YMMV / True Romance

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Alabama's original fate, as hinted in Reservoir Dogs, remains canon while the events within the film's happy ending was a fantasy that Alabama written in her journal as a means to give her and Clarence some form of closure.
• Awesome Music: "You're So Cool", which has since become Recycled Trailer Music.
• Broken Base: in the director's cut Alabama shoots Detective Nicky Dimes after he executes Boris. However test audiences disliked it as they had sympathy for Dimes and lost it for Alabama as a result so in the theatrical cut it was re-edited so one of the mafioso shoots him. Fans still disagree which version is better.
• Director Displacement: It feels like a Quentin Tarantino film, but he didn't direct it. Tony Scott directed his script.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Drexl Spivey only appears in a few scenes at the beginning of the film, but he's one of the most memorable parts of the film thanks to being extremely bombastic and hammy, and being played to loathsome perfection by Gary Oldman.
  • Clarence’s father Clifford and Vincenzo Coccotti, thanks to their shared scene being one of the film’s highlights and being played by Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken, respectively.
  • Floyd, Dick's stoner roommate played by Brad Pitt, steals the film whenever he's on screen due to Pitt's hilarious performance.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Clarence's father is dead, a bunch of innocent policemen died, and Clarence and Alabama got away with a lot of stolen money.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Clarence watches A Better Tomorrow II on television. Christian Slater would later work with John Woo on Broken Arrow (1996) and Windtalkers.
  • During the scene on the roller coaster, Clarence used the phrase Riddle me this, Batman while speaking to Elliot. Val Kilmer later starred in Batman Forever, where Batman faced off against the Riddler.
  • Clarence expresses his distaste for awards films and lists his preferred films, naming Mad Max among them. Twenty-two years later, a Mad Max film would get ten Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, and walk away with six wins.
  • Gary Oldman killing Samuel L. Jackson. Twenty-four years later, Samuel L. Jackson would later return the favor in The Hitman's Bodyguard.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Samuel L. Jackson's brief appearance as the drug dealer Big Don with a nice hat, Cool Shades, and a fondness for performing oral sex on women.
  • Gary Oldman has two scenes as Drexl Spivey, but they're both pretty memorable.
  • Christopher Walken has only one scene as Vincenzo Coccotti, but it's quite a scene.
  • Brad Pitt steals two scenes with about three lines of dialogue as the deadbeat stoner roommate.
• Questionable Casting: It's a testament to Gary Oldman's strength as an actor that he can be cast as a scuzzy, brutish, dreadlocked pimp who seemingly thinks he's black, and totally make it work.
• Signature Scene: Dennis Hopper vs Christopher Walken and their "Sicilians are niggers" scene.
• Tear Jerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart receiving an absolutely brutal beat down given by Virgil is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie, which makes it all the more satisfying when she fights back against the hulking hitman and, through sheer determination and pragmatism, she wins.

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