{"id":6757,"date":"2019-07-31T21:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T02:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:06:54","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-is-it-good-great-or-a-crapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=6757","title":{"rendered":"“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”….is it good, great, or a crapper?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a sixteen year old on the night of the Sharon Tate killings, the effect was little more than a footnote in my brain’s card catalog.\u00a0 I had viewed all of her films (yes, I got into the theater to see “Valley of the Dolls” which I did not like).\u00a0 At the time, late 60’s, I wondered why anyone like Charles Manson and family would want to butcher people and hang Tate after stabbing her, a woman with child.<\/span>\u00a0 That imagined visual kept me in a surprising intangible thought, something that I was not proud of and a dark place I did not want to go. \u00a0 And the family that was killed on the August 8-9 spree (LaBianca murders), along with Tate’s friends in the Polanski home that met their end, had a lasting impression of evil on me for my time on\u00a0 this earth.<\/h4>\n

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The Hollywood scene was not of experiences for me, just what I could imagine about the place from many movies I had already viewed about that Southern California venue. I continue, to this day,\u00a0 have substantial contemplation in regard to the panorama of\u00a0 “Hollywood” that is in my psyche, even if it was not of a true in-person experience.\u00a0 It is out a surreal one of viewing movies set on Sunset and Vine, having wet dreams of various fabulous looking women that were hot as hell, and the nuances of those that inhibited the wild debauchery of\u00a0 Los Angeles.\u00a0 To this day, I rush to most movies that are set in SoCal, and my imagination continues to work overtime when I see such films as La La Land<\/em>, LA Confidential<\/em> or from the far past, the great The Stunt Man<\/em>.<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Al Pacino with Pitt and DiCaprio….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Once Upon A Time in Hollywood”<\/em><\/strong> is a film to ponder, to discuss, to contemplate.<\/span> \u00a0 Some do not like what this director, Quentin Tarantino, did in his<\/em> movie.\u00a0 QT did not tell the true gospel here and sure as hell was not politically correct in his take.\u00a0 Do not like smoking in films? Tarantino will shout to you, tough shit.\u00a0 Do not like his take on the movie legend\/martial arts great Bruce Lee?\u00a0 Again, you also can just go.\u00a0 Do not like the movie’s ending? Make your own motion picture.\u00a0 Everybody seems to have an agenda and QT has one, his, which is reflected in his films.\u00a0 His agenda tell PC to go to hell.\u00a0 He makes films the way he wants as this medium is of the director, not the viewer.\u00a0 Political correctness is foreign to Quentin Tarantino.\u00a0 This is what I like about his films. Do not get me wrong, I hate this man’s political views. I think he is a dumbass with regard to politics. But as a film maker, he is the real deal. HIs movies challenge you, and you do not feel disrespected as a viewer.\u00a0 His films are not boring. The worst thing about a film, good or bad, is indifference and being boring.\u00a0 QT does not make crappers.\u00a0 You might not especially like all of them and especially what he puts in them, but that is ok. You will have an opinion, good or bad.\u00a0 Do not like his movies? QT would say, that is just fine.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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This 2019 summer entry is a fantasy as directed, edited, and produced by QT.\u00a0 It does not represent the truth nor the facts of real life.\u00a0 It is a fairy tale of a real place at a real time.\u00a0 With that in mind, I am not of Hollywood.\u00a0 I can only perceive what my brain allows me to visualize.\u00a0 Dreaming of carnal experiences of Hollywood (literal dreaming as I sleep),\u00a0 of doing the hippity dippity with Marilyn Monroe as a fourteen year old, is all a vision quest, not of reality.\u00a0 Like what Quentin Tarantino did in this flick and has done in previous movies he has fashioned, with regard not only to sex, but of violence and the human condition. Reality? Yes, no, and sometimes.<\/h4>\n

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In “Once Upon…” we have some melancholy infused in “what if these nice people” would have lived out a life.\u00a0 That is something that I took away from my experience from the final scene on the driveway of Polanski’s home.\u00a0 Yet this movie is more than a just a setup of a murder of some famous people.\u00a0 It is how this place in LA influences its inhabitants. How their emotions control them.\u00a0 The good and the not so good.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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You see the characters, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), and Margot Robbie (Sharon Tate) among others develop in full fleshed humans.\u00a0 Do not overlook these three characters.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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DiCaprio has never been better, showing a range of emotions that make you feel for his situation in this movie industry.\u00a0 There are more than a few set pieces that allow this actor to show his abilities. Look for an Oscar nomination and a possible win from his performance.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Pitt again allows himself to play a character that is not as much a push as of his great screen presence. His take as the stuntman for Dalton, and also being his best friend,\u00a0 is one of his best.\u00a0 He again shows us just how much he is as an actor and not just another pretty face<\/span>.<\/h4>\n

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Robbie’s take on Tate is exquisite.\u00a0 We get to see that Sharon Tate was a newbie to the Hollywood scene. What is real or not here is subjective, as QT is always playing his<\/span> audience.\u00a0 Tate, as I think QT wanted us to believe, was a unabashed fickle young actress that was still learning what being a movie star was.\u00a0 She had a bewilderment of Hollywood and was a loving person toward all in her world as shown by QT.\u00a0 Her viewing of a performance by the real Sharon Tate in “The Wrecking Crew”\u00a0 was a fabulous bit of acting by Robbie. You could just inhale her love of self and her emotional presence of having others “laugh” at her performance on screen.\u00a0 She would have loved to have been a star of the cinema if she had lived out a full life. (Fuck you Manson and burn in fucking hell you sum bag).\u00a0 Her inner beauty in this role was as significant as her physical beauty, which QT put on display without the obligatory nudity that many directors would have included.\u00a0 I believe Tate and Robbie would have more in common that we might think. Just watch her. As of Tate, you cannot get your eyes off this actress.\u00a0 Some wanted more of the Tate angle in this movie, but, this was not a movie on her.\u00a0 But anytime we can see Robbie on the silver screen we are in for a treat. She is one smoking women that is for sure. And her talent matches that stunning look. You think I like Robbie?<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A few words on the Bruce Lee controversy.\u00a0 Tarantino has pissed off many Bruce Lee apologists.\u00a0 I am and always will be a Bruce Lee fan. Yet, I found the caricature of Mr. Lee as QT has filmed him in this film appropriate.\u00a0 The scene on the fictitious movie set\u00a0 where Pitt’s character Booth kicks the ass of a arrogant Lee was one of the funniest highlights of the flick. Someone needs to tell Bruce’s daughter (who got her panties all up on a wad) that this movie begins with the title “Once Upon A Time…” so please allow the director to take us places in the film where fantasy is a “fairly tale at least and a parody at most.” I enjoy flicks that tell the PC crowd to get lost. QT did that in this one and the issue of Lee and how we think about him is not going to change as of a work of Hollywood fiction.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Mike Moh plays Bruce Lee…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The one theme I believe QT pushed was that the “rich and famous” are like us all. They have their problems, worries, and pleasures.\u00a0 They experience issues most of us have to endure.\u00a0 Money and fame does not exclude anyone’s despair or needs.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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What if Charlie Manson did not exist?\u00a0 His family of shits never bonded?\u00a0 QT gives us some serious thoughts about this in the end of this presentation.\u00a0 QT will be discussed and cursed about this look (ending).\u00a0 But I will not accept that his film is not good as of the ending, or the focus was not dialed completely on these murders.\u00a0 QT did not tell a tale of truth.\u00a0 This movie is not about Charlie, or Sharon, or anyone in particular.\u00a0 The main character is LA, Southern Cal, and what it represents. Tate and such and are not about the truth.\u00a0 LA is also not of the truth. LA is of the image, what it says to the world.\u00a0 QT’s perspective is as what he remembers from growing up in the area and what Hollywood reflected in his mind and soul.\u00a0 That reflection is personal for QT and he lets us take a peek.
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Margot Robbie and Sharon Tate…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is a great film. I enjoyed every minute and found the final fifteen minutes as good as anything he has ever done. I went from being in total suspense, to out-and-out laughter, to that sad place of what if. Argue if you want. Disagree if you wish.\u00a0 This “Once Upon A Time” is a winner as a motion picture, as was the previous “Once Upon A Times……in the West, in America, and the Revolution.” \u00a0 Tarantino is our modern day Sergio Leone.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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