True Romance

True Romance is a movie directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun) and written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. It was released in 1993. It stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Bronson Pinchot, James Gandolfini, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Samuel L. Jackson are also featured.

Tarantino's breakthrough

True Romance was a breakthrough, of sorts, for Quentin Tarantino, in that the money from the sale of the script enabled Tarantino to direct Reservoir Dogs. However, Tarantino's script, especially the ending, was different from the screenplay of the film as released. The original Tarantino ending is on the unrated special DVD release. The script for True Romance was Tarantino's first movie and he had hoped to direct himself but couldn't. He couldn't sell it for a long time, around 5 years, and thus wrote Natural Born Killers. That too didn't sell for a while and he then moved onto Reservoir Dogs, which finally became his "first film."

Related Topics:
Reservoir Dogs - DVD - Natural Born Killers

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