Striking Cinematic Similarity

CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW vs DREXL SPIVEY

So ever since we saw Django Unchained in the theaters we have been going through some of Tarantino's films. The photographs above are of Johnny Depp from the Pirates of The Caribbean franchise on the left and on the right is Gary Oldman in the 1993 film True Romance.

These two guys look strikingly similar. We were discussing how Quentin Tarantino usually has black actors in major roles in most of his films. Samuel L. Jackson is in True Romance very briefly at the beginning and he does not have very many lines. I joked that Gary Oldman's Drexl character was supposed to represent that aspect of the film but also that True Romance was written by Quentin and he sold the script when he was still relatively unknown. If Tarantino had directed the film it may have been quite different altogether. True Romance was directed by Tony Scott.