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Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealers Wheel whenthey recorded a Dylanesque pop hit, "Stuck in the Middle With You", inApril of 1974. The single reached number five on the charts - littledid they know that eighteen years later it would become a cult favorite.     In 1992 Quentin Tarantino, a little known writer/director, took theCannes film festival and the world by surprise with his motion pictureReservoir Dogs. The word-painting is ab come on the difficulties that arrive whenfive "master" criminals are hired by a crime king pin named Joe to pulloff the biggest diamond heist of the century.      Stuck right in the middle of the movie, the Egan/Rafferty hit isplayed as a introduction to one of the best or worst torture seens everin the history of movies. It depends on how you look at it.Ill set-up the scenery in the movie where it is being played, try andfollow me... The five criminals hired go by color-cod ed names . Duringthe heist the cops verbalise and things got out of control. Two of therobbers were shot and killed after Mr. Blonde, the "on the edge"gangster started shooting up the place when an employee triggered thealarm. Mr. fair and Mr. Orange (an undercover cop) escaped the sceneand headed for the hideout where all the men were supposed to meet. Onthe panache to the hideout Mr. Orange was shot, he was bleeding severely butthe injury was not vitality 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 hisentrance. After being questioned by Mr. White about why he went psychoin the store, Mr. Blonde called them out to see a "surprise" he had inhis trunk. Mr. Blonde in an effort to find out how the police heardabout the robbery in advance had kidnapped a police officer. Theycarried the man into the warehouse an d after tying him to a chair Mr.White and Mr. Pink commenced beating the hell out of him. They Askedhim to tell how the police knew of the heist, he said he knew nothingand after beating on him some more, pure Guy Eddie came in. He wasJoes son and told Mr. White and Mr. Pink that they would have to comewith him to ditch the cars. Mr. Blonde was told to stay and keep an eyeon the... ...ts about as cinematic a thing as you can do. Youre really doingwhat movies do better than any other art form. It works in thisvisceral, emotional, cinematic way thats special. And when you do itright and you hit it right, then you can never really hear that songagain without thinking about that image from the movie. Thats whatcomercials are tally on, but it never quite works with commercials.     The thing is, once a movie has done that with a song, as far as Imconcerned that movie owns it. I mean, theyve used "Stand By Me" somany times, but to me the one that used "S tand By Me" that way was TheWanderers. They play "Stand By Me" as the lead character, Ken Wahl,realizes that JFK has been shot. And its perfect."      I couldnt agree more with what Tarentino is saying. His moviesespecially draw upon music to make the scenes flow together in asurreal, stimulate style. What more can a movie connoisseur like myselfask for in a movie? As Tarentino says "Stand By Me" is perfect in TheWanderers, I say "Stuck in the Middle With You" is perfect in ResovoirDogs.