How production designer Barbara Ling brought 1969 Hollywood to life for Quentin Tarantino's OnceUponaTimeinHollywood
. A Los Angeles native and a teenager at the time of the events depicted in the film, Ling cared less about making an exact replica of the city's locations, focusing more on creating a nostalgic world that represented the vibe of the era. "Quentin always said, 'We're not making a documentary,' " Ling says. "We wanted to capture what the city felt like at the time.
When you do a 24-scale miniature, the screen is about 10 feet high. It's big — it's not really miniature. But to me, it's a great beauty, that fabulous marquee. I knew I had to build it in three-dimension because we wanted the car right next to it. We wanted to put Cliff in the realm of a drive-in. I love that whole environment for Cliff, putting him in such a different world from the [glamorous one] in which he serves as a stuntman.""You couldn't find an old Taco Bell anywhere! We found a closed location, which still had the old shape of the building. It was dilapidated, so we went in and unboarded it and reshaped it and then went to Taco Bell to get permission.
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