Tarantino's Script

Rating: 8/10 (28 August 2012)

Clarence(Christian Slater) works in a comic book store, and on his birthday, goes to a theater to watch karate movies. He meets Alabama Whitman(Patricia Arquette), and they have dinner and then sex. She admits to being a hooker hired by his boss as a present. They are in love, and so he tells her pimp, Drexl(a wicked Gary Oldman). They fight and Clarence shoots Drexl, killing him. He finds the pimps suitcase and opens it. Inside is a large quantity of cocaine. He and Alabame head for California with the stolen coke in the trunk. They are pursued by a mobster, Vincenzo((Christopher Walken). Clarence stops at his father's for information on the pimp's murder, because his dad is a retired cop. Dennis Hopper is brilliant as he is interrogated by Walken in classic Quentin Tarantino dialogue. The 'n' word is used frequently as it relates to the Moors and the Italians shared ancestry, according to Hopper, as he gives Walken a quick history lesson regarding his family tree. Further violence occurs and the chase is on. A good story with great acting make this a solid 8/10.