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I’d really like to see a version of True Romance that follows the Tarantino script. I think the Tony Scott ending works though.

wiki says that there is a version already circulating the internet, but I checked the internet and I didn’t find one.

and if you wanted to get really crazy it might be cool to put the Tarantino-picked songs back in…but then maybe that version might need the original ending. a 2 DVD set would work.

here’s a basic explanation of the differences [copied from wiki]:
 

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Other than the ending (Clarence was shot dead during the climactic Mexican Standoff in the script) and the ordering of the scenes, Scott’s film uses Tarantino’s original script. Originally, the film was written to begin with the same “I’d fuck Elvis” scene, then the opening credits as the release. But the first scene in Tarantino’s script was the scene where the drug-dealer Drexel steals the cocaine. After that, the next scene was Clarence and Alabama showing up at Clarence’s father home, from which point the scene order is the same up to when Clarence and Alabama meet Dick Ritchie, which ends Act I. Dick asks how they met and we see the movie theater scenes, marriage, and killing of Drexel and mistaken stealing of the cocaine. Act III begins with the scene where Dick sees how much cocaine Clarence brought with him and begins to freak out about it, after which the movie plays straight to the end.

Tarantino, in the commentary on the unrated director’s cut DVD, mentions how this structure to the three acts results in the characters in the movie knowing everything in Act I while the audience doesn’t know anything, the audience catches up in Act II, and the audience knows more than the characters in Act III.

 
-splice
[sorry for hijacking all the cbb entries on pirate bay, guys…I didn’t know this place]

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I'd be interested in see this. I always felt True Romance was the strongest of the Tarantino films that he wrote but didn't direct. Val Kilmer as Elvis was priceless.

Anyway, I always felt the film had something missing, probably Tarantino's touches.
I'd be interested in seeing this too.

Dr. M

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I watched Pulp Fiction chronological, and this seems about the same, just scenes in a different order. True Romace was great the way it was (Christopher Walken is so cool). Sometimes it is a pity, I cannot watch the same movie twice and it could be new for the second time. I doubt I will realize a difference I can like.
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Originally posted by: Billy Mahoney
I watched Pulp Fiction chronological, and this seems about the same, just scenes in a different order. True Romace was great the way it was (Christopher Walken is so cool). Sometimes it is a pity, I cannot watch the same movie twice and it could be new for the second time. I doubt I will realize a difference I can like.


it's kinda like watching a mystery for the second time after you know the ending...it will never be the same. I think Tarantino's non-linear script would have made a better movie because of the things that keep you guessing in the beginning, but now I know what they are and the experience won't be that much better overall. But then I think about people that haven't ever seen the original...and I'd really like an edited copy to share with them.
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True romance was ok like most of Tarantinos scripts or movies.

His best work was Pulp Fiction which i would class as a modern day classic.

True Romance reminded far too much of Terence Malicks Badlands with martin sheen and sissy spacek just with some pop culture and Elvis thrown in.

Reservoir Dogs was the same, the far east movie he based it on City on fire was far better and starred Chow Yun Fat there was also references to Taking of Pelham 123.(mr brown , mr orange etc )

His script doctoring in Crimson Tide even sticks out a mile with the Silver surfer and Star trek references.

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I tried editing this out once, also trying to use the music Tarantino specified for scenes in the script that Scott didn't use. (Most notably killing Zimmer's terrible Main Titles).

The biggest problem is that:

there is no real way to fit in Tarantino's ending, and many of his transitional devices between acts have been removed.

I'd love to collaborate with someone on an edit of this, though.

PS- it is EASILY his best script. Pulp Fiction is made up of deleted scenes from this script...
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Is anyone trying to work on this? I would love to see a rework of it.
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Originally posted by: ronen
I tried editing this out once, also trying to use the music Tarantino specified for scenes in the script that Scott didn't use. (Most notably killing Zimmer's terrible Main Titles).

The biggest problem is that:

there is no real way to fit in Tarantino's ending, and many of his transitional devices between acts have been removed.

I'd love to collaborate with someone on an edit of this, though.



I say keep the Scott ending...and dual audio streams with the original score and the Tarantino music would be awesome.

If I had the extra time I would already be figuring out the software to be able to do this one. I can't think of another fan edit that I'd rather see...and I couldn't believe that the 2 disc special edition didn't include this cut when it first came out.
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i dunno, if its going to be the "tarantino" version, I'd say use his ending.
I'm always looking to trade my edits, if you don't want to get them from a torrent. PM or e-mail!
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Wait a moment....
The original Tarantino can never be restored, because it was chopped in two. Two movies were made out of the script, Natural Born Killers and True Romance.
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Wow, this site is great - I just found it.

I'm a big fan of True Romance and I actually did make this DVD about a year ago (i'm probably the person Wiki was talking about) by placing many of the deleted scenes back including the alt ending with the new song during the ending credits, chapter titles, and I even took out the closeup shots of Arquette watching A Better Tomorrow and placed shots from Master of the Flying Guillotine.

Ronen was right about not having transitional shots made so it was tough to edit a few scenes. One example is when Slater is done arguing with Hopper about helping him the next filmed shot is Hopper coming out of his house with news/help that Slater asked for. I cut out one shot and used the train going by in the foreground as an attempt at showing time has passed by but it doesn't work well. One nice edit I was able to make (although not from the script) is when Slater comes back with Arquette's "clothes" she opens in and says "this isn't my clothes" and the next scene in the script is when they show Rappaport the drugs. I showed Arquette about to open the bag and then showed the closeup shot of Rappaport opening it with the audio from the previous scene and then you see Rappaport saying this can't be real; yes it takes out the surprise of one of the two actors but I thought it was a nice transition.

I would love to see what somebody who hasn't seen the original version of TR would think of this cut. Tarantiono's reasoning for the out of order scenes doesn't work well with an audience that knows who is who and so on.

I don't know the rules about posting links and downloading here but if anybody wants a copy just tell me. Here's the cover I made. It's a recreation of a SGT Fury comic book that he talks about in the movie.

http://69.24.68.185/tromance_qtcut.jpghttp://69.24.68.185/tromance_qtcut2.jpg
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I love this movie. Saw it with my wife on our first date. And at our wedding, we did our first waltz to "You're So Cool" (the marimba theme song). About five people knew where it came from and thought I had balls of brass for choosing that for a first dance. Everybody else was clueless.

What an in-joke!
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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I would love to see that, vincentda.

Nothing about fanediting is easy.

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Would like to see it--never seen the original film...I'm a heathen, I know.

I really like the cover, my only suggestion being that the actors' pictures need to be photoshopped to replicate the comic book look. Google it a bit. There's about a billion tutorials, from what I can see (try: photoshop comic effect). Do that, and it'll look great.
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Hi there Vicentda! I love the film and would also like to see your edit: it sounds great!
Is there any way I could take a look at it?

Thanks!!!

By the way, I think the cover is terrific, but I also think that the photoshop idea would nail it!
"La fuerza is strong in him man!"
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Tweaker and El Spanish Jedi, thanks and I'll look into the tutorial later and see what I can do about the cover.

Am I allowed to post links here to download or should I just PM you guys. I have a 700mb XVID version broken up into 3 rar files.

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I'd like to see this too. It sounds ace. One question: Do you have a better quality version than the XviD? Not that I'm complaining as such, but a better quality version is preferable. I'll take whatever's available though.
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vincentda you should turn you PMs on either way.

I'd really like to see this edit.

Dr. M

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I agree with Boomstick: if there is a high quality copy of this it would be great if we could all share it and enjoy (I'm a little bit shy, that's why I didn't ask myself first)
If you do have one we could upload it on myspleen, so that all fans can download it for free.

I think I could provide some photoshop help If you want to improve the cover (although as I have said I think the current one is great!!!)
"La fuerza is strong in him man!"
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I really hope this edit resurfaces. It'd be a shame to never view this classic the way it was supposed to be