The Killing influenced Reservoir Dogs

Tarantino has repeatedly named Kubrick's racetrack heist as the model for Reservoir Dogs, and what he took is the structure rather than the plot: a robbery told out of chronological order, doubling back to follow each member of the crew through the same hours. The interesting part is where Reservoir Dogs goes further. The Killing SHOWS its robbery, in detail and more than once, from different vantage points; Tarantino keeps the heist off screen entirely and gives the audience only the planning and the aftermath in a warehouse. He took Kubrick's fractured chronology and used it to withhold the thing the structure was built to reveal.