Killing Zoe
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Synopsis
Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he's up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There's only one problem: Zed's call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed!
Review
After Reservoir Dogs proved that you could do different things with heist movies, everyone wanted to jump on board. Funnily enough, a load of Tarantino's mates were among them, and this is where this mish-mash of a film comes from. Some excellent scenes are, unfortunately, spoiled by a weak story, and dodgy acting. Worth a viewing, but not really up to the standards of other similar films.
Trivia
- Although the film's set is suposed to be Paris, it was entirely shot in L.A. The crew just shot the first and the final road sequences in the city of Paris.
- The idea behind making the film actually came about when Roger Avary was scouting locations for Quentin Tarantino on Reservoir Dogs (1992). Avary found a great bank set in Los Angeles and informed Tarantino, who said that although the location was no good for Dogs, it would be good for a film set in a bank. One of Avary's scripts, Killing Zoe (1994), was almost entirely set in a bank, and with that as the motivation, the making of the film began.
- Roger Avary wrote the script in roughly a week and a half. He also wrote the role of Zed specifically for Eric Stoltz.
- The title is intending to be ironic, or at least an oxymoron. Zoe is the Greek work for life.
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