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''True Romance'' is a 1993 American romantic crime comedy film written by Creator/QuentinTarantino (based on a script by Creator/RogerAvary) and directed by Creator/TonyScott. It stars Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/PatriciaArquette, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and a then-relatively-unknown Creator/JamesGandolfini.
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''True Romance'' is a 1993 American romantic crime comedy film written by Creator/QuentinTarantino (based on a script by Creator/RogerAvary) and directed by Creator/TonyScott. It stars Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/PatriciaArquette, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and a then-relatively-unknown Creator/JamesGandolfini.
Creator/JamesGandolfini. It was scored by Music/HansZimmer.
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A notable part of ''True Romance''[='=]s legacy is its influence on future media works. Brad Pitt's [[TheStoner stoner]] character Floyd inspired the creation of ''Film/PineappleExpress''[[note]]Creator/JuddApatow, a producer on the film, reportedly "thought it would be funny to make a movie in which you follow that character out of his apartment and watch him get chased by bad guys"[[/note]], and the film helped James Gandolfini land the role of Tony Soprano on ''Series/TheSopranos'' (he was invited to audition after the show's casting director saw a clip of his performance as Virgil).
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A notable part of ''True Romance''[='=]s legacy is its influence on future media works. Brad Pitt's [[TheStoner stoner]] character Floyd inspired the creation of ''Film/PineappleExpress''[[note]]Creator/JuddApatow, a producer on the film, reportedly "thought it would be funny to make a movie in which you follow that character out of his apartment and watch him get chased by bad guys"[[/note]], and the film helped James Gandolfini land the role of Tony Soprano on ''Series/TheSopranos'' (he (as he was invited to audition after the show's casting director saw a clip of his performance as Virgil).
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The movie is notable, beyond its star-launching casting, for being the film that put Tarantino's writing on the Hollywood map. Additionally, it is fairly well-known and liked within the movie industry (which makes sense, given [[AllStarCast all the stars in it]]); but isn't too widely known to the general public, except among Tarantino fans.
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The movie film is notable, beyond its star-launching [[StarMakingRole star-launching]] casting, for being the film that put Tarantino's writing on the Hollywood map. Additionally, it is fairly well-known It was his first screenplay for a major motion picture, and liked within the movie industry (which makes sense, given [[AllStarCast all the stars although he originally hoped to direct it, he eventually sold it in it]]); but isn't too widely known order to the general public, except among finance his directorial debut feature ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', which was released around a year prior to this film. Tarantino fans.
has gone on record describing the screenplay as his most autobiographical to date.
A notable part of ''True Romance''[='=]s legacy is its influence on future media works. Brad Pitt's [[TheStoner stoner]] character Floyd inspired the creation of ''Film/PineappleExpress''[[note]]Creator/JuddApatow, a producer on the film, reportedly "thought it would be funny to make a movie in which you follow that character out of his apartment and watch him get chased by bad guys"[[/note]], and the film helped James Gandolfini land the role of Tony Soprano on ''Series/TheSopranos'' (he was invited to audition after the show's casting director saw a clip of his performance as Virgil).
A notable part of ''True Romance''[='=]s legacy is its influence on future media works. Brad Pitt's [[TheStoner stoner]] character Floyd inspired the creation of ''Film/PineappleExpress''[[note]]Creator/JuddApatow, a producer on the film, reportedly "thought it would be funny to make a movie in which you follow that character out of his apartment and watch him get chased by bad guys"[[/note]], and the film helped James Gandolfini land the role of Tony Soprano on ''Series/TheSopranos'' (he was invited to audition after the show's casting director saw a clip of his performance as Virgil).
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* ScreamingWarrior: [[spoiler: Once Alabama unambiguously gets the upper hand against Virgil and gets a hold of his shotgun, she comes off sounding like a]] [[spoiler: [[StarWars Tusken Raider]]]] [[spoiler: and even brandishes the shotgun as such.]]
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* ScreamingWarrior: [[spoiler: Once Alabama unambiguously gets the upper hand against Virgil and gets a hold of his shotgun, she comes off sounding like a]] [[spoiler: [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Tusken Raider]]]] [[spoiler: and even brandishes the shotgun as such.]]
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* FailedASpotCheck: Twice in the movie, the gangsters could have saved themselves a great deal of time and trouble -- as well as probably fast enough to avoid the fatal confrontations near the end -- if they had done even the bare minimum of detective work in their hunt for the stolen drugs.
** After a ruthless and extraneous interrogation of Clifford Worley -- who gives them nothing but the Sicilian speech -- they murder him, and then one of them notices the information they were after was on a note pinned to his refrigerator. They could have found that as soon as they walked in, but chose to wait until Clifford got home from work to beat it out of him.
** After viciously beating Alabama to within an inch of her life, she finally reveals to Virgil that the briefcase full of drugs is hidden... under the bed in the motel room they're in. Even Virgil himself can't believe he didn't look under the bed, after he waited however long for Alabama to return to her room and then wasted even more time beating her for information.
** After a ruthless and extraneous interrogation of Clifford Worley -- who gives them nothing but the Sicilian speech -- they murder him, and then one of them notices the information they were after was on a note pinned to his refrigerator. They could have found that as soon as they walked in, but chose to wait until Clifford got home from work to beat it out of him.
** After viciously beating Alabama to within an inch of her life, she finally reveals to Virgil that the briefcase full of drugs is hidden... under the bed in the motel room they're in. Even Virgil himself can't believe he didn't look under the bed, after he waited however long for Alabama to return to her room and then wasted even more time beating her for information.
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** Also Elliot, who drives over the speed limit while doing cocaine after arranging a major drug deal. And he only makes things worse after getting pulled over.
** This even extends to Vincenzo Coccotti and his mafioso goons, the supposed professional criminals. Despite their arrogance and fancy suits, they're all thugs who can't solve a problem without torture, murder or the threat of either one.
** This even extends to Vincenzo Coccotti and his mafioso goons, the supposed professional criminals. Despite their arrogance and fancy suits, they're all thugs who can't solve a problem without torture, murder or the threat of either one.
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: At the big three way MexicanStandOff at the end, [[spoiler:everyone besides Alabama, Clarence, and Dick (and Vincenzo, who isn't there) dies, and Clarence gets his eye shot out.]]
* EvilDetectingDog: Clifford's dog provides a FiveSecondForeshadowing running away right before the mobsters ambush the man.
* EvilDetectingDog: Clifford's dog provides a FiveSecondForeshadowing running away right before the mobsters ambush the man.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Clifford's dog provides a FiveSecondForeshadowing running away right before the mobsters ambush the man.
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* KillEmAll: At the big three way MexicanStandOff at the end, [[spoiler:everyone besides Alabama, Clarence, and Dick (and Vincenzo, who isn't there) dies, and Clarence gets his eye shot out.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: How do you fight for your life and win against someone who's over a foot taller than you, outweighs you by over a hundred pounds, and kills people for a living? As the fight between Alabama and Virgil shows, ''[[CombatPragmatist not fairly]]''.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Tired of relationships? Try a romance.]]
''True Romance'' is a 1993 movie written by Creator/QuentinTarantino (based on a script by Creator/RogerAvary) and directed by Creator/TonyScott. It stars Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/PatriciaArquette, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and a then-relatively-unknown Creator/JamesGandolfini.
[[caption-width-right:300:Tired of relationships? Try a romance.]]
''True Romance'' is a 1993 movie written by Creator/QuentinTarantino (based on a script by Creator/RogerAvary) and directed by Creator/TonyScott. It stars Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/PatriciaArquette, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and a then-relatively-unknown Creator/JamesGandolfini.
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''True Romance'' is a 1993
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The movie is notable, beyond its star-launching casting, for being the film that put Tarantino's writing on the Hollywood map. Additionally, it is fairly well-known (and well-liked) within the movie industry, given [[AllStarCast all the stars in it]]; but it isn't widely known, except among Tarantino fans.
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The movie is notable, beyond its star-launching casting, for being the film that put Tarantino's writing on the Hollywood map. Additionally, it is fairly well-known (and well-liked) and liked within the movie industry, industry (which makes sense, given [[AllStarCast all the stars in it]]; it]]); but it isn't too widely known, known to the general public, except among Tarantino fans.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The film has an impressively large and star-studded ensemble.
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''True Romance'' is a 1993 movie written by Creator/QuentinTarantino (based on a script by Creator/RogerAvary) and directed by Creator/TonyScott. It stars Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/PatriciaArquette, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/JamesGandolfini, and Creator/ChristopherWalken.
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''True Romance'' is a 1993 movie written by Creator/QuentinTarantino (based on a script by Creator/RogerAvary) and directed by Creator/TonyScott. It stars Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/PatriciaArquette, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/JamesGandolfini, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and Creator/ChristopherWalken.
a then-relatively-unknown Creator/JamesGandolfini.
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''True Romance'' is a 1993 movie written by Creator/QuentinTarantino (based on a script by Creator/RogerAvary) and directed by Creator/TonyScott. It stars Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/PatriciaArquette, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/JamesGandolfini, and Creator/ChristopherWalken.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Clifford's dog provides a FiveSecondForeshadowing running away right before the mobsters ambush the man.
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* ClickHello: The mobsters are waiting for Clifford inside his van and introduce themselves in this way, with a pistol to his head.
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* ClickHello: The mobsters are waiting for Clifford inside his van and introduce themselves in this way, with a pistol to his head.
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* StupidCrooks: Clarence could have gotten away with all, but he left his driver license on a dead guy's hand.
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* ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun: All the clues that [[LivingLieDetector Don Vincenzo]] could extract from Clifford's torture become redundant after they find Clarence's motel address written on a pinned paper just afterwards.
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* BenevolentBoss: While he can be snarky and short-tempered, Lee does seem to have genuine affection for Elliott, saying he viewed him [[LikeASonToMe like a son]], and is absolutely devastated when he finds out that Elliott was the one who led the cops to him.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Alabama and Clarence are thieves and a murderer in Clarence's case who plan to sell stolen drugs for their own benefit and do so to Lee Donowitz who is heavily implied to be a dealer among Hollywood circles. The gangsters chasing them however are ''much'' worse and have no issue killing innocents to get back their drugs.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Alabama and Clarence are thieves and a murderer in Clarence's case who plan to sell stolen drugs for their own benefit and do so to Lee Donowitz who is heavily implied to be a dealer among Hollywood circles. The cops are on the side of the law but are also fairly ruthless in their intimidation of Elliott, quite willing to send him to prison if he doesn't cooperate. The gangsters chasing them however are ''much'' worse and have no issue killing innocents to get back their drugs.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in the fight between Alabama and Virgil.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in the fight between Alabama and Virgil. Alabama is left looking absolutely ''brutal'' afterwards and spends the rest of the film with the resulting bruises which she has to explain away.
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* BlackAndGreyMoralityBlackAndGreyMorality: Alabama and Clarence are thieves and a murderer in Clarence's case who plan to sell stolen drugs for their own benefit and do so to Lee Donowitz who is heavily implied to be a dealer among Hollywood circles. The gangsters chasing them however are ''much'' worse and have no issue killing innocents to get back their drugs.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lee Donowitz was probably written as a take on Creator/OliverStone, as a major Hollywood player and a bit of a coke-lover best known for directing a movie about UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. The rushes playing in his home are actually from ''Film/{{Platoon}}''. However, director Tony Scott stated that the character is based on producer Joel Silver in response to his negative experience directing ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''. According to him, he went out of his way to make sure the character looked, sounded, and acted exactly like Silver as an extended TakeThat
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lee Donowitz was probably written as a take on Creator/OliverStone, as a major Hollywood player and a bit of a coke-lover best known for directing a movie about UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (Notably, this was ''before'' Tarantino very publicly disowned Stone's [[Film/NaturalBornKillers adaptation of one of his scripts]]). The rushes playing in his home are actually from ''Film/{{Platoon}}''. However, director Tony Scott stated that the character is based on producer Joel Silver in response to his negative experience directing ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''. According to him, he went out of his way to make sure the character looked, sounded, and acted exactly like Silver as an extended TakeThat
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Don Vincenzo appears to have this reaction to Clifford's jibes about Sicilians being spawned by "niggers". [[spoiler: It turns out Don Vincenzo actually finds it pretty unamusing, as he headshots Clifford for the tirade. Or he respected Clifford's courage, but couldn't allow his disrespect to go unpunished.]]
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Don Vincenzo appears to have this reaction to Clifford's jibes about Sicilians being spawned by "niggers".Black people. [[spoiler: It turns out Don Vincenzo actually finds it pretty unamusing, as he headshots Clifford for the tirade. Or he respected Clifford's courage, but couldn't allow his disrespect to go unpunished.]]
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The upbeat techno music during the scene with Drexl, the calm soothing piece during the Virgil scene and the Sicilian scene.
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** The Sicilianscene. ominous scene, mixing torture, death and Delibes' operistic piece "Flower Duet".
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Don Vincenzo appears to have this reaction to Clifford's jibes about Sicilians being spawned by Black people."niggers". [[spoiler: It turns out Don Vincenzo actually finds it pretty unamusing, as he headshots Clifford for the tirade. Or he respected Clifford's courage, but couldn't allow his disrespect to go unpunished.]]
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* AMFMCharacterization: Clarence is a huge fan of Music/ElvisPresley, to the extent that Elvis appears as his conscience.
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* AMFMCharacterization: Clarence is a huge fan of Music/ElvisPresley, to the extent that Elvis appears as his conscience. He and Alabama also bond over their shared love of Music/JanisJoplin.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Don Vincenzo appears to have this reaction to Clifford's jibes about Sicilians being spawned by Black people. [[spoiler: It turns out Don Vincenzo actually finds it pretty unamusing, as he headshots Clifford for the tirade. Or he respected Clifford's courage, but couldn't allow his disrespect to go unpunished.]]
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-->'''Boris''': Hey, Lee, something I never told you about me: ''I hate fucking cops''.
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* CopHater: Lee's mooks.
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-->'''Boris''': Hey, Lee, something I never told you about me: ''I hate fucking cops''.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Don Vincenzo and Virgil. Before their respective interrogations, they try being polite and cooperative. Eventually, they drop their pretenses.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Drexl ''really'' wants to be this, but it just makes him come off as an even bigger {{Jerkass}} than he already is.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Don Vincenzo and Virgil. Before their respective interrogations, they try being polite and cooperative. Eventually, they drop their pretenses.
** Drexl ''really'' wants to be this, but it just makes him come off as an even bigger {{Jerkass}} than he alreadyis.is.
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** Drexl ''really'' wants to be this, but it just makes him come off as an even bigger {{Jerkass}} than he already
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Elliott]] attempts to ask Dimes to let him off from the Mexican standoff, but the latter refuses. This comes to bite him in the ass when it allowed Lee to discover who TheMole is.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** [[spoiler:Elliott]] attempts to ask Dimes to let him off from the Mexican standoff, but the latter refuses. This comes to bite him in the ass when it allowed Lee to discover who TheMoleis.is.
** Dick Richie manages to distract both the cops and Italians in the final shootout and high-tail it out of there.
** [[spoiler:Elliott]] attempts to ask Dimes to let him off from the Mexican standoff, but the latter refuses. This comes to bite him in the ass when it allowed Lee to discover who TheMole
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* SelfPlagiarism: The opening dialogue where says he'd fuck Elvis was lifted from a monologue in Tarantino's short film ''My Best Friend's Birthday''.
