Bring on the bright colors, sex, violence that makes up the collaboration between director Tony Scott and writer Quentin Tarantino. True Romance is the love story between Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) and Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette). Clarence works at video game shop and Alabama is a hooker. Alabama is set up with Clarence by a Clarence’s boss and after spending the night together they fall for each other and get married.
All of Alabama’s stuff is at her pimps house so Clarence goes to get it. In the process he ends up taking the wrong suitcase that is filled with cocaine. This cocaine belong to Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walker) and he searches for the couple and ends up in Hollywood. Clarence is using his friend Dick (Michael Rapaport) connections to sell the cocaine and get a Hollywood Agent, Lee Donowitz (Saul Rubinek) to buy it. However Vincenzo is not the only person looking for Clarence. He left behind his ID at the crime scene so the cops are after him as well.
Through one scene Alabama is being beaten by one of Vincenzo’s men and Clarence is talking about a comic book with a stranger. This new style is not a typical Tony Scott film but it’s not the style or shooting that makes this. This could be debatable but passing the time with pop culture references, violent scenes, and over lapping story lines of humor mixed with violence. It’s finding humor in the violence that takes away from the gore that the viewer just experienced. What else could be expected when the main characters is influenced and driven by Elvis.
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