10 More Movies You Didn't Know Were Connected

3. Reservoir Dogs/True Romance/Inglourious Basterds

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A Band Apart

Quentin Tarantino has a thing about linking characters together in his movies, and his directorial debut started the trend by calling back to the first screenplay he wrote for a big screen movie - True Romance.

In the flashback sequence showing Mr White meeting with Joe Cabot, the big boss asks White how Alabama is. That Alabama is the same one played by Patricia Arquette in True Romance, who was Mr White's former partner. Tarantino actually initially wanted Alabama to team up with Mr. White, but the end of True Romance was changed and that part of the story was dropped out.

And there's another link between True Romance and another Tarantino movie, as Hollywood movie producer Lee Donowitz (Saul Rubinek) is actually the son of Eli Roth's Bear Jew, Sgt. Donny Donowitz from Inglourious Basterds.

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