Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica and distributed by Sony Pictures, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. It features a large ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows a fading actor and his stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry, with the threat of the Tate murders looming. Announced in July 2017, it is the first Tarantino film not to involve Bob and Harvey Weinstein, as Tarantino ended his partnership with the brothers following the sexual abuse allegations against the latter. After a bidding war, the film was distributed by Sony Pictures, which met Tarantino's demands including final cut privilege. Pitt, DiCaprio, Robbie, Zoë Bell, Kurt Russell, and others joined the cast between January and June 2018. Principal photography lasted from June through November around Los Angeles. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the final film to feature Luke Perry, who died on March 4, 2019, and it is dedicated to his memory. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 26, 2019, and in the United Kingdom on August 14. It grossed $374 million worldwide and received praise from critics for Tarantino's direction and screenplay, the performances (particularly from DiCaprio and Pitt), cinematography, soundtrack, sound design, costume design, and production values. The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Once Upon a Time in Hollywood one of the top-ten films of 2019. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was nominated for ten awards at the 92nd Academy Awards, winning two (Best Supporting Actor for Pitt and Best Production Design), and received numerous other accolades. A novelization, written by Tarantino in his debut as an author, was published on June 29, 2021.
Anybody order fried sauerkraut? [ALL SCREAMING] Burn, you Nazi bastards! Ha-ha-ha! That's you operating the flamethrower, isn't it? Oh, you bet your sweet ass it was. Yeah. - It was you? - Yeah. And let me tell you, that-that's one shit-fuck crazy weapon y-y-you do not wanna be on the wrong side of. Boy, oh, boy. You know, I practiced with that dragon, uh, three hours a day for two weeks. Not just because I wanted to look good in the picture, but because I was... I was shit-scared of the thing, to be honest.
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Mike fucking Lewis! Crisping them Nazis to hell! Oh, shit, that's... All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat? - Rick, it's a flamethrower. - Yeah. So I came to the office early today, and I watched two episodes of Bounty Law on 16 mm. Jody Janice, wanted for cattle rustling in the state of Wyoming, $425 dead or alive.
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Starring Rick Dalton. MARVIN: Then a couple of the jokers over in archival sent over a kinescope of a little treat featuring you. ♪ There's an old piano ♪ ♪ And they play it hot Behind the green door ♪ ♪ Don't know what They're doing ♪ ♪ But they laugh a lot Behind the green door ♪ ♪ Wish they'd let me in ♪ ♪ So I can find out What's behind the green door ♪
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So, uh, you've been doing guest shots on episodic TV shows the last couple of years? Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing a pilot f-for CBS right now. It's called... It's called Lancer. I play the heavy. Did a, ahem, Ron Ely Tarzan. I did a Land of the Giants. Green Hornet. I did that show, uh... Bingo Martin with that kid Scott Brown. Yeah. And I got a F.B.I. that-that airs this Sunday. You, um... You always play the bad guy on these shows? - Y-yeah. Mm-hm. - Yeah. So, and they have a fight scene at the end of them? Well, not... Not... Not Land of the Giants or F.B.I., - but the rest, yeah. Yeah. - And you lose in the fight? [CHUCKLES] Yeah. Yeah, of course. I'm... I'm the heavy. Oh, that's an old trick pulled by the networks. Now, you take Bingo Martin, for example. - Mm-hm. - Right? So you got a new guy like Scott Brown. You wanna build up his bona fides, right? So you hire a guy from a canceled show - to play the heavy. - Hmm. Then at the end of the show, when they fight, it's hero besting heavy. But what the audience sees is Bingo Martin whipping Jake Cahill's ass. - Uh-huh. - You see? Then next week, it's Ron Ely. And next week, it's Bob Conrad, wearing his tight pants, kicking your ass. - Yeah. - [CHUCKLES] Now, in another couple of years, playing punching bag to every swinging dick new to the network, that's gonna have a psychological effect on how the audience perceives you. Right. So, Rick, who's gonna kick the shit out of you next week? Mannix? The Man from U.N.C.L.E.? [CHUCKLING] The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.? How about Batman and Robin? Ping. Pow. Choom. Zoom. [CHUCKLES] Down goes you. Down goes your career as a leading man.
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- Oh. Whoa. - Oh, shit. - Hey. - I'm sorry about that. Sorry about that. Here. Put these on. Don't cry in front of the Mexicans. - Son of a bitch. - What's got you so upset, man? Well, if coming face-to-face with the failure that is your career ain't worth crying about, then I don't know what the fuck is. Right. That guy in there turn you down? No. He wants to help me get into Italian movies. - [SNIFFLES] - Then what's the problem? I gotta do Italian goddamn movies! - That's the fucking problem! - Come on. Fucking bullshit! It doesn't matter whether I cry in public. Nobody remembers who the fuck I am anyway, huh? REPORTER: ...at the Hall of Justice here. The defense will try to prove the killing of Kennedy - was the product of a sick mind. - Fuck! - Thank you. Hey, let's go. - Take me home, Cliff. Come on, take me home. REPORTER: ...as early as next Wednesday. More than 1000 Communists dead are reported in new, large-scale fighting in South Vietnam. U.S. losses are said to be... WOMAN: That's swell, man. Fucking hippie motherfuckers. REPORTER: ...and bases with rockets and mortar fire. As President Nixon was flying to Europe, he received details of that fighting by radio. WOMEN: ♪ Always is always forever ♪ ♪ As long as one is one ♪ ♪ Inside yourself For your father ♪ ♪ All is one, all is one All is one ♪ ♪ It's time we put Our love behind you ♪ ♪ The illusion Has been just a dream ♪ ♪ The Valley of Death And I'll find you ♪ ♪ Now is when On a sunshine beam ♪ Hot dog buns! [ALL CHEERING] ♪ For sure They shall surely see ♪ ♪ No clothing, no tears No hunger ♪ ♪ You shall see, you shall see You shall see ♪ ♪ Always is always forever ♪ ♪ As long as one is one ♪ ♪ Inside yourself For your father ♪ ♪ All is one, all is one All is one ♪
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Five years of ascent. Pfft. Ten years of-of-of treading water. And now a race to the bottom. Heh. Look, I never had much of a career to speak of, so I can't say I really know how you feel. What are you talking about? You're my stunt double. Come on, now. Shit. Rick, I'm your driver, man. I'm-I'm your gofer. I'm not complaining, man. I like driving you around. I like doing shit around the house and house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills when you're gone. But I haven't been a full-time stuntman for a while now, and from where I'm standing, going to Rome to star in movies does not sound like the fate worse than death that you seem to think it is. Come on, now. You ever seen an-an Italian Western, huh? They're awful. It's a fucking farce. Yeah, how many you seen? One? Two? I've seen enough, all right? Nobody likes Spaghetti Westerns. [INTRODUCTION TO SONG]
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Oh, hell, man, stay in L.A. Give it what fer next pilot season. Nah, nah. I'm... I'm... I'm too insecure now to score come pilot season. Screen Gems ain't gonna have nothing good to say about me. - You know that. - Shit. You made Bounty Law. Nobody's gonna forgive me for that last season. - No matter what I do... - Ah... ...I'm always gonna be the horse's ass that got Bounty Law canceled because I wanted some fucking rinky-dink movie career. [SCOFFS] - Tom. My friend. - I met him? No, you haven't met him. You won't meet him because I don't think - you'd like him. - Why? SHARON: Well... [FILM COMMERCIAL] - SHARON: Don't even joke. - A joke? But they're scared.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood