True Romance (1993) [DVD]

All star cast with Tarantino dialogue. One of my favourite films.

Enjoyable entertaining. Seriously brilliant film

Slaters movie that really put him up there with the big boys although they'll never believe it.

An early example of the Tarantino formula - stylised violence, random monologues, film references - True Romance is a strange yet surprisingly sweet story about two oddballs who fall in love then go on a violent odyssey across America. It's possible to see the genesis of Natural Born Killers in True Romance; the boy "romantically" murders the girl's male aggressor, and they become drunk on their love even while surrounded by appalling violence. The difference is that whereas NBK's anti-heroes were evil psychopaths, TR's, I think, are meant to be more sympathetic lovebirds.Clarence (Christian Slater) is a lonely Elvis fan who works in a comic book store and watches old martial arts movies. One night he meets Alabama (Patricia Arquette), a naive call girl with the same interests, and after making love once they decide to be soul mates. The problem is that Clarence can't just forget about Alabama's sadistic pimp, Drexl (Gary Oldman). Egged on by a vision of Elvis (Val Kilmer), Clarence murders Drexl, accidentally steals a suitcase full of his cocaine and, intending to sell it, goes on the run with Alabama.The film sometimes sits uneasily between realism and fantasy. The cocaine plot, with its cast of cops, gangsters and Hollywood players, is believable enough, but the central love story feels like it bled through from a parallel universe. Slater and Arquette have barely three or four scenes together before declaring their deathless love. Alabama has no past and is really just an extension of Clarence, who's an extension of Quentin Tarantino. Their characterisations are also a bit muddled; at times they act like psychopaths, but elsewhere they seem like innocents caught in a tangled web.None of this matters, however, as you're watching the film, which succeeds on the strength of its script. Tarantino's gift, I think, is for infusing dull stories with poetry and style. If you consider his basic plots - jewellery-heist goes wrong (Reservoir Dogs), boxer rips off gangster (Pulp Fiction), samurai seeks revenge (Kill Bill) - they're standard stuff which in other hands would make forgettable genre flicks, but through his unique narrative structures and dialogue Tarantino gives them life. True Romance is dotted with cameos from great actors like Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman and James Gandolfini, a lot of whom get beautifully written monologues about anything from Sicilian heritage to murder. Meanwhile, the central love story, as preposterous as it is, is often genuinely moving.

Love this film it’s been my favourite since I was 15

Awesome film and a must see

This is one my favourite films, one of those which can be watched as many times as we want, without ever getting old... Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS.Clarence (Christian Slater) is a rather pathetic guy, with a rather pathetic job and a rather pathetic life. But he is special in one particular way - the Devil likes him and comes sometimes to visit and chat with him and because Clarence is a fanatical Elvis fan, well, to humour him the Devil takes the shape of Elvis Presley. There is no rational explanation for the Devil liking Clarence - and very exceptionally there is no strings attached in their strange relationship. The Devil simply likes Clarence ("I like you Clarence. Always did - always will"). Period.Then one day Clarence meets Alabama (Patricia Arquette). They immediately fall in love, marry the next day and decide to go on honeymoon. But before that Clarence must just go recover Alabama's suitcase containing all her earthly belongings - and that will start a sequence of events which will then continue until the extremely dramatic, bloody and brilliant great finale...The scenario of this 1993 film was written by Quentin Tarantino when he was at the beginning of his career and therefore at the top of his creativity, just after "Reservoir Dogs" and just before "Pulp Fiction" - and Tony Scott used every ounce of genius this scenario contains and as result made what is without question his most brilliant movie (yes, I prefer this one to "Top Gun" - even if they really do not belong to the same categories)!This film is extremely violent and also full of very strong language but all this notwithstanding this is basically a comedy, albeit a very dark one. The brilliance of dialogs and gags is stressed even more by the incredible casting. Other than the two actors already cited, in this film we can also see: Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Michael Rapaport and Saul Rubinek. They all give great show but it is Brad Pitt who tops them all, even if his appearance is very short - his character, Floyd, is such a stoner, that he probably has pot smoke in his veins rather than blood...))) I never saw a better "weed moment" on the screen EVER!Saul Rubinek plays here a drug trafficker, not exactly the kind of role he is associated with - but he is INCREDIBLE! In fact his character, Lee Donowitz, is a really scary guy... The "Sicilian scene", in fact a conversation between Dennis Hooper and Christopher Walken, became since then a myth in its own. The Patricia Arquette vs. James Gandolfini confrontation also acquired since then a mythical status, as probably one of the most infamous overkills in the history of the cinema... And finally there is Drexl the Pimp, the character played by Gary Oldman - well, this actor enjoys playing weirdoes and sleazes, but rarely he has the occasion to play SUCH a sleazy weirdo...Bottom line, this is an ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE, made of dark humour, violence and strong language, with special appearance by Elvis "Devil" Presley... To buy, watch and keep! ENJOY!

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If you haven't seen this film yet.... Runnnnn. It's brilliant. The dialogue and acting are top notch. Seriously, just look at the cast in this beast of a movie. It has Tarantino's trademarks of ridiculously gory fight scenes but at the heart of it, the movie is a love story fairytale... With some drugs, guns, sex and rock and roll of course.The steelbook is gorgeous, with a shiny metallic finish and it's packed with extra features. You won't regret this one!

Once upon a time there was a lonely boy named Clarence who met a lonely girl named Alabama, and they fell in love in a dark cold city named Detroit. Clarence and Alabama were very poor, but they found some magic powder that could make them very rich because some very sad people believed the magic powder would make them very happy and they would pay lots of money for it. So Clarence and Alabama went to Los Angeles, where it was much warmer, and where there were a lot of very sad people who would buy their magic powder. Unfortunately, there were some very bad men who wanted to take the magic powder from Clarence and Alabama, and they followed them to Los Angeles, where they were very mean to the lonely boy and the lonely girl. But the two of them loved each other very much, and they stood up to the bad men, who threatened to kill them if they did not give them the magic powder. But the bad men were very greedy, wanting all the magic powder for themselves, and killed each other instead of Clarence and Alabama, who left the City of Angels with a lot of money and lived happily ever after.That’s the plot of TRUE ROMANCE, an urban fairy tale if ever there was one. It flopped at the box office in 1993, but soon began to attract a fervent and enthusiastic cult following on VHS and cable, especially among millennial teens, who were attracted to the film’s swaggering style and casual amorality. Much of the credit for that went to Quentin Tarantino, who wrote the screenplay, which early on showcases his knack for creating memorable low life criminal characters who spout snappy dialogue. That, along with a reverence for pop culture, made TRUE ROMANCE stand out among the many crime and action thrillers which were a staple at movie theaters in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but I think the indispensible element for why the film has endured so well is director Tony Scott, who had already made films as varied as TOP GUN, BEVERLY HILLS COP 2 and THE HUNGER. Though TRUE ROMANCE is often talked about as a Tarantino film, it’s Scott who keeps the pace going, the action on track, and the story front and center. The film clocks in at a brisk two hours, and it noticeably lacks the indulgent scenes that Tarantino would become famous for when he started making his own films where a couple of very verbal characters would go off on a tangent.One of the things that really sold the film was its cast, starting with Christian Slater as Clarence and Patricia Arquette as Alabama, who are so likable from the get go that we immediately become invested in their fate and are rooting for them despite the dubious moral choices they make. And they are backed up by one of the strongest supporting casts ever of old pros and, what were then, some real up and comers: Dennis Hopper as Clarence’s father who comes through in a pinch; Christopher Walken as an ice cold murderous mobster; Gary Oldman as a dreadlock sporting pimp; Val Kilmer as the ghost of Elvis who is Clarence’s alter ego; Michael Rappaport as an actor trying to make it in Los Angeles; Saul Rubinek as a sleazy Hollywood producer and Bronson Pinchot as his equally sleazy and slippery assistant; James Gandolfini as a truly brutal mob enforcer; Brad Pitt as one of the most stoned characters in film history. Then there are appearances by Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Conchata Farrell, Victor Argo, Kevin Corrigan, Paul Ben-Victor, Eric Allen Kramer, and Ed Lauter, some of whom make an enormous impression with only a few minutes of screen time. A number of them have passed away in the years since, and there are those whose careers were not what they should have been, but TRUE ROMANCE remains a shining credit on all their IMDb pages.Why has this film resonated so well over the years? I think it is a story well told with lead characters whom we really sympathize with and hope will get away in the end. Like I’ve said, it is filled with vivid and memorable supporting characters, the kind we don’t always get in the usual action thriller. But more than that, I think TRUE ROMANCE’s appeal lies in a couple of scenes which really give the audience a vicarious thrill when we see underdogs go up against fearsome monsters, and if they don’t prevail, at least really draw blood. I’m talking about when Slater’s Clarence confronts Oldman’s Drexel Spivey in the pimp’s den; when Arquette’s Alabama is confronted by Gandolfini’s Virgil in her motel room; and when Hopper’s Clifford is trapped by Walken’s Don Vincenzo. These scenes have a real power to them, they are brutal and truly painful to watch, but you can’t look away. Gandolfini’s beat down of Arquette might be one of the most cringe inducing sequences ever, worse than what Michael Madsen’s Vic Vega does to Marvin Nash in Tarantino’s RESERVOIR DOGS. That scene between Hopper and Walken, where both actors have never been better, is a masterpiece of verbal violence.Why did TRUE ROMANCE fail at the box office? Bad timing certainly had a lot to do with it, as it was released in September after the young people, who would prove to be its biggest fans, had gone back to school. The film’s violence, and make no doubt about it, this is a very violent film, turned a lot of moviegoers off, mainly women—this is one film that was definitely not a date movie. If the producers could have held the film back for a year or so until after PULP FICTION made Tarantino the hottest talent in Hollywood, I have no doubt it would have been a huge hit, and likely would have made Christian Slater a much bigger star. Watching TRUE ROMANCE today a couple of things stand out: one is Hans Zimmer’s score, which has become iconic in the years since, and has been reused many times, and the unapologetic way the lower class characters talk, employing rude and crude language that screen writers today wouldn’t dare go near.As it stands, TRUE ROMANCE remains one of the most re-watchable films of the past three decades. In that time, I hope Clarence and Alabama raised little Elvis up right, that Dick Ritchie finally got to act opposite William Shatner, and Floyd is still on that couch.

This is a very good film. Written by Tarentino, and his style is apparent. The actors are all well known and have become famous beyond this film, although some were already stars then.It is both a slow and fast movie. It has moments of humour, but most of all it is an action film with fighting, gun fights a violence. The music is by Hans Zimmer. I am glad i found it on disc, watching it again many years after my first viewing.

Bilder kann ich hier ja schlecht hochladen, daher müsst ihr euch den wohl selbst kaufen und anschauen. Am besten gefällt mir der Soundtrack von Hans Zimmer.