True Romance Quote van Dennis Hopper

Voor mij staat Quentin Tarantino al jaren aan de top als het gaat om goede films af te leveren. Wel handig natuurlijk om er bij te zeggen wat ‘een goede film voor mij betekent: een goede film heeft een meer dan interessant verhaal gecombineerd met goed acteerwerk, enige denkwerk van de kijker gewenst én fantastische dialogen. En dan kom je al snel op de films van Tarantino. Natuurlijk zijn er wel meer regisseurs waar ik van hou of die bovengenoemde kwaliteiten leveren, maar je moet een favoriet hebben nietwaar? Een van de eerste, zoniet eerste, films waar Tarantino aan heeft bij gedragen in de vorm van schrijven, is de film True Romance met grootheden als Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman en natuurlijk Christopher Walken – to name but a few!

True Romance heeft meerdere goede tekstuele bijdrages maar degene die er voor mij met kop en schouders bovenuit steekt is de scene waarin Cliff (Dennis Hopper) liegt over de whereabouts van zijn zoon Clarence (Christian Slater) vastgebonden op een stoel zit en de ‘3rd degree‘ krijgt van Coccotti (Christopher Walken) die claimt altijd een leugenaar te kunnen herkennen. De scene gaat als volgt:

Cliff: Now, you just wait a minute and listen to me. I haven’t seen Clarence in three years. He shows up yesterday with a young girl, sayin’ that he got married. He asked for er, some quick cash to go on a honeymoon, he asked me if, if he could borrow five hundred dollars. I felt like helping him so I wrote him out a check. We went to breakfast in the morning, and that’s the last I saw of him. So help me God. They never thought to tell me where they were goin’. And I never thought to ask. [Henchman cuts open Cliff’s hand with a knife]
Coccotti: You know, Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I’m Sicilian. My father was the world heavyweight champion of Sicilian liars. From growin’ up with him I learned the pantomime. There are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to gives himself away. A guy has seventeen pantomimes. A woman’s got twenty, but a guy’s got seventeen, but if you know ‘em like ya know your own face, they beat lie detectors all to hell. Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don’t wanna show me nothin’. But you’re tellin’ me everything. I know you know where they are. So tell me, before I do some damage you won’t walk away from.
Cliff: Could I have one of those Chesterfields now?
Coccotti: Sure.
Cliff: You gotta match? Oh no, no, don’t bother. I got one. Hm, you’re a Sicilian, huh?
Coccotti: Yep, Sicilian.
Cliff: You know I read a lot. Especially about things,  about history. I find that shit fascinating. Here’s a fact, I don’t know whether you know it or not, Sicilians were spawned by niggers.
Coccotti: Come again?
Cliff: It’s a fact. You see er, Sicilians have black blood pumpin’ through their hearts. If you know, if you don’t believe me, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago er, you see the Moors conquered Sicily. And the Moors are niggers. See, you see, way back then, Sicilians were like wops from northern Italy. They all had blond hair and blue eyes. But, well, then the Moors moved in there, and well, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin’ with Sicilian women, ha, that they changed the whole blood-line for ever. That’s why blond hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin. You know, it’s absolutely amazing to me, to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that er, that Sicilians still carry that nigger gene. Now this [ Cocotti starts laughing] no, I’m quotin’ history. It’s written, it’s a fact, it’s written.
Cocotti: [Laughingly saying] I love this guy…
Cliff: …your ancestors are niggers. Hey, yeah and your great, great, great, great-grandmother fucked a nigger, and she had a half-nigger kid. Now if that’s a fact, tell me, am I lyin’? ‘Cause you, you’re part eggplant.
Cocotti: [laughing] You’re a cantilope. That was beautiful.[Gets a gun and shoots Cliff]: I haven’t killed anybody… since 1984

IJskoud een van de beste scenes, dialogen of all time. Heeft de tekst je niet kunnen overtuigen dan heb ik natuurlijk ook nog het benodigde videomateriaal om je alsnog te overtuigen.