnie Situation to plagiarize from himself. At least the original reference wasn't actually aired globally until appearing as a deleted scene, (and I don't consider deleted scenes part of the canon created in the fictional world of a movie).

Michael Mann plagiarized from himself, and on each occasion the scene in question was part of the finished product.

In HEAT there's a scene where Al Pacino comes home to find some guy in his dining room. It turns out to be a man his wife is having an affair with. Pacino puts his hands on his waist, displacing his blazer, and revealing his gun. He then explodes into a spiel how the guy can have his wife, but he's not going to watch his TV. Pacino then rips the TV out.

Mann actually used this, just about word for word, mannerism for mannerism, in his TV Show Crime Story (which ran from about 86-88), with Dennis Farina doing the Pacino bit (and actually doing it better).

I wonder if any other writer/director has ripped themselves off.

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Re: The Bonnie Situation. -- The Rhino, 10:24:53 11/22/03 Sat
- Re: The Bonnie Situation. -- Silk, 16:58:31 11/22/03 Sat