Steve, he comes to me and he goes, Quentin, did you hear what everyone is saying?
Theyre saying the torture scene ruins the movie!'
And I go, What are they talking about?
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Its the best thing in the fing movie!
Did you see how many people walked out?
Thats the sh!'
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As Tarantino recalled, he spent the better part of 1992 travelingReservoir Dogsaround the world to various film festivals.
Finally Ive got an audience that wont walk out.
I even joked about that in the opening introduction for the movie.
Five people walked out of that audience, including Wes Craven, Tarantino said.
The fing guy who didLast House on the Leftwalked out?
The guy who didLast House on the Left, my movies too tough for him.
You never made me do it in rehearsal because I was so intimidated by it.
I didnt know what to do, Madsen recalled.
In the script, it said, Mr. Blonde maniacally dances around.
I remember specifically thats what it said.
And I kept thinking, What the f does that mean?
Tarantino said the entire scene was done in three takes, but Madsens dance occurred during the first.
I didnt know what the hell to do.
I heard that music and I said, Oh f, I better do something,' Madsen said.
I remember thinking about Jimmy Cagney.
I remember this weird little thing he did in a movie I saw.
He did this crazy little dance thing and it just popped into my head at the last second.
Thats where it came from.
Unsurprisingly, it still follows Madsen around to this day as well.
I went to Michigan to open up this theater.
They were going to name it for Michael Madsen.
And I thought it was great, Madsen recalled.
I was like, Oh my God!
There is no way Im going to do that.
I started imagining myself at 80 years old, someone asking me to do the Mr. Blonde dance.
Its been following me around forever.
