Around the world, many people watched the movie without knowing the history of the Manson family or their crimes and then became interested in the real events after watching the movie as it was made in this reaction.
There's a lot in this movie that is loosely based on real/popular stories people might not know. Manson is the one that a lot of people are shocked others don't know, but how many people know the Gene LeBell/Bruce Lee story? The Natalie Wood story? Dino de Laurentiis negging actors to convince them to go to film in Italy? It enhances the movies rewatchability for sure. I think for some people knowing the Manson stuff beforehand makes it harder to focus on the rest of the movie based on some reactions I've seen. They think the movie is about Manson and just think the rest is pointless filler.
I think you'd have appreciated it more if you understood while watching it that this is the alternate reality movie, similar to the Inglorious Basterds. You'd also have got that their little Charles Manson cult was more dangerous than they looked when Brad Pitt visted them.
I read Helter Skelter as a kid in the 70s so I went into this wondering wtf was Tarantino going to do with this real life sick event. I was SO happy when I realized he was changing the ending. 😊 RIP Sharron Tate & company.
Cliff Booth's backstory of killing his wife on a boat was inspired by the death of Natalie Wood, who fell of their yacht and drowned off Catalina Island on the Thanksgiving Weekend 1981. On the yacht were also her husband Robert Wagner, the skipper (an employee of the Wagner's) and Christopher Walken (Natalie and Chris were shooting the movie 'Brainstorm' at the time). Any wrongdoing of any of the men, most notably Wagner, could never be proven.
I’ve watch most of the TH-cam reactions to this movie. And it always kind of shocks me how young people today just have no idea what’s going on here. I mean no disrespect by pointing it out. I was born ten years later but Manson was an ever present figure in pop culture even so many years later. Maybe it’s because I’m from LA. The murders, the aftermath the interviews over the years loom so Large over The culture. It’s just odd to me.
Before watching "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood," you should have watched the made-for-TV movie "Helter Skelter." Cliff's visit to the ranch is even more terrifying if you know that the Manson family did, in fact, murder a Hollywood stunt man. The first time watching this film, I was terrified that Cliff wasn't going to leave the ranch alive.
I wanna give a shout out to the actor Nicholas Hammond, even though he has a small role in this movie. He plays the very colorful and eccentric director, Sam Wanamaker. Absolute scene-stealer! Pretty impressive considering the phenomenal cast in this movie.
@porflepopnecker4376 Also, Doug Simpson, the Big Man on Campus who breaks a date with Marcia after Peter breaks her nose with a football on The Brady Bunch.
40:00 nope he's as high as he looks. You're extremely capable on LSD. I dropped acid one time in Detroit and ended up at a house party playing beer pong, which I'm usually awful at. That night though I could actually see an arc that led directly to where I wanted the ball to go and my body could make it follow that arc every time. I was bouncing it off the wall and stuff and never missed a single shot. Dock Ellis once pitched a no-hitter in major league baseball while high out of his mind on LSD.
I dropped acid with a group of friends at a campground out in the desert. I spent most of the time just staring at the campfire, but someone said they saw a snake and I got up to investigate. It was a rattlesnake. I beat its head in with a stick of firewood, felt a little bad for doing it, but having a rattlesnake around a bunch of people out of their minds on acid seemed like the definition of a bad trip. Me and a friend decided to walk around the camp, and it seemed like everyone else was partying pretty hard. We stopped by the campfire of some grizzled old ex-military types, and you didn’t have to ask or say anything. They were tripping, too. One of them brought out some smoke grenades and they popped a purple one while playing that Jimmy Hendrix song. Everyone was giggling their asses off. We walked back to our camp just as a ranger was pulling up. I just walked up to him, commented on how fast he was responding as if I had called, and said, “They’re all the way in the back,” as a pointed down the road. “Who’s in the back?” he asked me. “The guys with the dirt bikes. They were riding off the road.” He got back in his jeep, but before he got too far, he saw the dudes with the smoke grenades. I guess he just decided to give up, because he turned around and left the campground. I patted myself on the back for being cool under fire and misdirecting the poor ranger. But that wasn’t the weirdest thing. A little while later, there was another snake under someone’s car. Everyone was starting to freak out. Someone poked it with a stick from the other side, and it unhappily crawled out. I was ready to bash it, too, but instead my arm shot out and I grabbed it right behind its neck. I announced my intention to move it away from the camp ground and said, “Someone come with me so I don’t kill myself fcuking around with a rattle snake”. (I can’t remember if it was Eddie or James that walked with me.) We walked out to the road and then walked another 5 or 10 minutes, and then I gave the snake a talk, telling it to tell its brothers and sisters not to crawl into our camp. I apologized to it for killing the other snake. And then I set it down at the side of the road and it slithered off into the night.
The guy who we saw approach the house early in the movie looking for Terry was Charlie -- it was the same actor who portrayed Manson in Mindhunter! Terry Melcher was a record producer (and son of actress Doris Day) who Manson believed had promised him a record deal -- He had lived in that house on Cielo Drive until early that year. Though Manson was aware that Melcher (and then girlfriend Candace Bergen) no longer lived there, he nonetheless intstructed his cronies to murder everyone at the address and to "...do it well, and leave something witchy." according to Randall "Tex" Watson, one of the participants.
The era in the film could be called "Middle Hollywood." Old Hollywood would be silent films up to some point in the '50s, because it had a very distinctive culture. This was the next thing after that, which ended at some point in the '80s. "Golden Age" is a moving target, because people in Middle Hollywood called Old Hollywood that.
One of the big inspirations for Rick Dalton is Robert Conrad, who had a somewhat similar career to Dalton during the 1960s, and a stuntman personal assistant/friend/work partner. Connrad also inspired the troubles Cliff Booth had with the stuntman community.
This movie is another Tarantino rewrite of history, where a tragedy that had the nation in mourning was avoided. Sharon Tate was a beloved, beautiful, girl-next-door actress, pregnant at the time of her death. The real-life events that befell her and her fellow victims horrified the world, and also underscored a lot of the tension in the country at the time. Today, people often look back at hippie culture of the 60s through the gauzy haze of nostalgia, seeing them as harmlessly peaceful flower children getting innocently high. What this view leaves out is the fact that it wasn't just spoiled rich kids smoking pot and growing their hair long, but literally anyone could 'drop out' and join this growing, increasingly scary (at the time) subculture, including the kinds of broken, violent misfits who could be manipulated by the likes of crazy little Charlie Manson, who dreamed of igniting open race and class warfare to hasten a rock-and-roll scored apocalypse, with himself as its philosophical leader. Once again, Tarantino's vision gives us a satisfying escapism, where things aren't always perfect, but where it is nice to see some really bad people get what we wish they'd have gotten in real life.
The film is what we wish would have happened in the Manson Murders. The music playing everywhere was how it was back then when most people would listen to the same radio stations in their cars.
The music is not only period accurate, but so are the advertisements and the DJs including "the Real" Don Steele, "Humble Harve" Miller and Charlie Tuna. KHJ was the most popular AM music station in LA at that time. At the Playboy party, Damien Lewis is playing Steve McQueen and he's talking to Dreama Walker playing Connie Stevens (though she looks a lot more like Joey Heatherton). In Rick's episode of "FBI" he was playing the role originally played by Burt Reynolds (note how ostentatiously he chews gum in the scene, an homage to Reynolds).
Bruce Dern is one of biggest stars in Hollywood. He actually was one of big TV actors (like Leo's Rick Dalton), then became a A-list movie star in the 1970s and never left. He's also Laura Dern's father.
This film would be much better understood and appreciated if viewers were to read up on the Manson family murders. Tarantino loves to correct history. In this case, the Manson family members , who did murder Sharon Tate and her guests, come to the wrong house and get what they deserve. The Tex Watson quote, " I'm the devil and am here to do the devil's business" is an actual quote from the real Tex Watson.
There needs to be a 5 minute tutorial about Manson, the Family, Spahn Ranch and the Tate-LaBianca murders for young folks about to watch this.
Around the world, many people watched the movie without knowing the history of the Manson family or their crimes and then became interested in the real events after watching the movie as it was made in this reaction.
@@juancarlosgonzales993 But those people wouldn't gotten much more out of the movie if they did know the history behind it.
There's a lot in this movie that is loosely based on real/popular stories people might not know. Manson is the one that a lot of people are shocked others don't know, but how many people know the Gene LeBell/Bruce Lee story? The Natalie Wood story? Dino de Laurentiis negging actors to convince them to go to film in Italy? It enhances the movies rewatchability for sure. I think for some people knowing the Manson stuff beforehand makes it harder to focus on the rest of the movie based on some reactions I've seen. They think the movie is about Manson and just think the rest is pointless filler.
I think you'd have appreciated it more if you understood while watching it that this is the alternate reality movie, similar to the Inglorious Basterds. You'd also have got that their little Charles Manson cult was more dangerous than they looked when Brad Pitt visted them.
I read Helter Skelter as a kid in the 70s so I went into this wondering wtf was Tarantino going to do with this real life sick event. I was SO happy when I realized he was changing the ending. 😊
RIP Sharron Tate & company.
Oy, this is one film that's better seen WITH context.
So true. The whole feeling of dread building up first time watching this movie is lost if you don't know the real-life premise.
Cliff Booth's backstory of killing his wife on a boat was inspired by the death of Natalie Wood, who fell of their yacht and drowned off Catalina Island on the Thanksgiving Weekend 1981. On the yacht were also her husband Robert Wagner, the skipper (an employee of the Wagner's) and Christopher Walken (Natalie and Chris were shooting the movie 'Brainstorm' at the time).
Any wrongdoing of any of the men, most notably Wagner, could never be proven.
I’ve watch most of the TH-cam reactions to this movie. And it always kind of shocks me how young people today just have no idea what’s going on here. I mean no disrespect by pointing it out. I was born ten years later but Manson was an ever present figure in pop culture even so many years later. Maybe it’s because I’m from LA. The murders, the aftermath the interviews over the years loom so
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The culture. It’s just odd to me.
Wow watching this without knowing the actual history kills it
Actually I watched it in theatres without knowing the history and I loved it.
@@jackson857 You would have loved it more
Before watching "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood," you should have watched the made-for-TV movie "Helter Skelter." Cliff's visit to the ranch is even more terrifying if you know that the Manson family did, in fact, murder a Hollywood stunt man. The first time watching this film, I was terrified that Cliff wasn't going to leave the ranch alive.
We were terrified for him too! Tarantino is great at building tension in scenes seemingly out of nowhere.
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Love this film and love some leo and brad
Quentin Tarantino's awesome directors, thanks for contact. movie Four Rooms has four four stories for directors Quentin Tarantino's one on.
Leanardo had to have a really fun time doing Dalton's career montage. He looked like he genuinely enjoyed the 14 Fists of McClusky part.
This guy's should do a bit of research on the manson murders
A stunt double might have done the clime but that body is all Brad.
I wanna give a shout out to the actor Nicholas Hammond, even though he has a small role in this movie. He plays the very colorful and eccentric director, Sam Wanamaker. Absolute scene-stealer! Pretty impressive considering the phenomenal cast in this movie.
He was Spider-Man in the old TV series. And I think he also played one of the children in "The Sound of Music."
@porflepopnecker4376 Also, Doug Simpson, the Big Man on Campus who breaks a date with Marcia after Peter breaks her nose with a football on The Brady Bunch.
40:00 nope he's as high as he looks. You're extremely capable on LSD. I dropped acid one time in Detroit and ended up at a house party playing beer pong, which I'm usually awful at. That night though I could actually see an arc that led directly to where I wanted the ball to go and my body could make it follow that arc every time. I was bouncing it off the wall and stuff and never missed a single shot. Dock Ellis once pitched a no-hitter in major league baseball while high out of his mind on LSD.
I dropped acid with a group of friends at a campground out in the desert. I spent most of the time just staring at the campfire, but someone said they saw a snake and I got up to investigate. It was a rattlesnake. I beat its head in with a stick of firewood, felt a little bad for doing it, but having a rattlesnake around a bunch of people out of their minds on acid seemed like the definition of a bad trip.
Me and a friend decided to walk around the camp, and it seemed like everyone else was partying pretty hard. We stopped by the campfire of some grizzled old ex-military types, and you didn’t have to ask or say anything. They were tripping, too. One of them brought out some smoke grenades and they popped a purple one while playing that Jimmy Hendrix song. Everyone was giggling their asses off.
We walked back to our camp just as a ranger was pulling up. I just walked up to him, commented on how fast he was responding as if I had called, and said, “They’re all the way in the back,” as a pointed down the road.
“Who’s in the back?” he asked me.
“The guys with the dirt bikes. They were riding off the road.”
He got back in his jeep, but before he got too far, he saw the dudes with the smoke grenades. I guess he just decided to give up, because he turned around and left the campground. I patted myself on the back for being cool under fire and misdirecting the poor ranger.
But that wasn’t the weirdest thing. A little while later, there was another snake under someone’s car. Everyone was starting to freak out. Someone poked it with a stick from the other side, and it unhappily crawled out. I was ready to bash it, too, but instead my arm shot out and I grabbed it right behind its neck.
I announced my intention to move it away from the camp ground and said, “Someone come with me so I don’t kill myself fcuking around with a rattle snake”. (I can’t remember if it was Eddie or James that walked with me.)
We walked out to the road and then walked another 5 or 10 minutes, and then I gave the snake a talk, telling it to tell its brothers and sisters not to crawl into our camp. I apologized to it for killing the other snake. And then I set it down at the side of the road and it slithered off into the night.
This and Mindhunter have the same actor playing Charles Manson.
Not a shock tbh like how many people are actually out there who walk, talk and look almost exactly like Manson. It’s wild
The guy who we saw approach the house early in the movie looking for Terry was Charlie -- it was the same actor who portrayed Manson in Mindhunter!
Terry Melcher was a record producer (and son of actress Doris Day) who Manson believed had promised him a record deal -- He had lived in that house on Cielo Drive until early that year.
Though Manson was aware that Melcher (and then girlfriend Candace Bergen) no longer lived there, he nonetheless intstructed his cronies to murder everyone at the address and to "...do it well, and leave something witchy." according to Randall "Tex" Watson, one of the participants.
The era in the film could be called "Middle Hollywood." Old Hollywood would be silent films up to some point in the '50s, because it had a very distinctive culture. This was the next thing after that, which ended at some point in the '80s. "Golden Age" is a moving target, because people in Middle Hollywood called Old Hollywood that.
One of the big inspirations for Rick Dalton is Robert Conrad, who had a somewhat similar career to Dalton during the 1960s, and a stuntman personal assistant/friend/work partner. Connrad also inspired the troubles Cliff Booth had with the stuntman community.
Nope. Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham.
This movie is another Tarantino rewrite of history, where a tragedy that had the nation in mourning was avoided. Sharon Tate was a beloved, beautiful, girl-next-door actress, pregnant at the time of her death. The real-life events that befell her and her fellow victims horrified the world, and also underscored a lot of the tension in the country at the time.
Today, people often look back at hippie culture of the 60s through the gauzy haze of nostalgia, seeing them as harmlessly peaceful flower children getting innocently high. What this view leaves out is the fact that it wasn't just spoiled rich kids smoking pot and growing their hair long, but literally anyone could 'drop out' and join this growing, increasingly scary (at the time) subculture, including the kinds of broken, violent misfits who could be manipulated by the likes of crazy little Charlie Manson, who dreamed of igniting open race and class warfare to hasten a rock-and-roll scored apocalypse, with himself as its philosophical leader.
Once again, Tarantino's vision gives us a satisfying escapism, where things aren't always perfect, but where it is nice to see some really bad people get what we wish they'd have gotten in real life.
The film is what we wish would have happened in the Manson Murders. The music playing everywhere was how it was back then when most people would listen to the same radio stations in their cars.
Leo was on The Quick and the Dead with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe. entertaining western
Djanogo Unchained could also be considered a Western IMO.
I watched it in theatres having only seen 2 Tarantino movies before and absolutely loved it.
Hope you guys looked up Sharon Tate(Margot Robbie)after watching this...the long haired guy that came up to the house was Charles Manson
We did search up the events after we watched the movie, some of it is in the video
leo was in the quick and the dead with russel crow and gene hackman and sharon stone
I truly appreciate you guys knowing all the music…….however, you did make me feel old as Hell. 😂👍🏼
And, yes, it was a goodbye to Hollywood as he (Tarantino) was inspired by.
The music is not only period accurate, but so are the advertisements and the DJs including "the Real" Don Steele, "Humble Harve" Miller and Charlie Tuna. KHJ was the most popular AM music station in LA at that time.
At the Playboy party, Damien Lewis is playing Steve McQueen and he's talking to Dreama Walker playing Connie Stevens (though she looks a lot more like Joey Heatherton).
In Rick's episode of "FBI" he was playing the role originally played by Burt Reynolds (note how ostentatiously he chews gum in the scene, an homage to Reynolds).
This is one that gets better and better on rewatch.
When Margo is watching the movie it was the real Sharon Tate on screen.
1:38 do you consider Scorsese’s new movie a western?
Best Reaction to this movie I have seen.
Love this film 😘😘😘
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Bruce Dern is one of biggest stars in Hollywood. He actually was one of big TV actors (like Leo's Rick Dalton), then became a A-list movie star in the 1970s and never left. He's also Laura Dern's father.
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This film would be much better understood and appreciated if viewers were to read up on the Manson family murders. Tarantino loves to correct history. In this case, the Manson family members , who did murder Sharon Tate and her guests, come to the wrong house and get what they deserve. The Tex Watson quote, " I'm the devil and am here to do the devil's business" is an actual quote from the real Tex Watson.
You can see the flamethrower at 13:28
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