True Romance

[seamless74]

Patrica Arquette was so hot in that movie. The scend between Christian Slater and Gary Oldman before they fight is classic dialogue..

 

[bullethead]

In the original screenplay, there was a scene where Oldman and Paul Bates pull up to an apartment building to do a hit.

As they are sitting in the car, Oldman rips a page from a porno mag of a close up of a womans ***** and spreads some pot on it. then he sprinkles a little pcp on top, rolls it up and they smoke it. then they go in to do the hit.

 

[Rand B]

This is my favorite Tony Scott film. It was also Tarantino's first (and possibly best) script. This scene always cracked me up: (Brad Pitt as Floyd) "Hey! Get some beer and some...cleaning products!" The delivery is perfect.

R.B.

 

[ryoneo]

Originally Posted by AntiHero84

This is probably one of my favorite Tarantino films. It's interesting to see a movie he'd only written, not directed.

I never really understood why he never directed this.

Originally Posted by Rand B

This is my favorite Tony Scott film. It was also Tarantino's first (and possibly best) script. This scene always cracked me up: (Brad Pitt as Floyd) "Hey! Get some beer and some...cleaning products!" The delivery is perfect.

R.B.

I actually think that Reservoir Dogs was his greatest achievement.

 

[Gradstudent78]

Originally Posted by ryoneo

I never really understood why he never directed this.

Didn't he sell it to help fund the making of Reservoir dogs?

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Tarantino has sold Natural Born Killers for $10,000, partially to concentrate more on Reservoir Dogs, and partially because he tried to make NBK and couldn't get it done at the time. Tony Scott had read the two scripts that had been passed around hollywood , and got ahold of Tarantino to see whether he could get both of them. By the time they got together to discuss the scripts though, Tarantino had already managed to finagle himself into the directors chair for RD. So Tony Scott bought the available script in TR and Tarantino had a good year.

 

[Connemara]

I've only seen a few scenes from TR. I should watch the whole thing.

 

[Rand B]

Originally Posted by ryoneo

I actually think that Reservoir Dogs was his greatest achievement.


Reservoir Dogs is more quintessential Quentin and is usually favored by Tarantino fans. The sweetness evident in True Romance (in which I feel Scott played no small role) gives the characteristic hipness a bit more sincerity I feel.

R.B.

 

[AntiHero84]

Originally Posted by Connemara

I've only seen a few scenes from TR. I should watch the whole thing.

Do it.


Seriously.

 

[mafoofan Jr.]

the movie was better than average. I imdb'ed it 8

Originally Posted by GQgeek

I just watched it for the first time in a long time. Talk about an ensemble cast... I had no recollection that Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, James Gandolphini, and Val Kilmer were in it, and that it was written by Quentin Tarantino. The scene with Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper is of course classic though. And Patricia Arquette was just the cutest thing in it.

 

[coopster]

Def not the most PC part of the movie but, I love Christopher Walkens monologue about how Sicilians are half an eggplant.

 

[AntiHero84]

^ I think you're thinking of Dennis Hopper, but it was in a scene with Christopher Walken.

 

[coopster]

^ Yes you are correct. Its not a monologue either. Geeez I guess its time to re-watch it.

 

[meader]

What a sick coincidence of cosmic proportions. Watched this movie last night for the first time, and I can already tell that it's my favorite by Tarantino.