04.30.08 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF TRUE ROMANCE
In the past I know I’ve called Maxim nipple-free Playboy for stupid people, and I thought naming Sarah Jessica Parker ‘Unsexiest Woman Alive’ was pretty third grade (and that’s coming from me), but I’ve got to give it up to them for their article on the 15th anniversary of True Romance.
True Romance was Quentin Tarantino’s first script made into a film (and possibly his best), directed by Tony Scott, who sort of screwed up the whole thing with super tight 80s-style close-ups and the most mismatched musical score I’ve ever heard. Anyway, the Maxim article has interviews with all the major players. Sample:
Gary Oldman (Drexl Spivey, pimp): I hadn’t read the script, and knew nothing about it. Tony and I had tea at the Four Seasons and he said, “Look, I can’t really explain the plot. But Drexl’s a pimp who’s white but thinks he’s black.” That was all I needed to hear. I said, “I’ll do it.”
Scott: Gary called me out of the blue and said, “I’ve got it. I know exactly who this guy is: He’s my drug dealer.”
Oldman: My drug dealer? Tony would fucking get me arrested, wouldn’t he? I’ve never had a drug dealer! I organized Drexl’s dreadlocks under my own steam. Then I went to a dentist who made the teeth. Then I thought about giving him a weird eye. I’m only in the film for about 10 minutes—I wanted to make my mark. I heard this gang of black kids outside my trailer and thought, That’s Drexl. I showed this kid my lines and said, “Does this seem authentic?” He changed some words. He said, “That don’t fly. Drexl wouldn’t say ‘titties’; he’d say ‘breasteses.’ ”
Tarantino: Those kids were clowning him, and he believed them because he didn’t know any better. Because he’s British.
Anyway, great article, I highly recommend checking it out. But then, what do I know, I’m just a handsome racecar driver with nothing to lose.
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15TH ANNIVERSARY OF TRUE ROMANCE
Two at once, OMG! I can’t handle the Drunkeness.
BOOM! Best. Movie. Ever. That. Week.
Patricia Arquette’s tits never looked better. well, they do still look pretty good on "Medium", but i try not to admit that in public.
Awesome flick, flawed, but awesome script.
Even more savagely rearranged/reworked Quentin screenplay, Natural Born Killers.
Discuss. Or don’t. I could give a fart speckled fuck either way.
Loved that movie. Christian slater had a career. Brad Pitt with a honey bear. Good times
Greatest movie ever. Made me think it was cool to drop N-bombs in public. Not a day goes by that I don’t quote Chris Walken or Brad Pitt.
True Crap, that was butchered. But I still liked it. mmmm…
i loved this movie
Oh I loved NBK. But it was like Oliver Stone took the script, ate a handful of peyote, then threw up and threw the script into a blender at a film school and made a movie smoothee.
This movie is part Egg Plant…
That’s creepy of you to say, considering what the next post is.
Lance, forgive me, but I don’t see the correlation…..
I heart Christian Slater
2nd best Walken monologue behind ‘the watch’ from pulp fiction.
‘don’t condenscend me man, i’ll fucking kill ya…’
Yep, use that "Don’t condescend me…" line more often than any other line from the movies. "How about some more beans Mr Taggart?" runs it close though. I watched this movie again recently and without wanting to sound picky, because i do love it, some of the dialogue is clunky. Mostly Christian Slater’s. Arquette’s ass was bigger than i remembered it too.
Seriously Vince, I don’t see what was so creepy about it……
My work won’t let me see the article. Frankly I think that Scott movies should be classed as questionable material.
Lance, forgive me, but I don’t see the correlation…..
YOUR FUCKING FACE!!!
Thanks Vince, I sees it now…..
QT has become the hollywood phony that he used to parody. death proof really sucked
Joan Cusack as alabama? then when she gets beat up, she might look better.
The most mismatched musical score you’ve ever heard?!?
It’s based on Carl Orff’s Musica Poetica, which is used in the movie Badlands, which none other than Hans Zimmer adapted for True Romance. The movie couldn’t have had a different score, IMO…
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