![]() Pitt’s character is also shown to be (somewhat) morally upstanding, resisting a hippie girl’s sexual advances when he intuits she’s underage - a notable trait for a proxy character written by a guy who used to work with Harvey Weinstein.Īnd most importantly, the ending (which I won’t spoil) of Once Upon a Time.in Hollywood confirms that somewhere inside, the filmmaker believes that his beloved analog Hollywood could have been rescued by a man of action like Cliff. Cliff, after all, is an example of a dying breed of behind-the-scenes workers who risked their lives to make movies happen a role that was thoroughly changed - but hasn’t been destroyed - by Tarantino’s frequent boogeyman, digital filmmaking.Ĭliff is also a supportive friend to DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton, a relationship that might mirror Tarantino’s professional relationships with frequent collaborators like Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and many others. But it’s hard to ignore how effectively Cliff stands in (pun intended) for the ideals that Tarantino has long espoused when he talks about old-fashioned entertainment in interviews. Granted, it’s not that useful to psychoanalyze an artist via his or her work. And some of the ideas that Cliff represents might be so deeply coded that even Tarantino himself would have a hard time sorting it all out. ![]() For me, the real cape(-less?) crusader of Tarantino’s world is Brad Pitt’s character, fictional stuntman Cliff Booth. But the key to understanding the movie isn’t DiCaprio, and it’s not even Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate, who’s also featured prominently in the film’s marketing. I’m not talking about Leonardo DiCaprio here - his character’s story, that of a fading star of TV Westerns, is certainly the jumping-off point for the movie. Instead, it’s because Tarantino has just created a superhero of his own, and in his newest release no less, Once Upon a Time.in Hollywood. But it’s not only because of the limitations on production and content imposed by those studio behemoths. Make a list of the top ten film auteurs who’d never make a superhero movie (at least in the Disney/Marvel model), and Quentin Tarantino would probably be on there.
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