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Rick and Cliff arrive by driving into the back parking lot and entering through the backdoor, eventually landing at the bar. The pair arrive at Musso & Frank Grill, Hollywood’s oldest restaurant, for Rick to have a lunch meeting with Marvin Schwarz (Al Pocino). In the beginning of the film we are introduced to Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman/right hand man Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Additionally, due to COVID, I have not visited or in some cases revisited the interiors of some locations. This has been a post months in the making, and in a way, also kind of years in the making, as I utilize some older photos from visits to these locations prior to and around the film’s release. While many of the locations in the film, they “play themselves” there are a handful of places that were dressed up to be one thing or another.
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Quinten Tanatino’s love letter to late 1960s LA is full of wonderful details and used many beloved SoCal institutions, including a number that are accessible to the film buff! It looks better than the real thing.Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood has quickly become one of my all time favorite movies. A love letter to the movies deserves to be written in fake blood. The novel is a companion piece about companionship, about our need to invent truths to play our parts right, about the importance of the apocryphal story. He shows up as a director who, decades after the events of this book, will take a gifted actress to her third Oscar nomination - with a remake. I didn’t anticipate Tarantino’s enthusiasm translating this infectiously to the page. “If she could have, she would have shaken all their hands and thanked them all individually.” The motive is pure as can be, and she is gratified by the audience reaction. She wants to see whether, while working opposite a slapstick legend, she managed to fall down properly.
A beautiful bit involves Tate (with, in true Tarantino style, a song continuing “to play in her head”) as she goes to a theatre to watch a comedy she starred in. It is hard not to get swept up in this unironic love for the movies. What is real and what is not - albeit interesting to scholars and fans - is less crucial than the blurring of the line.
In Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet, a book about larger than life rockstars that spins its own alternate music history, Bridge Over Troubled Waters was a song by Carly Simon and Guinevere Garfunkel. And the reverence for stories behind the stories.
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You don’t know half the references, and you can’t possibly keep up with the torrent of detail, but the facts are less the point than the infectious passion. Reading Tarantino characters talk about movies is like having a drink with Sriram Raghavan. Having created arresting characters who work in the movies, Tarantino uses plot almost as an aside while drifting in and out of Hollywood lore, both real and imagined.
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Instead, he indulges what would be considered cinematic digressions: the long-drawn backstory of the pilot episode of a TV series, for instance, or the reasons why Cliff Booth outgrew Akira Kurosawa. Tarantino, an admirer of the novelisations that once accompanied popular movies, has borrowed the pulp form yet stayed clear of his trademark explosive sequences.