How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Reservoir Dogs.
Quote #4
MR. BLONDE: Hold still! Hold still, you f***! [slices Marvin's ear off]. That as good for you as it was for me? [talks into sliced-off ear] Hey, what's going on? You hear that? Don't go anywhere. I'll be right back.
What makes this scene so horrifying isn't the violence of it. We don't even get a true shot of the ear slicing (not that we wanted one). No, the worst part is the overly casual way Blonde talks to Marvin. He makes jokes, telling him not to move, talking into the ear and telling him not to go anywhere when he's tied down. It's the nonchalance more than the blood that creeps us out.
Quote #5
HOLDAWAY: Pretend you're Don Rickles or some-f***ing-body and tell the joke, all right. Now the things you gotta remember are the details. It's the details that sell your story. Now this particular story takes place in a mens' room. So you got to know all the details about the mens' room; you gotta know if they got paper towels or a blower to dry your hands with. You gotta know if the stalls ain't got no doors or not, man. You gotta know if they got liquid soap or that pink granulated powdered s*** they used to use in high school, remember? You gotta know if they got hot water or not, if it stinks. If some nasty, low-life, scum-ridden motherf***er, man, sprayed diarrhea all over one of the bowls. You got to know every detail there is to know about this commode. So what you've got to do is take all them details, man, and make them your own. While you're doing that, you gotta remember this story's about you and how you perceived the events that went down. The only way to do that, my brother-- keep saying it and saying it and saying it and saying it and saying it.
Again, it's all about the details, and method acting—convincing yourself that you're the guy in the story so you can be convincing to others. Orange learns the tricks of the storytelling trade and manages to get the job. We're not sure what it was about him that Joe later said he "wasn't 100%" about, but Orange was able to make an impression.