A note on the dialogue of Reservoir Dogs

Tarantino has gained much fame simply for his screwball dialogues. The conversations about Madonna and Tipping in the restaurant at the beginning of the film are prime examples of Tarantino's excellence in comedic, yet logical conversations. The conversations in Pulp Fiction are equally excellent I might add. Many rank Tarantino alone for this type of dialogue. While Tarantino may be the best, and is certainly an innovator of character conversations, there was another before him. One of Tarantino's major influences was from Monte Hellman. Monte Hellman used the odd conversations of his characters in the 1971 classic film, "Two Lane Blacktop" about two young men on a cross country driving trip. Tarantino's dialogue may be yet another way in which he pays homage to cinema's greats.