The movie 'True Romance'..One big Tarantino daydream/fantasy?

[fightingrabbit]

I love this movie, but did anyone else feel the movie was just one big Tarantino nerd day dream/fantasy come to life? I mean the guy goes from docile comic book nerd working in a comic store, gets a girl and immediately makes a total out of character 180 turn into a revolver shooting, drug handling badass on the lam from the Mafia. Not to mention the pinnacle display of total white knightdom, by going and shooting the guy that once might have harmed your call girl girlfriend.

That's how I feel when I watch any of Tarantinos movies, that they're just the manifestations of his strange obsessions/fantasies in movie form. But it was never more evident to me than in True Romance.

 

[BoxingFan123]

It's Tarantino's best work, took the god Tony Scott to bring it to the big screen.

 

[HUNTERMANIA]

I love that movie

 

[Jkaylor]

Sicilian?

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

I get what you're saying. I just really enjoy his self-indulgence.

 

[Boomb]

I'm loving it. I watched it quite a couple of times.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

I need to watch it again. I watched once and I was really faded so large chunks are fuzzy.

 

[Rhood]

I have a theory that Hollywood wanted to fund a modern day Bonnie & Clyde movie and was approached by two director's. Oliver Stone & Tarantino.

Apparently Hollywood picked Stone because Natural Born Killers was a higher budget film and had a better screenplay. Plus, the entire movie was filled with big name celebrity Cameo's.

Anyone find it odd how these two films with a very similar plot were released just months apart from each other?
Just like Deep Impact & Armageddon
Just like Blown Away & Speed

Usually the lower budget films get released before the big budget films. That was the case in point with True Romance released before Natural Born Killers.

 

[BoxingFan123]

I have a theory that Hollywood wanted to fund a modern day Bonnie & Clyde movie and was approached by two director's. Oliver Stone & Tarantino.

Apparently Hollywood picked Stone because Natural Born Killers was a higher budget film and had a better screenplay. Plus, the entire movie was filled with big name celebrity Cameo's.

Anyone find it odd how these two films with a very similar plot were released just months apart from each other?
Just like Deep Impact & Armageddon
Just like Blown Away & Speed

Tarantino's unedited writing for the opening scene is the only thing great about NBK.

 

[Kick Strickland]

Anyone find it odd how these two films with a very similar plot were released just months apart from each other?
Just like Deep Impact & Armageddon
Just like Blown Away & Speed

Usually the lower budget films get released before the big budget films. That was the case in point with True Romance released before Natural Born Killers.

The Matrix
The 13th Floor

 

[TheRatman]

 

[TheRatman]

That movie made Brad Pitt, without it he would been become Rob Lowe by now.

 

[Kick Strickland]

Commissioner Gordon was wild when he was younger

 

[FeloniousMonk]

I have a theory that Hollywood wanted to fund a modern day Bonnie & Clyde movie and was approached by two director's. Oliver Stone & Tarantino.

Apparently Hollywood picked Stone because Natural Born Killers was a higher budget film and had a better screenplay. Plus, the entire movie was filled with big name celebrity Cameo's.

Anyone find it odd how these two films with a very similar plot were released just months apart from each other?
Just like Deep Impact & Armageddon
Just like Blown Away & Speed

Usually the lower budget films get released before the big budget films. That was the case in point with True Romance released before Natural Born Killers.

Not that compicated.
They both ripped off badlands.
That's ok though. They're both
decent films in their own right.

Nothing beats badlands though
Martin sheen in his prime.
Sissy spacek in her pink prime

 

[Taboo]

The Matrix
The 13th Floor

Dark city
The Matrix

 

[Peteyandjia]

I have a theory that Hollywood wanted to fund a modern day Bonnie & Clyde movie and was approached by two director's. Oliver Stone & Tarantino.

No. Tarantino wrote both screenplays. And he sold them to two different movie studios. They share a similarity because that's where his head was at when he was writing them. And QT didn't direct True Romance, Tony Scott did.

 

[mac11]

true romance wasn't listed as tarantino's movie when tarantino said the hateful 8 was his eight movie. why is this. different writer or director? i will look this up myself later when i wake up

 

[Organic Damage]

true romance wasn't listed as tarantino's movie when tarantino said the hateful 8 was his eight movie. why is this. different writer or director? i will look this up myself later when i wake up

Probably because he only wrote it, not wrote + directed.

A lot of (i.e. all) Tarantino movies are fantasy wanks. Why the hell did he change history in Inglourious Basterds so they could show the SS getting massacred in that theatre?

Meh, I guess it's like expecting shit not to explode in slow mo in a Michael Bay movie...

 

[Bullitt68]

Before The Hateful Eight, I had a little Tarantino retrospective. I watched True Romance for the first time in a while, and I had many of the same thoughts.

It's painful how childish that movie is, and Scott's presence actually kind of makes it worse because [...] he was so high on Tarantino's script that, instead of making substantial changes, he tried to limit things to cosmetic changes but that just screwed things up to the point of confusion.

I watched a little of it with Scott's commentary (I didn't even last very long there, but I did at least want to get his general take on shit, which I did) and in the opening scene with Clarence trying to pick up that trashy chick at the bar, Scott said the first meaningful conversation he had with Christian Slater about the Clarence character consisted of him telling Slater to rewatch Taxi Driver. What Scott wanted in that scene - and from that character more broadly - was Travis Bickle. Yet, Travis Bickle is a character Tarantino, at least at that point in his development, could've never written, because Paul Schrader wrote Travis in full acknowledgment of the fact that he's a fucking wacko.

Evidently, Scott saw the wacko in Clarence and wanted to foreground that, but without changing Tarantino's script in any meaningful way, it just leads to incoherent nonsense. Clarence is maybe Tarantino's most direct analogue (his video store turned into Heroes for Sale, his life playing out like a movie, etc), and in your fantasies, you're never the crazy person in the wrong. You're always your own coolest, most righteous protagonist. And for Tarantino, he thought Clarence was just as cool as Alabama did. Scott didn't, but he didn't do enough about it, so what we're left with is this psycho killing people because an Elvis hallucination tells him to and he's supposed to be this cool cowboy we're rooting for

I used to think the Slater/Oldman showdown was so cool and Clarence was awesome. This time out, I thought Clarence was a fucking idiot who deserved to get killed for his stupidity and hypocrisy.

 

[europe1]

A prostitute who would go to a Sonny Chiba triple-feature and still loves the guy afterwards? Yup, only in the realm of fantasy.