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1. #Once upon a time...in hollywood movie#
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I was like, 'Okay, we're easing our way into this close-up shot of my eyes. You know, it was kind of more of a physicality thing, the camera was kind of far away. So that was good because I didn't have to say any lines yet. So the first thing that I filmed was literally the shot of me appearing behind the screen door and the sun rising over my face, and that was kind of my first thing.

#Once upon a time...in hollywood full#

It was a World War II B-movie titled “The 14 Fists of McCluskey.” (We see a scene from the “movie” in which Rick as McCluskey yells, “Anyone order fried Sauerkraut!” before torching a room full of Nazis with a flame thrower."It was very luxurious to be able to film that sequence in order. As the story goes, Rick was briefly considered for a showcase role in “The Great Escape” when Steve McQueen wavered about taking the part - but the closest Rick actually came to feature film glory wasn’t very close at all.

#Once upon a time...in hollywood tv#

In one of the great buddy-pairings of the decade, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt play Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth, who have been best friends ever since Rick starred in a late 1950s TV show called “Bounty Law” and Cliff was his stunt double. It’s also a modern-day Western about an actor who starred on a TV Western and is now reduced to guest-starring on a pilot for a Western starring a new up-and-comer. (But it’s great fun if you do.) For all its deep drilling into the popular culture of the time, for all of its poetic license, “Once Upon a Time …” also tells the familiar Hollywood tale of rising stars and fading stars in a changing industry. Do you have to “get” every reference, from period-piece TV shows such as “Mannix” and “The FBI” to “The Green Hornet,” to the titles of the movies on the marquees, to the songs on the radio that often mirror or foreshadow events and characters?Ībsolutely not. (After all, it IS called “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”) And it is absolutely dripping with pop-culture touchstones and a flood of references to other movies, on a level both exhilarating and borderline overwhelming.

Tarantino, who was 6 years old in 1969, has created a stylized, at times idealistic, sometimes insanely inspired memory piece - a love letter to the movies from a director famously obsessed with movies. This is a brilliant and sometimes outrageously fantastic mash-up of real-life events and characters with pure fiction. In certain elements of tone and structure, “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood” has echoes of “Pulp Fiction” and “Jackie Brown,” but it is alive and electric with a beat all its own.

The movies were for their teenage and early 20s offspring, who were off doing God knows what, God knows where.

#Once upon a time...in hollywood movie#

It was a time when safe, conventional Westerns such as “Bonanza,” “Gunsmoke” and “Daniel Boone,” cornball rural comedies “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Mayberry, R.F.D.” and law enforcement dramas “Dragnet” and “The F.B.I.” were Top 20 TV shows - in sharp contrast to counterculture, antihero movie hits such as “Midnight Cowboy” and “Easy Rider.” Quentin Tarantino’s deeply personal, ’60s-cool, darkly funny, trippy, bold and sensational “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is filled with pitch-perfect vignettes such as that moment at the intersection - moments perfectly capturing the vast chasm in the country and in the world of American pop culture in 1969. Opens Thursday at local theaters (in 70mm at the Music Box Theatre).īut when she flashes a carefree smile and gives him the peace sign, a grin cracks his stoic demeanor, and it feels like this might be the first time he’s willing to accept, if not completely understand, how the world is changing at tornado speed and he’s on his way to becoming a relic from another time. Rated R (for language throughout, some strong graphic violence, drug use, and sexual references). Columbia Pictures presents a film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.