A great film with a great cast. An iconic film that only captures your attention with ease. Plus, Brad Pitt has an excellent cameo that is really quite funny.
Another great film penned by Tarantino, this tells the story of a escort girl Alabama and comic book store worker Clarence (Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater) who find true love in each other after she is set up with him by a friend of his. Deciding to flee after Clarence has a run in with one Alabama's pimp Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman), they take a suitcase with half a million dollars worth of raw, uncut cocaine with them to Los Angeles to try and sell it, despite having a mob from Detroit (led by Christopher Walken) as well as the LAPD on their tails. They find Clarence's friend Dick (Michael Rapaport) who helps them find a buyer for their cocaine through a friend high up in the movie industry.
A huge cast and Tarantino's story makes it another modern classic.
omg... this movie is amazing, Quentin's first big movie that he wrote, and it is amazing. Love the dialogue, Tony Scott never dissapoints, and the acting is amazing. Brad Pitt is hilarious, Slater and Arquette are phenomenal, and the story is so ridiculous that it is believable. I Love this movie!
we should thank to tarantino for such a good senary .although tarantino's senary is changed a lot you can easily feel the tarantino speeches and contradictory way of the movie.by the way, patricia's voice is just great
"true romance" is another hallmark of 90s neo-noir subculture since tarantino rises up with "pulp fiction"...the story of "true romance" is the creation of tarantino's slacker reveries, and the result squeaks outloud as the memoir of a screwy geek's phallic fantasies as well as a naively twisted american dream with good sense of obscene humor. despite it's helmed by director tony scott, the tarantino spirit is reeking relentlessly.
an elvis presley fanatic who indulges himself in comics and cantonese kung-fu flicks discovers true love from a hooker (who insists calling herself "call girl") working for only 4 days with 3 clients. the hooker doesn't get tedious with the geek's endless chattering on elvis but feels amused instead. then the geek decides to kill the hooker's pimp to do her justice but accidentally elopes with a suitcase of cocaine. so they attempt to make a fortune for themselves out of it by heading hollywood for a whole big sale in spite of the involvement of ferocious mobsters.
tarantino once remarks in an interview, if he shows a girl the things he loves, she better f***ing like it! same goes for the scenarios of "true romance"...christian slater's character even wears a leather jacket with the flag of "repubic of china"(which is my country) on his back in the prologue of performing his chivalry while his ex-hooker wife is staring at the tv with early hong kong flick starring Yun-Fat Chow (that i've seen in childhood as well) as if he was the bruce lee reclaiming the pride of china with his magnificent kung-fu as well as his elvis-styled sun glasses. an abitrary don quixote lives in his fantasyland.
one element of the taratino formuli would be the pastiche of postmodern orientalism resulted from watching too many cantonese movies in adolescence, he devolpes an everlasting juvenile fetish over some oriental formalities without absorbing the meaning or he just misuses them willfully as his peculiar sort of humor, such as the jap samurai sword appears in "kill bill" and "pulp fiction". one cannot help but wonder he's just a deviant westerner over-obssessed on such matters with self-abandoned narcissism.
the pinnacle of hilarious brass would probably be the confrontation between dennis hopper and christopher walken, and the abusive joke is on sicillions being half-black (but it seems funnier to use the "ni" word) since their female ancestors have been ravished by the moors so much.
the aspect of its deranged american dream would probably the protagonists' careless naivete to sell the coke then get rich, and apparently the flick is more in a romancist's angle since they make it and it also gratifies the audience's testerone with enough provovations of violence, profanity and a titilating blonde bombshell who seems dumb enough to utter "you're so cool!" all the time to stimulate your libido. wouldn't that be an ideal boyish dreamland? being a never-do-good then suddenly, boom! you get everything and a hot chic! but who would say it's no fun despite it's obviously impractical and far from reality? ha.
With the most amazing ensemble cast in decades you get much more than expected from actors not around so much anymore. This film goes out in typical Tarrantino fashion with guns, gore and a brilliant score. If for nothing else you will love it for that.
Where have I been since 1993? I can't believe I did not see this until recently. Everyone I know loves it. I read an article in Maxim and it inspired me to watch it.
Written by Tarantino, directed in his style of blood and gritty violence by Tony Scott. Slater plays a man obsessed with Elvis and his lady Alabama...a love story with a suitcase full of cocaine to sell, so they can leave their past behind them and start a new life together. One of the gnarliest fight scene I've seen...almost unbearable to watch.
If you haven't seen this (like me), you really need to jump to it...especially if you are a Tarantino fan and you enjoy a insane love story.
I was really hoping I would love this film after reading all the reviews of people who loved it. So glad I did. The plot was just perfect. With this, they could have got it so wrong and they didn't. It could have been overbearing, stupid and cheesy but it was none of those things. The performances were all excellent, with some huge actors getting very small roles but working with them brilliantly. I've never been a fan of Christian Slater and felt slightly reserved about him being in this film but this has completely changed my mind about him. He was perfect for the part and together with Patricia Arquette, they really did make a great couple. The chemistry was all there which, for this film was rather important. The smaller characters pulled the film together and really made it what it was. Christopher Walken was brilliant as the mob boss. Chris Penn made a really great cop. Brad Pitt as the stoner room mate was classic. Gary Oldman as the pimp just made me laugh. And Val Kilmer as Elvis just threw me off the whole film. The whole character of Elvis was a little odd but for some reason it worked. I worried about the ending most of the way through the film as it just kept building and building and I didn't want it to be a dud climax. But it wasn't in the slightest. Completely worked. Definatly a highly recommended film.
Quentin Tarantino has always been a better writer than a director, and this script is very strong. Christian Slater gives the performance of his career, aided by the mighty writing. The movie is funny, but intense and quite energetic.
This film would have worked a lot better if it was made by a different director, and if Quentin Tarantino had written it 3 to 5 years later. Ultra-violent film with no depth and little brains. Slater, Arquette and Oldman are amazing, though.
a very strong movie...veryyyyyy close to being an all-time classic...great acting by great actors, crackling script..very violent..but wowwwwwww..entertaining to the max
Great Movie! Not as good as PF, but a great story, characters, plot. Gotta love Tarantino, although this is a Tony Scott film. Gary Oldman was fantastic!
i love gary oldman's character..i barely recognized him! pitt is hardly in it. walken either. :( slater and arquette do a great job. arquette is scantily clad most of the movie...and she's curvy. it's action-packed...but not a real deep plot. watch if you want an action flick for amusement, not so much to think about. we all get in those moods. ;) overall, i liked it.
Clarence: If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
One of my favorites. So many things make this film great. I'll start with the Sicilian scene. It features Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken. Both are at their best. The scene is shot with an ominous tone with some heavenly music in the background, slowly fading in over time. The characters are at a point where certain death is upon them, but what happens? One character goes on a tangent and discusses another topic entirely to denote the situation. This scene is so perfect, that it pretty much makes the movie.
Clifford Worley: You know, I don't believe you. Coccotti: That's of minor importance. What is of major fucking importance is that I believe you.
As for the rest, here we have a story that is essentially a romantic-adventure tale. The film was scripted by Tarantino, who could have made a non-linear, hard boiled action movie with darkly comedic undertones, with a little romance, but instead he just supplies all of the dialog and characters to make things very sharp, snappy, funny and cool.
Drexl Spivey: They got everything here from a diddled-eyed joe to damned if I know.
Tony Scott puts the story on a steady path, inter cutting through the many different segments of the story with all the characters, while keeping everything easy to follow and very quickly paced.
Nicholson: Man, this boy Clarence is a wild one, I like'em.
Christian Slater does his best work here as cool, down on his luck, loser that finds love with a call girl played by an equally impressive Patricia Arquette. These two, together, are adorable, with all the situations they get into, you just want them to stay together.
Alabama: Did I do my part okay? Clarence Worley: Bamaloo you were perfect. Alabama: Like a ninja? Clarence Worley: Like a ninja.
The story revolves around these two characters meeting, instantly falling in love with each other and getting married. Problems arise when Slater's character, Clarence, decides to confront his new wife's former pimp Drexyl. After doing so, he realizes he has mistakenly taken a large amount of cocaine from him, and decides to take his wife to Hollywood, hoping to sell of the drugs to some big movie producer, and use the money to make new lives for him and his wife. Problems arise as the mob still wants their drugs back.
Nicholson: You're an actor. Act, motherfucker.
The movie is filled with an ensemble cast, who all have scenes that achieve their purpose. Gary Oldman provides another unique, evil character. You have sidekick actors Tom Sizemore and Chris Penn as two cops that should get their own series based on their scenes. Val Kilmer and Brad Pitt both pop up and do their own little things. Tony Soprano himself, James Gandolfini, also supplies a brutal portion of the film. Even Sam Jackson is able to make an appearance. And I've already mentioned the greatness of Walken and Hopper.
Clarence Worley: Well, he ain't so much a good guy as he is just a bad mother fucker. I mean, he gets paid by people to fuck guys up.
The story is fun and exciting. The music puts everything together very well, keeping the pace as well as acknowledging Clarence's love for Elvis. The gun play gets to levels that Scott knows how to put them in.
Mentor: I like you, Clarence. Always have. Always will.
This is an endlessly watchable movie, that is filled with good actors, great dialog, and a fast paced, entertaining story. Things add up all the way when I watch this.
Elliot: Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.
Clarence meets a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette). Of course, she doesn't tell him she's a prostitute until after they go back to his place for some no-charge bump-and-tickle. Inexplicably, the two get married the next day. Within a few days, Alabama tells Clarence about her pimp, a mean mammajamma named Drexl (Gary Oldman). Acting more in the fashion of his movie heroes than his personality, Clarence boldly walks into Drexl's house to tell him he's losing his girl. Things go badly, and Clarence ends up killing Drexl and making off with a suitcase he thinks contains her clothes. It doesn't?it's full of uncut cocaine. Faced with the opportunity of a very nice payoff, Clarence and Alabama head off to California. Clarence's friend Dick (Michael Rapaport) is an actor and has connections with Hollywood money men. Dick arranges a meeting with producer Lee Donowitz (Saul Rubinek). Naturally, things go horribly awry, and only through their undying love can the two lovers survive. True Romance, a brilliant, wildly energetic and blistering masterpiece that puts every fiber of its being on a collision course with greatness, producing an explosion of crackling dialogue, devastating violence, varied personalities and, of course, young love. Christina Slater and Patricia Arquette are the stars, and even though screen veterans like Oldman, Walken and Hopper surround them, they are not overshadowed in any way. Their love and dedication for each other is always apparent. Both actors bring to their parts naiveté and confidence. The supporting performances are all worth mentioning, but two in particular stand out. One is Brad Pitt as Floyd, Dick's roommate. Floyd gives the movie's funniest performance. He's onscreen briefly, but his response to Virgil, and later to the rest of the mob, concerning Clarence's whereabouts is hysterical. Also in a small role is Val Kilmer as Elvis. Highly recommanded.
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