True Romance
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Short description
Clarence Worley spends his birthday alone at a Detroit cinema, watching a martial arts triple feature, until a blonde woman named Alabama sits down beside him. Within a day the two are married, and Clarence learns that Alabama works as a call girl and that his friend arranged their meeting as a gift. When Clarence goes to collect her belongings from her pimp, the visit turns violent, and the couple leaves with a suitcase of cocaine that was never theirs. Its owners want it back, and the two newlyweds go on the run with the police and several criminals behind them.
Tony Scott directed the film, the seventh of the sixteen features in his filmography, following The Last Boy Scout and preceding Crimson Tide. Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay with Roger Avary. Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette play the couple, with Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt among a credited cast of forty.
Made for about 13 million dollars, the film took in roughly the same amount at the worldwide box office. On IMDb it holds 7.9 out of 10 from around 260,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.5 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 7.8 out of 10 from sixty reviews places it slightly below the IMDb audience figure and above the TMDB one.
What's left behind the scenes
- Elliot's monologue in the scene where he is stopped by a police officer is an improvisation by Bronson Pinchot.
- Brad Pitt himself suggested the idea of his character being "chained" to the couch.
- After filming was completed, Tony Scott gifted Patricia Arquette the "Cadillac" used for the filming.
- Quentin Tarantino sold the script for $50,000, which according to WGA rules was the minimum amount a screenwriter could receive for their work.
- Number of corpses: 21. All of them are men, all died from gunshot wounds.
- Jack Black played a cameo role: a ticket taker at a movie theater. However, the scene with his participation was cut from the film. This scene can be found on the DVD in the "Deleted Scenes" section.
- In the first version of the script, Drexel killed Big Don and Floyd Dee because the latter called him "white boy." Marty was also absent from this scene.
- In this film, a poster for the movie "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967) can be seen in Dick and Floyd's apartment.
- Initially, the script for "True Romance" was part of a huge script written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery. Another part of this script was later used for "Natural Born Killers" (1994). In both films, Tom Sizemore played a police officer.
- When Clarence and Alabama show Dick the cocaine in the hotel room, the film playing on TV is "Immortal Corporation" (1992).
- According to Dennis Hopper, there was practically no improvisation in the scene of the dialogue between Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) and Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper); the actors only added phrases about "eggplant" and "cantaloupe".
- William Lustig, a director of B-movies, could have directed the film, but his candidacy was rejected by Quentin Tarantino.
- Quentin Tarantino sold the film's script in order to raise funds to finance "Reservoir Dogs" (1991).
- Patricia Arquette's voiceover monologue at the beginning of the film is borrowed from "Badlands" (1973).
- According to Quentin Tarantino, he never once appeared on the set during the entire production of the film.
- The film that Alabama and Clarence watch in the apartment is "A Better Tomorrow 2" (1987) by John Woo.
- The original ending: Clarence dies in a shootout at a motel, and Alabama remains a widow. According to Tarantino, Alabama was subsequently supposed to meet Mr. White (a character from "Reservoir Dogs" (1991)) and begin living with him on the other side of the law. In one of the scenes from "Reservoir Dogs", Mr. White is asked about Alabama.
- Initially, Clarence, Alabama, Dick, and Elliot were supposed to meet at the zoo. Tony Scott changed the meeting place to an amusement park.
- The word “fuck” is uttered 225 times throughout the film.
- It took make-up artists 8 hours to transform Val Kilmer into Elvis Presley. Fortunately for Kilmer, all the scenes with his participation were filmed in two days.
- Filming the roller coaster scene took two days.
- Quentin Tarantino sold the film's script to raise funds to finance "Reservoir Dogs".
- According to Gary Oldman, he imitated the image of Drexel from actor Willem Dafoe, with whom he later starred together in "Léon" (1994).
- Initially, the screenplay had a different structure: the first two-thirds of the film were to be told in a non-linear order.
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