True Romance

I watched True Romance for the first time in years this weekend. This was one of my favourite films, and I think contains three of my favourite scenes of all time;
- Slater and Oldman in Drexl's apartment
- Walken and Hopper in Mr Worley's caravan
- Gandolfini and Arquette in the Safari Inn motel room.

I noticed a couple of things. Firstly, the DVD says 'True Romance, the Director's Cut' but I saw no difference between the DVD, the video I used to own, the cinema version nor the version that I've seen on tele a few times. It should have said 'True Romance, the One and Only Cut'. So that was dissapointing.

Secondly I noticed that Slater's character, Clarence, was in fact not cool, but a bit of a bastard. He gets hitched, then on his honeymoon forces his wife to reveal her previous address so he can have it out with Drexl. Now, this guy is a pimp, drug dealer, murderer and generally a bad mofo that you wouldn't invite around to have tea with your mum. The odds on Clarence surviving this confab were about as slim as a mayfly making it to day two. So he gets married, then risks murderlation on his honeymoon. The impossible happens then he comes home and starts yelling at his wife. What a knob.

After that, he forces his dad (who he hasn't seen in 3 years) to find out if he is in trouble with the police. His dad, feeling guilty, does this but as a result gets knocked off by a gangster. Undeterred, Clarence then heads out to Hollywood to get his actor friend to arrange a drug deal, invloving his childhood mate to get all illegal like. Then because of his involvement in drugs, his wife gets her tits kicked off and is forced to kill a gangster.Everyone gets shot, and his mate scarpers the scene, probably damaged for life and not far off Bin Laden on the FBI's most wanted list. It ends up with Alabama and Clarence having a romantic time on a beach. Forget all the carnage he has caused, so long as he is happy, then so be it.

I don't like him anymore