True Romance (1993)

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Wikidata Q1127709, film, IMDb tt0108399, TMDB 319: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Brad Pitt as actor (cameo as Floyd) (The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along); 8 more episodes agree.

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In the store as #573, True Romance (1993).

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Do the Right Thing: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (borrowed speech): Do the Right Thing ⇒ True Romance (the host's read). The Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance echoes what Mookie says to Pino in Sal's.
    “Well, Sicilians and and Africans and the Moors in that whole speech that appears in true romance, which is also something that Mookie essentially says to Pino”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Brad Pitt: 3 lines career ×1 lineage ×1 people ×1

  1. career (career): Brad Pitt → True Romance. Pitt had earlier iconic small turns like Floyd in True Romance, covered on a previous Rewatchables.
    “True romance, iconic performances, Floyd.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Carolina Caroline: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (tone reference): Carolina Caroline → True Romance. Weaving responded to a tone like True Romance and Bonnie and Clyde that is rarely seen now.
    “it just captured like a feeling, a tone of the movies that I really loved growing up that like true romance, Bonnie and Clyde”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:57:16 · Samara Weaving (0.70 sure it was them)

Dennis Hopper: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (ensemble benchmark): True Romance → Dennis Hopper. A supporting performer in Carolina Caroline is likened to Dennis Hopper's sequence with Christopher Walken in True Romance.
    “There's no weak links, and I feel like almost like Kira's almost like the Dennis Hopper of that.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:08:52 · Adam Rehmeier (0.50 sure it was them)

Do the Right Thing: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (borrowed speech): True Romance → Do the Right Thing. The Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance echoes what Mookie says to Pino in Sal's.
    “Well, Sicilians and and Africans and the Moors in that whole speech that appears in true romance, which is also something that Mookie essentially says to Pino”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Mallrats: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (Arrow editions): Mallrats → True Romance. Both have fancy Arrow box editions; owned and loved, but is it worth re-buying?
    “do I need to spend $55 on a true romance 4K when I already have true romance in DVD and Blu-ray?”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:12:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Michael Madsen: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Michael Madsen → True Romance. Madsen's ineffable cool runs through Dogs, True Romance and Species.
    “You see it in true romance and you see it here.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:04:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (script anecdote): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → True Romance. Sharon watching her own movie came from Tarantino sneaking into a theater showing True Romance; Pitt's acid-trip moment is likened to Floyd from True Romance.
    “he's basically Floyd from True Romance for the 1st 2 minutes of that scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Patricia Arquette: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (reference watch): True Romance → Patricia Arquette. As a touch point, a cast member watched True Romance for Patricia Arquette and its no-weak-links cast.
    “I love Patricia Arquette. Oh, yeah.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:08:33 · Samara Weaving (0.50 sure it was them)

Pulp Fiction: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Pulp Fiction → True Romance. Alabama, Keitel's partner in Reservoir Dogs, shows up a year later in True Romance.
    “she shows up one year later in true romance”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:30 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Reservoir Dogs → True Romance. Tony Scott wanted to direct Reservoir Dogs; Tarantino gave him True Romance instead.
    “Tarantino said, you can have true romance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:33 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Saul Rubinek: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Saul Rubinek → True Romance. Bill defines the Dino Waiters award via overacting in True Romance's Rubinek-Pinchot scene.
    “So in true romance, when Saul Rubineck turns to Bronson Pinchot”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Michael Madsen → True Romance. Madsen's ineffable cool runs through Dogs, True Romance and Species.
    “You see it in true romance and you see it here.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:04:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Brad Pitt → True Romance. Pitt had earlier iconic small turns like Floyd in True Romance, covered on a previous Rewatchables.
    “True romance, iconic performances, Floyd.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (tone reference): Carolina Caroline → True Romance. Weaving responded to a tone like True Romance and Bonnie and Clyde that is rarely seen now.
    “it just captured like a feeling, a tone of the movies that I really loved growing up that like true romance, Bonnie and Clyde”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:57:16 · Samara Weaving (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. craft (Arrow editions): Mallrats → True Romance. Both have fancy Arrow box editions; owned and loved, but is it worth re-buying?
    “do I need to spend $55 on a true romance 4K when I already have true romance in DVD and Blu-ray?”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:12:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Pulp Fiction → True Romance. Alabama, Keitel's partner in Reservoir Dogs, shows up a year later in True Romance.
    “she shows up one year later in true romance”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:30 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (ad-lib source): Brad Pitt → True Romance. Pitt's ad-libbed line was based on an actor who told him the same in the early 90s; they guess True Romance's Michael Rapaport/Saul Rubinek.
    “You're Rick fucking Dalton, don't you forget it?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:16 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Saul Rubinek → True Romance. Bill defines the Dino Waiters award via overacting in True Romance's Rubinek-Pinchot scene.
    “So in true romance, when Saul Rubineck turns to Bronson Pinchot”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (cameo exception): Brad Pitt → True Romance. The one character-actor exception to Pitt's perfect-Brad-Pitt roles is his Floyd cameo in True Romance.
    “Like, with the exception of like cameos like Floyd and true Romance and stuff like that.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (script anecdote): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → True Romance. Sharon watching her own movie came from Tarantino sneaking into a theater showing True Romance; Pitt's acid-trip moment is likened to Floyd from True Romance.
    “he's basically Floyd from True Romance for the 1st 2 minutes of that scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (borrowed speech): True Romance → Do the Right Thing. The Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance echoes what Mookie says to Pino in Sal's.
    “Well, Sicilians and and Africans and the Moors in that whole speech that appears in true romance, which is also something that Mookie essentially says to Pino”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (reference watch): True Romance → Patricia Arquette. As a touch point, a cast member watched True Romance for Patricia Arquette and its no-weak-links cast.
    “I love Patricia Arquette. Oh, yeah.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:08:33 · Samara Weaving (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (ensemble benchmark): True Romance → Dennis Hopper. A supporting performer in Carolina Caroline is likened to Dennis Hopper's sequence with Christopher Walken in True Romance.
    “There's no weak links, and I feel like almost like Kira's almost like the Dennis Hopper of that.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:08:52 · Adam Rehmeier (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Reservoir Dogs → True Romance. Tony Scott wanted to direct Reservoir Dogs; Tarantino gave him True Romance instead.
    “Tarantino said, you can have true romance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:33 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

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