True Romance is an American film carried out by Tony Scott, left in 1993.

Synopsis

Clarence is a salesman of cartoons, film amateur of Martial arts and large fan of Elvis. At the time of its birthday, it goes in a cinema to see a film trilogy of Sony Chiba and meets by chance a named young girl Alabama. This one is in fact a call-girl engaged by a friend of Clarence like " gift of anniversaire". It is the love at first sight, they become inseparable and marry a few days later. Clarence decides to go to see the procurer of Alabama, Drexl, to regulate its account to him and to recover its business. There low, the discussion degenerates and Clarence kills it, and inadvertently takes a bag of cocaine instead of the bag of Alabama. This cocaine belongs to members of the Maffia Italian who absolutely hold to recover it. They take the couple in hunting, whereas it tries to sell the contents of it to a famous producer of Hollywood.

Data sheet

• Title: True Lovesong
• Realization: Tony Scott
• Scenario: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (not credited)
• Production: Gary To bore, Samuel Hadida, Steve Perry and Bill Unger
• Budget: 12,5 million dollars
• Music: Hans Zimmer (additional: Mark Mancina, Nick Glennie-Smith, John Van Tongeren and Pete Haycock)
• Photography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
• Assembly: Michael Tronick and Christian Wagner
• Decorations: Benjamín Fernández
• Costumes: Susan Becker
• Country of origin: the United States
• Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - Dolby Surround - 35 mm
• Kind: Thriller, action
• Lasted: 121 minutes
• Comings out date: September 10th 1993 (the United States), November 3rd 1993 (France)
• Film prohibited with less than 16 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

• Christian Slater: Clarence Worley
• Patricia Arquette: Alabama Whitman
• Refusals Hopper: Clifford Worley
• Val Kilmer: Elvis
• Gary Oldman: Drexl Spivey
• Brad Pitt : Floyd
• Christopher Walken : Vincenzo Coccotti
• Bronson Pinchot : Elliot Blitzer
• Samuel L. Jackson: Big Gift
• Michael Rapaport: Dick Ritchie
• Saul Rubinek : Lee Donowitz
• Conchata Ferrell : Mary Louise Ravencroft
• James Gandolfini: Virgil
• Anna Levine: Lucy
• Victor Argo: Lenny
• Chris Penn: Nicky Dimes
• Tom Sizemore: Cody Nicholson

Around film

• the scenario of True Romance made in the beginning started from a very long scenario written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. Other half served for the film Tueurs born , realized by Oliver Stone in 1994. In two films, the actor Tom Sizemore plays the part of a cop.
• William Lustig ( Maniac COP ) was a time had a presentiment of to carry out film.
• Like the majority of the scenarios of Quentin Tarantino, the film contains very many references and allusions to the Cinéma.

Original soundtrack

• Graceland , interpreted by Charlie Sexton
• In Dreams , interpreted by John Waite
• Wounded Bird , interpreted by Charles & Eddie
• White Wedding , interpreted by Billy Idol
• Skinny (They Can' T Get Enough) , interpreted by The Skinny Boys
• Heartbreak Hotel , interpreted by Val Kilmer
• I Want Your Body , interpreted by Nymphomania
• Outshined , interpreted by Soundgarden
• I Need has Heart To Like Home To , interpreted by Shelby Lynne
• Chantilly Laces , interpreted by Big Bopper
• Under the thick dome where the white jasmine , composed by Léo Delibes
• The Other Side , interpreted by Aerosmith
• Everybody Loves Somebody , interpreted by Jerry DelMonico
• Will You Love Me Tomorrow , interpreted by The Shirelles
• Raga Yaman , interpreted by Clem Alford
• (Love Is) has Tender Trap , interpreted by Robert Palmer
• has Little Bitty Tear , interpreted by Burl Ives
• All The Way , interpreted by Jerry DelMonico
• Learnin' The Blues , interpreted by Jerry DelMonico
• Two Hearts , interpreted by Chris Isaak
• You' Re So Cool , composed by Hans Zimmer

Rewards

• Nomination at the price of the best actor (Christian Slater), better actress (Patricia Arquette) and better scenario, at the time of the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror 1994.
• Nomination at the price of best film, at the time of the festival Fantasporto 1995.

External bond

• True Lovesong on Internet Movie Database

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