This is the ninth feature film directed by Quentin, and it has been released overseas and has received a good response. The freshness of rotten tomatoes is 85%, and the average score of MTC is 83%. The media has a good reputation, and it has also won a global box office of 370 million US dollars. "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" became the second best-selling movie in Quentin's career as a director, second only to "The Freed Jiang Ge".
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" set the stage in 1969 Los Angeles, which tells the story of TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) who has fallen into a career trough and his long-term stuntman The story of Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) trying to become famous in the film industry and find his place. The film took a lot of effort to restore the real situation of that era, from the costumes of the characters, to the interior decoration and daily necessities, to the outdoor streetscape buildings, all can withstand the exquisite details. On this basis, it also demonstrated the decline of western films and the trend of hippie culture. This work is like a love letter from Quentin to Hollywood in the 1960s, with a halo of nostalgia from time to time.
Xiao Lizi repeats the passage of "The Great Escape" For Chinese audiences, especially the younger generation, the cultural context presented in the film may be relatively unfamiliar. The scenes and actors in the film are far away from the present, but the film will still have Let you find the point of resonance. The following interview involves spoilers, friends who have not watched the film please consider it. 03:50 Little Li Pitt is better than "family" Sharon Tate has lived beautifully, and Li Pitt is better than "family", Sharon Tate has also lived beautifully and Xiao Li played many missed opportunities in the film , Actor Rick, who was once depressed. He told Mtime.com that he understood this role well. After all, in this industry, there are many actor friends around, so I naturally know the various problems that we will face when auditioning, and also know how difficult it is to succeed in this industry. Xiao Li felt that he was already a lucky one.
He also discussed with Quentin whether the role of Rick is really talented in acting. Quentin appreciates Rick's talent. Rick's prototype is the many actors we can see in film and television works. Xiao Li believes, "The question is whether Rick can work harder and stop selling badly all day long." Following this line of thinking, Rick's process of cheering up from difficulties can be said to be quite inspirational.
Pete plays Rick’s stunt stand-in Cliff, this role is very Buddhist, follow his own feelings, and settle down. Quentin said bluntly, "We should all like Cliff's personality." Cliff and Rick are not only good partners at work, but also good friends in life. That kind of tacit and deep friendship can easily move the audience, and the interaction between Xiao Li and Pete is also very chemical.
Xiao Li said, "Before we went to the set, we knew the background story between the two, so we knew the relationship between the two as soon as we met, and there was no need to rehearse." Why do actors have such a close relationship with their stunt doubles? In Xiao Li's view, the work in the showbiz industry is very lonely. "I stayed on the set for several months, away from your family and friends, then your colleagues. Will become your family, they are everything to you." Pete's view is more tricky. He thinks that several protagonists can form a complete person, just like different personalities in the heart. "We may all be these characters. Some people are more like Cliff, some are more like Rick, and some are more like Sharon." This complementarity of personalities has also become the bond between Cliff and Rick. One big reason. "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is also very interesting. The film involves many real historical events and characters. The most important thing is that the "Manson family" killed the director Roman Polanski's wife Sharon Tate. In one incident, Sharon, who died tragically at the time, was still pregnant.
In reality, Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate Quentin deal with the ending of this story unexpectedly in the film. Not only are they not joking, but on the contrary they are treated very tenderly, so that you may wonder whether marriage and life are worn away. The edges and corners of him. Margot Robbie, the "Clown Girl" who played Sharon Tate in the film, was the first starring actor to be signed in the film. She said that she understood what Quentin wanted to express, and the script had been written. This is the Sharon Tate that Quentin hopes to show on the screen.
New Hollywood ClubScene of the meeting Quentin: This film is like "Rome" Quentin has always claimed to the public that he should retire after making ten films. But in interviews with other media, he said that many people said that so many films he has made over the years, they all feel like the same one and are connected to each other, just like a big movie. And he himself thinks, "My ninth is the climax of all movies, and the last tenth is the final chapter of my work." Then the question is, why Quentin chose to recall the climax of his film sequence What about "Hollywood Past"?
Quentin was born in Los Angeles in 1963. The story of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" took place in 1969, when he was 6 or 7 years old, but he remembered that moment clearly. Quentin said that he remembered what was on TV and what local radio stations would broadcast, including cartoons and popular songs at the time. Like Quentin's previous relatively low-profile film "Dangerous Relationship", "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is also shaping the Los Angeles in Quentin's memory. Quentin still remembers the Karmann Ghia that his father drove back then, which is why Cliff drove this model in the film. Quentin even remembered that the first time he went to Hollywood was in 1969, when his parents took him to the Chinese Grand Theater to watch "Little Tiger and Leopard King".
In Quentin's view, this movie shows part of his memories, "It can be said that it is like "Rome" to Alfonso Caron to me." But choosing such a period is not just simply indulging in private memories of the past. Hollywood in 1969 was in the period of "New Hollywood Film Movement". In the 1967 film at the Oscars, the competition between "The Male and Female Thief" and "The Graduate" was like the alternation of old and new Hollywood. In 1968, the old Hollywood was dying, and the new Hollywood was taking its place. By 1969, according to Quentin, "Hippie's Hollywood became Hollywood itself". In Quentin’s view, “Film before 1969 will look hopelessly outdated by the end of 1970. So we are discussing this short window period. I look at it from the perspective of human sociology. Not from a nostalgic perspective."
In a sense, the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is not "Quentin", it has no fancy narrative structure, and the unexpected dramatic components are minimized (except for the last half hour), and the plasma and erotica are almost gone. The film wanders between the perspectives of Rick, Cliff and Sharon to see Los Angeles and Hollywood at that time. The film does not even have a clear narrative line, it just takes the audience to experience their lives together. The design of the three protagonists happens to represent the three different classes of Hollywood.
Quentin once said in an interview that Sharon and Roman Polanski represented the high-end class of Hollywood. At that time, they were not more popular than them, especially in the 1968 Polanski directed "Rose After the release of "Mary's Baby". Although Rick has been complaining, he belongs to the group of people who are doing well and have always had jobs and made money to buy a house. Cliff, who works in Hollywood but lives in a rather dilapidated life, represents the type of people who have worked in the entertainment industry for a lifetime but can't show off. The film is invisibly contrasted in showing the lives of the three people in different situations, and this is Quentin’s Hollywood, “great success and great failure can live next to each other”. Fortunately, Quentin, who has been married and married and is no longer young and angry, gives these characters from different classes a chance to have a beautiful and harmonious intersection, leaving a warm and memorable picture for the era that never comes back again.
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