Once Upon A Time In Hollywood's new trailer introduces Brad Pitt to Charles Manson
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“It’s official, old buddy. I’m a has-been.” So says Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton in the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which sees its world premiere today at the Cannes Film Festival. Set to the kaleidoscopic strains of Neil Diamond’s “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show,” Dalton’s past triumphs and modern anxiety unfolds against a panorama of California as it existed in 1969, a year that stripped America of whatever innocence it still had.
An agent of that change, Charles Manson, is glimpsed in the above clip, as is the ranch where he lived with his Family, the cult that went on to murder actress Sharon Tate—Margot Robbie’s turn as the starlet is also on display here, the starry-eyed actress still adjusting to a life in the spotlight. We also get an idea of just how Manson and his crew intersect with our characters, as Brad Pitt’s aging stuntman is seen hobnobbing with the girls that Manson drew under his spell.
The real highlight, though, is the looks we get at Dalton’s past films, one of which finds him channeling Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds by taking a flamethrower to some Nazis. “Anybody order fried sauerkraut?!” DiCaprio screams in what might be the best acting of his career.
Check it out below ahead of the film’s July 26 premiere, and stay tuned for our own dispatch from Cannes.
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I am weirdly not into this.
A film about the professional and mental collapse of an aging movie star set against the backdrop of the Tate murders?Sounds like the perfect summer movie!
Only if there’s a yellow lab on the journey of a lifetime!
This isn’t Dean Koontz now…
So, the question is: is QT gonna Django it and have them save Tate & Co.? Is Brad Pitt going to kill Charles Manson?Either that or I’m not sure what this movie is about.
Neither trailer is telling us what the movie is actually about. I’m frustrated but intrigued.
Early and mostly positive reviews (a few are comparing it to Pulp Fiction in style and even quality) are coming in from Cannes now and while none have revealed the ending, they all comment on how wild the end part is. So there could well be some historic revisionism.
One review said it was a “pulp-fictional redemption of the Manson nightmare,” so yeah, he ret-cons that shit. Get ready for Dicaprio to overcome his loser vibes and stop the murders himself.
Not by himself, he totally goes in with Pitt.
Surely a revision of existing history in a QT film should be referred to as a “Basterdization.”
Indeed, well done. Together with Basterds and Django, this will be part of QT’s Basterdization Trilogy.
I’m just hoping there’s a scene where Bruce Lee fights a bunch of Manson cult members.
Naw, he’s training Sharon. She’s gonna go all Beatrix Kiddo on their asses.
Holy shit! I think you just came up with a much better movie!
I’m just envisioning a scene where they’re at Spahn Ranch. Bruce gets cornered by the Manson crew. They pull out knives with murder in their depraved eyes. Bruce Lee pulls out a pair of nunchucks. Crowd would go fucking nuts.
bruce lee is gonna kill charles manson.
I would have thought Inglourious Basterds rather than Django would be the relevant film when it comes to real people from history.
Are you suggesting that one of those two movies is more “real” than the other?
“Realer than real”.
That is my bet, although my go to on his twisting history is always Inglourious Basterds.
I just naturally assume all of Tarantino’s movies take place in an alternate universe where World War II ended with Hitler and his top officials getting massacred in a movie theater.
Look everybody, there were some feet in this! Now you can make your shitty Tarantino jokes that are aging faster than you are! Zing, amirite?Really looking forward to this. I’m a sucker for the ‘movie in a movie’ troupe, especially set against the backdrop of late ‘60s Hollywood. Kinda curious to see the old Taco Bell building up the street from my house being in a movie, too.
Yeah, I’ve been known to watch mid-century period pieces, just to look at the scenery. I can’t tell you what went on in Mrs. Maisel because I was looking at the scenery. I barely notice all the boobs in The Deuce. Heck, I watched all of Vinyl just because of the costumes and set design.
Hell, I loved Jackie Brown’s apartment in (duh) ‘Jackie Brown’. It looked like my aunt’s apartment from 1978.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SceneryPorn
Did you at least notice the boobs in “Mrs. Maisel”? Because…damn.
I never not notice boobs.
wait, there was scenery in The Deuce? Damn … I caught up in all the boobs to notice …
There is. If you look past the boobs and the various Francostaches, there’s some great set design.
well ok … I’ll give it a try, but this ain’t gonna be easy. Francostaches and the greasy ‘70s guy vibe is off-putting but I promise I’ll try again if the boobs scenery are really that good.
Come for the boobs, stay for the set design!
Are you suggesting that QT ISN’T a weird perv? Or simply asserting we’re not allowed to make fun of it?I mean, read Jane Hamsher’s book. He’s been a creep since the jump.
Unless you’ve got some quotes to share from Hamsher’s book, don’t kink shame.
Give me a fucking break. You go read the book. Being an aggressive lech isn’t a “kink.”
“Being an aggressive lech isn’t a”Go on…
Hey, I said the same thing about Weinstein and his plants, glad we are on the same page.
Make fun of whatever the hell you want. Just don’t get your frock all unfurled when someone calls out how tired your jokes are.
Did I make a joke? I don’t see any joke.
I was speaking in general and referring back to my initial post, not you specifically.
it’s just fucking tired. he has a foot fetish. it’s been established. next.
And yet here you are posting on it.
…dude, i’m on your side here.
eh my bad i responded to wrong guy/dude you were responding to. but yes, i think deductive reasoning would point to me agreeing with you that it’s a tired bit. sorry to bother you,Colonel. All apologies. I’m on team Foot Fetish is Tired Bit.
Hey I don’t go around commenting on how you post in your mom’s granny panties. Do I care about what QT does in his spare time?Nope…
there’s not just one movie in this movie … this is Hollywood baby, its all about the movies. LOL — Matt Helm and the Slaygirls … whatta time to be alive.
I make fun of Tarantino’s love of feet and the n-word because I do love him. I am looking forward to watching this as well
You’re a huge whiner
I hate that Brad Pitt still has abs at his age and I’m out of shape and wasting my time on my laptop and commenting on how smart or dumb Drogon is.
Don’t fool yourself, Brad Pitt is doing that, too.
That and injecting HGH
Someone should warn him that HGH won’t make you a dragon-man.
Someone should warn him that HGH won’t make you a dragon-man MGH might, though.
“I am the dragon, and you call me insane. You are privy to a great becoming, but you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly. Before me you rightly tremble. But fear is not what you owe me. You owe me all.”“Mr. Pitt, this is GNC’s customer support line.”“Oh. Uh . . . can I please speak with your supervisor?”
You don’t know, maybe he spent the evening with Julia Roberts.
Hey, you’re kirivino fuckin’ kurjr and don’t you forget it.
(did I sound like Brad there? I typed it in Brad’s voice …)
wait … this is another fuckin’ GoT thread? Jeezus, I’m outta here …
He’s only 55.
Still impressive. My dad is 58 year old lawyer, and when he was younger he looked like a mix of a young John Travolta and Alec Baldwin in their prime… now well, he is still as sharp and active as ever, but he looks at least 10 years older than Brad. Brad looks like a 40 year old. Hell, I am 28 and I think he looks way younger than me lol
The man is paid to work out.
Everyone has abs. Abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym. He has a full time nutritionist and a professional chef on call, I’m sure.
I hate that Brad Pitt still has abs at his ageI hate that he still has abs at his age and I’ve never had any even at half his age.
Yeah, but does Brad Pitt have all those Kinja likes? No, my friend. No, he does not.
This looks extremely meta, even for QT. I’m in.
As meta-text it’ll be hard to top Hateful 8. I feel like that was Tarantino’s deconstruction of a “Tarantino movie.” It was also the movie of his that I’ve enjoyed the absolute least and the only one I’ve had no interest in seeing again.
Yet again, Quentin is all about the:A E S T H E T I C
I’m looking forward to watching this movie so much I’m hesitant to watch this new trailer but I know I won’t be able to resist.
In terms of story, the trailer reveals nothing. Seriously.
Thanks!
As witnessed in The Wolf of Wall Street, DiCaprio could actually be a great comedic actor. This looks like more of that guy and less of the one that crawls into dead bears. I’m down.
He IS a great comedic actor. Between the yacht scene and the Lamborghini scene alone, I think that’s pretty apparent.
DiCaprio and Chandler seem to be morphing into the same person. There were several shots in the “Hollywood” Trailer where I thought I was looking at the latter, not the former.
Chandler looked so much like a 10-year-older Di Caprio in Game Night I’m half-convinced the movie intentionally leaned into that. Especially since he was playing a comically arrogant Wall Street hustler.
I’d never noticed before, but you’re totally right.
Jesus, that yacht scene is phenomenal. It’s nice to watch that once in a while and be reminded what good directing is.
It is. Scorsese could do that shit in his sleep. I can’t wait for The Irishman.
Hmm, I really liked Silence, but The Irishman worries me a bit.
Los Bravos in the last trailer. Paul Revere and the Raiders in the one. That’s good stuff.
I’m mostly just hoping that Damon Herriman gets a big career boost from this.
Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show is underrated Diamond.
but the Panama Red and cheap chianti was always overrated
So, is Kurt Russell playing the same guy he played in Death Proof? Because I’m for it …
The ages wouldn’t line up, but if he’s in some way playing Stuntman Mike in this, too, I will shit. That would be great. There have been a lot of implied crossover connections between QT movies in the past, but nothing really too direct, if I remember properly. Which I’m sure I am not.
The biggest connector is Michael Parks, who played the same sheriff in a bunch of stuff (From Dusk ‘til Tawn, Kill Bill, Planet Terror/Deathproof)
That’s true.“Son number one, looks like this tall drink of cocksucker’s a spitter.”
I believe Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs brother is Vincent Vega, John Travolta’s character in Pulp Fiction, they are the Vega brothers. There’s a lot of other little connections too from what I remember reading.
DiCaprio burning the nazis a la inglorious basterds looks like it will be the most obvious connection between movies I can think of, except maybe the cigarette brand they all smoke.
Yeah, Red Apples are in pretty much all of them, and he references his other movies fairly often. I just mean a specific character (other than Michael Parks’ sheriff character, which was referenced in another comment).
True I forgot all about the sheriff, the Vega brothers too.
Looks fucking fantastic. Tarantino weird as shit, but can make one hell of a movie.
Tarantino can make one hell of a movie *because* he’s weird as shit.
Can’t wait till the end of this movie goes really Dark and people who weren’t expecting that (I mean it’s QT and he loves violence so duh) are shocked and sickened if he shows what happened to Tate.
You’ve really got a bug up your ass about this.
You sadly want to see a movie where a man will have his followers murder a women and have her raped and killed while she is with child. You are a little QT fanboy aren’t you. Go fuck off. If I’m wrong I will come back and say my fears were way off.
Show me exactly where and when I said I wanted to see a pregnant woman (and it’s ‘a woman’, not ‘a women’) raped and killed in any movie. Go ahead. I’ll wait. All you’ve done in every single one of these threads about this movie is jump in and wring your hands like Helen Lovejoy because of what you think MIGHT be in this. And now you’re telling me to fuck off because I called you on it. Real nice.
But won’t someone PLEASE think of the children!He better hope he never runs across the Van Bebber version of the Manson murders…
The results are in. IT’S A BLOODBATH.https://variety.com/2019/film/news/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-first-reactions-quentin-tarantino-1203222562/Actually, it sounds great, and I can’t wait to see it.
You harassed me on another thread because all I said was I was worried about where this movie was going because QT has a habit of loving violence. You came after me then and again and now you are crying because I called you out. You are a troll and a fanboy who is probably 22 years old and loves the fact that he likes to have women brutalized in his movies and uses the n word.Go somewhere else troll. I’m done with you.
Aww, poor baby. Someone get Grandma Victim here a shawl. Since the t-word is being thrown around now, let’s talk about trolling. Why do you even post in the articles about this movie if you have such a clear issue with what it MIGHT contain? Isn’t that just trolling? Because it really kind of is. You contribute nothing else to the conversations in them but your Chicken Little bullshit, but yet somehow I’m the troll for saying nothing else but how you apparently have a bee in your bonnet about this movie?Furthermore, before you told me to fuck off for no reason (and then insinuated that I enjoy using racial slurs and seeing women brutalized), you said I wanted to see a pregnant woman get raped and killed in a movie. Still waiting for the evidence of that. Prove it or shut the fuck up, troll.I’ll take the compliment about my age, though. Thanks for that.
Oh, and by the way, the only time I have ever responded to you in any thread about this movie (besides this one) on any article on this site is at the following link. Yes, I went back and checked. https://news.avclub.com/1834900668To summarize, I made a joke about how ‘you were probably crazy and should relax’ after you made the very same joke about yourself. That’s it. There’s all the supposed trolling or harassing I’ve ever done of you. That’s it. If it makes you feel any better, I apologize for making that joke that you made about yourself first, as well.Meanwhile, you inferred that I commonly used racial slurs, enjoyed watching women get brutalized and killed, and that I would enjoy watching a movie where a pregnant woman gets raped and killed. Oh, and also that I should fuck off. Compare all that unwarranted nastiness to me making a joke to you that you had already made about yourself, and I think we’ll see who the real troll is, and who’s really being nasty for really no reason at all. Hint: it ain’t me.I don’t know if your grandchildren taught you the word ‘troll’ or what, but man, you’re doing it wrong.
I know it’s mostly irrelevant because the crime was truly horrific no matter what, but they didn’t rape her. And I think they’ll probably rewrite history anyway just because like you said, it’s some seriously disturbing stuff to incorporate into a mainstream Hollywood film. Even one by QT. Also, Sharon Tate’s sister was adamantly opposed to the film until she met with Tarantino. It sounds like he told her the basics of what happens and she has since said she’s optimistic about the movie.
Here’s my theory: I think in the movie, the Manson family spare her because she’s pregnant and bring her back to the Spahn ranch. And because Rick Dalton is her neighbor, he gets sucked into the whole thing somehow.
I think people are vastly underrating Quentin and falling prey to every baseless, ignorant stereotype people have about him if they think he’s going to show a pregnant woman being graphically murdered in this movie.As for him changing history in this movie like he has with his others, I hope that’s not the case, mostly out of respect to the people who lived through it and are still with us, particularly Sharon’s sister.
I bet that doesn’t happen though. This seems like QT twisting history again, I bet Pitt and Leo save the day.
I hope you are right but I hope if it does end with them not saying something like “If only real life was like the movies”. Anything related to Manson to me shouldn’t be exploited or either made to have a happy ending. But the latter is a better option because I really don’t want them giving that piece of trash and his family anymore air time.
Seek professional help.
Nope, he has followed me on 3 threads and said something to me. So I was responding with anger. Usually I get along with everyone but this little weak person likes to troll. So he can fuck off.
I did nothing of the sort, and I have the receipts to prove it in my above post. I made one joke to you that you had already made about yourself, and that’s it. Take your bullshit lies and nasty accusations and jam them up your ass, you weird little troll.Still waiting for the proof that I want to see a pregnant woman raped and killed in a movie. Gonna be waiting a long time for that one, I think.
is Roger Sterling in this? Please? I miss Roger
Roger and Don are on a West Coast trip to see Harry anyway, so you better believe they’ll be making an appearance.
Please write some SCDP fan-fiction. I’d read it 🙂
Help me write it and you got a deal. Do we put it post Series finale or do we put it in 1969 during this film using existing story lines?
I think there should be stories that take place a) during the time jumps that happen on the show (new moustaches!) and b) right after the finale. I’d really love to see Don’s Coke pitch, and him and Roger (and Peggy and Stan) working at McCann
The first episode/story would be Don’s triumphant return to McCann with the Coke commercial…then a flashback to Harry in Hollywood chilling with this real gone chick he met that lives on some odd ranch…
While I certainly can’t wait, it looks like a series of set pieces…. like PTA’s “Magnolia.” So I can’t wait to see it and see how it all lines up plot-wise. One of those movies that looks like it will end without definitive conclusions, which is fine.
Inglorious Basterds was also just a series of set pieces. But those set pieces were fantastic.
Oooo, fair point. Of course, all within the plotline of Killin’ Naaazis.
I am super conflicted about this movie. Tarantino is trash but I love Hollywood history. Some of this was shot on Fairfax, up the street from my girl’s work and I got to see the decoration.
This has a Trantino does Boogie Nights foreboding feel to it and I couldn’t be more excited to see this movie. Hopefully it can live up to the hype of all his previous movies.
Is it strange that I got even more excited for this film when I found out Dicaprio and Pitt’s characters were based on Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham, respectively?
So, how is this movie going to address the fact that Sharon Tate’s husband at the time was Roman Polanski? Because… well…
The movie is showing at Cannes right now. I can’t wait to see it this summer. George Vreeland Hill