Where the fuck has this movie been all my life?
True Romance was released in 1993, Quentin Tarantino's 2nd big-screen project (as a writer), the first being Reservoir Dogs, though the internet claims QT wrote and sold True Romance before Dogs ever existed. In any event, TR stars Christian Slater and an absolutely smoking Patricia Arquette, and features, in no particular order, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Chris Penn, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini, Val Kilmer, Michael Rapaport and Bronson Pinchot, among others, and yet before about 10.30pm last night I'd never even heard of this movie, let alone seen it.
That fact constitutes a minor fucking travesty because True Romance is the absolute tits. Classic Tarantino, through and through. The plot centers on a Bonnie and Clyde like romance between Slater and Arquette and an aborted drug deal that they've unwittingly become party to, all of it interspersed with smoking, smart, cool-as-shit dialogue, and scenes of relentless comic-book style violence. One scene in particular, between Christopher Walken, a Sicilian mafioso, and Dennis Hopper, a retired Detroit cop, is maybe the best - nay, is the best - mob interrogation scene I have ever seen. Talk about getting fucked-up with some truth.
Watch this movie sometime.
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5 comments:
Taratino's latest 'Inglorious Basterds' is out August 21st.(and starring the aforementioned Mr. Pitt) Don't sleep on this one, Machine!
you just saw this? i am glad you posted the correct scene.
BAM - arent you part sicilian, so doesnt that make you part ________ ?
That scene kicks so much ass. I wish Tarantino would have been directed this one, it probably would have been even better. I watched this the second time with the Tarantino commentary on the DVD... only time I've ever done that and it was cool.
It's crazy how everyone I've talked to has seen this movie -- and loved it -- and yet I've never heard of it. It's like some kind of weird Twilight Zone episode.
I was poking around on the webs and read that Tarentino's scrip is actually pretty different than what ended up on screen. E.g. - Slater dies in that hotel shoot-out. Also, the original script was non-linear, a la Pulp Fiction. Probably would've kicked fucking-ass even more had Quentin been behind the camera.
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