Quentin Tarantino's Manson murders movie

we had a much livelier audience, they were laughing at everything including the bloodshed O_o

I laughed at the bloodshed too, partly surprised bark at the audacity/extremity, mainly the fact that the whole scene is explicitly comic from start to finish

also the bit where Cliff turns on the light switch, which works especially well in a darkened theater

My showing was packed and laughs abounded.

On reflection I'm finding that I remember this movie as being very dumb, though I enjoyed it while watching, ho hum.

Really thought that violence explosion at the end to be the corniest, dorkiest, low level thing. Like so eager for Hell Yeah’s. Felt spectacularly dumb.

tyvm for that link, even though I have now listened to two Grateful Dead songs in my life

legend was that the Dead, who were known for such tricks, dosed all the coffee pots at the Playboy taping

the camera was dosed for sure

Barbi Benton playing with her tongue and forgetting how to introduce Sonny & Cher = same energy as Pete Waterman drenched in sweat and forgetting how to introduce Carl Cox

Lots more soundtrack talk in this huge chunk of outtakes from Kim Morgan's Sight & Sound interview, inc.

One of the best recycling of scores in this movie that I’m really proud of is, there’s this great theme and it’s only used in one scene in Lamont Johnson’s terrific western Cattle Annie and Little Britches, it’s got this great music bit when the Doolin-Dalton gang actually enter the town for the first time and I thought, I wanna use that bit in this movie. And so my music supervisor Mary Ramos, she’s magnificent, she just finds all this stuff but she couldn’t find anything for that… and all I had, I don’t think it’s ever been out on DVD, I just had not only an old video cassette of it, like a Good Times video cassette of it, which means it was done in the six hour mode… and so I took my audio from the cassette and there’s even talking during the some of the musical sequence and my musical editor had to cut it out and he did – he did a good job with it. And so, we kind of made it work for one sequence. But then Mary my music supervisor talked to the composer of it and he said, “Look I don’t have any masters or anything – of any of the things we recorded, but I wrote the piece. I know the piece. Would you like me to do an acoustic version on the guitar and I’ll send it to you?” (claps hands) “Fuck yeah!” So, he just did his own acoustic version with a guitar, put it on file, send it to us. That’s the music we use when Tex Watson rides up to confront Cliff.

I want the movie to be extremely realistic, but the “Once Upon a Time…” suggests that it’s taking place in a vaguely alternative universe. Not that I wanna make a big deal about that, but it is. And I think, when you think, “Once Upon a Time,” that is part of the implication. So, I didn’t want to do anything super big – but I wanted to have little tiny touches, of, “Oh, OK, if you’re hip enough, you got it.” And one of the things that I thought would be kind of cool is …one of my absolutely favorite imaginary bands is The Carrie Nations from Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. And so, I thought it would be kind of cool at some point that they’re driving around and “Look on Up from the Bottom” plays, and the announcer says, “OK, that’s the Carrie Nations, those girls are just tearing it up!” And so, if you’re hip enough to catch it, you’re thinking, the Carrie Nations weren’t a real band, so ultimately this isn’t real…

Now imagining an alternate Beyond the Valley of the Dolls where Terry Melcher manages the Carrie Nations instead of Z-Man, and Charlie orders the remnants of the Family to kill the band when their attempt on Tate/Rick fails...

Extended Cut In Theatres This Weekend: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/quentin-tarantino-adds-four-scenes-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-re-release-1202184268/

Sony recently confirmed that Brad Pitt would be campaigned for Best Supporting Actor, leaving DiCaprio to to run for Best Actor without facing competition from his co-star

other way around imo

Yeah definitely.

the Oscars deserve em

Ad Astra? too good

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5d_q0on8xY

swoon

finally watched it. it was p dull, though the ending was funny.

this has been my biannual movie review *curtsies*

hard-hitting, but fair

yr pretty dull xpost

Picked up the Blu-ray the other week so I could show it, per my sister's suggestion, to my folks for our usual post-Christmas dinner movie watch (they loved it). In going through the various extra bonus bits and repurposed EPK stuff, it turns out there was a lot of chat from Luke Perry -- which was just nice to see, sounded like he had a great time on set. One of the bonus scenes is an extended bit from the Lancer episode where his character and Olyphant's first arrive in town, and we get to see more of the kid actor be amazing which was worth it in its own right. Also a few more fake ads, an extended Bounty Law cut, a little more with Manson from the one scene he's in the film, etc. Tim Roth's bit still on the cutting room floor somewhere.

I liked the long chat between Rick and Sam Wannamaker in the bonus footage too

Yeah I'd love to know if that was scripted or just one hell of a riff by the two in character.

my guess is Tarantino is a big enough nerd that it was 100% scripted

yr pretty dull xpost

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not wrong

<3

iirc Jackson and Dern are the only actors he allows to tweak words, let alone change lines, let alone improvise

yeah it’s pretty rare he lets anyone go off book

Unless they're adding racial epithets, those are evergreen

Could work:

https://theplaylist.net/tarantino-4-hour-once-upon-time-20200104/

Quentin Tarantino's Manson murders movie tbf

I just saw this on the plane and it was entirely not what I expected. And otm about the dog being very good in it. I also don't understand how Leo Di is nominated above Pitt in this.

The vagaries of the Academy and star agents.

Leo was kind of wallpaper in this.

disagree! I thought Rick’s story of, kinda discovering the actual act of Acting was really touching & great & Leo did some great work imo

Just cause Rick is a cheeseball doesnt make him less intetesting.

both were great, but leo does all of the acting for the pair

I've posted this clip before. I don't know if Tarantino had it somewhere in the back of his mind while making Hollywood, but I'm quite sure he's very familiar with the film. I don't think anything in Hollywood is this good music-wise--Margot Robbie driving along to "The Circle Game" is close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8z_g3R7uXY

I just may not be attuned to later Leo's 'thing'. He's constantly upstaged in almost everything I see him in despite him looking like he's working very hard. I barely remember the scenes he was in besides the flamethrower.

This was the first time I have seen Margaret Qualley in anything besides her Kenzo ad. I like her.

XP QT totally knows that film. Also kind of amazed he never used Paul Le Mat in anything.

Good point--he would have made a perfect reclamation project along the lines of Travolta, Robert Forster, Chris Penn even. I can imagine him in the Kurt Russell Hollywood role.

https://giphy.com/gifs/margot-robbie-mike-moh-rick-dalton-L4U4IrAmDhp4AFywRa

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https://deadline.com/2020/01/quentin-tarantino-oscar-nominations-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-star-trek-bounty-law-tv-series-1202829629/

He wants to do a five-ep Bounty Law series.

historically Tarantino's forays into TV have ... not been good

his CSI two-parter was great!

He’s been talking about the Bounty Law series for six months, but he talks about a lot of vaporware and he’s about to have a kid. Don’t count yr spurs before the cowboy saddles up, as my pappy used to say.

He talks a lot about... vaporwave?

Oh lol n/m

damn hes having a kid? good for him