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True Romance

posted 10 years ago by greightdane
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Did these guys get sued by Tarantino for blatantly stealing large portions of True Romance?

For example when the couple is on the run, the bad guy(s) go to the father of the main character right after the couple has visited. The bad guy sees a polaroid (here) on the kitchen wall, or in True Romance they see a piece of paper with address info on the fridge. Both after they've killed the father and both after the father has had some wise cracks against the bad guy. I don't think I need to say that Tarantino's dialogue is about 100 times better than this.

Or how about when he is being beaten up by the bad guy(s) when she's out shopping (here) versus she's being beaten up while he's out shopping (for hamburgers in True Romance) and the scenes cut back and forward to the fight/shopping.

Coincidence? Can't be.

[–] ficoce 10 years ago

People finding clues in empty apartments, houses, cars is a pretty common theme. They find them on walls, refrigerators, day planners, computers, notepads next to the phone - sometimes they even use a pencil to scratch empty notepads to see what was previously written. True Romance had a lot of unique scenes, that wasn't one of them.

Tarantino's good, but in his Dad killing scene - did the father foresee the 2011 earthquake and Tsunami in Japan? Nope. Karma.

[–] SolariS6 9 years ago

I was just about to make a separate topic about that death scene as it jolted me. Tidal waves and earthquakes. Karma and foresight that came true but it was kind of like saying California will get earthquakes if the region is already prone to that activity.

[–] tokyojapan-59350 8 years ago

LOL I don't think its a True Romance rip off. If you look at the guy who wrote the script some of his earlier films involve finding drug money or running off -- he's a crime writer.

Still -- this is an amazingly under-rated movie. Russell Crowe was about my age when he made this -- which makes me feel real old because 1997 wasn't that long ago....