Posted on August 27, 2019
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sanjay2706
August 27, 2019
One of those rare pieces of BR where I had to disagree with almost of everything he said. 🙂 Have I changed or has he? Not sure. 🙂
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Vikram s
August 27, 2019
BR, I loved the film. As QT gets older, he is getting more deliberate and meditative. I liked all the 3 performances- Brad Pitt & Margo Robbie have the advantage of sympathetic parts. Leo is the one with the tougher and unsympathetic role.
The audience in the place where I saw it was primarily boys in their early 20s, all of them cribbing about the slowness and lack of gore. They did seem to be partially mollified by the blood and fire at the end.
Did I detect a faint hatred for the hippies in the film? Maybe.
Also, if one has read about the actual events beforehand, one can enjoy it better.
Esp. chilling is when Manson comes calling
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Sumesh
August 27, 2019
Talking of Indian films altering history, there has been some. In Kalapani Priyadarshan showed Savarkar as the leader of freedom fights and in ******Spoilers***** Urumi the protagonist kills Vasco Da Gama.
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Manikandan V
August 27, 2019
Dear BR – good you liked the movie – surprised by lack of questions on Sub texts & Meta Narratives on Hollywood style filmmaking (Showing the timings of events in build up to climax & Tex s ride to stop cliff towards end of ranch scene , with that amazing camerawork & score ending to Nothing)- making a parody of all legends like george lucas , martin scorsese woody allen – plus undercurrent of Real vs Image comparison running throughout the movie – any thoughts on that , i thought climax is self parody by QT
this is what I wrote after seeing the movie
Life lessons in graceful ageing, work ethics & Strength of assertion – Meta movie on whims and fancies of hollywood and television culture – social commentary on fences with men on either side shaking hands and exchanging blows – graceful and quiet #OnceUponaTimeinHollywood
First scene Context is set on either side of the fence – shares the load by Rick Vs sharing his load answer by cliff – to the Tarantinosque climax of “all is well” though we have three dead in gruesome possible fashion
And we have the look back of trends in Hollywood – Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Roman Polanski & Bruce lee to quote a few.
The revisit by Tarantino is quite harsh on all the above – He is quite harsh on his method too when we have the climax set like that and all the howling in theatre for gruesome confirms the worst fears of normalizing violence.
Effect of TV,Movies and in general effect of moving images on public psyche is debatable – but it is unmistakable what Tarantino thinks when Caleb holds a little girl as an hostage and calls for Murdoch to negotiate.
Director repeatedly teases real life characters vs their on screen persona / general perception – When pussycat shouts” George is not blind you are blind” you tend to agree.
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Sutheesh Kumar
August 28, 2019
Hi BR,
Isn’t Imax great? The first movie I watched in Imax was Pacific Rim and I was blown away. Among indian releases I watched Kabali and Baahubali 2 on Imax, but my new love is the Led screen at Swaagath Cinema(Bengaluru), This is the future of cinema. Period.
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therag
August 28, 2019
My only question is: what was he getting at with that ending?
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MANK
September 14, 2019
Oh no boss , i wouldn’t want him to do the Star Trek movie.
As one of the most pre-eminent masters of modern cinema , i want him to go out in a blaze of glory, by doing something drastically original. He is the only one capable of making these original, mid range. adult dramas anymore and hopefully he would make one as his last. Perhaps that 1930’s gangster movie that he has been teasing us with for a long time . I am a big fan of that period and gangster movies and it would be a fitting end to his career that started out with reinventing the gangster picture with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
Its too bad that you didn’t write a full fledged review. Anyway , here’s mine, I finally got around to writing it
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brangan
September 14, 2019
MANK-etta: You missed this?
https://www.filmcompanion.in/cannes-film-festival-2019-quentin-tarantino-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-movie-review-brad-pitt-baradwaj-rangan
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MANK
September 14, 2019
Oh Direct from Cannes eh?. I usually doze off when you go to these film festivals. That was a nice appetizer But I think you were constrained by the No spoilers edict. A film like this deserve at least a 2000 word review from you
PS: I did notice that woman’s armpit hair. They were very conspicuous by their presence
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praneshp
September 14, 2019
@brangan: Dang, you did have a review for it.
You missed out on watching the movie in India. So many beeped out words and edited beer cans.
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Kay
September 15, 2019
praneshp- it’s becoming a pain. There are whole chunks of movies which are censored and it’s done so perfectly that we don’t even realise it. The other day I was watching Scarface on TV. It felt like the entire movie was beeped out. 🤷🏻♀️
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MANK
September 17, 2019
Oh! I once saw a version if Scarface on TV where, instead of beeping words out, the actors themselves had redubbed it with less offensive words
So Pacino screaming- I’m gonna kick your fuckin monkey face becomes
I’m gonna kick your filthy monkey face
Those days they use to make a separate version for TV. Guess they don’t that anymore. Obviously Scarface set a record for having the maximum F words. So I can imagine what it is like to see beeped out version of it.
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MANK
September 17, 2019
. Did I detect a faint hatred for the hippies in the film?
Oh it’s not faint. It’s very much an extreme hatred hatred from both Rick and cliff. They see hippies as genuine threats to their way of life and livelihood
BTW Tarantino has confessed to being very scared of the hippies when he was a kid.
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Madan
September 17, 2019
I didn’t know that about Tarantino feeling scared of hippies. So he is like Frank Zappa, deeply conservative and simultaneously avant garde in his sensibilities.
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MANK
September 17, 2019
That’s true Madan. He is extremely resistant to changes like shooting and projecting in digital- which may be a good thing.
Again the style of his movies – he shoots them very classical- he takes his time with the shots and lengthy dialogue scenes, but they are full of Avant garde elements. On the other hand his portrayal of women and minority characters are very modern. But then again, he is not above objectifying women and has a tendency to excessively focus on the female body parts. He has his fetishes- as I mentioned in my review
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Madan
September 18, 2019
MANK: Oh, didn’t see that link, cool, will read your review. Yet to watch the film. Definitely on my must watch list though.
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Tina
September 19, 2019
Saar. How do you pick stories for #AskBR. For instance, why wouldn’t we do a Jiivi?
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