I was so afraid this was going to be another glorification of Manson, I should've trusted Tarantino more. I love how beautiful this was, how this movie clearly was a love letter to Sharon.
@@17thknight I wondered that too when I heard this was his next project. Supposedly Sharon Tate's sister was very negative about the idea of the movie, until Tarantino contacted her, met with her, and gave her the script to read. She reversed her earlier objection and even met with Margot Robbie and lent her some of Sharon's jewelry to wear. What a great movie.
I literally had chills running through my body the entire ending when he’s talking to the actual victims… it was like watching ghosts interact… it’s a feeling I’ve never felt before
It's the only rewrite I wish really happened . The victims caused by the Manson fake family is sad . Sharon Tate was alive when they ripped her baby out from her .
@@akfreed6949 The sad thing it`s that, some of those Manson followers never showed regret of what they did. Manson always claimed he did nothing because he wasn`t there (which it`s true), but he did killed LaBianca couple. Squeaky Fromme who wanted to kill Gerald Ford was always proud of her Manson allegiance.
I love that movie so much. One of my all-time favorites. I can't even begin to count how many times I've watched it over the years. When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, I would watch that and Guns of Navarone and act them out with my GI Joes.
The scene with the German officer is from a real movie, "The Great Escape", about 1965. One of my favorite movies as a kid. Oops, showing my age again. 🤦🤣
love hearing George say at 23:04 "this movie just feels like theres an inevitably destination of tragedy" and the movie just goes bonkers like "lets torch some f*cking hippies"
I wonder how they got on when they were shooting this? Neither of them is stupid enough to try and high-hat or upstage the other, but they seem to be coming to their roles from different planets. As George says, there's usually only one super-stellar Movie Star per film and that's usually for a reason but by accident or by design Tarantino managed these two beautifully.
@@karlmortoniv2951 Yeah, both likely trusted Tarantino based on their previous individual experiences but they probably had a lot of discussions about how to work together first. It's rare but when it works, it works like with Newman and Redford.
You guys were beginning to touch on it: this is QT's memory piece, his love letter to Hollywood. It also subtly doubles as his commentary on his age and near retirement from directing, as well as his fond memories of the places that shaped his childhood and gave him his illustrious career. This is all set against a backdrop of actual history, and a very tragic event that struck a cultural nerve, signaling the "end of an era". Also, considering the times in which we are currently living, with the way the world is going with movies and politics and all, it also is a kind of end of its own era as well. This movie hits on so many layers to me, that's why I personally think it's one of his greatest.
I think it's amazing that arguably, QTs best movies are coming in the second half of his career. I've been following since Pulp Fiction was released and while I have serious nostalgia glasses for that, I think for me it's a toss-up between Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
yea well mebbe when The DIMS are destroyed in NOV we might get back to REAL FAM values and NOT FORCE shit on people like forcing KIDS to get "re assigned" and get RADICALS out of running for office and stroke clowns runnin for SENATE
The brunette hippie girl was Margaret Qualley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in the Netflix series Maid. Squeaky, who answered the door at George's house, was Dakota Fanning. In real life Squeaky Fromme was later arrested for firing a shot at President Gerald Ford. George was long time actor Bruce Dern (who is the father of actress Laura Dern). Kurt Russell's wife was played by Zoe Bell, a real life stunt woman who was also in Tarantino's Death Proof. The jersey that Margot Robbie was wearing at the end was a Dallas Cowboys' #17 jersey. Sharon Tate was from Dallas, and Don Meredith was the quarterback for the Cowboys in the 60s. He wore #17.
@@allenschneider8579 Do you enjoy old Hollywood? This film was a wonderful love letter. Especially with all of the references. Maybe other than the runtime, I often find it hard to dislike anything about this movie haha!
@@xCaLLMeGHeTTo It was good, but I can't help but feel like it could have been better. The film had a very strange and mistaken tightness to realism which, for me, didn't match the fake historical rewrite. I wanted more ridiculousness and the constant story focus on Rick Dolton seemed... wasted as a venture.
People complained Sharon Tate wasn't given a lot of lines but I thought it was great they took an actress who had met a horrific end and showed her living her best life and having a happy ending
Yeah, it wasn’t so much about her, but her loveliness gives the movie its emotional weight and ties the plot to the horrific historical reality. We become invested in her and it raises the stakes. There are people complaining that she has too much screen time, and others complain that she didn’t have enough to develop her character, but I think Tarantino got it just right. Excellent storytelling.
The inference of the last scene is that he meets (he mentioned earlier in the film wanting to meet them) the "movers and shakers" of the new era of Hollywood and thus makes connections and revitalizes his career and that he and Cliff keep working together.
9:24 "Lieutenant what's his face?" 😂 i'm sure that Major Winters will appreciate how fondly you remembered him. 😊 thankfully Simone was there to save you.
That's the theme from THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN, which was a western starring Paul Newman that came out in 1972. Tarantino stole it (not that there's anything wrong with that).
It is genuinely unfair how Brad Pitt, as handsome as he always has been, just seems to be getting more and more handsome with age. He really is his generation's Robert Redford.
The director in the make up trailer is Nicholas Hammond. He played the oldest brother in "The Sound Of Music" and he played the first Spiderman in the tv series from the seventies.
The director he’s playing , Sam Wanamaker, was a real actor-director. While Hammond is in his 70s (maybe here he could pass as being in his 60s?), Wanamaker was 50 in 1969.
@alpha java It was the Late 60s not 70s. Horrible Script How? The Run Time was was a little too long but I was not Bored at all, I was captivated by Everyone's performance! 🤨
Ooh, my favorite Tarantino! The only one that made me cry, too. That bittersweet drop of the title... I started watching this reaction and realized I want to watch along on Patreon. (Too bad you stopped counting foot shots.) DiCaprio is so damn good in this. And I love movies that can pull off a bunch of seemingly random stuff put together into a coherent, thematic, and emotional whole. It just feels like the work of a master, an artist at the top of his game. In case you're interested (off-channel), Tarantino listed 10 films that influenced this one: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) Cactus Flower (1969) Easy Rider (1969) Arizona Raiders(1965) Getting Straight (1970) The Wrecking Crew (1968) Model Shop (1969) Hammerhead (1968) Gunman’s Walk (1958) Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
They should watch some Sergio Leone movies , Once upon a time in the west , also known as Man with harmonica . The good , the bad and the ugly , just those and they will see lot of where Tarantino gets his style of filming . Sergio Leone had music made for his movies before filming and played it during filming , so you get long takes , when he just let the music play .
6:50 This is a Karmann Ghia. It's a small European coupe based on the VW Beetle. While it was comparatively cheap at the time, today, you pay serious money to get one in mint condition.
I love the ending to this movie. It has that Inglorious Basterds aspect where they swerve the history of an actual event the most at the very end. With this movie, it’s almost the fact that the character of Rick Dalton exists is enough to create an alternate history.
I believe the reason Tarantino has done the “Alternate history” is because it allows him to show that the ultra-violence that he has been vilified for in the past can be considered completely acceptable if it is unleashed on those who are most deserving of it. ie- Nazis, slave traders and the Manson family.
The girl that sold Cliff the acid-dipped cigarette was Perla Haney-Jardine, also known as Uma Thurman's/Kiddo's daughter BB in 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'. Ironically, Uma Thurman's real-life daughter Maya Hawke also appears here, as the Manson girl who chickened out and drove off.
Her real life daughter would represent the real-life Manson family member Linda Kasabian, who was present, but never killed anyone, and turned witness for the prosecution.
This is Tarantino at his most meta. He also gives us the fantasy of what we all hoped had happened instead. A truly unique motion picture. Glad you guys liked it.
18:40 It's a reprise of the scene at the Playboy Mansion, where Steve McQueen says about Sharon Tate: "Never had a chance." Now, it's Rick Dalton auditing for The Great Escape (1963) role, that finally got to Steve McQueen, and he says: "Never had a chance." (PS: Did you miss Ma Cass at the Playboy Mansion?)
I wonder if people are aware that, at 9:25, Damian Lewis (Capt. Winters) is playing Steve McQueen, one of the stars from The Great Escape, 1963. He costarred with Charles Bronson, James Garner and James Coburn, among others. The Great Escape was a seminal film, in which a new generation of young actors came to the fore. It was a big hit and generated many Great Escape wanna be movies.
I was alive back then. I remember a lot of the commercials and the movie signs. Those little details were for people like me to remember fondly. So many details! You got most of it right, but the details only matter to those of us who remember.
Di Caprio had to talk Tarantino into letting him just run with that idea for a few takes and giving him the material to jump-cut it together like this. Tarantino isn't known for letting actors improvise - and why should he? I'm sorry he won't be making too many more movies, if any at all. Whether he would admit it or not, he seems to have learned so much about his craft since "Reservoir Dogs," working with actors, embracing the collaboration of others, everything.
Tarantino's novel of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is an interesting read after you've seen the movie. It's not just a straight novelization of the film. In fact it glosses over some of the events from the movie very quickly. But it fills in a ton of backstory on all of the characters. And, no spoilers of course, you do learn a lot more about Cliff and his wife.
I actually don't like the way Cliff is presented in the book. He feels a lot more... creepy and sadistic, as oppose to the movie Cliff which feels more laid back, confident, and with principles.
The Once Upon a Time title is in homage to two of Tarantino's favourite movies, Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America, directed by Sergio Leone. Both movies are incredible and the soundtracks amazing.
I know someone's already commented on this but I feel like it deserves driving home. Yes, that clip at the Nazi camp was from a real film, 'The Great Escape', not just one of the best war films ever, but also just a ln all round stone cold classic. And starred Steve Mqueen, which given the earlier appearance of, is probably why it was used here.
Also, at the party at the Playboy mansion, Steve McQueen says “I never stood a chance.” Later, when Rick is talking about when he almost was in The Great Escape, when he mentions Steve McQueen got the role and “I never stood a chance.”
Watching this again through your reaction I've pretty much decided that as much as I've loved Tarantino's previous movies, this one is my favorite. The whole love letter to Hollywood and alternate history of the Manson family episode is just so damn compelling. Plus the amount of acting talent on display from everyone involved is just wonderful.
18:41 Ok now you two really must watch The Great Escape. It is a real (and excellent) film starring Steve McQueen. The clip in this movie replaces McQueen with DiCaprio's character, which was fun.
I absolutely love this movie. In the last fifteen years I went to the cinema to watch the same movie only twice. This and Dune. It's a movie for movie lovers.
So Damian Lewis (AKA: Winters from Band of Brothers) playing Steve McQueen was a nod to the fact that McQueen himself was almost at the Polanski residence the same night the murders occurred. According to his wife, he was attracted to Sharon Tate, knew Roman would fuck up at some point, and he was planning to catch her on the rebound. But, he decided to meet up with a girlfriend of his that night instead. Many think things would’ve gone a lot differently if he was there. Possibly like how it went down in this movie. He wasn’t a veteran like Cliff, but McQueen did serve in the Marines, so he had training in hand to hand combat.
Yeah, I remember seeing it in theaters and was shocked at the length.. It flew by like an average 90 minute movie and was better then them all. It could have easily been 2-3 times as long with so many things going on but in this cut not a single second was wasted. It's become my favorite Tarantino movie which is saying a lot.
I've referred to this movie as a Historical Fiction. Where something of historical significance is used as a backdrop to tell a fictional story. events can be skewed to better tell the story or change an outcome. The Bounty Law series was probably based on the series Wanted: Dead or Alive which starred a young Steve McQueen or The Rifleman. the whole going to Italy bit was borrowed from Clint Eastwood's real history going from being in Rawhide and then going and acting for chunks of time in westerns. There's alot more. I'm reminded of more every time I watch a reaction of the film.I will mention that Bruce Dern had to replaced Burt Reynolds due to him passing away 2 weeks before his scene was to be shot. Both actors got their start playing in westerns like Gunsmoke around the time this film takes place.
@@Hexon66The Manson's did write it on a wall but pretty sure myself that they just thought it "witchy". Maybe in an LSD dream did Charlie view himself as a real leader. But his rag-tag bunch weren't capable of starting anything major like that uprising theory.
It’s also an homage to all the people behind the scenes, like stunt doubles, who make Hollywood happen. The blonde woman who was the director’s wife was Uma’s long time stunt double.
My mom’s high school sweetheart, Steve Parent, was the first victim the night of the Tate murder. He went to the house to sell electronic equipment to the groundskeeper and was killed in his car in the driveway. My mom almost went with him that night but they got in a fight. Her homecoming picture with him is in the book “Helter Skelter”. She’s still traumatized by it over 50 years later.
@GoldTopSlinger Thank you so much. She has only talked publicly once in 50 years about what happened but all of my family has dealt with what’s it’s like to see mass murders glorified by serial killers
Fun fact: 14:16 Janet is played by Zoë Bell - An actual veteran stuntwoman. She was the stunt double of Lucy Lawless in Xena and of Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.
Tarantino movies and MCU Movies are so infinitely re-watchable to me. I have seen Once upon a time in Hollywood so many times, and I still love watching it over again. So glad you two did a reaction to this.
"Pussycat" the Hippy Chick is actress Margaret Qualley she is the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell. The little girl starring in the Western with Rick is actress Julia Butters she was on the TV show "American Housewife". I think both of these young actresses are going to be big stars.
Bruce Lee trained Sharon Tate for the movie The Wrecking Crew, which Robbie Margot is watching the real Sharon Tate in the movie The Wrecking Crew in the movie theater, that came out in 1968, not in 1969, but maybe the theater was like most drive-in's that played older movies. Sharon was most famous at the time of her murder for the movie The Valley Of The Dolls-1967
They describe this movie as a love letter to this era of Hollywood from Quentin. Really amazing film! The driving scenes with all the vintage storefronts are impressive all by themselves!
When Leo says “that’s a little too hot” it was a real reaction they kept in. Plus this is a love story to Burt Reynolds and his stuntman Hal Needham. So much so that they wanted Reynolds to play the part of the old guy in the ranch but he passed away.
Besides a love letter to Hollywood/a time periode the whole thing is like a modern fairytale...the title and ending says it all. Loved it myself. That scene of Pitt racing home with the music playing is pure art. And the violent ending was just....very satisfying 😁
What I loved is all the references to his other movies :D. And man, what a fantastic actor Leo is. But gotta love that ending: even though I had previously watched Inglourious Basterds before, I absolutely did not expect that insane ending :D
I bought this as soon as it was available. Im glad i did , I loved it,,it took me several viewings,before I accepted the changes in history, but now I'm sold on this one. I was raised mostly in a suburb about 45 miles from Hollywood. Born in 1960 And I remember well,, the stories surrounding the Manson family, Bruce Lee, the spawn ranch. I later worked at several movie studios,, so this film was made for me. Great reaction.
more than the revenge fantasy i love that this movie just lingered on sharon living her life, just little slices of her day and her just being happy and getting her chance to be a mom in the end. idk why but all that feels so much more cathartic than revenge
Tarantino is my favorite director and I love all his films but this might be my favorite...just a master class in every aspect...Brad and Leo are perfect
As a kid growing up in the 70's, The F.B.I. was must-see TV. Partly because the episodes were supposedly from actual case files. I gotta say, knowing the horror they inflicted, I found all of this cathartic. . .yet, unmistakably bittersweet.
You should do The Man With No Name Trilogy, which made an international star out of Clint Eastwood. It was Italian made and filmed in Spain, with different nationalities. Clint spoke in English, but everyone else was dubbed in English.
A few things: Dakota Fanning was portraying Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who later would try to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The "Terry" that Manson was looking for when he came to the Polanski/Tate house was Terry Melcher, a music producer and also the son of Doris Day. Manson had been to the house previously for parties when Melcher lived there with his girlfriend Candice Bergen and was trying to get a music contract. They moved out and the owner of the house rented it to Roman Polanski.
Tarantino grew up on those same streets, went to those same theaters and developed a love for the (various) golden ages of cinema and then Los Angeles itself. This was a brilliant tribute and the more I watch it the higher it rises to my favorite Quentin films.
The German POW camp movie was The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen. He was the one at the party talking about Tate and Polanski at the Playboy Mansion.
Thank you guys for finally doing this one. Absolutely adore this film - so much of it is a love letter to 60s LA with all those recreations of old signage, radio clips etc.
The scene of meeting the blind guy at the Manson ranch was taken from a real event. Clayton Moore who was the Lone Ranger on tv really did go to the ranch to see his old friend and really did have a run in with the Manson family. His daughter talked about it at an interview. She was with her dad when it happened she was a young teen at the time
Speaking of folks cut from this movie, there was going to be at least one scene involving Burt Reynolds. But he passed away either during filming, or before it was released.
Hey guys love all the reactions. If y'all don't mind me telling y'all, the girl that hitched a ride from Brad, her name is Margaret Qualley. She was also in a hilarious film I wish y'all would check out it's called The Nice Guys also starting Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
Am I the only one who tunes in mainly to watch Simone confuse George at the start of each video? This movie has one of my favorite uses of preexisting music in a Tarantino movie. Right at the end when Rick's walking up the drive to Polanski's house to meet Sharon the piece of music they use is from Maurice Jarre's score for a movie called "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" with Paul Newman, Anthony Perkins, and a bunch of other awesome people. It's an ostentatiously Legendary western tall tale that begins with a text card saying in effect that this might not have been the way it was, but it's the way it should have been. First time I saw "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" (at the same cinema where Sharon watches herself in "Wrecking Crew", by the way) that music made me ugly-cry and it still does even watching reactions like this. 😊 One other thing - that line of Bruce Lee's about Brad being too pretty to be a stunt man came from Burt Reynolds. Burt was originally cast as the old man in the shack and attended the read-through but he died before he filmed his scene, to be replaced by the great Bruce Dern. Anyway, at some point during the read through Burt snarked, as he would, that Brad Pitt was far too pretty to be believable as a stunt man which kind of got up Brad's nose a bit because that has been said to him before and, he thought, probably cost him a few parts over the years. Tarantino thought it was hysterical and put the line in Bruce Lee's mouth, knowing that it bugged Brad.
George @ 18:12 said he looks familiar - it's Timothy Olyphant. The real movie mimicked right after that was "The Great Escape" with him in the role actually played by Steve McQueen as "The Cooler King" for always being locked up. Lots of big-name stars in that one. Later "The F.B.I." was a real show that I watched with my parents in the 60's. For me growing up in the 50's and 60's this gave so many crossover flashbacks it was fun. My brother-in-law was an attorney in the L.A. District Attorney's office and got my sister into some of the Manson trials. She has some real creepy stories of Charlie staring at people, even her, and the girls' antics outside court, etc. So glad he's dead now!!
My favorite of all the great Tarantino films. A famous actor in decline of his career and life has a chance to redeem himself . Be the hero, save the young and pregnant starlet and perhaps restart his career. So much Hollywood nostalgia. Brings back many memories for me. This truly was a fairy tale of what Tarantino remembered and wished could be true. Just loved it so much
You summed it up excellently when you called it "Revenge fantasy". That's exactly right. Tarantino saved Sharon Tate and punished her killers.
I was so afraid this was going to be another glorification of Manson, I should've trusted Tarantino more. I love how beautiful this was, how this movie clearly was a love letter to Sharon.
To be fair, "revenge fantasy" describes a majority of Tarantino's filmography.
@@Hexon66 To be fair it`s "Revenge fantasy against white oppressors".
and masturbated to her feet
@@17thknight I wondered that too when I heard this was his next project. Supposedly Sharon Tate's sister was very negative about the idea of the movie, until Tarantino contacted her, met with her, and gave her the script to read. She reversed her earlier objection and even met with Margot Robbie and lent her some of Sharon's jewelry to wear.
What a great movie.
Chekov's Flamethrower: if you show a flamethrower in the first act it must go off by the end of the third act.
This is the most bittersweet ending on a Tarantino film, because it’s a happy ending but all we know what’s really happened on real life.
I literally had chills running through my body the entire ending when he’s talking to the actual victims… it was like watching ghosts interact… it’s a feeling I’ve never felt before
It's the only rewrite I wish really happened . The victims caused by the Manson fake family is sad . Sharon Tate was alive when they ripped her baby out from her .
@@akfreed6949 The sad thing it`s that, some of those Manson followers never showed regret of what they did. Manson always claimed he did nothing because he wasn`t there (which it`s true), but he did killed LaBianca couple. Squeaky Fromme who wanted to kill Gerald Ford was always proud of her Manson allegiance.
Like he gave us in INGLORIOUS BASTERDS , a happy ending.
The Great Escape is a must-see. Incredible ensemble cast.
I concur wholeheartedly.
I love that movie so much. One of my all-time favorites. I can't even begin to count how many times I've watched it over the years. When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, I would watch that and Guns of Navarone and act them out with my GI Joes.
I was sad that Simone and George had no idea that scene was from a real film.
We need some Steve McQueen in general on this channel! The man can out-cool Pitt for pete's sake..
And it's based on a true story. Amazing movie. I must watch it at least once a year!
The scene with the German officer is from a real movie, "The Great Escape", about 1965. One of my favorite movies as a kid. Oops, showing my age again. 🤦🤣
1963.
Part of the Criterion Collection now.
McQueen was supposed to be at Polanski's house that night but changed plans.
Still love that movie.
That’s a great movie, they should react to it. It’s a true story (except for all those bike stunts etc.)
Yes. Please react to The Great Escape it's a classic
love hearing George say at 23:04 "this movie just feels like theres an inevitably destination of tragedy" and the movie just goes bonkers like "lets torch some f*cking hippies"
Love seeing Leo being full of self-doubt and depression as Rick, he really gives a great performance
I wonder how they got on when they were shooting this? Neither of them is stupid enough to try and high-hat or upstage the other, but they seem to be coming to their roles from different planets. As George says, there's usually only one super-stellar Movie Star per film and that's usually for a reason but by accident or by design Tarantino managed these two beautifully.
@@karlmortoniv2951 Yeah, both likely trusted Tarantino based on their previous individual experiences but they probably had a lot of discussions about how to work together first. It's rare but when it works, it works like with Newman and Redford.
You guys were beginning to touch on it: this is QT's memory piece, his love letter to Hollywood. It also subtly doubles as his commentary on his age and near retirement from directing, as well as his fond memories of the places that shaped his childhood and gave him his illustrious career. This is all set against a backdrop of actual history, and a very tragic event that struck a cultural nerve, signaling the "end of an era". Also, considering the times in which we are currently living, with the way the world is going with movies and politics and all, it also is a kind of end of its own era as well. This movie hits on so many layers to me, that's why I personally think it's one of his greatest.
I think it's amazing that arguably, QTs best movies are coming in the second half of his career. I've been following since Pulp Fiction was released and while I have serious nostalgia glasses for that, I think for me it's a toss-up between Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
yea well mebbe when The DIMS are destroyed in NOV we might get back to REAL FAM values and NOT FORCE shit on people like forcing KIDS to get "re assigned" and get RADICALS out of running for office and stroke clowns runnin for SENATE
@@leftofpunk It's interesting, right? For me, I think his greatests are this one, Inglorious, and I'm actually very fond of Hateful Eight.
Lest we forget Jackie Brown.
"That was the best acting I've ever seen." "In all of your eight years." My response exactly.
Yeah, that was the joke. Why the need to tag it?
The brunette hippie girl was Margaret Qualley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in the Netflix series Maid. Squeaky, who answered the door at George's house, was Dakota Fanning. In real life Squeaky Fromme was later arrested for firing a shot at President Gerald Ford. George was long time actor Bruce Dern (who is the father of actress Laura Dern). Kurt Russell's wife was played by Zoe Bell, a real life stunt woman who was also in Tarantino's Death Proof. The jersey that Margot Robbie was wearing at the end was a Dallas Cowboys' #17 jersey. Sharon Tate was from Dallas, and Don Meredith was the quarterback for the Cowboys in the 60s. He wore #17.
Few people know that Qualley is Andie MacDowell's Daughter.
@@hempchimp Exactly. MacDowell was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Maid, for Best Supporting Actress.
Out all of Quentin’s movies this is my favorite! The acting by everyone is so good. Brad Pitt’s Oscar was well earned.
This was his worst one for me.
@@MrCageCat You know, I don't think there's any pleasing your constant mindset of being holier than thou on this channel.
@@MrCageCat Completely agree. I can't find much of anything to like in this movie, and I'm regularly perplexed by anyone saying it's their favorite.
@@allenschneider8579 Do you enjoy old Hollywood? This film was a wonderful love letter. Especially with all of the references. Maybe other than the runtime, I often find it hard to dislike anything about this movie haha!
@@xCaLLMeGHeTTo It was good, but I can't help but feel like it could have been better. The film had a very strange and mistaken tightness to realism which, for me, didn't match the fake historical rewrite. I wanted more ridiculousness and the constant story focus on Rick Dolton seemed... wasted as a venture.
People complained Sharon Tate wasn't given a lot of lines but I thought it was great they took an actress who had met a horrific end and showed her living her best life and having a happy ending
Yeah, it wasn’t so much about her, but her loveliness gives the movie its emotional weight and ties the plot to the horrific historical reality. We become invested in her and it raises the stakes. There are people complaining that she has too much screen time, and others complain that she didn’t have enough to develop her character, but I think Tarantino got it just right. Excellent storytelling.
The inference of the last scene is that he meets (he mentioned earlier in the film wanting to meet them) the "movers and shakers" of the new era of Hollywood and thus makes connections and revitalizes his career and that he and Cliff keep working together.
9:24 "Lieutenant what's his face?" 😂
i'm sure that Major Winters will appreciate how fondly you remembered him. 😊
thankfully Simone was there to save you.
Both DiCaprio and Pitt are outstanding in this movie. Their friendship really works incredibly on screen, amazing chemistry.
Seriously! It makes me hope they're friends in real life too lol
I'll admit that DiCaprio made me feel for him more, in this, than any other role I've seen him play.
It's a rare thing but when it works, it works. Like with Newman and Redford.
I love that haunting melody at the end of the movie. It feels like a nod to the reality lying just below the surface vs the fantasy being presented
That's the theme from THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN, which was a western starring Paul Newman that came out in 1972. Tarantino stole it (not that there's anything wrong with that).
It is genuinely unfair how Brad Pitt, as handsome as he always has been, just seems to be getting more and more handsome with age. He really is his generation's Robert Redford.
Add another recommendation for SPY GAME.
@@LokRevenant That's a really fun movie. "If I'm walking into a shitstorm, I want to know which way the wind is blowing."
He really is like Robert Redford cos along with being a beautiful man he's a fantastic actor, especially when working with good directors.
The director in the make up trailer is Nicholas Hammond. He played the oldest brother in "The Sound Of Music" and he played the first Spiderman in the tv series from the seventies.
The director he’s playing , Sam Wanamaker, was a real actor-director. While Hammond is in his 70s (maybe here he could pass as being in his 60s?), Wanamaker was 50 in 1969.
ALSO - he played Doug Simpson on the Brady Bunch. He was #1 on Greg’s crumb list!
@@rbravender1 People age a lot better nowadays.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Production Design
Best Supporting Actor, Brad Pitt.
Horrible screenplay. Boring film. I grew up in So Cal in the 70s and this a terrible film.
Damn they should have consulted you about it and it would have been so much better.
@alpha java It was the Late 60s not 70s. Horrible Script How? The Run Time was was a little too long but I was not Bored at all, I was captivated by Everyone's performance! 🤨
@@Lexwell_Lavers People have different opinions than you and some people enjoy this film, get over it.
@@omegashinra7672 hahaha I always enjoy someone preaching about opinions
Ooh, my favorite Tarantino! The only one that made me cry, too. That bittersweet drop of the title... I started watching this reaction and realized I want to watch along on Patreon. (Too bad you stopped counting foot shots.)
DiCaprio is so damn good in this. And I love movies that can pull off a bunch of seemingly random stuff put together into a coherent, thematic, and emotional whole. It just feels like the work of a master, an artist at the top of his game.
In case you're interested (off-channel), Tarantino listed 10 films that influenced this one:
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Cactus Flower (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Arizona Raiders(1965)
Getting Straight (1970)
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
Model Shop (1969)
Hammerhead (1968)
Gunman’s Walk (1958)
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
They should watch some Sergio Leone movies , Once upon a time in the west , also known as Man with harmonica .
The good , the bad and the ugly , just those and they will see lot of where Tarantino gets his style of filming .
Sergio Leone had music made for his movies before filming and played it during filming , so you get long takes , when he just let the music play .
I was so caught off guard when he blasted her in the face with that can of dog food I couldn't stop laughing
6:50 This is a Karmann Ghia. It's a small European coupe based on the VW Beetle. While it was comparatively cheap at the time, today, you pay serious money to get one in mint condition.
I love the ending to this movie. It has that Inglorious Basterds aspect where they swerve the history of an actual event the most at the very end. With this movie, it’s almost the fact that the character of Rick Dalton exists is enough to create an alternate history.
who does tarantino kill next
@YT That would be some interesting casting.
I believe the reason Tarantino has done the “Alternate history” is because it allows him to show that the ultra-violence that he has been vilified for in the past can be considered completely acceptable if it is unleashed on those who are most deserving of it. ie- Nazis, slave traders and the Manson family.
@@waynecanning4122 For sure. I had similar thoughts but I’ve never seen the theory put so succinctly before.
@YT warped logic from too many cartoons. Humans>animals
The girl that sold Cliff the acid-dipped cigarette was Perla Haney-Jardine, also known as Uma Thurman's/Kiddo's daughter BB in 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'. Ironically, Uma Thurman's real-life daughter Maya Hawke also appears here, as the Manson girl who chickened out and drove off.
i thought her daughter was the one who got torched in the pool
Her real life daughter was the one who drove off in the car before the attack started.
Her real life daughter would represent the real-life Manson family member Linda Kasabian, who was present, but never killed anyone, and turned witness for the prosecution.
Don't like calling choosing not to murder "chickening out".
@@Parallax-3DLinda might be the only one of that cult who could have gotten probation. Not sure if she is still alive.
That Sharon was nice when asked to stand in front of the post was a moment of testimony to her humility
She did have great humidity.
This is Tarantino at his most meta. He also gives us the fantasy of what we all hoped had happened instead.
A truly unique motion picture. Glad you guys liked it.
The last 20 minutes of this movie are amazing, insane, disgusting and hilarious all at the same time.😂
Nothing disgusting about seeing the mansions die horribly Imo 😅😏
18:40 It's a reprise of the scene at the Playboy Mansion, where Steve McQueen says about Sharon Tate: "Never had a chance." Now, it's Rick Dalton auditing for The Great Escape (1963) role, that finally got to Steve McQueen, and he says: "Never had a chance." (PS: Did you miss Ma Cass at the Playboy Mansion?)
I wonder if people are aware that, at 9:25, Damian Lewis (Capt. Winters) is playing Steve McQueen, one of the stars from The Great Escape, 1963. He costarred with Charles Bronson, James Garner and James Coburn, among others. The Great Escape was a seminal film, in which a new generation of young actors came to the fore. It was a big hit and generated many Great Escape wanna be movies.
I was alive back then. I remember a lot of the commercials and the movie signs. Those little details were for people like me to remember fondly. So many details! You got most of it right, but the details only matter to those of us who remember.
Fun Fact: the hippie girl who sold Brad the acid dipped cigarettes is the grown up actress who played B.B in Kill Bill
Leo’s scene in the trailer where he’s yellin at himself is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. He’s so good in it.
Di Caprio had to talk Tarantino into letting him just run with that idea for a few takes and giving him the material to jump-cut it together like this. Tarantino isn't known for letting actors improvise - and why should he? I'm sorry he won't be making too many more movies, if any at all. Whether he would admit it or not, he seems to have learned so much about his craft since "Reservoir Dogs," working with actors, embracing the collaboration of others, everything.
And these knuckleheads were laughing when the character was talking about blowing his brains out
Tarantino's novel of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is an interesting read after you've seen the movie. It's not just a straight novelization of the film. In fact it glosses over some of the events from the movie very quickly. But it fills in a ton of backstory on all of the characters. And, no spoilers of course, you do learn a lot more about Cliff and his wife.
I actually don't like the way Cliff is presented in the book. He feels a lot more... creepy and sadistic, as oppose to the movie Cliff which feels more laid back, confident, and with principles.
The Once Upon a Time title is in homage to two of Tarantino's favourite movies, Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America, directed by Sergio Leone. Both movies are incredible and the soundtracks amazing.
I know someone's already commented on this but I feel like it deserves driving home. Yes, that clip at the Nazi camp was from a real film, 'The Great Escape', not just one of the best war films ever, but also just a ln all round stone cold classic. And starred Steve Mqueen, which given the earlier appearance of, is probably why it was used here.
Et Charlie Bronson
@@hernandemornay7559 And James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn... man, what a loaded cast. Such a great movie.
@@JeffKelly03 yeah but when I was a kid my favourite was Bronson ,that why.i started in bodybuilding
yes chicken run is a masterpiece
Also, at the party at the Playboy mansion, Steve McQueen says “I never stood a chance.” Later, when Rick is talking about when he almost was in The Great Escape, when he mentions Steve McQueen got the role and “I never stood a chance.”
The cliff booth character was partially based on gene lebell, a stuntman who Lee had a physical run in with, who later gained Lee's respect.
Watching this again through your reaction I've pretty much decided that as much as I've loved Tarantino's previous movies, this one is my favorite. The whole love letter to Hollywood and alternate history of the Manson family episode is just so damn compelling. Plus the amount of acting talent on display from everyone involved is just wonderful.
18:41 Ok now you two really must watch The Great Escape. It is a real (and excellent) film starring Steve McQueen. The clip in this movie replaces McQueen with DiCaprio's character, which was fun.
I absolutely love this movie. In the last fifteen years I went to the cinema to watch the same movie only twice. This and Dune.
It's a movie for movie lovers.
The 'Lancer' pilot can be found on youtube, the main differences are that Mirabella is a grown adult and the role Leo has was done by Joe Don Baker.
So Damian Lewis (AKA: Winters from Band of Brothers) playing Steve McQueen was a nod to the fact that McQueen himself was almost at the Polanski residence the same night the murders occurred. According to his wife, he was attracted to Sharon Tate, knew Roman would fuck up at some point, and he was planning to catch her on the rebound. But, he decided to meet up with a girlfriend of his that night instead. Many think things would’ve gone a lot differently if he was there. Possibly like how it went down in this movie. He wasn’t a veteran like Cliff, but McQueen did serve in the Marines, so he had training in hand to hand combat.
Bruce Lee also declined an invite to that get-together at Sharon's on the fateful night.
"Is everyone okay?"
"The f*cking hippies aint, that's for sure"
lmao
There's so much to appreciate in this movie, anyone that says it slow or drags was looking for an entirely different film
Yeah, I remember seeing it in theaters and was shocked at the length.. It flew by like an average 90 minute movie and was better then them all. It could have easily been 2-3 times as long with so many things going on but in this cut not a single second was wasted. It's become my favorite Tarantino movie which is saying a lot.
okay I just hit the subscribe button. Simone's intros are getting more and more hilarious.
I've referred to this movie as a Historical Fiction. Where something of historical significance is used as a backdrop to tell a fictional story. events can be skewed to better tell the story or change an outcome. The Bounty Law series was probably based on the series Wanted: Dead or Alive which starred a young Steve McQueen or The Rifleman. the whole going to Italy bit was borrowed from Clint Eastwood's real history going from being in Rawhide and then going and acting for chunks of time in westerns. There's alot more. I'm reminded of more every time I watch a reaction of the film.I will mention that Bruce Dern had to replaced Burt Reynolds due to him passing away 2 weeks before his scene was to be shot. Both actors got their start playing in westerns like Gunsmoke around the time this film takes place.
Helter Skelter is a historical fiction for that matter. At least to the extent that Vincent Bugliosi invented the motivation for the murders.
@@Hexon66The Manson's did write it on a wall but pretty sure myself that they just thought it "witchy". Maybe in an LSD dream did Charlie view himself as a real leader. But his rag-tag bunch weren't capable of starting anything major like that uprising theory.
28:28 accidentally shooting your wife with a speargun happens more often than you'd think
That’s just your opinion, man.
It’s also an homage to all the people behind the scenes, like stunt doubles, who make Hollywood happen. The blonde woman who was the director’s wife was Uma’s long time stunt double.
My mom’s high school sweetheart, Steve Parent, was the first victim the night of the Tate murder. He went to the house to sell electronic equipment to the groundskeeper and was killed in his car in the driveway. My mom almost went with him that night but they got in a fight. Her homecoming picture with him is in the book “Helter Skelter”. She’s still traumatized by it over 50 years later.
@GoldTopSlinger Thank you so much. She has only talked publicly once in 50 years about what happened but all of my family has dealt with what’s it’s like to see mass murders glorified by serial killers
Wow, I can't imagine. So sorry that happened to her.
Fun fact:
14:16 Janet is played by Zoë Bell - An actual veteran stuntwoman.
She was the stunt double of Lucy Lawless in Xena and of Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.
Simone got light-headed during the violent ending , i thought she was about to pass out. that scene is soo brutal.
Tarantino movies and MCU Movies are so infinitely re-watchable to me. I have seen Once upon a time in Hollywood so many times, and I still love watching it over again. So glad you two did a reaction to this.
Many of the best western movies from the 1960s and 70s were italian, or a production between Italy, Spain and West Germany.
18:22 The film is The Great Escape and Steve McQueen (Lt Winters in this film) played the part
McQueen was also in a western TV show before he was a movie star. Three seasons of Wanted: Dead or Alive
"Pussycat" the Hippy Chick is actress Margaret Qualley she is the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell. The little girl starring in the Western with Rick is actress Julia Butters she was on the TV show "American Housewife". I think both of these young actresses are going to be big stars.
Brad Pitt earned that Oscar, no doubt about it
Leo`s car is Mr Blonde`s car from Reservoir Dogs. Michael Madson owns it.
Bruce Lee trained Sharon Tate for the movie The Wrecking Crew, which Robbie Margot is watching the real Sharon Tate in the movie The Wrecking Crew in the movie theater, that came out in 1968, not in 1969, but maybe the theater was like most drive-in's that played older movies. Sharon was most famous at the time of her murder for the movie The Valley Of The Dolls-1967
The entire sequence from when he meets the child actor to the freakout til he nails the scene. So good. Rick F'n Dalton, haha
I watched those old Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin during their first run in theater
"Don't cry in front of the Mexicans." 🤣🤣🤣
Los mexicanos no quieren que llores tampoco, güey. ¡Ándale! 😅
This movie is such a treat, also you guys should consider watching The Great Escape if you've never seen it, its a classic
06:40 That car is a Karmann Ghia, it's a kit car based on a VW beetle.
They describe this movie as a love letter to this era of Hollywood from Quentin. Really amazing film! The driving scenes with all the vintage storefronts are impressive all by themselves!
When Leo says “that’s a little too hot” it was a real reaction they kept in. Plus this is a love story to Burt Reynolds and his stuntman Hal Needham. So much so that they wanted Reynolds to play the part of the old guy in the ranch but he passed away.
Besides a love letter to Hollywood/a time periode the whole thing is like a modern fairytale...the title and ending says it all. Loved it myself. That scene of Pitt racing home with the music playing is pure art. And the violent ending was just....very satisfying 😁
What I loved is all the references to his other movies :D. And man, what a fantastic actor Leo is. But gotta love that ending: even though I had previously watched Inglourious Basterds before, I absolutely did not expect that insane ending :D
On close inspection of the dog food cans, the brand is Wolf's Tooth, "Good food for mean dogs!" with flavors such as rat, raccoon, and bird. 😆
31:37 -- the hippie who sold the acid cigarette was Perla Haney-Jardine; she was B.B. in Kill Bill.
"is everybody alright?!" "well, the hippies aren't"
the deadpan delivery on that line is the best 🤣🤣
I bought this as soon as it was available.
Im glad i did , I loved it,,it took me several viewings,before I accepted the changes in history, but now I'm sold on this one.
I was raised mostly in a suburb about 45 miles from Hollywood.
Born in 1960
And I remember well,, the stories surrounding the Manson family,
Bruce Lee, the spawn ranch.
I later worked at several movie studios,, so this film was made for me.
Great reaction.
more than the revenge fantasy i love that this movie just lingered on sharon living her life, just little slices of her day and her just being happy and getting her chance to be a mom in the end. idk why but all that feels so much more cathartic than revenge
Tarantino is my favorite director and I love all his films but this might be my favorite...just a master class in every aspect...Brad and Leo are perfect
When you said the thing about “an inevitable destination of a tragedy but let’s just enjoy classic Hollywood” I think you were 100% correct.
The car in bed state, as you commented on, that Brad drives is the same Karma Gia that Uma drives in Kill Bill 2
The cigarette acid girl is the actress playing the dauther in Kill Bill 2.
Kurt Russel is the narrator
As a kid growing up in the 70's, The F.B.I. was must-see TV. Partly because the episodes were supposedly from actual case files.
I gotta say, knowing the horror they inflicted, I found all of this cathartic. . .yet, unmistakably bittersweet.
I love Simone!!! and George is great as well!
Still one of my favorites since it released. That last scene is 10/10. Brad Pitt was incredible
The F.B.I was a real TV show. The esipode we see in the movie was the one that starred Burt Reynolds as the Villain of the week.
18:40 - indeed, they inserted Leo into the movie The Great Escape (fantastic war movie). His character was played back then by Steve McQueen.
DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes in The Aviator.. that's his finest performance to date. Great film also.
You should do The Man With No Name Trilogy, which made an international star out of Clint Eastwood. It was Italian made and filmed in Spain, with different nationalities. Clint spoke in English, but everyone else was dubbed in English.
Excellent western movies.
A few things: Dakota Fanning was portraying Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who later would try to assassinate President Gerald Ford.
The "Terry" that Manson was looking for when he came to the Polanski/Tate house was Terry Melcher, a music producer and also the son of Doris Day. Manson had been to the house previously for parties when Melcher lived there with his girlfriend Candice Bergen and was trying to get a music contract. They moved out and the owner of the house rented it to Roman Polanski.
Yeah, I think Manson even recorded some stuff before and after a prison stint.
I liked the way this reaction referenced your Tropic Thunder reaction in a couple of places. Very Tarantino-esque. 🙂
FUN FACT: Leo actually improved that meltdown
Tarantino grew up on those same streets, went to those same theaters and developed a love for the (various) golden ages of cinema and then Los Angeles itself. This was a brilliant tribute and the more I watch it the higher it rises to my favorite Quentin films.
The coolest shit is the street scenes and the neon sign shots. How did they capture that look of the time so correctly? It is astounding.
The German POW camp movie was The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen. He was the one at the party talking about Tate and Polanski at the Playboy Mansion.
The incident where Manson talks to Sebring at the door with Sharon in the background really happened according to Bugliosi's book.
Thank you guys for finally doing this one. Absolutely adore this film - so much of it is a love letter to 60s LA with all those recreations of old signage, radio clips etc.
The scene of Pitt taking his shirt off on the roof is a reference to the scene in Thelma and Louise
The scene of meeting the blind guy at the Manson ranch was taken from a real event. Clayton Moore who was the Lone Ranger on tv really did go to the ranch to see his old friend and really did have a run in with the Manson family. His daughter talked about it at an interview. She was with her dad when it happened she was a young teen at the time
Speaking of folks cut from this movie, there was going to be at least one scene involving Burt Reynolds. But he passed away either during filming, or before it was released.
Hey guys love all the reactions. If y'all don't mind me telling y'all, the girl that hitched a ride from Brad, her name is Margaret Qualley. She was also in a hilarious film I wish y'all would check out it's called The Nice Guys also starting Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
Am I the only one who tunes in mainly to watch Simone confuse George at the start of each video?
This movie has one of my favorite uses of preexisting music in a Tarantino movie. Right at the end when Rick's walking up the drive to Polanski's house to meet Sharon the piece of music they use is from Maurice Jarre's score for a movie called "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" with Paul Newman, Anthony Perkins, and a bunch of other awesome people. It's an ostentatiously Legendary western tall tale that begins with a text card saying in effect that this might not have been the way it was, but it's the way it should have been. First time I saw "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" (at the same cinema where Sharon watches herself in "Wrecking Crew", by the way) that music made me ugly-cry and it still does even watching reactions like this. 😊
One other thing - that line of Bruce Lee's about Brad being too pretty to be a stunt man came from Burt Reynolds. Burt was originally cast as the old man in the shack and attended the read-through but he died before he filmed his scene, to be replaced by the great Bruce Dern. Anyway, at some point during the read through Burt snarked, as he would, that Brad Pitt was far too pretty to be believable as a stunt man which kind of got up Brad's nose a bit because that has been said to him before and, he thought, probably cost him a few parts over the years. Tarantino thought it was hysterical and put the line in Bruce Lee's mouth, knowing that it bugged Brad.
George @ 18:12 said he looks familiar - it's Timothy Olyphant. The real movie mimicked right after that was "The Great Escape" with him in the role actually played by Steve McQueen as "The Cooler King" for always being locked up. Lots of big-name stars in that one. Later "The F.B.I." was a real show that I watched with my parents in the 60's. For me growing up in the 50's and 60's this gave so many crossover flashbacks it was fun. My brother-in-law was an attorney in the L.A. District Attorney's office and got my sister into some of the Manson trials. She has some real creepy stories of Charlie staring at people, even her, and the girls' antics outside court, etc. So glad he's dead now!!
I love this movie. I saw it in the theater and walked out feeling like something important had just happened.
My favorite of all the great Tarantino films. A famous actor in decline of his career and life has a chance to redeem himself . Be the hero, save the young and pregnant starlet and perhaps restart his career. So much Hollywood nostalgia. Brings back many memories for me. This truly was a fairy tale of what Tarantino remembered and wished could be true. Just loved it so much