Screenwriter Quentin Tarantino has called the scene one of his proudest achievements. But there’s simultaneously something deeply moving about his on-the-spot willingness to give up his own life in the vague hope that his sacrifice might save his son. Clifford’s speech is hatefully racist, and makes for profoundly uncomfortable viewing. But rather than run the risk of being tortured to the point where he might give up his son’s location, Clifford makes an audacious bid to provoke Coccotti into murdering him, by calling into question the purity of his racial heritage. In Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant, David Bret has produced a rewarding portrait of a warm-hearted, wonderful man who, though atrociously maligned by the tabloids and trash-mags back in 1985 when he died, remains revered by his millions of fans around the world. Hopper plays Clarence’s estranged father Clifford, whom Coccotti tracks down and terrorises. Walken oozes menace as mob boss Don Vincenzo Coccotti, on the hunt for a stash of drugs inadvertently stolen by comic bookstore clerk Clarence (Christian Slater). The indisputable highlight of Tony Scott’s romantic crime thriller is Hopper’s grandstanding tête à tête with Christopher Walken, now generally referred to as ‘the Sicilian scene’.
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