True Romance

True Romance

True Romance is a 1993 American romantic crime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette with an ensemble cast including James Gandolfini, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Walken.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Tony Scott
Production: Warner Bros.
  1 win & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
NR (Not Rated)
Year:
1993
121
23,138 Views
Stealing, Cheating, Killing. Who said romance is dead?
Not since Bonnie and Clyde have two people been so good at being bad.

Drexl Spivey:
No thanks? What does that mean? Means you ate before you came down here? All full. Is that it? Naw, I don't think so. I think you're too scared to be eatin'. Now, see we're sittin' down here, ready to negotiate, and you've already given up your sh*t. I'm still a mystery to you. But I know exactly where your white ass is comin' from. See, if I asked you if you wanted some dinner and you grabbed an egg roll and started to chow down, I'd say to myself, "This motherf***er's carryin' on like he ain't got a care in the world. Who know? Maybe he don't. Maybe this fool's such a bad motherf***er, he don't got to worry about nothin', he just sit down, eat my Chinese, watch my TV." See? You ain't even sat down yet. On that TV there, since you been in the room, is a woman with her breasteses hangin' out, and you ain't even bothered to look. You just been clockin' me. Now, I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.

Clarence Worley:
I'm not eatin' 'cause I'm not hungry. I'm not sittin' 'cause I'm not stayin'. I'm not lookin' at the movie 'cause I saw it seven years ago. It's "The Mack" with Max Julien, Carol Speed, and Richard Pryor. I'm not scared of you. I just don't like you. In that envelope is some payoff money. Alabama's moving on to some greener pastures. We're not negotiatin'. I don't like to barter. I don't like to dicker. I never have fun in Tijuana. That price is non-negotiable. What's in that envelope is for my peace of mind. My peace of mind is worth that much. Not one penny more, not one penny more.

Coccotti:
We're gonna have a little Q&A and at the risk of sounding redundant, please make your answers genuine. You want a Chesterfield?

Clifford:
No.

Coccotti:
I have a son of my own. About your boy's age. I can imagine how painful this must be for you. But Clarence and that b*tch-whore girlfriend of his brought this all on themselves. I implore you not to go down that road with 'em. You can always take comfort in the fact you never had a choice.

Clifford:
Look I'd like to help you if I could, but I haven't seen Clarence.

Coccotti:
You see that? [Holding a clenched fist, then striking Clifford] That smarts, doesn't it? Getting slammed in the nose. Fucks you all up. You get that pain shootin' through your brain, your eyes fill up with water. That ain't any kind of fun, but what I have to offer you, that's as good as it's gonna get. And it won't ever get that good again. We talked to your neighbors. They saw a Cadillac. Purple Cadillac. Clarence's purple Cadillac, parked in front of your trailer yesterday. Mr. Worley, you seen your son?

Clifford:
I seen him.

Coccotti:
I can't be sure of how much of what he told you, so in the chance you're in the dark about some of this, let me shed some light. That whore your boy hangs around with, her pimp is an associate of mine, and I don't just mean pimpin', in other affairs he works for me in a courier capacity. Well, apparently, that dirty little whore found out when we're gonna do some business, 'cause your son, the cowboy, and his flame, came in the room blazin', and didn't stop 'till they were pretty sure everybody was dead.

Clifford:
What are you talkin' about?

Coccotti:
Talkin' about a massacre. They snatched my narcotics, hightailed it outta there. Woulda got away with it, but your son, fuckhead that he is, left his driver's license in the dead guy's hand. [laughing]

Clifford:
You know, I don't believe you.

Coccotti:
That's of minor importance, what is of major f***ing importance is that I believe you. Where'd they go?

Clifford:
On their honeymoon.

Coccotti:
I'm getting angry asking the same question a second time. Where did they go?

Clifford:
They didn't tell me. Now you just wait a minute and listen to me. I haven't seen Clarence in three years. He shows up yesterday with a young girl, sayin' that he got married. He ask uh for uh some quick cash to go on a honeymoon, he asked if he could borrow five hundred dollars. I felt like helping him so I wrote him out a check. We went to breakfast in the morning and that's the last I saw of him. So help me God. They never thought to tell me where they were goin'. And I never thought to ask.

[Henchmen cuts Clifford's hand and pours alcohol on the wound. Clifford cries out.]

Coccotti:
You know, Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I'm Sicilian. My father was the world heavyweight champion of Sicilian liars. From growin' up with him I learned the pantomime. There are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to give himself away. A guy's got seventeen pantomimes. A woman's got twenty, a guy's got seventeen. But if you know 'em like ya know your own face, they beat lie detectors all to hell. Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't wanna show me nothin'. But you're tellin' me everything. I know you know where they are. So tell me, before I do some damage you won't walk away from.

Clifford:
Could I have one of those Chesterfields now?

Coccotti:
Sure.

Clifford:
You got a match? Oh wait no no, don't bother. I got one.

Clifford:
You're Sicilian, huh?

Coccotti:
Yeah, Sicilian.

Clifford:
You know, I read a lot. Especially about things in, uh, about history. I find that sh*t fascinating. Here's a fact, I don't know whether you know or not, Sicilians ... were spawned by n*ggers.

Coccotti:
Come again? [laughs]

Clifford:
It's a fact. You see, Sicilians have black blood pumpin' through their hearts. If you don't believe me, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, you see, the Moors conquered Sicily. And the Moors are n*ggers.

Coccotti:
Yes...

Clifford:
So you see, way back then, uh, Sicilians were like, uh, wops from Northern Italy. Ah, they all had blonde hair and blue eyes, but, uh, well, then the Moors moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much f***in' with Sicilian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blonde hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that n*gger gene. Now this...

[Coccotti laughs]

Clifford:
No, I'm, no, I'm quoting... history. It's written. It's a fact, it's written.

Coccotti:
[laughing] I love this guy. This guy.

Clifford:
Your ancestors are n*ggers. Uh-huh. Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother f***ed a n*gger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-n*gger kid... now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.

[All laughing]

Coccotti:
Ohhh!

Clifford:
Huh? Hey! Hey! Hey!

Coccotti:
You're a cantaloupe. [laughing] Ohhh! This guy, beautiful.

[Kisses Clifford on the cheeks. Turns away, then shoots him]

Coccotti:
I haven't killed anybody since 1984. Go over to this comedian's son's apartment, come back with something that tells me where that a**hole went, so I can wipe this egg off my face and finish this f***ed-up family for good.


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