True Romance : Special Edition

Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette Director: Tony Scott Original UK Premiere: 1993 Dvd Release: 24th February, 2003 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Box set, Director's Cut, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

Article Index: [Background Info] [DVD Extras] [DVD Review] [Biographies] [Articles/Resources] [Link To This Article] Looking To Buy? Buy This DVD Here

True Romance is a movie directed by Tony Scott & written by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary. It was released in 1993. It stars Christian Slater & Patricia Arquette. Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Samuel L Jackson are also featured. True Romance is a love story filled with violence, drugs & some sex. Boy meets Girl, but the Girl is a prostitute. Boy kills her pimp & steals the pimps 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 Tarantinos 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, Tarantinos script, especially the ending, was different from the screenplay of the film as released. The original Tarantino ending is on the unrated special DVD release. Posters Of True Romance

DVD Extras: True Romance is excellently reproduced on disc & there is an abundance of extras for this Special Edition. These include a number of mostly superfluous deleted & extended scenes, though the one in which Samuel L Jackson offers his views on the merits of pussy-eating is worth catching, as is the alternate ending, which Tarantino had intended in his script. There is also access to the director's storyboards as well as commentaries from many of the cast, director Scott & from Tarantino himself, who, given his usual reluctance to provide such commentaries, is informative & chatty here. This is a superb package, although this director's cut is identical to the previous DVD edition.

Written by Quentin Tarantino & directed by Tony Scott, True Romance is hilarious, violent & strangely moving. Its part homage to Terence Malicks Badlands, part autobiography, part nerdy male fantasy, & its Tarantinos first and, some say, finest work. Although it fared poorly at the box office at the time it soon became an established cult classic, with a supporting cast that beggars belief: Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, James Gandolfini, Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L Jackson & Gary Oldman all play minor roles, all to devastating effect.

Christian Slater stars as Clarence, the video-store clerk whos set up with Patricia Arquettes hooker Alabama on his birthday. They fall in love for real but have to hit the road when Clarence, egged on by the ghost of Elvis, kills Alabamas pimp Drexl & makes off with a consignment of neat cocaine, mistaking it for a suitcase of Alabamas clothes. Now both the police & the mafia are after them. Two among many great sequences stand out. The first is when cop Dennis Hopper, refusing to give up son Clarence to Christopher Walkens mafiosi, makes his famous The Sicilians were spawned by niggers speech. In context, its actually not racist, its a gesture of great courage & love from dad to son, while also calculated to mock the uptight racial sensibilities of the mafia. The second is when Alabama turns the tables on James Gandolfinis mafia henchman at the motel in a prolonged & brutal sequence which nonetheless emphasises the glowing, pink heart-shaped message at the centre of the film, that true love conquers all, albeit here in a hail of bullets that leaves practically everyone dead.

Christian Slater is an American actor. The Undiscovered Country. On August 11, 1997, Slater was arrested by police in Los Angeles & charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon & one count of battery after Slater, drunk & high on heroin, punched his girlfriend in the face at a party. He was sentenced to three months in prison, serving 59 days for good behavior. his son born in 1999 & his daughter in 2001. Austin Powers. International Man Of Mystery. Posters Of Christian Slater

Editors Choice: Windtalkers, Churchill, Hard Cash, Hard Rain, Very Bad Things, Broken Arrow, True Romance, Murder In The First, View DVDology

©2004-2008 DVDArk.co.uk