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Originally Posted by PaulD  There's the idea that they all exist in the same universe because of shared surnames and the like (and Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction definitely do due to the Vega connection as Tarantino has made clear himself) but all of them don't and can just be seen as little nods and references to each other. Tarantino's gone on record as saying there are two types of universe he writes in; the Tarantino Movie Universe and the Movie Movie universe. Films like Kill Bill and From Dusk Till Dawn exist in the latter, a universe where these films exist as movie which characters from the Tarantino Movie Universe (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance etc) would go to see.
Amusingly, there exists the idea that Donny Donowitz AKA The Bear Jew from Inglourious Basterds is the father of the movie producer Lee Donowitz in True Romance and if you take all of these connections to mean they exist on the same Tarantino Movie Universe then True Romance, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction all exist in a world where Hitler was assassinated during World War II! |
Keitel's Mr White also mentions Alabama (the Patricia Arquette character from TRUE ROMANCE) in one of the flashbacks in RESERVOIR DOGS - Tarantino had killed off the Clarence/Christian Slater character at the end of his TRUE ROMANCE script, so the back story became that Alabama or 'Bama' as White calls her, hooked up with him after Clarrnce died. Of cause, Tony Scott's filmed ending would contradict that notion.
I'd not spotted the Donowitz connection though. Doh!