10 Iconic Movie Moments That Were Completely Improvised

8. Michael Madsen's Exchange With An Ear - Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino is a writer-director capable of crafting dialogue like few others, and his debut feature Reservoir Dogs - loosely based on Ringo Lam's Hong Kong action movie City on Fire - is certainly no exception. The lengthy conversations between the gangsters are full of wisecracking banter and effortless streams of digressions, with Tarantino playing off genre conventions as effortlessly as he transcends them. But not every line of dialogue in Reservoir Dogs is the result of meticulous scripting - indeed, one of the most iconic and controversial scenes in the movie, in which Michael Madsen's Mr Blonde tortures a police officer and chops off one of his ears, was largely down to Madsen himself. After severing the ear he takes things one step further and starts talking into it - the result is one of the greatest spur of the moment improvisations in modern cinema. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqRHjYl955s