True Romance The Rewatchables
True Romance

Picking Nits

How much a theater manager would pay for a call girl; Alabama has only been a call girl for four days; whether Clarence and Alabama could walk out of the Beverly Ambassador past a thousand cops

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  • How much money does a movie theater manager have to spend on a call girl for an employee's birthday; the economics of call girls in 1993 are unclear; Alabama has only been a call girl for four days, the movie trope of the hooker who has only been one since last Thursday.
  • An LA tidbit: the movie theater is the Vista on Sunset, used for all the exteriors rather than Detroit; Tarantino tells the story of putting the Sonny Chiba triple feature on the Vista marquee so his movie nerd friends drove by and called him about it.
  • Would Slater and Arquette really get out of the Beverly Ambassador, both covered in blood, carrying a suitcase past a thousand cops without a sideways look; not according to Tarantino.