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Every once in a while I am introduced to an amazing movie andI find out that writer/director Quentin Tarantino. Today, I watched True Romance, which was written by Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott in 1993. Impressive.
The title, True Romance, is highly misleading. Primarily, I found myself skeptical because I expected the film to be no more than a "chick flick." Somehow the film is about true romance, in a wierd, sadistic way.
Clarence, played by Christian Slater, falls in love with a hooker named Alabama and they are soon married. After speaking with an hallucination of Elvis, Val Kilmer, Clarence realizes that he must kill Alabama's pimp, Gary Oldman. Defying the odds, Clarence succeeds in killing the pimp and ends up with $500,000 worth of high-grade, low-cut cocaine and plans to sell it in Los Angeles for $200,000. With a group or Sicilian gangsters and the cops after him, Clarence learns the meaning of true romance.