A close read of the ending of Quentin Tarantino’s OnceUponATimeInHollywood
This is a photo from the first act of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that has been deliberately chosen to be as non-spoilery as possible. Photo: Andrew Cooper/Sony Pictures Warning: As the headline “” suggests, this article will address the conclusion of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film and thus contains spoilers.
Okay, so. If you’ve been reading between the lines of the reviews, you’ve likely gathered that the film changes some aspects of the Manson Family murders of August 1969. Throughout the movie, Tarantino contrasts Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton, a washed-up middle-aged actor reduced to playing the villain of the week on TV procedurals, with Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate, whose youth and growing stardom represents the feeling of infinite possibility that characterized the late ’60s.
Speaking of violent imagery, as the Manson followers break into Dalton’s house, they’re surprised to find Cliff, who’s gotten high off an LSD-soaked cigarette and can’t quite believe the intruders are real.
If you’re curious about what the actual neighbors did the night of the murders, according to Helter Skelter, the nearest house on the street was “almost a hundred yards” away from the gate of Tate’s residence, much farther away than in Once Upon a Time. That house belonged to a married couple, the Kotts, who also had friends over that night, though unlike Dalton the pair did not accidentally run into the Manson acolytes, and unlike Booth, they did not kill them. Mrs.
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