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.
With guest stars James Farentino, - Rick Dalton... - [RICK CHUCKLES] - [CLIFF WHOOPS] - RICK: Like the chewing gum? - ANNOUNCER: Norman Fell. - CLIFF: Strong. ANNOUNCER: Tonight's episode: ANNOUNCER & CLIFF: "All the Streets Are Silent." Except when Rick Dalton's got a fucking shotgun, - I'll tell you that. - You're goddamn right. ...new Ford Cortina.
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NARRATOR: After that Musso & Frank's lunch meeting, Marvin did provide Rick job opportunities in the Italian film industry. Rick Dalton, Marvin Schwarz here. Hold on. Hennessy X.O on the rocks. Yes, Mr. Schwarz. Two words. Nebraska Jim, Sergio Corbucci. N-Nebraska what? Sergio who? MARVIN: Sergio Corbucci. A-and who's that? The second-best director of Spaghetti Westerns in the whole wide world. He's doing a new Western. It's called Nebraska Jim. And because of me, he's considering you. NARRATOR: Well, Rick got Nebraska Jim. And Rick made a rather compelling Nebraska Jim, existing quite nicely within Sergio Corbucci's rogues gallery of antiheroes.
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In Rome, Rick loved the paparazzi and the fuss they made over him and his Nebraska Jim costar Daphna Ben-Cobo. All right there, paparazzos. All right. Take it easy. NARRATOR: He loved the food so much that during his stay, Rick gained almost 15 pounds. But he didn't love the Italians' way of making movies. In fact, he thought the post-synced, "every actor speaks their own language," Tower of Babel shooting style of European movies was ridiculous. While in Rome, Marvin plugged Rick into three other Italian productions. His second Western was Kill Me Quick, Ringo, Said the Gringo, also starring Joseph Cotten and directed by Calvin Jackson Padget, pseudonym for Giorgio Ferroni. His third was an Italian/Spanish coproduction that paired him with Telly Savalas, titled Red Blood, Red Skin, directed by Joaquín Romero Marchent and based on the Floyd Raye Wilson novel, The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian. And his fourth, a Spaghetti secret agent, James Bond rip-off-type flick called Operazione Dyn-O-Mite!, directed by Antonio Margheriti. [SIREN WAILING] [GEARSHIFT CLICKS]
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NARRATOR: Ultimately making Rick's six-month Italian sojourn fairly profitable, although his swank Roman apartment ate up a big chunk of his earnings. [WOMAN SNORING] So as Rick returns to Hollywood via Pan Am, he has four new movies under his belt, some money in his pocket, and his brand-spanking-new Italian wife, starlet Francesca Cappucci.
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- [BABY CRYING] - Way back in coach, working on his bottomless Bloody Mary, Cliff Booth returned to Los Angeles as well. He kept Rick company during his entire six-month stay in Italy. However, as the two men return home, they've come to an understanding. Well, here it goes now.
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I just I can't afford you anymore, Cliff. You know? I can barely afford my own house anymore. So I think the plan is to sell the house and buy-buy a condo in-in-in Toluca Lake, bank the money. You know, live off it. That type of thing. Hopefully, I score come next pilot season. That's a good plan. Yeah. You know, by then, I'll know if I have a career or not, if I'm a solid Los Angeles citizen like Eddie O'Brien says, or if I'm one step closer to going back to Missouri. So when this whole European journey is over, I think we've, uh...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood