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Clarence Worley: Clarence is a total movie kid. He`s in the twenties and he loves Elvis, kung-fu movies and junk food. He doesn’t kill of his own accord, he does it on instructions imparted by the ghost of Elvis Presley. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the ghost of Elvis, and Elvis helps Clarence with different problems. Clarence kills because he`s seen it in the movies. He`s seen a zillion movies about pimps beating up whores. Clarence is very human, but part of the thing, though, is that he`s had as much a brush with this kind a stuff as anybody else. Everything he knows about this, he knows through seeing movies and when he goes to take out Drexl, you know he`s like a guy in a movie, he`s thinking of himself as coming in there and kicking ass and doing what a movie hero does. Through Alabama he has found his soul mate.
Alabama Whitman: Alabama has an undisclosed past. She has the same interests as Clarence. She loves movies, especially kung- fu movies. She has been a whore for four days or four clients before she meets Clarence. These four days is long enough for her to pick up a vicious pimp. Alabama is forced to kill one of the bad guys, when she’s just about to get killed herself
The Elvis ghost: The ghost Clarence sees when he looks in the mirror. He is a fantasy person. Gives instructions to Clarence when he’s going to kill the pimp. The ghost helps Clarence with different problems. He’s a symbol of Clarence mind. Everytime Elvis end his conversation with Clarence, he close it with; «Clarence, I like ya. Always have, always will.»
Drexl Spivey: Drexl is Alabamas pimp. He has spent ten years of his life i Jamaica and he has a sort of half rasta, half Queens accent. He’s the real owner of the drug Clarence mistakenly drags with him.
Clifford Worley: Clarence father. He’s a cop, and he has several years behind him as a alcoholic. Cliff hasn’t talked to Clarence for several years. He gets killed when he helps Clarence by not telling the bad- guys where he is. An unpopular story about how Sicilians became Negroes, ended his life. What a way to go!!
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