True Romance

True Romance is a movie directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun) and written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. It was released in 1993. It stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Samuel L. Jackson are also featured.

Warning: Plot details follow.

True Romance is a love story filled with violence, drugs, and some sex. The plot can be summarized as follows: Boy (Slater) meets Girl (Arquette), but the Girl is a prostitute. Boy kills her pimp and steals the pimp's cocaine, but the drugs really belong to Italian mobsters.

Notably, some of the appearances by the supporting cast are very brief. Christopher Walken, for example, appears in only once but gives a very memorable speech, as he would do in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, released the following year.

True Romance was a breakthrough, of sorts, for Quentin Tarantino, in that the money from the sale of the script enabled Tarantino to direct Reservoir Dogs. However, Tarantino's script, especially the ending, is very different from the screenplay of the film as released. The original Tarantino ending is on the unrated special DVD release. Originally, the script for True Romance was longer; it included what would become Natural Born Killers in 1994.

Also notable is the film's score, by Hans Zimmer: its leitmotif is based on a familiar piece by Carl Orff (see also Badlands).

External links

• IMDB: True Romance (1993)