Mr. Blonde, White, Orange, Pink, and Quentin Tarantino talk about making the film and how audience reactions have changed since its release. This article contains minor spoilers for Reservoir Dogs, but you know what? You've had 25 years to watch it by now. Much has changed in the 25 years since Reservoir Dogs premiered: digital cameras, Quentin Tarantino's commercially successful career and, perhaps most importantly, a desensitization to the violence that propelled Tarantino and his films into the spotlight. "We used to count the walkouts," Tarantino remarked after the screening of his first feature film at the Tribeca Film Festival. In the now-infamous scene, as Mr. Blonde (played by Michael Madsen) prepares to torture the cop he kidnapped, dancing "maniacally" (as Tarantino writes in the script) to Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You," early 90s moviegoers would be so disturbed they would leave. "I counted 33 one time," Tarantino boasted, referring to the number of people who left the theater during the scene. Nowadays, the audience squirmed in their seats, not out of repulsion, but out of mimicry.

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