| “ | Now the first time you kill somebody, that's the hardest. I don't give a sh-t if you're f-ckin' Wyatt Earp or Jack the Ripper. Remember that guy in Texas? The guy up in that f-ckin' tower that killed all them people? I'll bet you green money that first little black dot he took a bead on, that was the bitch of the bunch. First one is tough, no f-ckin' foolin'. The second one... the second one ain't no f-ckin' Mardis Gras either, but it's better than the first one 'cause you still feel the same thing, y'know... except it's more diluted, y'know, it's... it's better. I threw up on the first one, you believe that? Then the third one... the third one is easy, you level right off. It's no problem. Now... sh-t... now I do it just to watch their f-ckin' expression change.
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| ― Virgil's monologue about killing people. |
Virgil was a supporting antagonist of the 1993 action-romance film True Romance, which is part of the Tarantinoverse. He was an Italian-American mobster working for "Blue" Lou Boyle and his consigliere Vincenzo Coccotti, tasked with taking back the latter's cocaine from Clarence Worley and his wife Alabama, who have stolen it.
He was portrayed by the late James Gandolfini.
Biography[]
Virgil first helps Vincenzo Coccotti in his violent interrogation of Clifford Worley, whose son Clarence Worley and daughter-in-law Alabama Whitman had fled to Los Angeles with $500,000 worth of the mafia's cocaine stoled from a Coccotti's associate. After discovering that the newlyweds had fled to California, Coccotti sends Virgil and other henchmen to track down the criminal duo and recover the drugs.
To this end, Virgil heads to the home of Dick Ritchie, a friend of Clarence whose telephone number was written down by Clifford in order to contact his son. Interrogating Floyd, Dick's stoned roommate, about the couple's location, the mobster is redirected to the Safari Motel. Going to Clarence's hotel room, Virgil waits for his and Alabama's return and is finally surprised by the latter. When he asks her where the drug is, Alabama pretends to be someone else. Feigning friendliness towards her, Virgil asks her to pose for him, which she does; he then hits her in the face and savagely beats her bloody. Coccotti's henchman takes a break to smoke a cigarette as Alabama lays bleeding on the floor, and relates to her that it is hard to kill someone for the first time, but that murder gets easier the more one commits it. He then finds the cocaine hidden under the bed.
However, as he gathers up the cocaine, Virgil sees Alabama get up and try to attack him with a corkscrew. Amused by her defiance, he offers to let her stab him once "for free" and opens his shirt for her. Much to his surprise, however, she stabs him in the foot and scrambles away as he reels from the pain. Enraged, Virgil attacks Alabama, and they get into a brief but bloody struggle. Finally, she sets him on fire with a makeshift blowtorch consisting of a lighter and a bottle of hairspray. The mobster collapses on the floor, and Alabama beats his head in with the lid of a toilet tank before ultimately using his own shotgun to shoot him. Traumatized by the torture, Alabama then repeatedly bashes Virgil's corpse with the butt of his shotgun.
Trivia[]
- The majority of the confrontation between Virgil and Alabama was cut by the United States MPAA for an R rating for its wide theatrical release.