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| Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) |
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
In August 1969, a group of hippies, led by pseudo-cult leader Charles Manson, murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant at the time. It led to a new era of Hollywood fear that dominated the industry for decades to come. Nowadays, the Tate-LaBianca murders are the stuff of legend, in large part thanks to the sheer number of major celebrities who were associated with or connected to the case. The writer Joan Didion, whose essay collection The White Album tackled the topic and helped to define it as the benchmark of a generation, famously said that the murders signaled the true end of the 1960s and all that they represented. The story has never been adapted on this scale before, because for some in the industry, it’s just too personal a story to tell, given the popularity of Sharon Tate and the infamy of her husband, director Roman Polanski.
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hollywood 2019 wikipedia: In 1969 Los Angeles, actor Rick Dalton, the former star of the 1950s Western television series Bounty Law, finds his career faltering due to ongoing alcoholism issues. Dalton laments to Cliff Booth, his best friend and stunt double, that his career is over. Booth, a war veteran who lives in a derelict trailer next to a drive-in in Van Nuys, attempts to bolster Dalton's self-confidence. Meanwhile, actress Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski have just moved into the home next door to Dalton's. Dalton hopes to befriend the couple and use Polanski to restore his leading man status.
During a day off, Booth laments on his own failures as he fixes Dalton's tv antenna. He reminisces on how he hasn't been able to get much work on account of murdering his wife, (despite still being found not guilty) and throwing Bruce Lee against the stunt coordinator's car, leaving a massive dent. As the day progresses, Booth picks up a young hitchhiker in Dalton's car, driving her home to Spahn Ranch. She insists that he stays and meet Charles Manson, but Booth is suspicious of the large number of hippies squatting on the property, as he once worked on the lot with owner George Spahn. He insists on seeing the now-blind Spahn despite the women's objections; Spahn dismisses Booth's suspicion that he is being taken advantage of and asks him to leave. Returning to his car, Booth discovers that one of the front tires has been popped by a knife; he heavily beats Steve Grogan, the young man responsible and forces him to change the tire. One of the women goes to fetch Tex Watson to handle
the situation, but Booth is already driving away by the time Watson arrives.
During a day off, Booth laments on his own failures as he fixes Dalton's tv antenna. He reminisces on how he hasn't been able to get much work on account of murdering his wife, (despite still being found not guilty) and throwing Bruce Lee against the stunt coordinator's car, leaving a massive dent. As the day progresses, Booth picks up a young hitchhiker in Dalton's car, driving her home to Spahn Ranch. She insists that he stays and meet Charles Manson, but Booth is suspicious of the large number of hippies squatting on the property, as he once worked on the lot with owner George Spahn. He insists on seeing the now-blind Spahn despite the women's objections; Spahn dismisses Booth's suspicion that he is being taken advantage of and asks him to leave. Returning to his car, Booth discovers that one of the front tires has been popped by a knife; he heavily beats Steve Grogan, the young man responsible and forces him to change the tire. One of the women goes to fetch Tex Watson to handle
the situation, but Booth is already driving away by the time Watson arrives.
Cast hollywood 2019
Michael Madsen, Brad Pitt, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Scoot McNairy, James Marsden, Timothy Olyphant, Margaret Qualley, Luke Perry, Dakota Fanning, Mike Moh, Al Pacino, Emile Hirsch.
Leonardo DiCaprio : as Rick Dalton
An actor who starred in the television Western series Bounty Law from 1958 to 1963, based on Wanted Dead or Alive (1958–1961). His attempt to transition to film failed and in 1969 he is struggling.
Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth:
Production Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Production Once Upon A Time In Hollywood :On July 11, 2017, it was announced that Quentin Tarantino had written a screenplay for a film about the Manson Family murders, which he would direct as his next project. Harvey and Bob Weinstein would be involved but it was not known whether their studio, The Weinstein Company, would distribute the film as Tarantino sought to cast the film before sending out a package to studios. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence were revealed to be two names Tarantino had approached to star in the film.On the same day, it was separately reported that Margot Robbie was in talks to potentially portray actress Sharon Tate, Samuel L. Jackson was also in talks to portray a major role, and that Pitt was in talks to portray the detective investigating the murders.
Critical response:
Critical response On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 271 reviews, with an average rating of 7.84/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Thrillingly unrestrained yet solidly crafted, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tempers Tarantino's provocative impulses with the clarity of a mature filmmaker's vision."Metacritic assigned the film an weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 56 critics, indicating "universal acclaim" Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average 4 out of 5 stars and a 55% "definite recommend.
The Hollywood Reporter said critics had "an overall positive view" of the film, who called the film "Tarantino's love letter to '60s L.A.'" and praised its casting choices and setting, though some were "divided on its ending." Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman called the film "heady engrossing collage of a film — but not, in the end, a masterpiece". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film five out of five stars, praising Pitt and DiCaprio's performances and calling the film "outrageous, disorientating, irresponsible, and also brilliant".Steve Pond of TheWrap said: "Big, brash, ridiculous, too long, and in the end invigorating, the film is a grand playground for its director to fetishize old pop culture and bring his gleeful perversity to the craft of moviemaking".
Katie Rife of The A. V. Club gave the film a B+, calling it Tarantino's "wistful midlife crisis movie".
once upon a time in hollywood cannes 2019
Quentin Tarantino renews his vows as a devout fanboy, rifling through his formative influences in vintage American B-movies and TV, spaghetti Westerns, martial arts, popular music and an endless assortment of cultural ephemera in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In his ninth feature, the writer-director at the same time is having sly fun riffing on his own work, in particular his penchant for gleeful revisionist history. A sizable audience will doubtless share that enjoyment, even if the two ambling hours of detours, recaps and diversions that precede the standard climactic explosion of graphic violence are virtually plotless.
The central characters — played by returning Tarantino cohorts Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in entertainingly loose performances dripping with self-irony and pleasurable chemistry — are faded television cowboy Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt-double Cliff Booth. But since an excess of DUIs cost Rick his license, war hero Cliff is now more of a driver and all-round gofer, doing little actual stunt work, while Rick's planned transition into action movies has failed to catch fire. That his extensively excerpted star vehicles bear some resemblance to Inglourious Basterds and The Hateful Eight makes Rick's gnawing doubts about his career seem almost like an exploration of Tarantino's own creative crisis. Or maybe not.
The central characters — played by returning Tarantino cohorts Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in entertainingly loose performances dripping with self-irony and pleasurable chemistry — are faded television cowboy Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt-double Cliff Booth. But since an excess of DUIs cost Rick his license, war hero Cliff is now more of a driver and all-round gofer, doing little actual stunt work, while Rick's planned transition into action movies has failed to catch fire. That his extensively excerpted star vehicles bear some resemblance to Inglourious Basterds and The Hateful Eight makes Rick's gnawing doubts about his career seem almost like an exploration of Tarantino's own creative crisis. Or maybe not.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt play a fading action star and his inseparable stunt double in Quentin Tarantino's freewheeling trip through 1969 Tinseltown at the time of the Manson murders.
