Before Pulp Fiction, Tarantino Scrapped His Own Script That Could’ve Been His Best Movie

Summary:

• Quentin Tarantino may have found his international fame when his breakthrough movie Pulp Fiction was released back in 1994, but before that the director had ditched a script that later on turned into one of his best works.
• Directed by another filmmaker and adapted from Tarantino’s script, the movie follows two young lovers who get into some serious trouble after they come up with a plan to murder the one that stands in their way to happiness together.
• Despite the fact that the film didn’t show impressive results in the box office, it still holds a solid score on Rotten Tomatoes proving Tarantino’s exceptional writing skills.

Being one of the best modern filmmakers with his personal zest that makes his movies stand out, Quentin Tarantino has received numerous accolades for his work in the industry throughout the years of his long-standing career, though not many may know that he actually wasn’t that much recognised for one of his finest scripts.

This fact may indeed come as something surprising given that all of the director’s movies have become a cult classic, but the point here is that Tarantino never got to direct what could’ve been his most brilliant film.

Back in the 1990s Tarantino was yet an unknown, but ambitious aspiring director whose career was put on hold due to the fact that he didn’t have too much money. To finance his directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs released in 1992, Tarantino sold his screenplay destined for another movie to Tony Scott. He later on adapted it into a romantic crime film True Romance starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.

Set in Detroit, the movie follows a couple of Alabama Whitman and Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley who, after meeting each other in a cinema theater, develop romantic feelings despite Alabama’s confession that she’s a call girl hired by Clarence’s boss as a birthday gift.

Desperate to set his girlfriend free from a shameful escort job, Clarence comes up with a plan to kill Alabama’s brutal pimp Drexl Spivey, but things get even more complicated when Clarence accidentally takes Spivey’s suitcase home and later on discovers that it’s full of stolen cocaine.

Given how well Tarantino is known for his writing brilliance rather than camerawork, True Romance is the director’s undeniable true legacy, even though it was eventually directed by someone else.

The whole storyline revolves around characters whose fractured inner world finding its way out in the recognisably styled dialogues comes as something that Tarantino’s fans will be instant to grasp.

Though True Romance never got to be a big box office hit ending up with quite modest results, the movie to this day possesses a solid score of 93% proving itself to be one of Tarantino’s finest scripts.