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True Romance

Written by Quentin Tarantino
Directed by Tony Scott
Running Time: 117 minutes
Year: 1993
Poster by Matt Ryan

BASIC STORY MAP

PROTAGONIST: Clarence Worley, 20-something comic shop clerk
CHARACTERIZATION | MAIN MISBEHAVIOR: Heroic, Witty | Reckless Schizophrenic
EXTERNAL GOAL: To sell the cocaine / To restart his life with Alabama in Mexico
INTERNAL GOAL: To love Alabama
MAIN DRAMATIC CONFLICT: Donowitz / The Mob / The Cops
THEME: Love conquers all.
CENTRAL DRAMATIC QUESTION: Will Clarence sell the cocaine and restart his life with Alabama in Mexico?
ENDING: Clarence and Alabama make it to Mexico.

STORY ENGINES

ACT I

Comic shop clerk and loner Clarence Worley meets Alabama Whitman in a movie theater. After having sex with him, she confesses that she’s been a call girl, paid by his boss to fuck him, but has unexpectedly fell in love. They get married the following day. He then goes to retrieve her belongings from her former pimp, Drexl. When things take a turn for the worse, Clarence kills Drexl and inadvertently takes a suitcase full of cocaine from the scene.

ACT II-A

Clarence meets with his estranged father Cliff, learns that the cops have no leads on Drexl’s murder. Clarence then leaves for L.A. with Alabama to sell Drexl’s coke. Investigating the missing cocaine, Cliff is executed by Blue Lou’s men when he refuses to give up Clarence. As Blue Lou’s men leave, one of them finds Clarence’s address in L.A.

ACT II-B

Clarence’s actor friend, Dick, introduces him to Elliot, assistant to powerful movie producer, Lee Donowitz. Elliot helps setup a meeting with Donowitz to sell the cocaine. Before the meeting, one of Blue Lou’s hitmen savagely beats Alabama, but she ends up turning the tables and kills him.

ACT III

Elliot is arrested with cocaine, offers to wear a wire to avoid jail. He then takes Clarence, Alabama, and Dick to meet Donowitz. After a little song and dance, Clarence convinces Donowitz to buy the coke.

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1993 film by Tony Scott

For other uses, see True Romance (disambiguation).

True Romance is a 1993 American romanticcrime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. It features an ensemble cast led by Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, with Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Walken in supporting roles. Slater and Arquette portray newlyweds on the run from the Mafia after stealing a shipment of drugs.

True Romance began life as an early script by Tarantino; he sold the screenplay in order to finance his debut feature film, Reservoir Dogs (1992). It is regarded by proponents as a cross-section of writer Tarantino and director Scott's respective trademarks, including a Southern California setting, pop cultural references, and stylized violence punctuated by slow motion.

Though initially a box-office failure, the film's positive reviews, with critics praising the dialogue, characters, and offbeat style, helped it earn a cult following. It has come to be considered one of Scott's best films and one of the best American films of the 1990s.

Plot

At a Detroit theater showing kung fu films, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley. They later have sex at his downtown apartment. Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a call girl hired by Clarence's boss as a birthday present but has fallen in love with him. The two get married the next day at City Hall. An apparition of Elvis visits Clarence and convinces him to kill Alabama's abusive pimp, Drexl Spivey. Going to the brothel where Alabama worked, he shoots and kills Drexl and takes a bag he assumes contains Alabama's belongings. Back at the apartment, he and Alabama discover it contains a large amount of cocaine that Drexl had stolen from two drug pushers.

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