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Stuck In The Middle

Stuck in the Middle


Michael W. Johnson English 151 10/12/95


Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealers Wheel when they
recorded a Dylanesque pop hit, "Stuck in the Middle With You", in April of 1974.
The single reached number five on the charts - little did they know that
eighteen years later it would become a cult favorite.
In 1992 Quentin Tarantino, a little known writer/director, took the
Cannes film festival and the world by surprise with his motion picture Reservoir
Dogs. The movie is about the difficulties that occur when five "master"
criminals are hired by a crime king pin named Joe to pull off the biggest
diamond heist of the century.
Stuck right in the middle of the movie, the Egan/Rafferty hit is played
as a introduction to one of the best or worst torture seens ever in the history
of movies. It depends on how you look at it. I'll set-up the scene in the movie
where it is being played, try and follow me... The five criminals hired go by
color-coded names . During the heist the cops show and things got out of
control. Two of the robbers were shot and killed after Mr. Blonde, the "on the
edge" gangster started shooting up the place when an employee triggered the
alarm. Mr. White and Mr. Orange (an undercover cop) escaped the scene and
headed for the hideout where all the men were supposed to meet. On the way to
the hideout Mr. Orange was shot, he was bleeding severely but the injury was not
life threatening. Shortly after their arrival, Mr. Pink met with them and they
all anxiousley waited for Mr. Blonde.
Mr. Blonde, acting cool and unaffected by the mornings events, made his
entrance. After being questioned by Mr. White about why he went psycho in the
store, Mr. Blonde called them out to see a "surprise" he had in his trunk. Mr.
Blonde in an effort to find out how the police heard about the robbery in
advance had kidnapped a police officer. They carried the man into the warehouse
and after tying him to a chair Mr. White...