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super_coolFrom Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. (spoilers!)
Six strangers are hired to steal diamonds for a gangster (Joe Cabot). They’re given color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. White, Mr. Pink, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Blue) and instructed to tell each other no personal information whatsoever, under any circumstances. When the robbery goes wrong, they begin to suspect there might be an undercover cop in their midst. Most of the movie takes place in a single location – a warehouse, the rendezvous point – as the criminals argue, blame, and throw accusations at each other.
The main conflict centers around Mr. Orange, who has been shot in the stomach. White insists they take him to a hospital, but Pink vehemently refuses once it’s revealed that White has broken the rules and told Orange his personal information, including his name (Larry) and where he is from (Milwaukee).
The secondary conflict involves Mr. Blonde, who lost his cool when the employees pull the alarm. Not liking that alarms were going off, he turned the jewelry store into a massacre, prompting police – apparently there all along – to act, creating a chaotic shootout. When he arrives back at the warehouse, he has a soda from a fast-food restaurant and a kidnapped cop in the trunk of his car. Now that the violence is done, he’s as unflappable as ever and confused about why anyone would be mad at him.
Joe Cabot’s son, Eddie, is the next to arrive. Aware that something has gone wrong, although he’s not informed of the particulars, he tries to straighten things out before his father arrives. He leaves Orange (passed out and bleeding in an ever growing pool of blood) and the kidnapped cop with Mr. Blonde. White, Pink, and Eddie leave to run a series of errands: collect the diamonds (successfully stolen and stashed by Pink), get rid of the various cars they all stole to meet back at the warehouse, and call a doctor for Orange.
Blonde, having just gotten out of jail and with a vendetta against the police, decides to torture the cop as “Stuck In The Middle With You” by Stealer’s Wheel plays on the radio – part of K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies Weekend, which all the thieves have been listening to. He slices the cop’s face with a straight razor, cuts off his ear, douses him in gasoline, and is about to burn him alive when Orange suddenly sits up and shoots Mr. Blonde, killing him, and revealing himself to be the rat.
In a series of flashbacks, we see how Mr. Orange – or rather Freddy Newendyke – came to successfully infiltrate the group, despite an obvious naiveté and lack of experience. The details of when and why Mr. White revealed his name and background are not disclosed, but it’s established that Freddy has a tendency to get emotionally invested in criminals and that he has spent time alone with Mr. White.
The truth about how he was shot is also revealed. (Previously, White had lied and said that it was the cops who shot him.) Outside the jewelry store, Orange watches behind White's back, doing nothing, as White shoots and kills two uniformed police officers. With Mr. Brown dead, they flee the scene together, stopping to steal a car from a woman driving alone. She pulls a gun from her glove box, shoots Freddy, and he in turn shoots her back on reflex, killing her.
In current time, White, Pink, and Eddie return with the diamonds – but apparently unsuccessful in getting a doctor – to find Blonde’s shot up corpse, and Orange wheezing out a lie about how Blonde was planning to pull a burn on everyone. Eddie doesn’t buy it, revealing that Blonde had been a close friend of the family, someone who spent four years in jail simply because he refused to give the police information regarding the Cabots in exchange for going free.
And then Joe Cabot finally arrives, asserting that by process of elimination, he’s worked out Orange must be the rat, as he’s the only one that Joe was never a hundred percent certain on. White refuses to believe it, arguing: “I know this man. He’s a good kid. He wouldn’t do that.”
Joe is about to kill Orange, when White pulls his gun on Joe, prompting Eddie to pull his gun on White. “Are you out of your mind?” Eddie asks, bewildered as to why someone they’ve worked with on many jobs over the course of decades is suddenly turning on them.
They all shoot each other, leaving Pink to make off with the diamonds – though he’s soon apprehended by the cops, who are moving in. Larry and Freddy are the only ones left alive, bleeding and cradling each other as Freddy confesses: “I’m a cop. Larry, I’m so sorry.” The police arrive to find Larry sobbing, massaging Freddy's face with one hand, and pressing a gun into his cheek with the other. The film ends with him committing suicide by cop after shooting Freddy in the face.
Permissions:
[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.
Backtagging: Yes, always. Forever.
Threadhopping: Yes, I don’t mind.
Fourthwalling: Yes, actually. Go for it. Movies have a special place in the Tarantino universe, so I think he’d just roll with it despite being from a comparatively mundane world. I don't think he'd like knowing exactly what was shown in his movie, though. Those were private moments with Larry. :(
Offensive Subjects: IDK, I guess check with me if you have doubts. I'm pretty chill but can be sensitive about bigotry (despite being Tarantino trash).
[IC]
This is the permissions list for IC (in-character), activity.
Hugging this character: Yes.
Kissing this character: Yes.
Flirting with this character: Yes.
Fighting with this character: Yes.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Minor injuries are fine, but be polite and contact me before doing anything major, please.
Killing this character: Doesn’t he already die tragically enough in canon? :(
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes, that’s fine.
Warnings: Just a lot of swearing, and I guess maybe descriptions of violence because he’s from a violent movie and a violent universe (Tarantino’s “Realer Than Real World Universe" is not as spectacularly violent as his "Movie Movie Universe," but still. It's violent.)
