So i get a call this morning about oh 11 am..its my sister in London she's out with friends.."are you drunk?" "Yeah its nice to hear from you too,No..of course not." "Well are you awake?" "Barely" "EVER SEE TRUE ROMANCE?" "WHAT? THE CONNECTIONS BAD" "TRUE ROMANCE" "OH by Tarantino?"(directed by Tony Scott Written by Quenton Tarantino. "Yeah" "once i watched it once.." "Who was the father?" "Let me turn on my computer..." see Youtube and Wikipedia are good for something..the phone call cost her 5 pounds..but she won a 50 pound bet..half of that should be mine grrrrrrr..good thing i remembered this scene. Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Coccotti
The Sicilian scene Clarence's father, Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper), is paid an unwelcome visit by Vincent Coccotti (Christopher Walken), consigliere to a Mafia boss named "Blue" Lou Boyle. Coccotti questions Worley as to the whereabouts of Clarence and the missing narcotics. Clifford realizes during the interrogation that he will be tortured until he gives the information. Apparently to deliberately provoke and enrage Coccotti, ensure a quick death, and protect his son, Worley brings up Sicilians' background. Worley is quoting history on the claim of Sicilian people having Black people's ancestry through the Moors or, as Hopper puts it in the movie: "Sicilians were spawned by niggers." This speech is the precursor to Worley's death.
This scene has been nominated by Tarantino himself (on the True Romance Unrated Director's Cut DVD commentary) as one of his proudest moments. "I had heard that whole speech about the Sicilians a long time ago, from a black guy living in my house. One day I was talking with a friend who was Sicilian and I just started telling that speech. And I thought: “Wow, that is a great scene, I gotta remember that.”