Once upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): Three Videos

Re-posted by N.S.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) - starring: Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, with Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, Margaret Qualley, Bruce Dern, Zoë Bell and Mike Moh

CREDITS: Sony Pictures Releasing (2019) Director - Quentin Tarantino Producer - David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino Writer - Quentin Tarantino Production Company - Columbia Pictures, Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, Visiona Romantica

“Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age.


Trailer



N.S.: I’m no fan of Quentin Tarantino, but I can see that I’m going to have to see this picture. But I also feel, amid the humor of some of the scenes I’ve seen in teasers (Bruce Lee, the stunt man’s dog), a deep melancholy, due to the presence of Sharon Tate.

Bruce Lee Fight Scene



Cliff and Brandy



E M3
5 months ago

One thing I admire about Cliff is how content he is with what he has in life. The guy spends all day every day around his best friend whose clearly richer and more famous, and yet Cliff is this loyal friend, never acts jealous, never asks for more. He just seems completely comfortable with himself and his life

PiCheZvara
2 months ago

Yeah, it’s a very Hollywood view of being, well, a loser. Pitt makes him so cool and charming and Tarantino paints such a romantic picture, you’d actually trade the guy’s life for yours. But in reality, he’d be just running errands for Rick, pissed off in laundromats, waiting in traffic jams, lines in supermarkets, no money, no family, no social life, bad food, no healthcare, just lonely evenings in a trailer stinking of old beer, cigarettes and dog food.

​N.S.: @PiCheZvara I haven’t seen the picture yet (as opposed to a few scenes here), but I just ordered it. However, I’ve seen enough of it, and know enough about the way stuntmen have been seen in the business for over 90 years. Nobody in Hollywood thought of, or thinks of stuntmen as losers. People thought and think of them as the most competent people around. If anything, no matter how much money you made per picture, having stuntmen as your friends meant YOU were a winner.

I remember a story from late in Burt Reynolds’ life. He said (paraphrased), “I’ve got nothing but the phone numbers of 500 stuntmen.”

That was a humble-brag, but the classiest possible kind. It was as if they were the real stars, and he was THEIR sidekick, but they were his friends. Having just one stuntman as your friend makes you a winner; having 500 makes you a god.

And that’s what I see in these scenes of DiCaprio and Pitt. If anything, that Burt Reynolds story may have influenced Quentin Tarantino in writing this script.