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vincentda
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Info: True Romance - Tarantino re-edit
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Date created
16-Oct-2006, 1:18 AM
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.

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