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True Romance (1993) More at IMDbPro »

In Quentin Tarantino's original script, Clarence was supposed to die in the final shootout. When Tony Scott made this film, he had already decided to change the ending. Quentin Tarantino begged and pleaded with him to keep the original ending. Scott agreed to film both endings but would decide which ending to put in during editing. Of course, Scott decided to go with his ending where Clarence lives.

After viewing the film Quentin agreed that for Tony Scott's version the ending was the right one for "Scott's film". Quentin stated if he made the film, the structure would have been different, and in the end Clarence would still have died.

Vincent was interrogating Clifford (Clarence's dad) about the whereabouts of Clarence and Alabama. Vincent had basically told Clifford that he couldn't save his son, but he could save himself by giving up Clarence's whereabouts. Obviously Clifford would never give up his son to be killed, however Vincent and his men were torturing him for information and were too good at detecting when he was lying. So Clifford smirks, ponders for a moment; Then proceeds to mock Vincent's Sicilian ancestry, seeing as how men of his stature take these things very seriously. Knowing how deeply offended Vincent would be by this, Clifford was counting on Vincent being provoked into killing him. Therefore Clifford would receive a quick death and leave his son's whereabouts a mystery, instead of being tortured into confessing.

Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction) and Victor Vega (Reservoir Dogs) are brothers.

Laurence Dimmick a.k.a. Mr. White (Reservoir Dogs) and Jimmy Dimmick (Pulp Fiction) may be related somehow.

Jack Scagnetti (Natural Born Killers) and Seymour Scagnetti (mentioned in Reservoir Dogs) could be related.

Drexl Spivey (True Romance) and Marsellus Spivey (mentioned in Reservoir Dogs) could be related.

Earl McGraw (From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Grindhouse) and Edgar McGraw (From Dusk till Dawn 2, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Grindhouse) are father and son.

Bill and Budd are brothers.

Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Inglorious Basterds) and Lee Donowitz (True Romance) are father and son

Note that the names of the characters somewhat correspond with the "career choice" of the other. Example being Drexl is a pimp and Marsellus was a diamond fence who was doing 20 years in prison. Jack Scagnetti was a popular Detective and Seymour was a Parole officer..etc.

The story itself is pretty much like in Tarantino's script, the things that were edited the most was the order of the scenes. In the original script the scenes are in unchronological order, Tony Scott changed it to chronological. In the ending of the original script, Clarence dies in the shoot out, it was changed to make him live because the audience got so depressed when they showed the original ending. This is pretty sad, since the whole story is built on Clarence's talk about Elvis in the beggining about "getting famous, die young and leave a handsome corpse after you." Other small things that were changed are: 1.Alabama's pimp Drexl's bodyguard is a young muscled man instead of a young fat man. 2.When Clarence's father tells Vincenzo that he has got "nigger-blood" in his veins, Vincenzo gets furious and kills him insted of laugh and kill him. 3.The hitman who beats Alabama in the midde of the movie (played by James Gandolfini) is a kung-fu expert instead of an old-school mobster.

Cinematically, the movie was released in its R-Rated Version that was available on VHS as well. Later on the movie got published in an Unrated Version too that offers a far more violent cut of the movie with several extended shooting scenes. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.

In the UK the R-Rated Version had to be cut for the theatrical release in one scene. The movie was released in its uncensored Unrated Version later on as well. A detailed comparison between the censored R-Rated Version from the UK and the original R-Rated Version can be seen here.