Posted on 01/15/2016 10:41:58 AM PST by Citizen Zed
The gang's colorful character aliases (Pink, Orange, White, Blonde) remain the same, but the operative honorifics have shifted from Mr. to Ms.
"The sheer nature of switching gender switches empathies," according to director Troy Heard.
Or, as actress Valerie Carpenter Bernstein (alias Ms. White) explains, "there's a basic psychological difference between men and women, logic versus emotion. When you apply that to any stressful situation, you automatically heighten the stakes."
For writer Erika Soerensen, however, changing "Reservoir's" resident "Dogs" to "Dolls" had a more basic inspiration.
When she saw "Reservoir Dogs" for the first time, "I was blown away (pun intended) by it," she notes in an email interview. "The dialogue was so witty and intense and interesting - Tarantino is a genius with words - and I thought, 'Women never get a chance to indulge in such meaty characters and dialogue; it's always the same milquetoast parts recycled over and over again.' "
Believing women "can totally take these emotions and scenarios to the same level as men," Soerensen determined to "show that to the world," changing "Reservoir's" lead characters to women, "so that other female actors (including myself) have the opportunity to dig into such juicy roles and show the world how much emotion, anger and range we can carry."
That strategy represented "a very risky experiment," she adds, "because I was taking an extremely masculine cult classic and turning it on its head - like conceptual theater art - and it worked!"
Soerensen's "Reservoir Dolls" debuted in 2009 in Chico, Calif. (where she's based), with the author as Ms. White; she played Ms. Pink in 2011 in Seattle. (The current Onyx version is the fourth, following a 2012 Portland production.)
Throughout, "I wanted to keep it REAL," Soerensen emails, "not some silly parody with boobs and lipstick."
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Throughout, “I wanted to keep it REAL,” Soerensen emails, “not some silly parody with boobs and lipstick.”
Show me where organized criminal gangs of murderous female jewel thieves exist in reality...
“Three men were suspected of being behind the theft...”
“In a further robbery, four gang members dressed themselves up as women...”
“In 2013, the gang was suspected to have struck again when a man wearing a ball cap and a scarf covering his face...”
Doesn’t sound like an all-female gang to me.
Well, they have at least one female member though:
“In 2005, two men and one woman gang member from Serbia were arrested in Belgrade”
“I’m afraid Mr. Tarantino is unavailable right now. If it is before 10am, he is curled up naked on his bathroom floor weeping. If it is after 10am, he is sucking down cheap scotch until he passes out around 2-ish. Then, when he wakes up around 5 or so he hits the scotch again to take him through the night.”
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