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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

October 20, 2023

This article is about the film. For the novelization, see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (novel).

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood[a] is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. It features a large ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows a fading actor and his stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry, with the looming threat of the Tate murders hanging overhead. It features "multiple storylines in a modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age."[5]

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Theatrical release poster designed by Steven Chorney
Directed byQuentin Tarantino
Written byQuentin Tarantino
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRobert Richardson
Edited byFred Raskin
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
  • May 21, 2019 (2019-05-21) (Cannes)
  • July 26, 2019 (2019-07-26) (United States)
  • August 14, 2019 (2019-08-14) (United Kingdom)
Running time
161 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • China[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$90–96 million[3]
Box office$377.6 million[4]

Announced in July 2017, it is the first Tarantino film not to involve Bob and Harvey Weinstein, as Tarantino ended his partnership with the brothers following the sexual abuse allegations against the latter. After a bidding war, the film was distributed by Sony Pictures, which met Tarantino's demands including final cut privilege. Pitt, DiCaprio, Robbie, Zoë Bell, Kurt Russell, and others joined the cast between January and June 2018. Principal photography lasted from June through November around Los Angeles. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the final film to feature Luke Perry, who died on March 4, 2019, and it is dedicated to his memory.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 26, 2019 and in the United Kingdom on August 14. The film grossed $374 million worldwide and received praise from critics for Tarantino's direction and screenplay, the performances (particularly from DiCaprio and Pitt), cinematography, soundtrack, sound design, costume design, and production values. Organizations such as the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as one of the top ten films of 2019. The film was nominated for ten awards at the 92nd Academy Awards, winning two, and received numerous other accolades. A novelization, written by Tarantino in his debut as an author, was published on June 29, 2021.[6]

Plot Edit

In February 1969, Hollywood actor Rick Dalton, star of 1950s TV Western series Bounty Law, fears his career is fading, with his recent roles being guest appearances as villains. His agent Marvin Schwarz advises him to make Spaghetti Westerns in Italy, which Dalton considers beneath him. Dalton's best friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth – a war veteran who lives in a trailer with his pit bull, Brandy – drives Dalton around due to his DUI arrests and driver's license suspension. Booth struggles to find stunt work because of rumors he murdered his wife. Actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, have moved next door to Dalton, and Dalton dreams of befriending them to revive his career. That night, Tate and Polanski attend a celebrity-filled party at the Playboy Mansion.

The next day, Booth recalls a sparring contest he had with Bruce Lee on the set of The Green Hornet resulting in Booth's firing. Meanwhile, Charles Manson stops by the Polanski residence looking for Terry Melcher, who used to live there, but is turned away by Jay Sebring. As Tate runs errands, she stops at the Fox Bruin Theater to watch herself in The Wrecking Crew.

Dalton is cast as the villain in the pilot for the TV Western Lancer and strikes up a conversation with eight-year-old co-star Trudi Frazer. During filming, Dalton struggles to remember his lines and suffers a breakdown in his trailer. He subsequently delivers a strong performance that impresses Frazer and the director, Sam Wanamaker.

Booth picks up a hitchhiker, "Pussycat", and takes her to Spahn Ranch, where he once worked on the set of Bounty Law. He observes the many hippies living there. Suspecting they may be taking advantage of the ranch's elderly owner, George Spahn, Booth insists on checking on him despite "Squeaky"'s objections. Booth speaks with the nearly blind Spahn, who dismisses his concerns. Upon leaving, Booth discovers that "Clem" has punctured a tire on Dalton's car. Booth beats Clem and makes him change the tire. "Tex" is summoned to deal with the situation, but arrives as Booth is driving away.

After watching Dalton's guest performance on an episode of The F.B.I., Schwarz books him as the lead in Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Western Nebraska Jim. Dalton takes Booth with him for a six-month stint in Italy, during which he films three additional movies and marries Italian starlet Francesca Capucci. By the end of their stay, Dalton can no longer afford Booth's services.

Returning to Los Angeles on August 8, 1969, Dalton and Booth go out for drinks to commemorate their time together, then go back to Dalton's house. Meanwhile, Tate and Sebring go out for dinner with friends, then return to Tate's house. Booth smokes an LSD-laced cigarette purchased earlier and takes Brandy for a walk while Dalton prepares drinks. Tex, "Sadie", "Katie", and "Flowerchild" arrive outside in preparation to murder everyone in Tate's house, but Dalton hears the car's muffler and orders them off the street. Recognizing him, the four change their plans and decide to kill him instead, after Sadie reasons that Hollywood has "taught them to murder". Flowerchild deserts them, speeding off with their car.

Breaking into Dalton's house, they confront Booth and Capucci. Tex aims his pistol at Booth. Now high on the LSD, Booth chats with the intruders, remembering them from Spahn Ranch. Booth signals Brandy to attack Tex. Sadie lunges at Booth with a knife. Booth throws a can at her face and signals Brandy to attack her. Capucci punches Katie and runs away. Katie dives at Booth after he fights and kills Tex. Realizing a knife is stuck in his thigh, Booth kills Katie by smashing her face against household decor then passes out. A wounded and crazed Sadie stumbles outside into the pool firing Tex's pistol. Dalton, floating in the pool, listening to music on headphones, oblivious to the chaos inside, is alarmed. He retrieves a flamethrower retained from his earlier film The 14 Fists of McClusky and incinerates Sadie. The police arrive and Booth later regains consciousness and is taken away in an ambulance. After promising to visit Booth in the hospital, Dalton is invited by Sebring and Tate to their house for a drink, which he accepts.

Cast Edit

Quentin Tarantino portrays the director of Dalton's Red Apples cigarettes commercial[8] and the voice of Bounty Law.[9] Musician Toni Basil appears in the opening credits Pan Am scene dancing with Sharon Tate.[10] Margot Robbie also briefly reprises her role as Laura Cameron, a stewardess from the TV series Pan Am. Although her face is not seen, she makes and serves Dalton a cocktail on his flight home from Italy.[11]

Additionally, the film features appearances from Clifton Collins Jr. as Ernesto "The Mexican" Vaquero, a character on Lancer, Omar Doom as Donnie, a biker on Spahn Ranch, Clu Gulager (in his last film role) as a book store owner, Perla Haney-Jardine as an LSD-selling hippie, Martin Kove and James Remar as a Sheriff and "Ugly Owl Hoot", two characters on Bounty Law, Brenda Vaccaro as Schwarz's wife Mary Alice, Corey Burton as the Bounty Law promotional announcer, and Tarantino's wife Daniella Pick as Daphna Ben-Cobo, Dalton's co-star in Nebraska Jim.[12] Ex–UFC star Keith Jardine performed stunts on the movie.[13]

An extended cut, released theatrically in October 2019, included an appearance by James Marsden as Burt Reynolds and a voice over by Walton Goggins.[14][15] Danny Strong and Tim Roth shot scenes that were cut. Strong portrayed Dean Martin and Paul Barabuta (based on Rudolph Altobelli), the homeowner of 10050 Cielo Drive, while Roth portrayed Raymond,[7]: page 123  Sebring's English butler.[16][17][18] Sebring had a butler in real life named Amos Russell who was interviewed by the police while investigating the Tate murders.[19] Despite being removed from the final theatrical cut of the film, Roth still received credit for acting in the film.

Character details Edit

See also: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (novel)

Fictional characters Edit

 
Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars as main protagonist Rick Dalton.

Rick Dalton Edit

Main article: The Films of Rick Dalton
  • Dalton is an actor who starred in the fictitious television Western series Bounty Law from 1959 to 1963,[7]: page11  inspired by real-life series Wanted Dead or Alive, starring Steve McQueen.[20] After Bounty Law Dalton began to appear in supporting film roles, leading to a four-picture contract with Universal Pictures, ending in 1967. His film career never took off and in '67 he started to guest star on TV series as villains.[7]: 10–18 

Cliff Booth Edit

  • Booth, Dalton's stunt double, personal assistant and best friend, is an indestructible World War II hero, a Green Beret specialized in knives and close-quarters combat, and "one of the deadliest guys alive."[21][22] He is a two-time Medal of Valor recipient, and has killed more Japanese soldiers than any other American soldier.[23] Booth first met Dalton during the third season of Bounty Law in 1961 when he was brought in as his stunt double. A month into the job he saved Dalton's life after he caught on fire while filming an episode.[7]: 48–50  Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt modeled Booth after Tom Laughlin's portrayal of Billy Jack.[24] Booth had performed stunts on The Born Losers and was paid with the denim outfit worn by Laughlin as Billy Jack, which is what he wears in the film.[7]: 25–26  Booth is inspired by Gary Kent, a stuntman for a film made at the Spahn Ranch while the Manson Family lived there,[25] as well as stuntman, professional wrestler and two-time national judo champion Gene LeBell, who came to work on The Green Hornet after complaints by other stunt performers that Bruce Lee was "kicking the shit out of the stuntmen."[26] Like Booth, LeBell was suspected of murder but never convicted.[27] Pitt channeled Steve McQueen's stunt double Bud Ekins for his portrayal of Booth.[28] Tarantino also revealed that Booth was inspired by a real stuntman who "was the closest equivalent to Stuntman Mike" (Kurt Russell) from Death Proof. He was "absolutely indestructible ... scared everybody ... [and] killed his wife on a boat and got away with it."[29]
  • Billie Booth is Cliff's wife, whose death in the film – and the ambiguity surrounding it – is a reference to Natalie Wood's,[30] as is Billie's sister being named Natalie.[31] The novelization reveals that Cliff did in fact murder Billie. He shot her with a speargun, almost tearing her in half, which he immediately regretted.[23] There is a connection between Cliff and Robert Blake, to whom Tarantino dedicates the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel.[32] Cliff had also murdered three other people, including another stuntman.[7]: 72–73, 268 

Other fictional characters Edit

Historical characters Edit

 
Sharon Tate, portrayed in the film by Margot Robbie as well as featured in clips from The Wrecking Crew (1968)
  • Sharon Tate was an actress married to film director Roman Polanski, and is Dalton's neighbor in the film. Margot Robbie did not consult Polanski about playing Tate, but read his 1984 autobiography Roman by Polanski in preparation for the role.[45] Tate filmed her last movie, The Thirteen Chairs, in Italy in 1969,[46] at the same time as Dalton films movies there in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.[38]
  • Roman Polanski, a film director whose credits include Rosemary's Baby and The Fearless Vampire Killers, where he first met Tate.[47]
  • Jay Sebring was a celebrity hairstylist, Tate's friend and ex-boyfriend, and friend of Bruce Lee (whom he helped get started in Hollywood) and Steve McQueen.[37][48] Sebring and Tate attended a party at Mama Cass' house which Charles Manson also attended.[49]
  • Abigail Folger, heir to the Folgers coffee fortune, and her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski were Tate's friends.[50]
  • James Stacy was an actor who played Johnny Madrid Lancer on Lancer.[51][52] Stacy is last shown in the film leaving the Lancer set on a motorcycle; Stacy was in a motorcycle accident in 1973 that resulted in the death of his passenger and the loss of his arm and leg. His ex-wife, actress Connie Stevens, also portrayed in the film, organized a fundraiser for his recovery.[53][37]
  • Wayne Maunder, who portrayed Scott Lancer on Lancer,[51][52] died during the filming of the movie while Luke Perry, who plays him in his last film role, died shortly afterwards.[54] Luke's son Jack Perry appears with him in the film.[55]
  • Sam Wanamaker directed the real pilot of Lancer, as he does in the film. The Land Pirates were characters in the real pilot,[52] who also appear in the pilot within the film.[2] Wanamaker led the restoration of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre after moving to London while blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1950s.[51] In the film he likens Rick Dalton's character on Lancer to Shakespeare's Hamlet.[37] In a deleted scene Wanamaker says, "You'd be amazed how many Westerns the plot is Shakespearean." He goes on to try to convince Dalton to play his character as Edmund from Shakespeare's King Lear.[56]
  • Business Bob Gilbert (Scoot McNairy) is a character on Lancer being portrayed by Bruce Dern.[7]: page254  (McNairy is playing Dern, playing Business Bob)
  • Bruce Lee was an actor and martial artist who starred as Kato on The Green Hornet. He taught Tate martial arts for The Wrecking Crew and also trained Sebring, Polanski and McQueen.[48]
  • Steve McQueen was an actor and friend of Tate, Sebring, and Lee.[48] On the night of the Tate murders, Sebring invited McQueen over to Tate's house, but his date wanted to stay in.[50] After the murders, the police found a Manson Family hit list including McQueen's name.[50]
  • Mama Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips were members of the folk band the Mamas & the Papas. The sheet music for their song "Straight Shooter" was found on the piano at the murder scene in the Tate–Polanski residence. The song is also used in the film and teaser trailer.[57][58] Polanski had an affair with Phillips while he was married to Tate. After the Tate murders, Polanski suspected Michelle's husband, John Phillips of the killings out of revenge for the affair.[57]
  • Connie (Monica Staggs) and Curt (Mark Warrack)[2] are horseback-riding customers at Spahn Ranch. As one way of earning their keep, the Manson Family gave horseback riding tours to people visiting the ranch.[59] Tarantino stated that he thinks his mother and step-father (Connie and Curt) took him horseback riding at Spahn Ranch when he was six years old.[60]
  • Perla Haney-Jardine's hippie girl, who sells the acid-dipped cigarette to Cliff Booth, is based on "Today" Louise Malone, a hippie who appears in the 1968 documentary Revolution.[61][62] As in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, she sells the acid cigarettes at a traffic light. Tarantino said the dialogue in the scene is taken from the documentary.[61]
  • Allen Kincade (Spencer Garrett) is a celebrity television interviewer who is based on Wink Martindale. The character was named Wink Martindale in the screenplay but changed to Allen Kincade shortly before shooting due to clearance issues.[63]
  • The bookseller at Larry Edmunds Bookshop being portrayed by Clu Gulager who sells a copy of Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Sharon Tate is Milton Luboviski, who was the real-life proprietor.[64][65][66]
  • Harvey "Humble Harve" Miller, portrayed by Rage Stewart,[67] was a Los Angeles KHJ Boss Radio DJ who was convicted of killing his wife.[68]
  • The TV show Hullabaloo Rick Dalton appears on in the film was a real-life show, and one of the go-go dancers portrayed is Lada St. Edmund, who went on to become the highest paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history.[37]

The Manson Family Edit

  • George Spahn was an 80-year-old nearly blind man who rented his ranch out for westerns. The Manson Family lived on the ranch.[69]
  • Charlie is Charles Manson, a convicted felon and cult leader of "the Family" (later dubbed "the Manson Family" by the media), a hippie commune based in California. Members of the Family committed nine murders in the summer of 1969.[70] Damon Herriman, who portrays Manson, also portrays him in David Fincher's Netflix series Mindhunter.[71] Tarantino revealed that, since the Tate murders never happen in the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood universe, neither do the LaBianca murders. The Manson Family gets kicked off Spahn Ranch and splits up, with Manson never becoming a familiar name or cult figure.[72]
  • "Pussycat", aka Debra Jo Hillhouse,[7]: page81  is a composite character, with her nickname based on Kathryn Lutesinger's "Kitty Kat", yet modeled after and most notably based on Ruth Ann Moorehouse.[59][73] Manson frequently sent Moorehouse into the city to lure men with money back to Spahn Ranch.[59] Lutesinger met Manson through her boyfriend, Bobby Beausoleil.[74] There was a Manson Family member named Pussycat, who is mentioned by Ed Sanders in his book The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion; according to those interviewed, Pussycat underwent an exorcism with Manson present. The real identity of Pussycat is never revealed.[75] She is also an homage to Myra (Laurie Heineman) from John G. Avildsen's Save the Tiger.[12]
  • "Squeaky" was Lynette Fromme's nickname, given to her by Spahn because of the sound she made when he touched her.[76] She was Spahn's main caretaker, tending to his needs, sexual or otherwise.[59]
  • "Tex" was Charles Watson's nickname. Spahn gave it to him because of his Texas accent.[77] Within the film's universe the police later theorize that Tex, Sadie, and Katie broke into Rick Dalton's house because they "were frying on acid and were out to perform a Satanic ritual," based on Cliff Booth telling them that Tex said he was "the Devil".[7]: page111 
  • "Sadie" was Susan Atkins' nickname. Manson gave everyone fake IDs, and the name on Atkins' was "Sadie Mae Glutz".[76] Atkins was called "Sexy Sadie" after a track on the Beatles' self-titled album that some of the Family members may have believed was about her.[70]: 241, 252, xv  Mikey Madison, who played Sadie, would later portray a similar character in the 2022 film Scream. Like Sadie, her character Amber Freeman is a knife-wielding psycho killer. Amber decides to murder based on films whereas Sadie does so based on TV. Sadie gets set on fire by Rick Dalton, while Amber is set ablaze by Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox).[78][79]
  • "Katie" was Patricia Krenwinkel's nickname because of the name on her fake ID.[76] Madisen Beaty, who portrays Krenwinkel, previously portrayed her on the TV series Aquarius.[80]
  • "Flowerchild" is the movie's name for Linda Kasabian, the fourth Family member to go to Tate's house.[79] In 1970, Kasabian was described as a "true flower child".[81]
  • "Snake" was Dianne Lake's nickname, given to her by Manson because she rolled around in grass pretending to be a snake. At 14 she became the youngest member of the Manson Family after being kicked off Wavy Gravy's Hog Farm. Her parents were associates of Manson and her mother had dropped acid with him prior to Lake joining them.[82]
  • "Blue" was Sandra Good's nickname. Manson told her, "Woman, you're earth. I'm naming you Blue. Fix the air and the water. It's your job."[76] Kansas Bowling, the actress who plays her, appears in the film with her sister Parker Love Bowling, who plays Family member "Tadpole". Parker previously portrayed a Manson girl in a reenactment for the Canadian History Channel.[83]
  • "Gypsy" was Catherine Share's nickname, which she gave herself after meeting a man named Gypsy, with whom she shared a birthday and believed him to be her cosmic twin.[76]
  • "Happy Cappy" is based on Catherine Gillies, who was nicknamed "Capistrano" by Spahn because she grew up in San Juan Capistrano and was later shortened to "Cappy" by the Family.[84][85] Josephine Valentina Clark, the actress who plays her, added the "Happy" while working on the character.[84]
  • "Lulu" was one of Leslie Van Houten's nicknames, and "Clem" one of Steve Grogan's.[59]
  • "Tophat", portrayed in the film by Ronnie Zappa,[86] was an alias of Bobby Beausoleil. In his 2001 book Turn Off Your Mind, Gary Lachman mentions that, "Beausoleil had a style; a top hat that set him apart from the usual hippie fare."[87] Beausoleil wrote: "I spied a felt top hat in the window of a... shop... I couldn't afford (it)... but it felt like it had been made for me... I couldn't resist the temptation to buy it." Beausoleil claimed that as soon as he put on the hat, ideas floating in his head came together.[88]
  • The character of "Sundance" was named by Cassidy Vick Hice, the actress who portrays her. She wrote, "I was asked to name my character by Quentin himself."[89]
  • Straight Satan David, portrayed in the film by David Steen,[2] is a member of the Straight Satans Motorcycle Club, associates of the Family. Manson attempted to recruit them as personal security but, with the exception of club treasurer Danny DeCarlo, was unsuccessful. DeCarlo lived on the ranch as part of the Family.[70]: 77, 89, 102 
  • Bill "Sweet William" Fritsch, portrayed by Tom Hartig[67] was a member of the Hells Angels and Diggers and a Manson Family associate. Fritsch worked security for the Altamont Free Concert and acted in deleted scenes of Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising.[90]

Production Edit

Writing and development Edit

 
Director Quentin Tarantino developed the idea over the course of several years, looking to tell a "fairy tale" set in 1960s Hollywood.

The screenplay for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was developed slowly over several years by Tarantino. While he knew he wanted it to be titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, evoking the idea of a fairy tale, he publicly referred to the project as Magnum opus.[91] The life of the work for the first five years was as a novel,[91] which Tarantino considered to be an exploratory approach to the story, not yet having decided if it would be a screenplay. Tarantino tried other writing approaches: the early scene between Rick Dalton and Marvin Schwarz was originally written as a one-act play.[92]

Tarantino discovered the centerpiece for the work about 10 years previously while filming Death Proof with Kurt Russell who had been working with the same stunt double, John Casino, for several years. Even though there was only a small bit for Casino to do, Tarantino was asked to use him, and agreed. The relationship fascinated Tarantino and inspired him to make a film about Hollywood.[93][94] Tarantino stated, while Casino may have been a perfect double for Russell years earlier, when he met them, "this was maybe the last or second-to-last thing they'd be doing together".[92]

Tarantino first created stuntman Cliff Booth, giving him a massive backstory. Next, he created actor Rick Dalton for whom Booth would stunt double. Tarantino decided to have them be Sharon Tate's next-door neighbors in 1969. The first plot point he developed was the ending, moving backwards from there, this being the first time Tarantino had worked this way. He thought of doing an Elmore Leonard-type story, but realized he was confident enough in his characters to let them drive the film and let it be a day in the life of Booth, Dalton, and Tate. He would use sequences from Dalton's films for the action, inspired by Richard Rush's 1980 film The Stunt Man, which used the scenes from the WWI movie they were making within the film as the action.[95] Further, to get his mind into Dalton, Tarantino wrote five episodes of the fictional television show Bounty Law, in which Dalton had starred, having become fascinated with the amount of story crammed into half-hour episodes of 1950s western shows.[17]

Tarantino kept the only copy of the third act of the script in a safe to prevent it from being prematurely released.[96] DiCaprio, Robbie, and Pitt were the only other people who read the entire script.[97][17] In an interview with Adam Sandler, Pitt revealed that the only other copy of the script was burned by Tarantino.[98]

Pre-production and casting Edit

On July 11, 2017, it was announced that Quentin Tarantino's next film would be about the Manson murders. Harvey and Bob Weinstein would be involved, but it was not known whether The Weinstein Company (TWC) would distribute the film, as Tarantino sought to cast before sending a package to studios. Tarantino approached Brad Pitt to star. It was reported that Margot Robbie was being considered for Sharon Tate.[99] It was also reported that Pitt was in talks for the detective investigating the murders.[100]

After the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, Tarantino cut ties with Weinstein and sought a new distributor, after having worked with Weinstein for his entire career. At this point, Leonardo DiCaprio was revealed to be among a short list of actors Tarantino was considering.[101] A short time later, reports circulated that studios were bidding for the film, and that David Heyman had joined as a producer, along with Tarantino and Shannon McIntosh.[102]

On November 11, 2017, Sony Pictures announced they would distribute the film, beating Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Annapurna Pictures and Lionsgate.[103] Tarantino's demands included a $95 million budget, final cut privilege, "extraordinary creative controls", 25% of first-dollar gross, and the stipulation that the rights revert to him after 10 to 20 years.[104]

 
The main stars of the film, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Leonardo DiCaprio

In January 2018, DiCaprio signed on, taking a pay cut to collaborate with Tarantino again.[105][106] Al Pacino was being considered for a role.[107] On February 28, 2018, the film was titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Pitt cast as Cliff Booth.[108] DiCaprio and Pitt were each paid $10 million.[109] In March 2018, Robbie, who had expressed interest in working with Tarantino,[110] signed to co-star as Sharon Tate,[111] while Zoë Bell confirmed she would appear.[112] In May 2018, Tim Roth, Kurt Russell, and Michael Madsen joined the cast.[113] Timothy Olyphant was also cast.[114] In June 2018, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Clifton Collins Jr., Keith Jefferson, Nicholas Hammond, Pacino, and Scoot McNairy joined the cast.[115][116][117] Spencer Garrett, James Remar, and Mike Moh were announced in July.[118] In August 2018, Damon Herriman as Charles Manson, and Lena Dunham, Austin Butler, Danny Strong, Rafał Zawierucha, Rumer Willis, Dreama Walker, and Margaret Qualley were cast.[119][120][121]

When Butler auditioned for the film, he was not aware of which character he was being considered for. Tarantino told him it was for a villain or a hero on Lancer, when in fact it was for Tex Watson. To prepare for her audition, Maya Hawke practiced with her father, Ethan Hawke. She stated, "He (Tarantino) actually organized a really amazing callback process that was unlike anything I've ever been through... except maybe auditioning for drama school." Willis auditioned for two roles, neither of which she got, but was later offered the part of Joanna Pettet. Sydney Sweeney said everyone she auditioned with did so for the same character, then were told they could do extra credit. Some did artwork, and she wrote a letter in character. Julia Butters says her sitcom American Housewife was on while Tarantino was writing her character, Trudi Frazer. He looked up and said, "Maybe she can try this."[122]

Burt Reynolds was cast as George Spahn in May 2018, but died in September before filming his scenes and was replaced by Bruce Dern.[113][69] Reynolds did a rehearsal and script reading, his last performance. After reading the script and learning that Pitt would be portraying Booth, Reynolds told Tarantino, "You gotta have somebody say, 'You're pretty for a stunt guy.'" The line appears in the film, spoken to Booth by Bruce Lee.[123] The last thing Reynolds did before he died was run lines with his assistant for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.[124]

Tarantino initially approached Jennifer Lawrence to portray Manson Family member Squeaky Fromme, saying "She was interested but something just didn't work out."[99][125] Tarantino had also spoken to Tom Cruise about playing Cliff Booth, who was being considered for the role.[102][126] Charlie Day was the producers' first choice to play Manson. Day did not show up to interview for the part because he did not want to see himself in that role.[127] Macaulay Culkin auditioned for an undisclosed role. It was his first audition in eight years.[128] It was also initially reported that Samuel L. Jackson was in talks for a major role.[100] Actor Lew Temple, who played a minor role in the film said that Jack Nicholson shot an undisclosed role for the movie.[129]

Filming and design Edit

 
 
With the death of Burt Reynolds (left), the role of George Spahn was recast with Bruce Dern.

When it came to the look of 1969 Hollywood in the film a large part of it was told through the memory of a child. Tarantino stated:

the jumping off point was going to be my memory – as a six-year old sitting in the passenger seat of my stepfather's Karmann Ghia. And even that shot, that kind of looks up at Cliff as he drives by the Earl Scheib, and all those signs, that's pretty much my perspective, being a little kid...[29]

Principal photography began on June 18, 2018, in Los Angeles, California, and wrapped on November 1, 2018.[130] Tarantino's directive was to turn Los Angeles of 2018 into Los Angeles of 1969 without computer-generated imagery.[65] For this, he tapped into previous collaborators for production: editor Fred Raskin, cinematographer Robert Richardson, sound editor Wylie Stateman and makeup artist Heba Thorisdottir. He also brought first-time collaborators, production designer Barbara Ling, based on her work recreating historical settings in The Doors, and costume designer Arianne Phillips.[131] Despite Tarantino's intent, the production wound up using more than 75 digital visual effects shots by Luma Pictures and Lola VFX, mainly to cover up modern billboards and erasing non-1960s buildings from driving shots.[132]

To film at the Pussycat Theater, production designer Barbara Ling and her team covered the building's LED signage and reattached the theater's iconic logo, rebuilding the letters and neon. Ling said the lettering on every marquee in the film is historically accurate. To restore Larry Edmunds Bookshop, she reproduced the original storefront sign and tracked down period-appropriate merchandise, even recreating book covers. Her team restored the Bruin and Fox Village theaters, including their marquees, and the storefronts around them. Stan's Donuts, across the street from the Bruin, got a complete makeover.[65]

 
There was a lengthy negotiation period to secure permission to film at the Playboy Mansion.

The Playboy Mansion scene was shot at the actual mansion.[133] Tarantino was adamant about filming there, but it took a while to obtain permission since the mansion had been sold to a private owner following Hugh Hefner's death. Tarantino and Ling met with the new owner to discuss the parts they wanted to use, but he was reluctant since the property was in the middle of a renovation. After long negotiations he agreed, and Ling was able to dress the vacant mansion, front courtyard, and backyard for the party scene, evoking as much of the 1960s appearance of the mansion as possible.[133] The dance sequence for the scene was choreographed by Toni Basil who knew Sharon Tate and once dated Jay Sebring.[10] She also choreographed Dalton's Hullabaloo scene.[10] Though the film is set in 1969, the mansion was actually not acquired by Playboy until 1971, resulting in an obvious anachronism.

Several important scenes were shot at the Musso & Frank Grill, which was a "must have" location for Tarantino according to Rick Schuler, supervising location manager. "I feel so lucky that there's a place like the Musso & Frank Grill, one that exists now exactly how it has always been," Tarantino said. "It was fantastic being able to shoot at an iconic landmark that is so authentic and connected to Hollywood."[134]

The scenes involving the Tate-Polanski house were not filmed at Cielo Drive, the winding street where the 3,200 square-foot house once stood. The house was razed in 1994 and replaced with a mansion nearly six times the size. Scenes involving the house were filmed at three different locations around Los Angeles: one for the interior, one for the exterior, and a Universal City location for the scenes depicting the iconic cul-de-sac driveway.[135]

Movie poster artist Steven Chorney created the poster for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as a reference to The Mod Squad.[136] He and Renato Casaro created the posters for the movies within the film, Nebraska Jim, Operation Dyn-O-Mite, Uccidimi Subito Ringo Disse il Gringo, Hell-Fire Texas, and Comanche Uprising, which was reprinted for Dalton's home parking spot.[136] Mad magazine caricaturist Tom Richmond created the covers of Mad and TV Guide featuring Dalton's Jake Cahill modeled after the art of Jack Davis.[137]

Tarantino told Richardson, "I want [it] to feel retro but I want [it] to be contemporary." Richardson shot in Kodak 35mm with Panavision cameras and lenses, in order to weave time periods. For Bounty Law they shot in black and white, and brief sequences in Super 8 and 16mm Ektachrome. In the film, Lancer was shot on a retrofitted Western Street backlot at Universal Studios, designed by Ling. Richardson crossed Lancer with Alias Smith and Jones for the retro-future look Tarantino wanted. The way they filmed Lancer was not possible in 1969, but Tarantino wanted his personal touch on it. Richardson said that filming the movie touched him personally: "The film speaks to all of us... We are all fragile beings with a limited time to achieve whatever it is we desire... that at any moment that place will shift... so take stock in life and have the courage to believe in yourself."[133][138] In order to build the Lancer set Ling watched "Enormous amounts of episodes" of the series. She built a western town filled with adobe buildings. For Bounty Law, she went for a dusty, dirty, early Deadwood look, to separate it from the "Moneyed Lancer world".[133]

Spahn Ranch was recreated in detail over about a three-month period.[133] A wildfire completely destroyed the ranch in 1970 so the scenes for the movie were filmed at nearby Corriganville Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, which was also a movie ranch at one time.[139] Tarantino made sure to use a lot of dogs in the scenes. He said in real life many dogs lived on the ranch and made it feel alive. He even made sure there were dogs moving around in every shot. He was inspired to use the dogs in this manner from the way Francis Ford Coppola used helicopters in Apocalypse Now during the Robert Duvall scenes.[140]

To improve the use of practical effects, Leonardo DiCaprio was allowed to light stunt coordinators on fire while shooting scenes with a flamethrower.[141] The exterior of the Van Nuys Drive-in theater scene was filmed at the Paramount Drive-in theater since the Van Nuys Drive-in theater no longer exists.[142] As the camera rises up over the theater, the shot transitions to a miniature set with toy cars.[143]: 36:00–39:00  For some of the driving scenes, the Hollywood Freeway and Marina Freeway in Los Angeles were shut down for hours in order to fill them with vintage cars.[144] The scene depicting Bruce Lee training Jay Sebring was filmed at Sebring's actual house.[29]

The scene in which Rick Dalton flubs his lines in Lancer was not in the screenplay but rather an idea DiCaprio had on set while filming. Afterwards Tarantino came up with the idea for Dalton's "freakout" scene in his trailer, taking inspiration from Robert De Niro's performance in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Tarantino stated, "It's got to be like Travis Bickle when he's in his apartment by himself." DiCaprio improvised the entire scene.[145]

Music Edit

Main article: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (music)

The soundtrack from the film is a compilation album of classic rock, which includes multiple tracks from Paul Revere & the Raiders, as well as 1960s radio ads and DJ patter. The film also contains numerous songs and scores not included on the soundtrack, including from artists The Mamas & the Papas and Elmer Bernstein.[146][58]

Release Edit

 
Tarantino and Robbie at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the film.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2019, the 25th anniversary of Tarantino's premiere of Pulp Fiction at the festival.[147] It was released theatrically in the United States on July 26, 2019 by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label.[148] The film was originally scheduled for release on August 9, 2019 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Tate–LaBianca murders.[148]

A teaser trailer was released on March 20, 2019, featuring 1960s music by the Mamas and the Papas ("Straight Shooter") and by Los Bravos ("Bring a Little Lovin'").[149] The official trailer was released on May 21, 2019 featuring the songs "Good Thing" by Paul Revere & the Raiders, and "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" by Neil Diamond.[150] The studio spent around $110 million marketing the film.[3] An extended cut of the film featuring four additional scenes was released in theaters on October 25, 2019.[151]

Home media Edit

The film was released through digital retailers on November 22, 2019, and on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, and DVD on December 10. The 4K version is available as a regular version and a collector's edition.[152] In April 2020, Media Play News magazine announced Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned Title of the Year and Best Theatrical Home release in the 10th annual Home Media Awards.[153] Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain a deleted scene, in which Charles Manson confronts Paul Barabuta, portrayed by Danny Strong, the homeowner and caretaker of the Tate-Polanski residence. Barabuta is based on the home's owner, Rudolph Altobelli, and its caretaker, William Garretson.[18][154]

Reception Edit

Box office Edit

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood grossed $142.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $232.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $374.6 million.[4] By some estimates, the film needed to gross around $250 million worldwide in order to break-even,[155] with others estimating it would need to make $400 million in order to turn a profit.[156]

In the United States and Canada, the film was projected to gross $30–40 million from 3,659 theaters in its opening weekend, with some projections having it as high as $50 million or as low as $25 million.[157][158] The week of its release, Fandango reported the film was the highest pre-seller of any Tarantino film.[159] The film made $16.9 million on its first day, including $5.8 million from Thursday night previews (the highest total of Tarantino's career). It went on to debut to $41.1 million, finishing second behind holdover The Lion King and marking Tarantino's largest opening. Comscore reported that 47% of audience members went to see the film because of who the director was (compared to the typical 7%) and 37% went because of the cast (compared to normally 18%).[3] The film grossed $20 million in its second weekend, representing a "nice" drop of just 51% and finishing third, and then made $11.6 million and $7.6 million the subsequent weekends.[160][161][162] In its fifth weekend the film made $5 million, bringing its running domestic total to $123.1 million, becoming the second-highest of Tarantino's career behind Django Unchained.[163] In its ninth weekend, its global total earnings reached $329.4 million, surpassing Inglourious Basterds to become Tarantino's second-highest global grosser behind Django Unchained.[164]

Critical response Edit

 
Brad Pitt's performance received critical praise, winning him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 85% of 584 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's 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."[165] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100, based on 62 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[166] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average of 4 out of 5 stars and a 58% "definite recommend".[3]

The Hollywood Reporter said critics had "an overall positive view", with some calling it "Tarantino's love letter to '60s L.A.," praising its cast and setting, while others were "divided on its ending."[167] ReelViews' James Berardinelli awarded the film 3.5 stars out of 4, saying it was "made by a movie-lover for movie-lovers. And even those who don't qualify may still enjoy the hell out of it."[168] RogerEbert.com's Brian Tallerico gave it four out of four stars, calling it "layered and ambitious, the product of a confident filmmaker working with collaborators completely in tune with his vision".[169] The Chicago Sun-Times, Richard Roeper described it as "a brilliant and sometimes outrageously fantastic mash-up of real-life events and characters with pure fiction", giving it full marks.[170]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave it five out of five stars, praising Pitt and DiCaprio's performances and calling it "Tarantino's dazzling LA redemption song".[171] 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."[172] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film 4.5 out of 5 stars, remarking that "All the actors, in roles large and small, bring their A games to the film. Two hours and 40 minutes can feel long for some. I wouldn't change a frame."[173] Katie Rife of The A.V. Club gave it a B+, noting "The relationship between Rick and Cliff is at the emotional heart of Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood" and calling it Tarantino's "wistful midlife crisis movie".[174]

In Little White Lies, Christopher Hooton described it as "occasionally tedious" but "constantly awe-inspiring", noting it did not seem to be a "love letter to Hollywood" but an "obituary for a moment in culture that looks unlikely to ever be resurrected."[175] Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman called it a "heady engrossing collage of a film—but not, in the end, a masterpiece."[176]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker called it an "obscenely regressive vision of the sixties" that "celebrates white-male stardom (and behind-the-scenes command) at the expense of everyone else."[177] Caspar Salmon of The Guardian took issue with the violence in the film, writing, "Tarantino's filmography reveals a director in search of increasingly gruesome settings to validate his revenge fantasies and...blood-thirst."[178]

Accolades Edit

Main article: List of accolades received by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

At the 92nd Academy Awards, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing; and won Best Supporting Actor and Best Production Design.[179] The film's other nominations include ten British Academy Film Awards (winning one),[180] twelve Critics' Choice Movie Awards (winning four),[181] and five Golden Globe Awards (winning three).[182] The National Board of Review included the film as one of the top 10 films of the year and awarded Tarantino Best Director and Pitt Best Supporting Actor.[183] The American Film Institute included it as one of the top 10 films of 2019.[184] In December 2021, the film's screenplay was listed number twenty-two on the Writers Guild of America's "101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (So Far)".[185]

Analysis Edit

For analysis of the use of music, see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (music) § Analysis.

Story, themes and character symbolism Edit

Dan Schindel of Hyperallergic wrote of the symbolism in the film's nostalgia. He wrote the detail is almost "microscopic", in its use of "hundreds of period ephemera" across various mediums, most of which is unrecognizable to most viewers. Schindel writes that these forgotten memories surround the character of Rick Dalton because he too is a piece of forgotten nostalgia. Schindel also writes about the dynamics between the characters. Dalton and Booth represent the duality of attitudes towards "their seeming impending obsolesce." Booth being relaxed and accepting it and Dalton being fragile and insecure about it. As Dalton's whole life is about how he is perceived, he is obsessed with how he wishes to be perceived. Sharon Tate, also an actor, is filled with joy when she is able to see herself entertain a theater audience. But, Schindel says, that scene also humanizes her, making her a person, rather than the "victim" she has become. He also expresses that Dalton and Booth represent Old Hollywood, while Tate represents New Hollywood and the future. Schindel states that Tarantino uses darkness, both for Booth and his questionable past as well as in the Manson Family. While Booth's possible crimes shade the nostalgia, the Manson clan shades the future. In the end, however, not only are Booth and Dalton able to save the future, but Dalton becomes the hero he always wanted to be.[186]

Travis Woods also wrote of what the three characters represent and how it is demonstrated in the film. He states that the three leads represent the past, present, and future. Dalton is the past, stuck in a fading world and afraid to let go. Booth is the present, always living in the moment, and Tate the promise of a future on the rise. They also represent three class levels of Hollywood with Booth literally living in the shadows of the movie industry. His home is a trailer in the shadows of the Van Nuys Drive-In Theater. Woods also construes how Booth being the stunt double of Dalton is illustrated throughout. Dalton struggles with an emotional arc and change, while Booth clashes with danger and physical obstacles. Woods points out the actor's job is to provide the audience with the emotional arc, while the stuntman's job is to step in for the physicality and danger, as told to us in the first scene. This is shown when Dalton faces his existential fears on the set of Lancer by taking on a new acting challenge on a Western set and overcoming his fears and inner struggles. Meanwhile, Booth comes in to handle the dangerous stuff on another Western set where he also triumphs. While they both have their victories, Tate has hers as well by not only simply living her life but also by watching herself in a movie with an audience. Woods writes the finale ties it all together; "How a stunt works, and fantasy is made real: the actor performs a scene all the way up to a threat of violence. There's a cut, and the stunt double enters the scene, stands in for the actor and cheats death." And so, Dalton fearlessly confronts the would-be killers outside of his home. After a cut, "Booth enters the scene... cheats death," and handles the physical danger. At the end, Dalton re-enters and gets the glory. A feat that could not have been achieved by either the actor or stuntman alone, but only together. Woods concludes, this also represents the past and present "uniting to allow for a better future". "The past leads to the present, and the present leads to the future, and all three are required for the narrative to continue."[187]

David G. Hughes wrote of the symbolized fantasy. He noted that Tate is a "symbol of effervescent life, unadulterated joy, and graceful innocence,"[188] while Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune saw the character as a Goddess.[189] However Hughes was much more interested in what Booth represents. He wrote how Dalton's stress and psychological issues prevent him from being a symbol of fantasy for the audience. Booth is the film's hero and simultaneously works loyally for Dalton from a place of low social standing. Hughes states this could be "a Marxist point about invisible labor and the Substructure." However, Hughes feels this does not work to engage the audience. He draws on Sigmund Freud and his Psychopathic Characters on the Stage. He says what makes Booth interesting and particularly Brad Pitt's portrayal of him is sex appeal. Being handsome, strong, loyal, and courageous makes him desirable. Hughes states that Booth is Laura Mulvey's "...perfect, ...complete, more powerful ideal ego." Tarantino has Booth fight Bruce Lee to create the myth of Booth. Hughes also writes that Booth embodies the Buddha's teachings on Zen, but also that he is capable of "barbaric violence". These qualities make him the "fantasy of righteous male power". Hughes compares Booth to Charles Manson, saying both are violent outcasts who sit between the worlds of Western Renaissance and Eastern philosophy. However, he says they are the antithesis of each other. While Booth has a code, Manson only serves himself. Manson "is Hollywood's monster from the id [and Booth] is its ego ideal and savior."[188] A Los Angeles Catholic bishop, Robert Barron, praised the character of Cliff Booth as embodying the four cardinal virtues.[190]

Naomi Fry of The New Yorker wrote how the film is about the disposability of people in Hollywood. She sees Dalton and Tate as needing to be seen as their livelihoods depend on it and "an actor onscreen as a conduit for [their] own fantasies and those of others." Dalton feels he is no longer able to do this, and is tortured by the feeling. Booth has also been discarded by Hollywood to the point of Dalton having to beg for him to be used. Fry says of Dalton's career that there is "a sense of the ruthlessness of Hollywood, whose denizens are devastated when the industry almost inevitably turns away its gaze." She also notes how Tarantino "pulls a neat trick by casting DiCaprio and Pitt," two of the biggest movie stars as a has-been and a nobody.[191]

Armond White and Kyle Smith of National Review, in separate reviews, interpreted and praised the film as being politically conservative, with Smith writing that "It mercilessly sends up leftist values. In its foundations, it's so breathtakingly right-wing it could have been made by Mel Gibson."[192][193]

The finale and the Manson Family Edit

Theologian David Bentley Hart wrote that Once Upon a Time "exhibit[s] a genuine ethical pathos" for its portrayal of "cosmic justice". Hart wrote how he was a child when the Tate murders occurred and that the Manson Family were "the first monsters who ever truly terrified me and tormented me with nightmares." He remembers how the children at his school would tell the stories of the Manson Family murders. Hart praised the revisionism when "Tarantino's version of the story unexpectedly veered away into some other, dreamlike, better world, where the monsters inadvertently passed through the wrong door and met the end they deserved." Hart states "the artistic masterstroke" comes in the end when Tate is heard "as a disembodied voice... speaking from that alternative reality, that terrestrial paradise that evil could not enter."[194]

Av Sinensky wrote about the ending of the film when Susan Atkins concludes that the Manson Family members should kill Dalton because he played a character who killed people on TV, he "taught them to kill." Sinensky notes that Tarantino is putting "the words of his critics into the mouth of a Manson murderer," regarding his use of fictional gratuitous violence.[195] While David G. Hughes opined that Tarantino is using the scene to say that those who crusade against fictional violence are hypocrites and complicit in real violence. Hughes wrote that by switching the real-life violence by Manson Family members with movie violence instead directed at them, "Tarantino is making a firm distinction between cruel real-world violence and ethical, cathartic fantasy violence."[188]

Priscilla Page wrote how the Manson Family murders have become a myth and "framed our understanding of what was happening in America and the world," and in the film Spahn Ranch represents the intersection of Hollywood fantasy "and the dark underbelly of Los Angeles."[196] Michael Phillips likened the Manson girls to "strung out Sirens,"[189] while Page stated how the Manson Family "are ghosts haunting Spahn Ranch... Demons to be exorcised." Page notes how the final act accomplishes this exorcism and also the symbolism of Booth and Tex Watson pointing guns at each other. Watson's is real, just as the Manson Family's violence was. Booth's is not but rather a finger, as his violence is fictional. Through the fictional violence the myth of the Manson Family is purged. She writes the exorcism and revenge of the film are not only through the violence but also because "the film denies Manson a meaningful presence," demythologizing him and "reduc[ing] him to a cameo, expos[ing] the Manson Family as inept, and mak[ing] Sharon Tate the story's beating heart."[196]

Steven Boone referred to Dalton going to Tate's house as "entering the gates of Cielo Drive's Hollywood heaven." Something his colleague Simon Abrams also alluded to when he commented, "Jay Sebring invites [Dalton] in for a drink like a hipper St. Peter."[197] Dan Schindel also saw Dalton's walk up Tate's driveway as "an ascent to heaven", based on the "rising camera movement".[186] Naomi Fry compared Dalton going through the gates as him entering the Garden of Eden.[191]

Writing in the academic journal Animation, Jason Barker draws from Aristotle's Poetics to analyze in detail the film's use of "cartoon violence", speculating that such violence "is more or less inversely related to the film's dramatic content". Barker concludes that: "Through self-indulgent, inane, insane and tyrannical cartoonism, Once Upon a Time. . . in Hollywood presents not so much a measure of contemporary violence, as a measure of indifference to violence: dramatic indifference and, perhaps, social indifference to a cartoon violence that is real in more ways than one."[198]

Booth's fantasy Edit

Multiple critics interpreted Cliff Booth as an unreliable narrator when it came to him remembering his fight with Bruce Lee. "In the span of seconds" the fight "goes from being viewed by dozens of people to absolutely no one." The crowd just disappears which some believe shows the flashback to be a "false memory". The interpretation is that Booth is only remembering what he wants to and "the purpose of that scene is to show us we can't trust Cliff."[199][200]

Steven Hyden of Uproxx interpreted the ending of the film as a vision of Cliff Booth brought on through his consumption of LSD. Hyden proposes that when Booth smokes the acid-cigarette and says, "And away we go," it marks the beginning of his vision. He then leaves to take his dog Brandy for a walk, walking by the car of killers down the street who Hyden believes Booth sees in the car and recognizes from Spahn Ranch. This allows Booth's imagination to run wild thanks to the acid. He imagines the killers in the car talking about his and Dalton's show, Bounty Law. He then imagines a scenario that lets him play out his violent fantasies and allows Dalton to be a hero, using a flamethrower from a film he would never actually still own but which occupies a place in Booth's memory. Hyden writes that the ending is Booth's hallucinatory fantasy that allows him to stay employed by Dalton, while also allowing Dalton to be accepted by the New Hollywood elite, Sharon Tate. Also that in this fantasy Tate and members of the Manson Family are fans of Dalton, just as Booth is.[201]

Steven Boone of The Hollywood Reporter also commented on the ending feeling like Booth's fantasy. About the ending, he wrote "It's as if stuntman Cliff, a serene Hollywood foot soldier...was the editor here."[197] Kyle Anderson theorized the ending is not only Booth's fantasy but Dalton's as well. He states that Booth's memory of fighting Lee is "his twisted recollection of an event that probably didn't happen." Anderson notes that "Cliff is a complete psychopath" whose life has amounted to menial labor, while "Rick [is] a washed-up loser." The ending is not "just a dream of what might have happened," it is Booth's and Dalton's dream. Booth gets to fulfill his hero fantasy and instead of Dalton losing his house and career he gets to be idolized and accepted by the "cool kids".[202]

Billie Booth Edit

Anna Swanson wrote about the death of Billie and how it is used to frame the rest of the film. She writes how Tarantino not showing us what happens is a deliberate decision and also an homage to the death of Marvin (Phil LaMarr) in Pulp Fiction and the fact we do not know why Vincent Vega's (John Travolta) gun goes off and shoots Marvin. Within the film one can interpret Billie's death as Cliff's speargun accidentally going off in the same vein as Vincent's gun, or as a cold blooded murder by Cliff and a cover up, or in a number of other scenarios. Swanson argues that which interpretation the individual viewer has will lead them to view the rest of the film through that lens and have a completely different experience than someone who views it alternatively. She notes we do not even know whose perspective the Billie Booth scene is from. It is a flashback within a flashback and so could be Cliff's memory but as it is told by Randy it could be his perspective based on what he heard. It could be what Cliff is imagining Randy is saying to Rick. It could even be an "omniscient perspective". If one views Cliff as innocent it makes him easier to like, and could be "suggesting an innocent man's life can be ruined by unfortunate circumstances beyond his control." However, if one views Cliff as guilty, "It's a depiction of the extent to which someone can literally get away with murder." In referencing the ending of the film, Swanson asks if Cliff is guilty, "Are we supposed to forgive one death he caused because of the lives he saved?" Swanson concludes that another purpose of the scene is to build up the theme of "Hollywood mythology". Referring to the scene's allusion to Natalie Wood, she writes "the myths last, while the truth is lost in an ocean vaster than the rolling neon streets of the Hollywood of yore."[31]

Lindsey Romain says the scene is "a Rorschach Test for the audience". She argues that how the viewer interprets the scene changes the interpretation of the ending of the film. If Cliff murdered Billie then he is despicable and the killings he commits at the end are self-serving. However, if he is innocent then he is a hero. Romain writes "either read is accurate, and both feel purposeful." By leaving Billie's death open-ended, Romain believes Tarantino is asking, "Is Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood a touching fable about reclaiming relevance, or a horror story about a business that forgives heinous acts the second righteousness is procured?" Romain concludes that "maybe it's both," and "about art...about violence and how we participate in and consume it."[203]

Red Apple ad Edit

Writing for The Washington Post, Sonny Bunch commented on the mid-credits Red Apple cigarettes advertisement scene. He believes it is a commentary of current filmmaking and a "pitch-perfect parody of the films that have dominated box office charts in recent history." Bunch compares the fake ad to the real ones used as mid-credit scenes in the DC, Marvel, and Fast & Furious franchises. The scenes in those films are used to advertise the next film in their franchise. He also notes how those ads tie their franchises' universes together just as Red Apple does with the Tarantino universe.[204]

Cultural references Edit

The title is a reference to director Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America.[205] On the poster of Dalton's film Red Blood Red Skin, inspired by Land Raiders, he appears with Telly Savalas. The posters for the two films are the same, except with Dalton replacing George Maharis.[206] The movie Voytek Frykowski is watching is Teenage Monster, presented by horror host Seymour.[207]

Archive footage from many films is included in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, including C.C. and Company, Lady in Cement, Three in the Attic, and The Wrecking Crew, in which Sharon Tate appears as Freya Carlson.[208] Three scenes were digitally altered, replacing the original actors with Rick Dalton. One from an episode of The F.B.I., entitled "All the Streets Are Silent", in which Dalton appears as the character portrayed by Burt Reynolds in the actual episode.[205] Another from Death on the Run, with Dalton's face imposed over Ty Hardin's.[206] The third is from The Great Escape, with Dalton appearing as Virgil Hilts, the role made famous by Steve McQueen.[205] For The 14 Fists of McCluskey, a World War II film-within-the-film starring Dalton, footage and music from Hell River is used.[209]

Connections to other Tarantino films Edit

Cliff Booth is a reference to Brad Pitt's character in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Lt. Aldo Raine, a special forces WWII veteran who takes the cover of a stuntman.[205] One of Rick Dalton's Italian films in the movie is directed by real-life director Antonio Margheriti. Antonio Margheriti is also used as an alias for Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) in Inglourious Basterds.[205] The scene involving Dalton playing a character who burns Nazis with a flamethrower is similar to the ending of Inglourious Basterds, which ends with Nazi leadership being burned to death.[205][210]

The final scene features Dalton in a commercial for fictional Red Apple cigarettes, which appear in many Tarantino films.[210] Additionally another common Tarantino brand Big Kahuna Burger is advertised on a billboard.[205] When Dalton and Booth get back from Italy they walk by the blue mosaic wall in LAX, the same wall that the title character in Tarantino's Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) moves past in the opening credits of that film.[211] The characters of stunt coordinator husband and wife, Randy (Kurt Russell) and Janet Lloyd (Zoë Bell) are an homage to characters in Tarantino's Death Proof; Stuntman Mike McKay (Russell) and Zoë Bell who plays herself, a stunt woman.[30]

In the film, Bruce Lee engages in a fight with Cliff Booth on the set of The Green Hornet.[211][212] The Green Hornet theme song is featured in Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1.[211] The masks worn by the Crazy 88 gang in that film are the same as Lee's mask as Kato in The Green Hornet.[213] The car Booth drives is a 1964 blue Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible. It is the same year, color, make and model of the car that Beatrix "the Bride" Kiddo (Uma Thurman) drives in Kill Bill: Volume 2.[30] Similarly, Rick Dalton's 1966 Cadillac de Ville is the same car driven by Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) in Reservoir Dogs. It was owned by Madsen.[214][215]

Historical accuracy and influence Edit

See also: Manson Family § Encounter with Tate, and Tate–LaBianca murders

In a scene, Sharon Tate goes into Larry Edmunds Bookshop and purchases a copy of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.[30] In real life, Tate gave a copy to Roman Polanski shortly before her death. In 1978 Polanski directed the film adaptation, Tess (1979), dedicating it to Tate.[30] Tate and Polanski's Yorkie Terrier in the film is named "Dr. Sapirstein",[30] as was Tate's Yorkie in real life, named after the doctor portrayed by Ralph Bellamy in Rosemary's Baby.[216] The carrier she puts the dog in is the one that Tate actually owned.[216] The outfit Margot Robbie wears in the Bruin Theater scene is based on the one Tate wore in Eye of the Devil.[30]

 
The Fox Bruin Theater, which appears in one of the film's key scenes, inspired by a real life experience of the film's director Quentin Tarantino.

In the film, Tate goes to see The Wrecking Crew at the Bruin Theater. She convinces the theater's employees that she stars in the movie after they fail to recognize her. Tarantino stated the scene came from a personal experience. When True Romance was released, he saw it at the same theater, where he eventually convinced its employees that he wrote the script.[144]: 39:00–42:00 

On the set of Batman, for a crossover episode with The Green Hornet,[217] a fight was scripted with Kato (Bruce Lee) losing to Dick Grayson's Robin (Burt Ward). When Lee received the script, he refused to do it, so it was changed to a draw. When the cameras rolled, Lee stalked Ward until Ward backed away. Lee laughed and told him he was "lucky it is a TV show."[218] Stuntman Gene LeBell carried Lee around in a Fireman's Carry when he first arrived on The Green Hornet set in response to Lee being tough on stuntmen.[219] In the film, stuntman Cliff Booth fights Lee on the set of The Green Hornet; the fight ends in a draw. Booth refers to Lee as "Kato".[212]

According to Rudolph Altobelli, who rented the house to Polanski and Tate, in March 1969, Charles Manson showed up. Polanski's friend, Iranian photographer Shahrokh Hatami (who directed the short documentary Mia and Roman) also said he saw Manson enter the grounds. Hatami approached Manson, asking him what he wanted. He told Hatami he was looking for Terry Melcher. Hatami responded the house was the Polanski residence and perhaps Melcher lived in the guest house. Altobelli told Manson that Melcher no longer lived there.[220] This happens in the film, with Jay Sebring in place of Altobelli and Hatami.[221]

On the night of August 8, 1969, Patricia Krenwinkel, Tex Watson, and Susan Atkins broke into Tate's house, murdering her and four others.[70]: 176–180  In the film, they go to Tate's house to commit the murders but instead end up breaking into Dalton's house after he interrupts them.[79] Linda Kasabian went along that night, though she did not murder anyone and stayed outside the whole time as a lookout. In the film, she goes along and does not murder anyone but takes off and does not stay.[79] Watson told his victims, "I'm the Devil, and I came to do the Devil's business." In the film, he says it to Cliff Booth.[222]

In the film, Atkins convinces the others to seek revenge by killing Rick Dalton, star of a TV western. Since TV taught them to kill, it is fitting they kill the guy from TV, and "My idea is to kill the people who taught us to kill!"[79][223] In real life, Manson Family member Nancy Pitman said: "We are what you have made us. We were brought up on your TV. We were brought up watching Gunsmoke and Have Gun – Will Travel."[224] Sandra Good said: "You want to talk about devils and demonic and immorals and evil, go to Hollywood. We don't touch the evil of that world. We don't even skim it."[225] In the film when the four Manson Family members who drive to Tate's house are sitting outside in their car, Rick Dalton comes out of his house and yells at them to leave. In real-life the four members stopped at the house of Rudolf Weber, down the street from Tate's house. Weber came out and yelled at them to leave. Weber told the police he was tired of hippies on his street.[226]

Clem Grogan was convicted of the murder of stuntman Donald Shea on Spahn Ranch, whom he repeatedly beat with a lead pipe.[227] In the film, Grogan is instead beaten by stuntman Cliff Booth.[228] The 1959 Ford Galaxie driven by the Manson Family is a detailed replica of the car used in the Tate–LaBianca murders. Car coordinator Steven Butcher found the actual car, but after a meeting with Tarantino, they decided using it would be "too creepy".[214] Boeing 747s are used in several airliner scenes, but were not in commercial use until 1970. The film is set in 1969.[229]

Character controversies Edit

Bruce Lee Edit

 
Bruce Lee, portrayed in the film by Mike Moh. The film's depiction of him was criticized by some for being offensive and inaccurate.

The film's depiction of Bruce Lee drew criticism. Fans and contemporaries of Lee, including his protégé Dan Inosanto, criticized the portrayal.[230][231] Lee's daughter Shannon described the depiction as "an arrogant asshole who was full of hot air" and that "they didn't need to treat him in the way White Hollywood did when he was alive."[231] Lee's student and friend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,[232] who starred with Lee in Game of Death, stated that Tarantino's portrayal of Lee was "sloppy and somewhat racist".[233]

Mike Moh, who played Lee, said he was conflicted at first: "Bruce in my mind was literally a God. [He] didn't always have the most affection for stuntmen; he didn't respect all of them."[234] He stated, "Tarantino loves Bruce Lee; he reveres him."[235] Brad Pitt and stunt coordinator Robert Alonzo objected to an extended version of the fight in which Lee loses.[236] According to Lee's friend and The Green Hornet stuntman Gene LeBell, Lee had a reputation for "kicking the shit out of the stuntmen. They couldn't convince him that he could go easy and it would still look great on film."[26] In the 2018 Bruce Lee: A Life, Lee's biographer Matthew Polly wrote, Lee would jump-kick people on the set. According to Lee's co-star Van Williams, it stopped when "He dislocated [a set designer's] jaw." Polly continued, "Bruce insisted on close quarters combat. The stuntmen hated it." Williams said, "[The stuntmen] ... didn't want to work on the show. They were tired of getting hurt." LeBell was tasked with "calming Bruce down."[219] According to Williams, Lee's treatment of stuntmen drove the show's stunt coordinator Bennie Dobbins to want to fight [him].[41]

Tarantino responded, saying Lee was "kind of an arrogant guy," and that Lee's widow, Linda, wrote in her 1975 book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew that he could beat Muhammad Ali.[237] She wrote, "Even the most scathing critics admitted that Bruce's Gung fu was sensational. One critic wrote, 'Those who watched him would bet on Lee to render Cassius Clay (Ali) senseless if they were put in a room and told anything goes.'"[238] In 1972, Lee himself stated: "Everybody says I must fight Ali some day. ... Look at my hand. That's a little Chinese hand. He'd kill me."[239]

Shannon filed a complaint with the China Film Administration affecting the film's release in China unless alterations were made. After Tarantino refused to remove the scene, China cancelled the release of the film on October 18, 2019, one week before its release date there.[240]

Sharon Tate Edit

After being contacted over concerns, Tarantino invited a representative of Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate's widower, over to his house to read the script and report back to Polanski, to assure him "he didn't have anything to worry about". Tarantino stated: "When it comes to Polanski, we're talking about a tragedy that would be unfathomable for most human beings," and that he did not contact him while writing it, as he did not want to cause him anxiety. Despite this, Polanski's wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, criticized Tarantino for using Polanski's likeness after the film's premiere.[241]

Debra Tate, Sharon's sister, initially opposed the film, saying it was exploitative and perpetuated mistruths: "To celebrate the killers and the darkest portion of society as being sexy or acceptable in any way, shape or form is just perpetuating the worst of our society." After Tarantino contacted her and showed her the script, she withdrew her opposition, saying: "This movie is not what people would expect it to be when you combine the Tarantino and Manson names." She felt that Tarantino was a "very stand-up guy"; after visiting the set, she was impressed by Robbie and lent her some of Sharon's jewelry and perfume to wear in the film.[242]

After the premiere, journalist Farah Nayeri asked Tarantino why Robbie had so few lines. Tarantino responded, "I reject your hypothesis." Robbie elaborated, "I think the moments on screen show those wonderful sides of [Tate] could be adequately done without speaking."[243] Tarantino said, "I thought it would both be touching and pleasurable and also sad and melancholy to just spend a little time with [Tate], just existing... I wanted you to see Sharon a lot."[17]

Manson Family Edit

See also: Manson Family § Possible murder motives

Charles Manson was convicted of the murders of Tate and four others, despite not being present, due mostly to a theory presented by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi that Manson was trying to instigate an apocalyptic race war, leaving only Black Muslims[70]: 246  and the Family. According to the theory, the Black Muslims[70]: 246  would eventually look to Manson to lead them. According to members of the Family – Paul Watkins, Juan Flynn and Barbara Hoyt – Manson referred to the race war as Helter Skelter, getting the name from the song of the same name.[70]: 244–247, 334, 361–362 [244]

Musician and filmmaker Boots Riley criticized Tarantino's film for not portraying Bugliosi's Helter Skelter narrative, or depicting the Family as white supremacists,[245] as did Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times, in which she wrote that portraying the Manson Family as hippies is "a more bankable image than Manson the ignorant white supremacist."[71]

However, according to members of The Family – Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, Catherine Share, and Ruth Ann Moorehouse – the Tate murders were not perpetrated to start Helter Skelter, but as copycat murders mirroring that of Gary Hinman, in an attempt to convince police the killer was still at large,[70]: 426–435  and get Bobby Beausoleil released from jail, as he was charged with Hinman's murder. He stated the murders had nothing to do with race.[246]

According to Jay Sebring's protégé and business partner Jim Markham, who provided original Sebring hair products for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the murders were instigated by a drug deal gone bad, not a race war. He believes Manson was at Tate's house the day before the murders to sell drugs to Sebring and Voytek Frykowski, which resulted in the two beating Manson up.[247] In his interview with Truman Capote, Beausoleil said, "They burned people on dope deals. Sharon Tate and that gang."[248]

On The Joe Rogan Experience, Tarantino said he thought Bugliosi's theory was "bullshit". He believes Manson never sent anyone over to Tate's house to murder anyone, and that the murders happened spontaneously.[249]

Related projects Edit

Novels Edit

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Edit

Main article: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (novel)

In November 2020, Tarantino signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins. On June 29, 2021, he published his first novel, an adaptation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.[250] The audiobook is narrated by Jennifer Jason Leigh who previously starred in Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.[6] According to Tarantino, her Hateful Eight character Daisy Domergue was "A Manson girl out west, like Susan Atkins or something."[251]

According to Tarantino, the novel is "a complete rethinking of the entire story", and adds details to various sequences and characters, including multiple chapters dedicated to the backstory of Cliff Booth.[252] The novel also departs from the film; the film's finale occurs towards the beginning of the novel, and its aftermath includes Rick Dalton earning newfound fame as a regular on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[23] It also focuses on Charles Manson's pursuit of a music career,[23] the "inner worlds" of Sharon Tate and Trudi Frazer,[253] and has a whole chapter focused on actor Aldo Ray.[7]: 337–349 

The Films of Rick Dalton Edit

Main article: The Films of Rick Dalton

In June 2021, Tarantino revealed he wrote and plans to publish a second novel connected to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood about the films of Rick Dalton.[33]: 45:00–47:00  The book details every film and TV series of Dalton's entire career, some of which are completely fictional but the majority of Dalton's work are real, with Dalton replacing the actors who actually starred in the films.[33]: 46:00–48:00  In it, Cliff Booth writes a film for Dalton featuring a flamethrower, which they produce and Dalton directs.[33]: 47:00–49:00 

Film and television Edit

Extended cut Edit

On August 5, 2019, it was reported that a four-hour cut of the film may be coming to Netflix.[254] On January 3, 2020, Collider confirmed the statement in an interview with Quentin Tarantino, revealing the extended-cut of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would probably be available in approximately one year.[255] In June 2021 Tarantino said the extended cut would probably be released "in a couple of years." It will be around three hours and 20 minutes and be released theatrically.[256]: 38:00–40:00 

Bounty Law Edit

Also in 2019, Tarantino expressed interest in creating a Bounty Law television series based on five half-hour scripts he wrote in preparation for the film and that he plans on writing three more episodes.[17] Tarantino said he does not know who would play Jake Cahill, the lead but added "if [Leonardo DiCaprio] wants to do it that'd be great."[17] The series would be shot in black and white and follow the half-hour format of Western television shows from the 1950s.[17] Scenes from the episodes already written appear in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino plans on directing all episodes of the series.[257]

Lancer Edit

Tarantino hopes Robert Rodriguez will turn Tarantino's version of Lancer in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood into a film.[33]: 37:00–38:00 

Stage Edit

In June 2021 Tarantino announced his plan to produce a stage adaptation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He already wrote the play, which takes place in Italy. The entire second act consists of Rick Dalton, Marvin Schwarz, and Sergio Corbucci having dinner in Rome.[258]

In popular culture Edit

On August 6, 2021, the rock band Twin Atlantic released a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood-themed music video for their song "Bang On the Gong", with lead singer, Sam McTrusty taking inspiration from Rick Dalton.[259]

During the opening credits of the Japanese anime, Chainsaw Man, the opening scene of the movie has been referenced.[260]

See also Edit

Notes Edit

  1. ^ Stylized in promotional materials as Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood. The film's actual title is reflected onscreen and in the film's billing block.

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This article is about the film For the novelization see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a is a 2019 comedy drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino Produced by Columbia Pictures Bona Film Group Heyday Films and Visiona Romantica and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing it is a co production between the United States United Kingdom and China It features a large ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie Set in 1969 Los Angeles the film follows a fading actor and his stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry with the looming threat of the Tate murders hanging overhead It features multiple storylines in a modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood s golden age 5 Once Upon a Time in HollywoodTheatrical release poster designed by Steven ChorneyDirected byQuentin TarantinoWritten byQuentin TarantinoProduced byDavid Heyman Shannon McIntosh Quentin TarantinoStarringLeonardo DiCaprio Brad Pitt Margot Robbie Emile Hirsch Margaret Qualley Timothy Olyphant Austin Butler Dakota Fanning Bruce Dern Al PacinoCinematographyRobert RichardsonEdited byFred RaskinProductioncompaniesColumbia Pictures Bona Film Group Heyday Films Visiona RomanticaDistributed bySony Pictures ReleasingRelease datesMay 21 2019 2019 05 21 Cannes July 26 2019 2019 07 26 United States August 14 2019 2019 08 14 United Kingdom Running time161 minutes 1 CountriesUnited States United Kingdom China 2 LanguageEnglishBudget 90 96 million 3 Box office 377 6 million 4 Announced in July 2017 it is the first Tarantino film not to involve Bob and Harvey Weinstein as Tarantino ended his partnership with the brothers following the sexual abuse allegations against the latter After a bidding war the film was distributed by Sony Pictures which met Tarantino s demands including final cut privilege Pitt DiCaprio Robbie Zoe Bell Kurt Russell and others joined the cast between January and June 2018 Principal photography lasted from June through November around Los Angeles Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the final film to feature Luke Perry who died on March 4 2019 and it is dedicated to his memory Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 21 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on July 26 2019 and in the United Kingdom on August 14 The film grossed 374 million worldwide and received praise from critics for Tarantino s direction and screenplay the performances particularly from DiCaprio and Pitt cinematography soundtrack sound design costume design and production values Organizations such as the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as one of the top ten films of 2019 The film was nominated for ten awards at the 92nd Academy Awards winning two and received numerous other accolades A novelization written by Tarantino in his debut as an author was published on June 29 2021 6 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Character details 3 1 Fictional characters 3 1 1 Rick Dalton 3 1 2 Cliff Booth 3 1 3 Other fictional characters 3 2 Historical characters 3 3 The Manson Family 4 Production 4 1 Writing and development 4 2 Pre production and casting 4 3 Filming and design 5 Music 6 Release 6 1 Home media 7 Reception 7 1 Box office 7 2 Critical response 7 3 Accolades 8 Analysis 8 1 Story themes and character symbolism 8 2 The finale and the Manson Family 8 3 Booth s fantasy 8 4 Billie Booth 8 5 Red Apple ad 9 Cultural references 9 1 Connections to other Tarantino films 10 Historical accuracy and influence 11 Character controversies 11 1 Bruce Lee 11 2 Sharon Tate 11 3 Manson Family 12 Related projects 12 1 Novels 12 1 1 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 12 1 2 The Films of Rick Dalton 12 2 Film and television 12 2 1 Extended cut 12 2 2 Bounty Law 12 2 3 Lancer 12 3 Stage 12 4 In popular culture 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 16 External linksPlot EditIn February 1969 Hollywood actor Rick Dalton star of 1950s TV Western series Bounty Law fears his career is fading with his recent roles being guest appearances as villains His agent Marvin Schwarz advises him to make Spaghetti Westerns in Italy which Dalton considers beneath him Dalton s best friend and stunt double Cliff Booth a war veteran who lives in a trailer with his pit bull Brandy drives Dalton around due to his DUI arrests and driver s license suspension Booth struggles to find stunt work because of rumors he murdered his wife Actress Sharon Tate and her husband director Roman Polanski have moved next door to Dalton and Dalton dreams of befriending them to revive his career That night Tate and Polanski attend a celebrity filled party at the Playboy Mansion The next day Booth recalls a sparring contest he had with Bruce Lee on the set of The Green Hornet resulting in Booth s firing Meanwhile Charles Manson stops by the Polanski residence looking for Terry Melcher who used to live there but is turned away by Jay Sebring As Tate runs errands she stops at the Fox Bruin Theater to watch herself in The Wrecking Crew Dalton is cast as the villain in the pilot for the TV Western Lancer and strikes up a conversation with eight year old co star Trudi Frazer During filming Dalton struggles to remember his lines and suffers a breakdown in his trailer He subsequently delivers a strong performance that impresses Frazer and the director Sam Wanamaker Booth picks up a hitchhiker Pussycat and takes her to Spahn Ranch where he once worked on the set of Bounty Law He observes the many hippies living there Suspecting they may be taking advantage of the ranch s elderly owner George Spahn Booth insists on checking on him despite Squeaky s objections Booth speaks with the nearly blind Spahn who dismisses his concerns Upon leaving Booth discovers that Clem has punctured a tire on Dalton s car Booth beats Clem and makes him change the tire Tex is summoned to deal with the situation but arrives as Booth is driving away After watching Dalton s guest performance on an episode of The F B I Schwarz books him as the lead in Sergio Corbucci s Spaghetti Western Nebraska Jim Dalton takes Booth with him for a six month stint in Italy during which he films three additional movies and marries Italian starlet Francesca Capucci By the end of their stay Dalton can no longer afford Booth s services Returning to Los Angeles on August 8 1969 Dalton and Booth go out for drinks to commemorate their time together then go back to Dalton s house Meanwhile Tate and Sebring go out for dinner with friends then return to Tate s house Booth smokes an LSD laced cigarette purchased earlier and takes Brandy for a walk while Dalton prepares drinks Tex Sadie Katie and Flowerchild arrive outside in preparation to murder everyone in Tate s house but Dalton hears the car s muffler and orders them off the street Recognizing him the four change their plans and decide to kill him instead after Sadie reasons that Hollywood has taught them to murder Flowerchild deserts them speeding off with their car Breaking into Dalton s house they confront Booth and Capucci Tex aims his pistol at Booth Now high on the LSD Booth chats with the intruders remembering them from Spahn Ranch Booth signals Brandy to attack Tex Sadie lunges at Booth with a knife Booth throws a can at her face and signals Brandy to attack her Capucci punches Katie and runs away Katie dives at Booth after he fights and kills Tex Realizing a knife is stuck in his thigh Booth kills Katie by smashing her face against household decor then passes out A wounded and crazed Sadie stumbles outside into the pool firing Tex s pistol Dalton floating in the pool listening to music on headphones oblivious to the chaos inside is alarmed He retrieves a flamethrower retained from his earlier film The 14 Fists of McClusky and incinerates Sadie The police arrive and Booth later regains consciousness and is taken away in an ambulance After promising to visit Booth in the hospital Dalton is invited by Sebring and Tate to their house for a drink which he accepts Cast EditLeonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate Emile Hirsch as Jay Sebring Margaret Qualley as Pussycat Timothy Olyphant as James Stacy Julia Butters as Trudi Frazer Austin Butler as Tex Dakota Fanning as Squeaky Bruce Dern as George Spahn Mike Moh as Bruce Lee Luke Perry as Wayne Maunder Damian Lewis as Steve McQueen Al Pacino as Marvin Schwarz Nicholas Hammond as Sam Wanamaker Samantha Robinson as Abigail Folger Rafal Zawierucha as Roman Polanski Lorenza Izzo as Francesca Capucci Costa Ronin as Wojciech Frykowski Damon Herriman as Charlie Lena Dunham as Gypsy Madisen Beaty as Katie Mikey Madison as Sadie James Landry Hebert as Clem Maya Hawke as Flowerchild Cassidy Hice as Sundance Victoria Pedretti as Lulu Sydney Sweeney as Snake Kansas Bowling as Blue Danielle Harris as Angel Harley Quinn Smith as Froggie Rumer Willis as Joanna Pettet Dreama Walker as Connie Stevens Rebecca Rittenhouse as Michelle Phillips Rachel Redleaf as Mama Cass Rebecca Gayheart as Billie Booth Scoot McNairy as Business Bob Gilbert 7 page254 Kurt Russell as Randy Miller and the Narrator Zoe Bell as Janet Miller Corey Burton as the voice of Bounty Law Promo Announcer Michael Madsen as the Sheriff Hackett on Bounty Law Quentin Tarantino portrays the director of Dalton s Red Apples cigarettes commercial 8 and the voice of Bounty Law 9 Musician Toni Basil appears in the opening credits Pan Am scene dancing with Sharon Tate 10 Margot Robbie also briefly reprises her role as Laura Cameron a stewardess from the TV series Pan Am Although her face is not seen she makes and serves Dalton a cocktail on his flight home from Italy 11 Additionally the film features appearances from Clifton Collins Jr as Ernesto The Mexican Vaquero a character on Lancer Omar Doom as Donnie a biker on Spahn Ranch Clu Gulager in his last film role as a book store owner Perla Haney Jardine as an LSD selling hippie Martin Kove and James Remar as a Sheriff and Ugly Owl Hoot two characters on Bounty Law Brenda Vaccaro as Schwarz s wife Mary Alice Corey Burton as the Bounty Law promotional announcer and Tarantino s wife Daniella Pick as Daphna Ben Cobo Dalton s co star in Nebraska Jim 12 Ex UFC star Keith Jardine performed stunts on the movie 13 An extended cut released theatrically in October 2019 included an appearance by James Marsden as Burt Reynolds and a voice over by Walton Goggins 14 15 Danny Strong and Tim Roth shot scenes that were cut Strong portrayed Dean Martin and Paul Barabuta based on Rudolph Altobelli the homeowner of 10050 Cielo Drive while Roth portrayed Raymond 7 page 123 Sebring s English butler 16 17 18 Sebring had a butler in real life named Amos Russell who was interviewed by the police while investigating the Tate murders 19 Despite being removed from the final theatrical cut of the film Roth still received credit for acting in the film Character details EditSee also Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel Fictional characters Edit nbsp Leonardo DiCaprio who stars as main protagonist Rick Dalton Rick Dalton Edit Main article The Films of Rick Dalton Dalton is an actor who starred in the fictitious television Western series Bounty Law from 1959 to 1963 7 page11 inspired by real life series Wanted Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen 20 After Bounty Law Dalton began to appear in supporting film roles leading to a four picture contract with Universal Pictures ending in 1967 His film career never took off and in 67 he started to guest star on TV series as villains 7 10 18 Cliff Booth Edit Booth Dalton s stunt double personal assistant and best friend is an indestructible World War II hero a Green Beret specialized in knives and close quarters combat and one of the deadliest guys alive 21 22 He is a two time Medal of Valor recipient and has killed more Japanese soldiers than any other American soldier 23 Booth first met Dalton during the third season of Bounty Law in 1961 when he was brought in as his stunt double A month into the job he saved Dalton s life after he caught on fire while filming an episode 7 48 50 Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt modeled Booth after Tom Laughlin s portrayal of Billy Jack 24 Booth had performed stunts on The Born Losers and was paid with the denim outfit worn by Laughlin as Billy Jack which is what he wears in the film 7 25 26 Booth is inspired by Gary Kent a stuntman for a film made at the Spahn Ranch while the Manson Family lived there 25 as well as stuntman professional wrestler and two time national judo champion Gene LeBell who came to work on The Green Hornet after complaints by other stunt performers that Bruce Lee was kicking the shit out of the stuntmen 26 Like Booth LeBell was suspected of murder but never convicted 27 Pitt channeled Steve McQueen s stunt double Bud Ekins for his portrayal of Booth 28 Tarantino also revealed that Booth was inspired by a real stuntman who was the closest equivalent to Stuntman Mike Kurt Russell from Death Proof He was absolutely indestructible scared everybody and killed his wife on a boat and got away with it 29 Billie Booth is Cliff s wife whose death in the film and the ambiguity surrounding it is a reference to Natalie Wood s 30 as is Billie s sister being named Natalie 31 The novelization reveals that Cliff did in fact murder Billie He shot her with a speargun almost tearing her in half which he immediately regretted 23 There is a connection between Cliff and Robert Blake to whom Tarantino dedicates the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel 32 Cliff had also murdered three other people including another stuntman 7 72 73 268 Other fictional characters Edit Trudi Frazer Julia Butters the precocious child actor who portrays Mirabella on Lancer is inspired by Jodie Foster 33 1 20 00 1 22 00 while Mirabella is inspired by the character Teresa O Brien from said series portrayed by Elizabeth Baur The character is older in the real life Lancer 34 35 Frazer goes on to become an Academy Award nominated actress Her third nomination is for Tarantino s 1999 remake of The Lady in Red 7 353 54 Marvin Schwarz of the William Morris Agency 7 page1 is Dalton s agent a role that Tarantino wrote specifically for Al Pacino 36 Francesca Capucci the Italian starlet who marries Dalton is based on 1960s Italian actresses and sex symbols namely Sophia Loren Claudia Cardinale Virna Lisi and Monica Vitti 37 38 Some characters such as Zoe Bell s stunt coordinator Janet Lloyd and Heba Thorisdottir s makeup artist Sonya were portrayed by individuals who performed the same jobs for the film 39 40 Randy Lloyd is the stunt coordinator for The Green Hornet 30 a position that was held by Bennie Dobbins on the series in real life 26 41 Michael Madsen s Sheriff Hackett on Bounty Law is partially inspired by Peter Breck 42 who also served as Madsen s inspiration for Joe Gage in Tarantino s The Hateful Eight specifically Breck s role in The Big Valley 43 Martin Kove s inspiration for his Sheriff on Bounty Law was Henry Fonda s portrayal of Wyatt Earp in John Ford s 1946 film My Darling Clementine 44 In casting Kove Madsen and James Remar for Bounty Law Tarantino said he cast genre character actors of today to mirror character actors of the 1950s and 1960s who would appear on TV Westerns such as Claude Akins and Vic Morrow 42 Historical characters Edit nbsp Sharon Tate portrayed in the film by Margot Robbie as well as featured in clips from The Wrecking Crew 1968 Sharon Tate was an actress married to film director Roman Polanski and is Dalton s neighbor in the film Margot Robbie did not consult Polanski about playing Tate but read his 1984 autobiography Roman by Polanski in preparation for the role 45 Tate filmed her last movie The Thirteen Chairs in Italy in 1969 46 at the same time as Dalton films movies there in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 38 Roman Polanski a film director whose credits include Rosemary s Baby and The Fearless Vampire Killers where he first met Tate 47 Jay Sebring was a celebrity hairstylist Tate s friend and ex boyfriend and friend of Bruce Lee whom he helped get started in Hollywood and Steve McQueen 37 48 Sebring and Tate attended a party at Mama Cass house which Charles Manson also attended 49 Abigail Folger heir to the Folgers coffee fortune and her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski were Tate s friends 50 James Stacy was an actor who played Johnny Madrid Lancer on Lancer 51 52 Stacy is last shown in the film leaving the Lancer set on a motorcycle Stacy was in a motorcycle accident in 1973 that resulted in the death of his passenger and the loss of his arm and leg His ex wife actress Connie Stevens also portrayed in the film organized a fundraiser for his recovery 53 37 Wayne Maunder who portrayed Scott Lancer on Lancer 51 52 died during the filming of the movie while Luke Perry who plays him in his last film role died shortly afterwards 54 Luke s son Jack Perry appears with him in the film 55 Sam Wanamaker directed the real pilot of Lancer as he does in the film The Land Pirates were characters in the real pilot 52 who also appear in the pilot within the film 2 Wanamaker led the restoration of William Shakespeare s Globe Theatre after moving to London while blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1950s 51 In the film he likens Rick Dalton s character on Lancer to Shakespeare s Hamlet 37 In a deleted scene Wanamaker says You d be amazed how many Westerns the plot is Shakespearean He goes on to try to convince Dalton to play his character as Edmund from Shakespeare s King Lear 56 Business Bob Gilbert Scoot McNairy is a character on Lancer being portrayed by Bruce Dern 7 page254 McNairy is playing Dern playing Business Bob Bruce Lee was an actor and martial artist who starred as Kato on The Green Hornet He taught Tate martial arts for The Wrecking Crew and also trained Sebring Polanski and McQueen 48 Steve McQueen was an actor and friend of Tate Sebring and Lee 48 On the night of the Tate murders Sebring invited McQueen over to Tate s house but his date wanted to stay in 50 After the murders the police found a Manson Family hit list including McQueen s name 50 Mama Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips were members of the folk band the Mamas amp the Papas The sheet music for their song Straight Shooter was found on the piano at the murder scene in the Tate Polanski residence The song is also used in the film and teaser trailer 57 58 Polanski had an affair with Phillips while he was married to Tate After the Tate murders Polanski suspected Michelle s husband John Phillips of the killings out of revenge for the affair 57 Connie Monica Staggs and Curt Mark Warrack 2 are horseback riding customers at Spahn Ranch As one way of earning their keep the Manson Family gave horseback riding tours to people visiting the ranch 59 Tarantino stated that he thinks his mother and step father Connie and Curt took him horseback riding at Spahn Ranch when he was six years old 60 Perla Haney Jardine s hippie girl who sells the acid dipped cigarette to Cliff Booth is based on Today Louise Malone a hippie who appears in the 1968 documentary Revolution 61 62 As in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood she sells the acid cigarettes at a traffic light Tarantino said the dialogue in the scene is taken from the documentary 61 Allen Kincade Spencer Garrett is a celebrity television interviewer who is based on Wink Martindale The character was named Wink Martindale in the screenplay but changed to Allen Kincade shortly before shooting due to clearance issues 63 The bookseller at Larry Edmunds Bookshop being portrayed by Clu Gulager who sells a copy of Tess of the d Urbervilles to Sharon Tate is Milton Luboviski who was the real life proprietor 64 65 66 Harvey Humble Harve Miller portrayed by Rage Stewart 67 was a Los Angeles KHJ Boss Radio DJ who was convicted of killing his wife 68 The TV show Hullabaloo Rick Dalton appears on in the film was a real life show and one of the go go dancers portrayed is Lada St Edmund who went on to become the highest paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history 37 The Manson Family Edit George Spahn was an 80 year old nearly blind man who rented his ranch out for westerns The Manson Family lived on the ranch 69 Charlie is Charles Manson a convicted felon and cult leader of the Family later dubbed the Manson Family by the media a hippie commune based in California Members of the Family committed nine murders in the summer of 1969 70 Damon Herriman who portrays Manson also portrays him in David Fincher s Netflix series Mindhunter 71 Tarantino revealed that since the Tate murders never happen in the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood universe neither do the LaBianca murders The Manson Family gets kicked off Spahn Ranch and splits up with Manson never becoming a familiar name or cult figure 72 Pussycat aka Debra Jo Hillhouse 7 page81 is a composite character with her nickname based on Kathryn Lutesinger s Kitty Kat yet modeled after and most notably based on Ruth Ann Moorehouse 59 73 Manson frequently sent Moorehouse into the city to lure men with money back to Spahn Ranch 59 Lutesinger met Manson through her boyfriend Bobby Beausoleil 74 There was a Manson Family member named Pussycat who is mentioned by Ed Sanders in his book The Family The Story of Charles Manson s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion according to those interviewed Pussycat underwent an exorcism with Manson present The real identity of Pussycat is never revealed 75 She is also an homage to Myra Laurie Heineman from John G Avildsen s Save the Tiger 12 Squeaky was Lynette Fromme s nickname given to her by Spahn because of the sound she made when he touched her 76 She was Spahn s main caretaker tending to his needs sexual or otherwise 59 Tex was Charles Watson s nickname Spahn gave it to him because of his Texas accent 77 Within the film s universe the police later theorize that Tex Sadie and Katie broke into Rick Dalton s house because they were frying on acid and were out to perform a Satanic ritual based on Cliff Booth telling them that Tex said he was the Devil 7 page111 Sadie was Susan Atkins nickname Manson gave everyone fake IDs and the name on Atkins was Sadie Mae Glutz 76 Atkins was called Sexy Sadie after a track on the Beatles self titled album that some of the Family members may have believed was about her 70 241 252 xv Mikey Madison who played Sadie would later portray a similar character in the 2022 film Scream Like Sadie her character Amber Freeman is a knife wielding psycho killer Amber decides to murder based on films whereas Sadie does so based on TV Sadie gets set on fire by Rick Dalton while Amber is set ablaze by Gale Weathers Courteney Cox 78 79 Katie was Patricia Krenwinkel s nickname because of the name on her fake ID 76 Madisen Beaty who portrays Krenwinkel previously portrayed her on the TV series Aquarius 80 Flowerchild is the movie s name for Linda Kasabian the fourth Family member to go to Tate s house 79 In 1970 Kasabian was described as a true flower child 81 Snake was Dianne Lake s nickname given to her by Manson because she rolled around in grass pretending to be a snake At 14 she became the youngest member of the Manson Family after being kicked off Wavy Gravy s Hog Farm Her parents were associates of Manson and her mother had dropped acid with him prior to Lake joining them 82 Blue was Sandra Good s nickname Manson told her Woman you re earth I m naming you Blue Fix the air and the water It s your job 76 Kansas Bowling the actress who plays her appears in the film with her sister Parker Love Bowling who plays Family member Tadpole Parker previously portrayed a Manson girl in a reenactment for the Canadian History Channel 83 Gypsy was Catherine Share s nickname which she gave herself after meeting a man named Gypsy with whom she shared a birthday and believed him to be her cosmic twin 76 Happy Cappy is based on Catherine Gillies who was nicknamed Capistrano by Spahn because she grew up in San Juan Capistrano and was later shortened to Cappy by the Family 84 85 Josephine Valentina Clark the actress who plays her added the Happy while working on the character 84 Lulu was one of Leslie Van Houten s nicknames and Clem one of Steve Grogan s 59 Tophat portrayed in the film by Ronnie Zappa 86 was an alias of Bobby Beausoleil In his 2001 book Turn Off Your Mind Gary Lachman mentions that Beausoleil had a style a top hat that set him apart from the usual hippie fare 87 Beausoleil wrote I spied a felt top hat in the window of a shop I couldn t afford it but it felt like it had been made for me I couldn t resist the temptation to buy it Beausoleil claimed that as soon as he put on the hat ideas floating in his head came together 88 The character of Sundance was named by Cassidy Vick Hice the actress who portrays her She wrote I was asked to name my character by Quentin himself 89 Straight Satan David portrayed in the film by David Steen 2 is a member of the Straight Satans Motorcycle Club associates of the Family Manson attempted to recruit them as personal security but with the exception of club treasurer Danny DeCarlo was unsuccessful DeCarlo lived on the ranch as part of the Family 70 77 89 102 Bill Sweet William Fritsch portrayed by Tom Hartig 67 was a member of the Hells Angels and Diggers and a Manson Family associate Fritsch worked security for the Altamont Free Concert and acted in deleted scenes of Kenneth Anger s Lucifer Rising 90 Production EditWriting and development Edit nbsp Director Quentin Tarantino developed the idea over the course of several years looking to tell a fairy tale set in 1960s Hollywood The screenplay for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was developed slowly over several years by Tarantino While he knew he wanted it to be titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood evoking the idea of a fairy tale he publicly referred to the project as Magnum opus 91 The life of the work for the first five years was as a novel 91 which Tarantino considered to be an exploratory approach to the story not yet having decided if it would be a screenplay Tarantino tried other writing approaches the early scene between Rick Dalton and Marvin Schwarz was originally written as a one act play 92 Tarantino discovered the centerpiece for the work about 10 years previously while filming Death Proof with Kurt Russell who had been working with the same stunt double John Casino for several years Even though there was only a small bit for Casino to do Tarantino was asked to use him and agreed The relationship fascinated Tarantino and inspired him to make a film about Hollywood 93 94 Tarantino stated while Casino may have been a perfect double for Russell years earlier when he met them this was maybe the last or second to last thing they d be doing together 92 Tarantino first created stuntman Cliff Booth giving him a massive backstory Next he created actor Rick Dalton for whom Booth would stunt double Tarantino decided to have them be Sharon Tate s next door neighbors in 1969 The first plot point he developed was the ending moving backwards from there this being the first time Tarantino had worked this way He thought of doing an Elmore Leonard type story but realized he was confident enough in his characters to let them drive the film and let it be a day in the life of Booth Dalton and Tate He would use sequences from Dalton s films for the action inspired by Richard Rush s 1980 film The Stunt Man which used the scenes from the WWI movie they were making within the film as the action 95 Further to get his mind into Dalton Tarantino wrote five episodes of the fictional television show Bounty Law in which Dalton had starred having become fascinated with the amount of story crammed into half hour episodes of 1950s western shows 17 Tarantino kept the only copy of the third act of the script in a safe to prevent it from being prematurely released 96 DiCaprio Robbie and Pitt were the only other people who read the entire script 97 17 In an interview with Adam Sandler Pitt revealed that the only other copy of the script was burned by Tarantino 98 Pre production and casting Edit On July 11 2017 it was announced that Quentin Tarantino s next film would be about the Manson murders Harvey and Bob Weinstein would be involved but it was not known whether The Weinstein Company TWC would distribute the film as Tarantino sought to cast before sending a package to studios Tarantino approached Brad Pitt to star It was reported that Margot Robbie was being considered for Sharon Tate 99 It was also reported that Pitt was in talks for the detective investigating the murders 100 After the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations Tarantino cut ties with Weinstein and sought a new distributor after having worked with Weinstein for his entire career At this point Leonardo DiCaprio was revealed to be among a short list of actors Tarantino was considering 101 A short time later reports circulated that studios were bidding for the film and that David Heyman had joined as a producer along with Tarantino and Shannon McIntosh 102 On November 11 2017 Sony Pictures announced they would distribute the film beating Warner Bros Universal Pictures Paramount Pictures Annapurna Pictures and Lionsgate 103 Tarantino s demands included a 95 million budget final cut privilege extraordinary creative controls 25 of first dollar gross and the stipulation that the rights revert to him after 10 to 20 years 104 nbsp The main stars of the film Brad Pitt Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprioIn January 2018 DiCaprio signed on taking a pay cut to collaborate with Tarantino again 105 106 Al Pacino was being considered for a role 107 On February 28 2018 the film was titled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Pitt cast as Cliff Booth 108 DiCaprio and Pitt were each paid 10 million 109 In March 2018 Robbie who had expressed interest in working with Tarantino 110 signed to co star as Sharon Tate 111 while Zoe Bell confirmed she would appear 112 In May 2018 Tim Roth Kurt Russell and Michael Madsen joined the cast 113 Timothy Olyphant was also cast 114 In June 2018 Damian Lewis Luke Perry Emile Hirsch Dakota Fanning Clifton Collins Jr Keith Jefferson Nicholas Hammond Pacino and Scoot McNairy joined the cast 115 116 117 Spencer Garrett James Remar and Mike Moh were announced in July 118 In August 2018 Damon Herriman as Charles Manson and Lena Dunham Austin Butler Danny Strong Rafal Zawierucha Rumer Willis Dreama Walker and Margaret Qualley were cast 119 120 121 When Butler auditioned for the film he was not aware of which character he was being considered for Tarantino told him it was for a villain or a hero on Lancer when in fact it was for Tex Watson To prepare for her audition Maya Hawke practiced with her father Ethan Hawke She stated He Tarantino actually organized a really amazing callback process that was unlike anything I ve ever been through except maybe auditioning for drama school Willis auditioned for two roles neither of which she got but was later offered the part of Joanna Pettet Sydney Sweeney said everyone she auditioned with did so for the same character then were told they could do extra credit Some did artwork and she wrote a letter in character Julia Butters says her sitcom American Housewife was on while Tarantino was writing her character Trudi Frazer He looked up and said Maybe she can try this 122 Burt Reynolds was cast as George Spahn in May 2018 but died in September before filming his scenes and was replaced by Bruce Dern 113 69 Reynolds did a rehearsal and script reading his last performance After reading the script and learning that Pitt would be portraying Booth Reynolds told Tarantino You gotta have somebody say You re pretty for a stunt guy The line appears in the film spoken to Booth by Bruce Lee 123 The last thing Reynolds did before he died was run lines with his assistant for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 124 Tarantino initially approached Jennifer Lawrence to portray Manson Family member Squeaky Fromme saying She was interested but something just didn t work out 99 125 Tarantino had also spoken to Tom Cruise about playing Cliff Booth who was being considered for the role 102 126 Charlie Day was the producers first choice to play Manson Day did not show up to interview for the part because he did not want to see himself in that role 127 Macaulay Culkin auditioned for an undisclosed role It was his first audition in eight years 128 It was also initially reported that Samuel L Jackson was in talks for a major role 100 Actor Lew Temple who played a minor role in the film said that Jack Nicholson shot an undisclosed role for the movie 129 Filming and design Edit nbsp nbsp With the death of Burt Reynolds left the role of George Spahn was recast with Bruce Dern When it came to the look of 1969 Hollywood in the film a large part of it was told through the memory of a child Tarantino stated the jumping off point was going to be my memory as a six year old sitting in the passenger seat of my stepfather s Karmann Ghia And even that shot that kind of looks up at Cliff as he drives by the Earl Scheib and all those signs that s pretty much my perspective being a little kid 29 Principal photography began on June 18 2018 in Los Angeles California and wrapped on November 1 2018 130 Tarantino s directive was to turn Los Angeles of 2018 into Los Angeles of 1969 without computer generated imagery 65 For this he tapped into previous collaborators for production editor Fred Raskin cinematographer Robert Richardson sound editor Wylie Stateman and makeup artist Heba Thorisdottir He also brought first time collaborators production designer Barbara Ling based on her work recreating historical settings in The Doors and costume designer Arianne Phillips 131 Despite Tarantino s intent the production wound up using more than 75 digital visual effects shots by Luma Pictures and Lola VFX mainly to cover up modern billboards and erasing non 1960s buildings from driving shots 132 To film at the Pussycat Theater production designer Barbara Ling and her team covered the building s LED signage and reattached the theater s iconic logo rebuilding the letters and neon Ling said the lettering on every marquee in the film is historically accurate To restore Larry Edmunds Bookshop she reproduced the original storefront sign and tracked down period appropriate merchandise even recreating book covers Her team restored the Bruin and Fox Village theaters including their marquees and the storefronts around them Stan s Donuts across the street from the Bruin got a complete makeover 65 nbsp There was a lengthy negotiation period to secure permission to film at the Playboy Mansion The Playboy Mansion scene was shot at the actual mansion 133 Tarantino was adamant about filming there but it took a while to obtain permission since the mansion had been sold to a private owner following Hugh Hefner s death Tarantino and Ling met with the new owner to discuss the parts they wanted to use but he was reluctant since the property was in the middle of a renovation After long negotiations he agreed and Ling was able to dress the vacant mansion front courtyard and backyard for the party scene evoking as much of the 1960s appearance of the mansion as possible 133 The dance sequence for the scene was choreographed by Toni Basil who knew Sharon Tate and once dated Jay Sebring 10 She also choreographed Dalton s Hullabaloo scene 10 Though the film is set in 1969 the mansion was actually not acquired by Playboy until 1971 resulting in an obvious anachronism Several important scenes were shot at the Musso amp Frank Grill which was a must have location for Tarantino according to Rick Schuler supervising location manager I feel so lucky that there s a place like the Musso amp Frank Grill one that exists now exactly how it has always been Tarantino said It was fantastic being able to shoot at an iconic landmark that is so authentic and connected to Hollywood 134 The scenes involving the Tate Polanski house were not filmed at Cielo Drive the winding street where the 3 200 square foot house once stood The house was razed in 1994 and replaced with a mansion nearly six times the size Scenes involving the house were filmed at three different locations around Los Angeles one for the interior one for the exterior and a Universal City location for the scenes depicting the iconic cul de sac driveway 135 Movie poster artist Steven Chorney created the poster for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as a reference to The Mod Squad 136 He and Renato Casaro created the posters for the movies within the film Nebraska Jim Operation Dyn O Mite Uccidimi Subito Ringo Disse il Gringo Hell Fire Texas and Comanche Uprising which was reprinted for Dalton s home parking spot 136 Mad magazine caricaturist Tom Richmond created the covers of Mad and TV Guide featuring Dalton s Jake Cahill modeled after the art of Jack Davis 137 Tarantino told Richardson I want it to feel retro but I want it to be contemporary Richardson shot in Kodak 35mm with Panavision cameras and lenses in order to weave time periods For Bounty Law they shot in black and white and brief sequences in Super 8 and 16mm Ektachrome In the film Lancer was shot on a retrofitted Western Street backlot at Universal Studios designed by Ling Richardson crossed Lancer with Alias Smith and Jones for the retro future look Tarantino wanted The way they filmed Lancer was not possible in 1969 but Tarantino wanted his personal touch on it Richardson said that filming the movie touched him personally The film speaks to all of us We are all fragile beings with a limited time to achieve whatever it is we desire that at any moment that place will shift so take stock in life and have the courage to believe in yourself 133 138 In order to build the Lancer set Ling watched Enormous amounts of episodes of the series She built a western town filled with adobe buildings For Bounty Law she went for a dusty dirty early Deadwood look to separate it from the Moneyed Lancer world 133 Spahn Ranch was recreated in detail over about a three month period 133 A wildfire completely destroyed the ranch in 1970 so the scenes for the movie were filmed at nearby Corriganville Movie Ranch in Simi Valley which was also a movie ranch at one time 139 Tarantino made sure to use a lot of dogs in the scenes He said in real life many dogs lived on the ranch and made it feel alive He even made sure there were dogs moving around in every shot He was inspired to use the dogs in this manner from the way Francis Ford Coppola used helicopters in Apocalypse Now during the Robert Duvall scenes 140 To improve the use of practical effects Leonardo DiCaprio was allowed to light stunt coordinators on fire while shooting scenes with a flamethrower 141 The exterior of the Van Nuys Drive in theater scene was filmed at the Paramount Drive in theater since the Van Nuys Drive in theater no longer exists 142 As the camera rises up over the theater the shot transitions to a miniature set with toy cars 143 36 00 39 00 For some of the driving scenes the Hollywood Freeway and Marina Freeway in Los Angeles were shut down for hours in order to fill them with vintage cars 144 The scene depicting Bruce Lee training Jay Sebring was filmed at Sebring s actual house 29 The scene in which Rick Dalton flubs his lines in Lancer was not in the screenplay but rather an idea DiCaprio had on set while filming Afterwards Tarantino came up with the idea for Dalton s freakout scene in his trailer taking inspiration from Robert De Niro s performance in Martin Scorsese s Taxi Driver Tarantino stated It s got to be like Travis Bickle when he s in his apartment by himself DiCaprio improvised the entire scene 145 Music EditMain article Once Upon a Time in Hollywood music The soundtrack from the film is a compilation album of classic rock which includes multiple tracks from Paul Revere amp the Raiders as well as 1960s radio ads and DJ patter The film also contains numerous songs and scores not included on the soundtrack including from artists The Mamas amp the Papas and Elmer Bernstein 146 58 Release Edit nbsp Tarantino and Robbie at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21 2019 the 25th anniversary of Tarantino s premiere of Pulp Fiction at the festival 147 It was released theatrically in the United States on July 26 2019 by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label 148 The film was originally scheduled for release on August 9 2019 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Tate LaBianca murders 148 A teaser trailer was released on March 20 2019 featuring 1960s music by the Mamas and the Papas Straight Shooter and by Los Bravos Bring a Little Lovin 149 The official trailer was released on May 21 2019 featuring the songs Good Thing by Paul Revere amp the Raiders and Brother Love s Travelling Salvation Show by Neil Diamond 150 The studio spent around 110 million marketing the film 3 An extended cut of the film featuring four additional scenes was released in theaters on October 25 2019 151 Home media Edit The film was released through digital retailers on November 22 2019 and on Blu ray 4K Ultra HD and DVD on December 10 The 4K version is available as a regular version and a collector s edition 152 In April 2020 Media Play News magazine announced Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned Title of the Year and Best Theatrical Home release in the 10th annual Home Media Awards 153 Both the DVD and Blu ray contain a deleted scene in which Charles Manson confronts Paul Barabuta portrayed by Danny Strong the homeowner and caretaker of the Tate Polanski residence Barabuta is based on the home s owner Rudolph Altobelli and its caretaker William Garretson 18 154 Reception EditBox office Edit Once Upon a Time in Hollywood grossed 142 5 million in the United States and Canada and 232 1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of 374 6 million 4 By some estimates the film needed to gross around 250 million worldwide in order to break even 155 with others estimating it would need to make 400 million in order to turn a profit 156 In the United States and Canada the film was projected to gross 30 40 million from 3 659 theaters in its opening weekend with some projections having it as high as 50 million or as low as 25 million 157 158 The week of its release Fandango reported the film was the highest pre seller of any Tarantino film 159 The film made 16 9 million on its first day including 5 8 million from Thursday night previews the highest total of Tarantino s career It went on to debut to 41 1 million finishing second behind holdover The Lion King and marking Tarantino s largest opening Comscore reported that 47 of audience members went to see the film because of who the director was compared to the typical 7 and 37 went because of the cast compared to normally 18 3 The film grossed 20 million in its second weekend representing a nice drop of just 51 and finishing third and then made 11 6 million and 7 6 million the subsequent weekends 160 161 162 In its fifth weekend the film made 5 million bringing its running domestic total to 123 1 million becoming the second highest of Tarantino s career behind Django Unchained 163 In its ninth weekend its global total earnings reached 329 4 million surpassing Inglourious Basterds to become Tarantino s second highest global grosser behind Django Unchained 164 Critical response Edit nbsp Brad Pitt s performance received critical praise winning him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 85 of 584 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 7 9 10 The website s 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 165 Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100 based on 62 critics indicating universal acclaim 166 Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an average grade of B on an A to F scale while those at PostTrak gave it an average of 4 out of 5 stars and a 58 definite recommend 3 The Hollywood Reporter said critics had an overall positive view with some calling it Tarantino s love letter to 60s L A praising its cast and setting while others were divided on its ending 167 ReelViews James Berardinelli awarded the film 3 5 stars out of 4 saying it was made by a movie lover for movie lovers And even those who don t qualify may still enjoy the hell out of it 168 RogerEbert com s Brian Tallerico gave it four out of four stars calling it layered and ambitious the product of a confident filmmaker working with collaborators completely in tune with his vision 169 The Chicago Sun Times Richard Roeper described it as a brilliant and sometimes outrageously fantastic mash up of real life events and characters with pure fiction giving it full marks 170 Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave it five out of five stars praising Pitt and DiCaprio s performances and calling it Tarantino s dazzling LA redemption song 171 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 172 Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film 4 5 out of 5 stars remarking that All the actors in roles large and small bring their A games to the film Two hours and 40 minutes can feel long for some I wouldn t change a frame 173 Katie Rife of The A V Club gave it a B noting The relationship between Rick and Cliff is at the emotional heart of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and calling it Tarantino s wistful midlife crisis movie 174 In Little White Lies Christopher Hooton described it as occasionally tedious but constantly awe inspiring noting it did not seem to be a love letter to Hollywood but an obituary for a moment in culture that looks unlikely to ever be resurrected 175 Writing for Variety Owen Gleiberman called it a heady engrossing collage of a film but not in the end a masterpiece 176 Richard Brody of The New Yorker called it an obscenely regressive vision of the sixties that celebrates white male stardom and behind the scenes command at the expense of everyone else 177 Caspar Salmon of The Guardian took issue with the violence in the film writing Tarantino s filmography reveals a director in search of increasingly gruesome settings to validate his revenge fantasies and blood thirst 178 Accolades Edit Main article List of accolades received by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood At the 92nd Academy Awards Once Upon a Time in Hollywood received nominations for Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Original Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing and won Best Supporting Actor and Best Production Design 179 The film s other nominations include ten British Academy Film Awards winning one 180 twelve Critics Choice Movie Awards winning four 181 and five Golden Globe Awards winning three 182 The National Board of Review included the film as one of the top 10 films of the year and awarded Tarantino Best Director and Pitt Best Supporting Actor 183 The American Film Institute included it as one of the top 10 films of 2019 184 In December 2021 the film s screenplay was listed number twenty two on the Writers Guild of America s 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century So Far 185 Analysis EditFor analysis of the use of music see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood music Analysis Story themes and character symbolism Edit Dan Schindel of Hyperallergic wrote of the symbolism in the film s nostalgia He wrote the detail is almost microscopic in its use of hundreds of period ephemera across various mediums most of which is unrecognizable to most viewers Schindel writes that these forgotten memories surround the character of Rick Dalton because he too is a piece of forgotten nostalgia Schindel also writes about the dynamics between the characters Dalton and Booth represent the duality of attitudes towards their seeming impending obsolesce Booth being relaxed and accepting it and Dalton being fragile and insecure about it As Dalton s whole life is about how he is perceived he is obsessed with how he wishes to be perceived Sharon Tate also an actor is filled with joy when she is able to see herself entertain a theater audience But Schindel says that scene also humanizes her making her a person rather than the victim she has become He also expresses that Dalton and Booth represent Old Hollywood while Tate represents New Hollywood and the future Schindel states that Tarantino uses darkness both for Booth and his questionable past as well as in the Manson Family While Booth s possible crimes shade the nostalgia the Manson clan shades the future In the end however not only are Booth and Dalton able to save the future but Dalton becomes the hero he always wanted to be 186 Travis Woods also wrote of what the three characters represent and how it is demonstrated in the film He states that the three leads represent the past present and future Dalton is the past stuck in a fading world and afraid to let go Booth is the present always living in the moment and Tate the promise of a future on the rise They also represent three class levels of Hollywood with Booth literally living in the shadows of the movie industry His home is a trailer in the shadows of the Van Nuys Drive In Theater Woods also construes how Booth being the stunt double of Dalton is illustrated throughout Dalton struggles with an emotional arc and change while Booth clashes with danger and physical obstacles Woods points out the actor s job is to provide the audience with the emotional arc while the stuntman s job is to step in for the physicality and danger as told to us in the first scene This is shown when Dalton faces his existential fears on the set of Lancer by taking on a new acting challenge on a Western set and overcoming his fears and inner struggles Meanwhile Booth comes in to handle the dangerous stuff on another Western set where he also triumphs While they both have their victories Tate has hers as well by not only simply living her life but also by watching herself in a movie with an audience Woods writes the finale ties it all together How a stunt works and fantasy is made real the actor performs a scene all the way up to a threat of violence There s a cut and the stunt double enters the scene stands in for the actor and cheats death And so Dalton fearlessly confronts the would be killers outside of his home After a cut Booth enters the scene cheats death and handles the physical danger At the end Dalton re enters and gets the glory A feat that could not have been achieved by either the actor or stuntman alone but only together Woods concludes this also represents the past and present uniting to allow for a better future The past leads to the present and the present leads to the future and all three are required for the narrative to continue 187 David G Hughes wrote of the symbolized fantasy He noted that Tate is a symbol of effervescent life unadulterated joy and graceful innocence 188 while Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune saw the character as a Goddess 189 However Hughes was much more interested in what Booth represents He wrote how Dalton s stress and psychological issues prevent him from being a symbol of fantasy for the audience Booth is the film s hero and simultaneously works loyally for Dalton from a place of low social standing Hughes states this could be a Marxist point about invisible labor and the Substructure However Hughes feels this does not work to engage the audience He draws on Sigmund Freud and his Psychopathic Characters on the Stage He says what makes Booth interesting and particularly Brad Pitt s portrayal of him is sex appeal Being handsome strong loyal and courageous makes him desirable Hughes states that Booth is Laura Mulvey s perfect complete more powerful ideal ego Tarantino has Booth fight Bruce Lee to create the myth of Booth Hughes also writes that Booth embodies the Buddha s teachings on Zen but also that he is capable of barbaric violence These qualities make him the fantasy of righteous male power Hughes compares Booth to Charles Manson saying both are violent outcasts who sit between the worlds of Western Renaissance and Eastern philosophy However he says they are the antithesis of each other While Booth has a code Manson only serves himself Manson is Hollywood s monster from the id and Booth is its ego ideal and savior 188 A Los Angeles Catholic bishop Robert Barron praised the character of Cliff Booth as embodying the four cardinal virtues 190 Naomi Fry of The New Yorker wrote how the film is about the disposability of people in Hollywood She sees Dalton and Tate as needing to be seen as their livelihoods depend on it and an actor onscreen as a conduit for their own fantasies and those of others Dalton feels he is no longer able to do this and is tortured by the feeling Booth has also been discarded by Hollywood to the point of Dalton having to beg for him to be used Fry says of Dalton s career that there is a sense of the ruthlessness of Hollywood whose denizens are devastated when the industry almost inevitably turns away its gaze She also notes how Tarantino pulls a neat trick by casting DiCaprio and Pitt two of the biggest movie stars as a has been and a nobody 191 Armond White and Kyle Smith of National Review in separate reviews interpreted and praised the film as being politically conservative with Smith writing that It mercilessly sends up leftist values In its foundations it s so breathtakingly right wing it could have been made by Mel Gibson 192 193 The finale and the Manson Family Edit Theologian David Bentley Hart wrote that Once Upon a Time exhibit s a genuine ethical pathos for its portrayal of cosmic justice Hart wrote how he was a child when the Tate murders occurred and that the Manson Family were the first monsters who ever truly terrified me and tormented me with nightmares He remembers how the children at his school would tell the stories of the Manson Family murders Hart praised the revisionism when Tarantino s version of the story unexpectedly veered away into some other dreamlike better world where the monsters inadvertently passed through the wrong door and met the end they deserved Hart states the artistic masterstroke comes in the end when Tate is heard as a disembodied voice speaking from that alternative reality that terrestrial paradise that evil could not enter 194 Av Sinensky wrote about the ending of the film when Susan Atkins concludes that the Manson Family members should kill Dalton because he played a character who killed people on TV he taught them to kill Sinensky notes that Tarantino is putting the words of his critics into the mouth of a Manson murderer regarding his use of fictional gratuitous violence 195 While David G Hughes opined that Tarantino is using the scene to say that those who crusade against fictional violence are hypocrites and complicit in real violence Hughes wrote that by switching the real life violence by Manson Family members with movie violence instead directed at them Tarantino is making a firm distinction between cruel real world violence and ethical cathartic fantasy violence 188 Priscilla Page wrote how the Manson Family murders have become a myth and framed our understanding of what was happening in America and the world and in the film Spahn Ranch represents the intersection of Hollywood fantasy and the dark underbelly of Los Angeles 196 Michael Phillips likened the Manson girls to strung out Sirens 189 while Page stated how the Manson Family are ghosts haunting Spahn Ranch Demons to be exorcised Page notes how the final act accomplishes this exorcism and also the symbolism of Booth and Tex Watson pointing guns at each other Watson s is real just as the Manson Family s violence was Booth s is not but rather a finger as his violence is fictional Through the fictional violence the myth of the Manson Family is purged She writes the exorcism and revenge of the film are not only through the violence but also because the film denies Manson a meaningful presence demythologizing him and reduc ing him to a cameo expos ing the Manson Family as inept and mak ing Sharon Tate the story s beating heart 196 Steven Boone referred to Dalton going to Tate s house as entering the gates of Cielo Drive s Hollywood heaven Something his colleague Simon Abrams also alluded to when he commented Jay Sebring invites Dalton in for a drink like a hipper St Peter 197 Dan Schindel also saw Dalton s walk up Tate s driveway as an ascent to heaven based on the rising camera movement 186 Naomi Fry compared Dalton going through the gates as him entering the Garden of Eden 191 Writing in the academic journal Animation Jason Barker draws from Aristotle s Poetics to analyze in detail the film s use of cartoon violence speculating that such violence is more or less inversely related to the film s dramatic content Barker concludes that Through self indulgent inane insane and tyrannical cartoonism Once Upon a Time in Hollywood presents not so much a measure of contemporary violence as a measure of indifference to violence dramatic indifference and perhaps social indifference to a cartoon violence that is real in more ways than one 198 Booth s fantasy Edit Multiple critics interpreted Cliff Booth as an unreliable narrator when it came to him remembering his fight with Bruce Lee In the span of seconds the fight goes from being viewed by dozens of people to absolutely no one The crowd just disappears which some believe shows the flashback to be a false memory The interpretation is that Booth is only remembering what he wants to and the purpose of that scene is to show us we can t trust Cliff 199 200 Steven Hyden of Uproxx interpreted the ending of the film as a vision of Cliff Booth brought on through his consumption of LSD Hyden proposes that when Booth smokes the acid cigarette and says And away we go it marks the beginning of his vision He then leaves to take his dog Brandy for a walk walking by the car of killers down the street who Hyden believes Booth sees in the car and recognizes from Spahn Ranch This allows Booth s imagination to run wild thanks to the acid He imagines the killers in the car talking about his and Dalton s show Bounty Law He then imagines a scenario that lets him play out his violent fantasies and allows Dalton to be a hero using a flamethrower from a film he would never actually still own but which occupies a place in Booth s memory Hyden writes that the ending is Booth s hallucinatory fantasy that allows him to stay employed by Dalton while also allowing Dalton to be accepted by the New Hollywood elite Sharon Tate Also that in this fantasy Tate and members of the Manson Family are fans of Dalton just as Booth is 201 Steven Boone of The Hollywood Reporter also commented on the ending feeling like Booth s fantasy About the ending he wrote It s as if stuntman Cliff a serene Hollywood foot soldier was the editor here 197 Kyle Anderson theorized the ending is not only Booth s fantasy but Dalton s as well He states that Booth s memory of fighting Lee is his twisted recollection of an event that probably didn t happen Anderson notes that Cliff is a complete psychopath whose life has amounted to menial labor while Rick is a washed up loser The ending is not just a dream of what might have happened it is Booth s and Dalton s dream Booth gets to fulfill his hero fantasy and instead of Dalton losing his house and career he gets to be idolized and accepted by the cool kids 202 Billie Booth Edit Anna Swanson wrote about the death of Billie and how it is used to frame the rest of the film She writes how Tarantino not showing us what happens is a deliberate decision and also an homage to the death of Marvin Phil LaMarr in Pulp Fiction and the fact we do not know why Vincent Vega s John Travolta gun goes off and shoots Marvin Within the film one can interpret Billie s death as Cliff s speargun accidentally going off in the same vein as Vincent s gun or as a cold blooded murder by Cliff and a cover up or in a number of other scenarios Swanson argues that which interpretation the individual viewer has will lead them to view the rest of the film through that lens and have a completely different experience than someone who views it alternatively She notes we do not even know whose perspective the Billie Booth scene is from It is a flashback within a flashback and so could be Cliff s memory but as it is told by Randy it could be his perspective based on what he heard It could be what Cliff is imagining Randy is saying to Rick It could even be an omniscient perspective If one views Cliff as innocent it makes him easier to like and could be suggesting an innocent man s life can be ruined by unfortunate circumstances beyond his control However if one views Cliff as guilty It s a depiction of the extent to which someone can literally get away with murder In referencing the ending of the film Swanson asks if Cliff is guilty Are we supposed to forgive one death he caused because of the lives he saved Swanson concludes that another purpose of the scene is to build up the theme of Hollywood mythology Referring to the scene s allusion to Natalie Wood she writes the myths last while the truth is lost in an ocean vaster than the rolling neon streets of the Hollywood of yore 31 Lindsey Romain says the scene is a Rorschach Test for the audience She argues that how the viewer interprets the scene changes the interpretation of the ending of the film If Cliff murdered Billie then he is despicable and the killings he commits at the end are self serving However if he is innocent then he is a hero Romain writes either read is accurate and both feel purposeful By leaving Billie s death open ended Romain believes Tarantino is asking Is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a touching fable about reclaiming relevance or a horror story about a business that forgives heinous acts the second righteousness is procured Romain concludes that maybe it s both and about art about violence and how we participate in and consume it 203 Red Apple ad Edit Writing for The Washington Post Sonny Bunch commented on the mid credits Red Apple cigarettes advertisement scene He believes it is a commentary of current filmmaking and a pitch perfect parody of the films that have dominated box office charts in recent history Bunch compares the fake ad to the real ones used as mid credit scenes in the DC Marvel and Fast amp Furious franchises The scenes in those films are used to advertise the next film in their franchise He also notes how those ads tie their franchises universes together just as Red Apple does with the Tarantino universe 204 Cultural references EditThe title is a reference to director Sergio Leone s Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America 205 On the poster of Dalton s film Red Blood Red Skin inspired by Land Raiders he appears with Telly Savalas The posters for the two films are the same except with Dalton replacing George Maharis 206 The movie Voytek Frykowski is watching is Teenage Monster presented by horror host Seymour 207 Archive footage from many films is included in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood including C C and Company Lady in Cement Three in the Attic and The Wrecking Crew in which Sharon Tate appears as Freya Carlson 208 Three scenes were digitally altered replacing the original actors with Rick Dalton One from an episode of The F B I entitled All the Streets Are Silent in which Dalton appears as the character portrayed by Burt Reynolds in the actual episode 205 Another from Death on the Run with Dalton s face imposed over Ty Hardin s 206 The third is from The Great Escape with Dalton appearing as Virgil Hilts the role made famous by Steve McQueen 205 For The 14 Fists of McCluskey a World War II film within the film starring Dalton footage and music from Hell River is used 209 Connections to other Tarantino films Edit Cliff Booth is a reference to Brad Pitt s character in Tarantino s Inglourious Basterds Lt Aldo Raine a special forces WWII veteran who takes the cover of a stuntman 205 One of Rick Dalton s Italian films in the movie is directed by real life director Antonio Margheriti Antonio Margheriti is also used as an alias for Sgt Donny Donowitz Eli Roth in Inglourious Basterds 205 The scene involving Dalton playing a character who burns Nazis with a flamethrower is similar to the ending of Inglourious Basterds which ends with Nazi leadership being burned to death 205 210 The final scene features Dalton in a commercial for fictional Red Apple cigarettes which appear in many Tarantino films 210 Additionally another common Tarantino brand Big Kahuna Burger is advertised on a billboard 205 When Dalton and Booth get back from Italy they walk by the blue mosaic wall in LAX the same wall that the title character in Tarantino s Jackie Brown Pam Grier moves past in the opening credits of that film 211 The characters of stunt coordinator husband and wife Randy Kurt Russell and Janet Lloyd Zoe Bell are an homage to characters in Tarantino s Death Proof Stuntman Mike McKay Russell and Zoe Bell who plays herself a stunt woman 30 In the film Bruce Lee engages in a fight with Cliff Booth on the set of The Green Hornet 211 212 The Green Hornet theme song is featured in Tarantino s Kill Bill Volume 1 211 The masks worn by the Crazy 88 gang in that film are the same as Lee s mask as Kato in The Green Hornet 213 The car Booth drives is a 1964 blue Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible It is the same year color make and model of the car that Beatrix the Bride Kiddo Uma Thurman drives in Kill Bill Volume 2 30 Similarly Rick Dalton s 1966 Cadillac de Ville is the same car driven by Mr Blonde Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs It was owned by Madsen 214 215 Historical accuracy and influence EditSee also Manson Family Encounter with Tate and Tate LaBianca murders In a scene Sharon Tate goes into Larry Edmunds Bookshop and purchases a copy of Tess of the d Urbervilles 30 In real life Tate gave a copy to Roman Polanski shortly before her death In 1978 Polanski directed the film adaptation Tess 1979 dedicating it to Tate 30 Tate and Polanski s Yorkie Terrier in the film is named Dr Sapirstein 30 as was Tate s Yorkie in real life named after the doctor portrayed by Ralph Bellamy in Rosemary s Baby 216 The carrier she puts the dog in is the one that Tate actually owned 216 The outfit Margot Robbie wears in the Bruin Theater scene is based on the one Tate wore in Eye of the Devil 30 nbsp The Fox Bruin Theater which appears in one of the film s key scenes inspired by a real life experience of the film s director Quentin Tarantino In the film Tate goes to see The Wrecking Crew at the Bruin Theater She convinces the theater s employees that she stars in the movie after they fail to recognize her Tarantino stated the scene came from a personal experience When True Romance was released he saw it at the same theater where he eventually convinced its employees that he wrote the script 144 39 00 42 00 On the set of Batman for a crossover episode with The Green Hornet 217 a fight was scripted with Kato Bruce Lee losing to Dick Grayson s Robin Burt Ward When Lee received the script he refused to do it so it was changed to a draw When the cameras rolled Lee stalked Ward until Ward backed away Lee laughed and told him he was lucky it is a TV show 218 Stuntman Gene LeBell carried Lee around in a Fireman s Carry when he first arrived on The Green Hornet set in response to Lee being tough on stuntmen 219 In the film stuntman Cliff Booth fights Lee on the set of The Green Hornet the fight ends in a draw Booth refers to Lee as Kato 212 According to Rudolph Altobelli who rented the house to Polanski and Tate in March 1969 Charles Manson showed up Polanski s friend Iranian photographer Shahrokh Hatami who directed the short documentary Mia and Roman also said he saw Manson enter the grounds Hatami approached Manson asking him what he wanted He told Hatami he was looking for Terry Melcher Hatami responded the house was the Polanski residence and perhaps Melcher lived in the guest house Altobelli told Manson that Melcher no longer lived there 220 This happens in the film with Jay Sebring in place of Altobelli and Hatami 221 On the night of August 8 1969 Patricia Krenwinkel Tex Watson and Susan Atkins broke into Tate s house murdering her and four others 70 176 180 In the film they go to Tate s house to commit the murders but instead end up breaking into Dalton s house after he interrupts them 79 Linda Kasabian went along that night though she did not murder anyone and stayed outside the whole time as a lookout In the film she goes along and does not murder anyone but takes off and does not stay 79 Watson told his victims I m the Devil and I came to do the Devil s business In the film he says it to Cliff Booth 222 In the film Atkins convinces the others to seek revenge by killing Rick Dalton star of a TV western Since TV taught them to kill it is fitting they kill the guy from TV and My idea is to kill the people who taught us to kill 79 223 In real life Manson Family member Nancy Pitman said We are what you have made us We were brought up on your TV We were brought up watching Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel 224 Sandra Good said You want to talk about devils and demonic and immorals and evil go to Hollywood We don t touch the evil of that world We don t even skim it 225 In the film when the four Manson Family members who drive to Tate s house are sitting outside in their car Rick Dalton comes out of his house and yells at them to leave In real life the four members stopped at the house of Rudolf Weber down the street from Tate s house Weber came out and yelled at them to leave Weber told the police he was tired of hippies on his street 226 Clem Grogan was convicted of the murder of stuntman Donald Shea on Spahn Ranch whom he repeatedly beat with a lead pipe 227 In the film Grogan is instead beaten by stuntman Cliff Booth 228 The 1959 Ford Galaxie driven by the Manson Family is a detailed replica of the car used in the Tate LaBianca murders Car coordinator Steven Butcher found the actual car but after a meeting with Tarantino they decided using it would be too creepy 214 Boeing 747s are used in several airliner scenes but were not in commercial use until 1970 The film is set in 1969 229 Character controversies EditBruce Lee Edit nbsp Bruce Lee portrayed in the film by Mike Moh The film s depiction of him was criticized by some for being offensive and inaccurate The film s depiction of Bruce Lee drew criticism Fans and contemporaries of Lee including his protege Dan Inosanto criticized the portrayal 230 231 Lee s daughter Shannon described the depiction as an arrogant asshole who was full of hot air and that they didn t need to treat him in the way White Hollywood did when he was alive 231 Lee s student and friend Kareem Abdul Jabbar 232 who starred with Lee in Game of Death stated that Tarantino s portrayal of Lee was sloppy and somewhat racist 233 Mike Moh who played Lee said he was conflicted at first Bruce in my mind was literally a God He didn t always have the most affection for stuntmen he didn t respect all of them 234 He stated Tarantino loves Bruce Lee he reveres him 235 Brad Pitt and stunt coordinator Robert Alonzo objected to an extended version of the fight in which Lee loses 236 According to Lee s friend and The Green Hornet stuntman Gene LeBell Lee had a reputation for kicking the shit out of the stuntmen They couldn t convince him that he could go easy and it would still look great on film 26 In the 2018 Bruce Lee A Life Lee s biographer Matthew Polly wrote Lee would jump kick people on the set According to Lee s co star Van Williams it stopped when He dislocated a set designer s jaw Polly continued Bruce insisted on close quarters combat The stuntmen hated it Williams said The stuntmen didn t want to work on the show They were tired of getting hurt LeBell was tasked with calming Bruce down 219 According to Williams Lee s treatment of stuntmen drove the show s stunt coordinator Bennie Dobbins to want to fight him 41 Tarantino responded saying Lee was kind of an arrogant guy and that Lee s widow Linda wrote in her 1975 book Bruce Lee The Man Only I Knew that he could beat Muhammad Ali 237 She wrote Even the most scathing critics admitted that Bruce s Gung fu was sensational One critic wrote Those who watched him would bet on Lee to render Cassius Clay Ali senseless if they were put in a room and told anything goes 238 In 1972 Lee himself stated Everybody says I must fight Ali some day Look at my hand That s a little Chinese hand He d kill me 239 Shannon filed a complaint with the China Film Administration affecting the film s release in China unless alterations were made After Tarantino refused to remove the scene China cancelled the release of the film on October 18 2019 one week before its release date there 240 Sharon Tate Edit After being contacted over concerns Tarantino invited a representative of Roman Polanski Sharon Tate s widower over to his house to read the script and report back to Polanski to assure him he didn t have anything to worry about Tarantino stated When it comes to Polanski we re talking about a tragedy that would be unfathomable for most human beings and that he did not contact him while writing it as he did not want to cause him anxiety Despite this Polanski s wife Emmanuelle Seigner criticized Tarantino for using Polanski s likeness after the film s premiere 241 Debra Tate Sharon s sister initially opposed the film saying it was exploitative and perpetuated mistruths To celebrate the killers and the darkest portion of society as being sexy or acceptable in any way shape or form is just perpetuating the worst of our society After Tarantino contacted her and showed her the script she withdrew her opposition saying This movie is not what people would expect it to be when you combine the Tarantino and Manson names She felt that Tarantino was a very stand up guy after visiting the set she was impressed by Robbie and lent her some of Sharon s jewelry and perfume to wear in the film 242 After the premiere journalist Farah Nayeri asked Tarantino why Robbie had so few lines Tarantino responded I reject your hypothesis Robbie elaborated I think the moments on screen show those wonderful sides of Tate could be adequately done without speaking 243 Tarantino said I thought it would both be touching and pleasurable and also sad and melancholy to just spend a little time with Tate just existing I wanted you to see Sharon a lot 17 Manson Family Edit See also Manson Family Possible murder motives Charles Manson was convicted of the murders of Tate and four others despite not being present due mostly to a theory presented by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi that Manson was trying to instigate an apocalyptic race war leaving only Black Muslims 70 246 and the Family According to the theory the Black Muslims 70 246 would eventually look to Manson to lead them According to members of the Family Paul Watkins Juan Flynn and Barbara Hoyt Manson referred to the race war as Helter Skelter getting the name from the song of the same name 70 244 247 334 361 362 244 Musician and filmmaker Boots Riley criticized Tarantino s film for not portraying Bugliosi s Helter Skelter narrative or depicting the Family as white supremacists 245 as did Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times in which she wrote that portraying the Manson Family as hippies is a more bankable image than Manson the ignorant white supremacist 71 However according to members of The Family Susan Atkins Leslie Van Houten Patricia Krenwinkel Catherine Share and Ruth Ann Moorehouse the Tate murders were not perpetrated to start Helter Skelter but as copycat murders mirroring that of Gary Hinman in an attempt to convince police the killer was still at large 70 426 435 and get Bobby Beausoleil released from jail as he was charged with Hinman s murder He stated the murders had nothing to do with race 246 According to Jay Sebring s protege and business partner Jim Markham who provided original Sebring hair products for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the murders were instigated by a drug deal gone bad not a race war He believes Manson was at Tate s house the day before the murders to sell drugs to Sebring and Voytek Frykowski which resulted in the two beating Manson up 247 In his interview with Truman Capote Beausoleil said They burned people on dope deals Sharon Tate and that gang 248 On The Joe Rogan Experience Tarantino said he thought Bugliosi s theory was bullshit He believes Manson never sent anyone over to Tate s house to murder anyone and that the murders happened spontaneously 249 Related projects EditNovels Edit Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Edit Main article Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel In November 2020 Tarantino signed a two book deal with HarperCollins On June 29 2021 he published his first novel an adaptation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 250 The audiobook is narrated by Jennifer Jason Leigh who previously starred in Tarantino s The Hateful Eight 6 According to Tarantino her Hateful Eight character Daisy Domergue was A Manson girl out west like Susan Atkins or something 251 According to Tarantino the novel is a complete rethinking of the entire story and adds details to various sequences and characters including multiple chapters dedicated to the backstory of Cliff Booth 252 The novel also departs from the film the film s finale occurs towards the beginning of the novel and its aftermath includes Rick Dalton earning newfound fame as a regular on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 23 It also focuses on Charles Manson s pursuit of a music career 23 the inner worlds of Sharon Tate and Trudi Frazer 253 and has a whole chapter focused on actor Aldo Ray 7 337 349 The Films of Rick Dalton Edit Main article The Films of Rick Dalton In June 2021 Tarantino revealed he wrote and plans to publish a second novel connected to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood about the films of Rick Dalton 33 45 00 47 00 The book details every film and TV series of Dalton s entire career some of which are completely fictional but the majority of Dalton s work are real with Dalton replacing the actors who actually starred in the films 33 46 00 48 00 In it Cliff Booth writes a film for Dalton featuring a flamethrower which they produce and Dalton directs 33 47 00 49 00 Film and television Edit Extended cut Edit On August 5 2019 it was reported that a four hour cut of the film may be coming to Netflix 254 On January 3 2020 Collider confirmed the statement in an interview with Quentin Tarantino revealing the extended cut of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would probably be available in approximately one year 255 In June 2021 Tarantino said the extended cut would probably be released in a couple of years It will be around three hours and 20 minutes and be released theatrically 256 38 00 40 00 Bounty Law Edit Also in 2019 Tarantino expressed interest in creating a Bounty Law television series based on five half hour scripts he wrote in preparation for the film and that he plans on writing three more episodes 17 Tarantino said he does not know who would play Jake Cahill the lead but added if Leonardo DiCaprio wants to do it that d be great 17 The series would be shot in black and white and follow the half hour format of Western television shows from the 1950s 17 Scenes from the episodes already written appear in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Tarantino plans on directing all episodes of the series 257 Lancer Edit Tarantino hopes Robert Rodriguez will turn Tarantino s version of Lancer in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood into a film 33 37 00 38 00 Stage Edit In June 2021 Tarantino announced his plan to produce a stage adaptation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood He already wrote the play which takes place in Italy The entire second act consists of Rick Dalton Marvin Schwarz and Sergio Corbucci having dinner in Rome 258 In popular culture Edit On August 6 2021 the rock band Twin Atlantic released a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood themed music video for their song Bang On the Gong with lead singer Sam McTrusty taking inspiration from Rick Dalton 259 During the opening credits of the Japanese anime Chainsaw Man the opening scene of the movie has been referenced 260 See also EditList of films featuring hallucinogensNotes Edit Stylized in promotional materials as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The film s 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