It really played differently the second time, knowing what was coming. It's funny, I picked up on some things that I missed the first time, yet overlooked some things that I noticed the first time. Still enjoyed it and the audience experience didn't disappoint!
People might enjoy these podcasts with Quentin Tarantino and editor Fred Raskin, respectively, from the New Beverly Cinema’s website: Pure Cinema Podcast: July 2019 with Quentin Tarantino | New Beverly Cinema Pure Cinema Podcast: August 2019 with Fred Raskin | New Beverly Cinema Tarantino goes into a LOT of detail on Rick Dalton’s backstory and the inspirations for that character. Raskin talks at length about the scenes at Spahn Ranch and Cielo Drive. EDITED: H/T to ghostworld, who it looks like posted a link to the Tarantino podcast in the other thread.
I finally got my wife's schedule in order and I am at this point in time scheduled to escort her for her 1st time and my 3rd tomorrow. Also I have suggested for her to refrain from liquids for at least 90 minutes prior
It's kind of like when Ted Danson shows up in Saving Private Ryan. We all know it's the actor rather than the character (or some of us know), and it's a little too self-consciously played. Plus, he didn't look a thing like Spahn.
Yeah, there are existing pictures of Spahn and Dern looks nothing like him. That said, if Reynolds had portrayed him, he wouldn't have either. I just thought Dern did a poor job with the role. I agree with the other poster that said Pitt seemed almost uncomfortable in the scene. I guess Tarantino included him in that he's used him before, but I thought Bruce Dern was poorly cast for the role. A role that is, granted, pretty short in duration, but it was not pulled off well regardless.
Pitt’s discomfort in the scene was great acting. He was confronting the unknown of meeting Spahn again, and what Span’s situation was. Also the unknown of leaving the house and the ranch. All of them standing waiting outside. Those stares were creepy. He felt the tension.
Saw it again and enjoyed it way more. After my first viewing, I was frustrated about the indulgences and was unsure about the ending. Now I really see the love Tarantino has for the era and the characters. Sharon Tate is an angel floating through the film and in the initial showing you cannot feel anything but nauseous knowing her awful fate in the hands of the Manson Family. But understanding the alternate reality that will occur the fable aspect controls destiny. Prince Charming will kiss Snow White or in Tarantino's world Rick Dalton torches Susan Atkins and everyone lives happily ever after. The scene where Jay Sebring invites Rick to walk up to the house with Sharon's disembodied voice speaking through the intercom is truly haunting and deserves to be added to the pantheon of the great Hollywood endings.
Maybe where you lived or something! I never heard anyone - ever - call a person with long hair (which was common) 'Manson.' Let alone decades later (i.e the 80's).
That stinkin hippy just stuck a knife in his bosses cadillacs tire and told Cliff “***** you!” Plus Why turn down a chance for a little fight action-in a movie? Hehehe
The ending made me think of Casablanca and "It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship." I'm already up for a sequel
Can you just imagine if those Watergate burglars instead accidentally broke into Cliff's Watergate hotel room, since he was in D.C. in June of '72 to interview for a Secret Service agent position?
Looking forward to seeing this with my SO. Mainly for the sepia tinged 'love letter' aspect to a time and place, secondarily to see another pulp fictionesque Tarantino film.
The historiography element of these sort of films always draws my attention. I was in 6th grade at the time. For everyday people the Manson murders were just a brief splash of horror in a long line of similar tabloid headlines. Isn't that what newspapers do? There was no death of an era or of innocence, no effect on 'hippies.' Like a machine the news spit out headlines of the latest missing hitchhiker, Palestinian terrorism, some debacle in Vietnam, another protest, communist infiltration of some institution, the space race, the latest Warsaw Pact threat, another nuclear test, assassinations of foreign leaders. Just the news of the day. The early 70's was just the late 60's -- with different digits you wrote on a check or a letter.
