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I altered the claims that Reservoir Dogs was based on this film. I own both films, and they're not as similar as urban legend would have it, though if someone wants to add more specific examples, that would be illuminating. --Misterwindupbird 04:59, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, the story's the same, but the tensions are different. most of cof is the robbery; the rendezvous is like thirty seconds where the boss says "it must be him he's new." we might try a "city on fire and resevoir dogs" section, discussing both the exaggerated reports of similarity, and the actual similarities. Nateji77 16:03, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, there is peer documentation from a 90's issue of FILM THREAT in an article by Zimmerman, who used to be the reviewer for local Detroit mag ORBIT. This is why Tarentino wears an Orbit T-shirt in Pulp Fiction. MMetro (talk) 10:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting" by Marc Norman - at page 458 he says "[..] websites posted lengthy exegeses comparing Reservoir Dogs side by side with a 1987 Hong Kong thriller written and directed by Ringo Lam called City on Fire [...]. But Tarantino had always advertised his sources; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a 1974 thriller [...] and the Reservoir Dogs screenplay title page dedicated the movie to, among others, Roger Corman, Chow Yun Fat, Godard, Melville, and the obscure 1950s action director Andre De Toth." --Gonnym (talk) 09:46, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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