True Romance

True Romance Director : Tony Scott

Producers : Bill Unger , Steve Perry and Samuel Hadida

Screenplay : Quentin Tarantino

Music : Hans Zimmer

Released by Warner Brothers

Running Length : 1 :58

Date Released : 9 /10 /93

Rated : R (Extreme violence , language sex , nudity

Starring : Christian Slater , Patricia Arquette , Dennis Hopper

Christopher Walken , Saul Rubinek Bronson Pinchot

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True Romance is the love story of loner and Elvis lover Clarence Worley (Christian Slater , and self proclaimed Poor white Florida trash , call girl , Alabama

p Whitman (Patricia Arquette . They don 't meet until the second scene where Clarence is

in a movie theater watching his birthday movies , three low budget Kung-fu movies called

Streetfighter ' Return of the Streetfighter ' and Sister Streetfighter ' a reference to

Turantino 's love of old kung-fu movies . The first scene introduces Clarence Worley

talking to a woman in a bar about his fascination of Elvis his attraction to the allure . He

even confesses he would be the only man he would sleep with him if forced . This scene is

reminiscent of the first scene in Reservoir Dogs ' Where the men have a round table

discussion about the deep ramifications of Madonna 's Like a Virgin song ' As well as

the discussion at the opening scene between Odell and Luis in Jackie Brown ' about

guns

In the second scene Alabama Whitman enters and spills her popcorn all over

Clarence and asks him to tell her what she had missed . After the movie Alabama tells

Clarence she has a tradition where she goes somewhere to eat pie and talk about the

movie and asks Clarence if he would like to go eat pie with her . He agrees and they end

up at a diner talking over pie and coffee . Deep discussions while eating seems to be a

continuing factor in most Turentino films . I .e : Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega (Pulp

Fiction ) at Jack Rabbit Slims and Jackie Brown and Michael Keatan in (Jackie Brown

over steak dinner etc . We also see it again in True Romance when Clarence argues

with Alabama while eating hamburgers after he kills Drexl

In the diner , Clarence asks her a list of questions which she answers one by

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one . Clarence takes Alabama back to where he works , a comic book store and they spent

the night together . Meanwhile Alabama 's pimp Drexel (Gary Oldman ) is laughing , and

joking with some drug dealers , which he ends up blowing away and stealing their

suitcase full of Cocaine . It is a frantic , well-orchestrated , intense scene , which comes out

of nowhere sand-witched between Clarence and Alabama 's courtship . In the scene we

meet Drexl , but we don 't know that yet , until later . He is scary looking white guy , who

has dreadlocks , with one milky eye and one gold tooth and talks gangster . He thinks he

black , because his mother was part Cherokee (Explains Alabama . The intense part of

the scene is when Drexl picks up the drug dealers shotgun , caresses it like a girl and...