Many smaller turns – notably Val Kilmer’s Elvis ersatz spirit guide (and shorter stand-offs - see Hopper and Walken in ‘the Sicilian scene’) – are as iconic as anything in modern cinema.

Consider the celebrated “Sicilian” scene: a jab-a-minute square-off between a top-of-their-games Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper in which two white men deploy the “n-word” with glee.

5. Only two words were improvised in the famous ‘Sicilian’ scene between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper; ‘eggplant’ and ‘cantaloupe’. 6.

"True Romance" was not a hit when it was released; it opened at No. 3 its first weekend, below "The Fugitive" (in its sixth weekend) and the Dennis Quaid-Kathleen Turner comedy "Undercover Blues ...

Consider the celebrated “Sicilian” scene: a jab-a-minute square-off between a top-of-their-games Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper in which two white men deploy the “n-word” with glee.