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.
Look, just put him in the wardrobe, all right? What's it gonna hurt? Then if you need him, you got him. But then I gotta have a conversation with that wardrobe assistant, - and, man, she's a fucking bitch. - I just don't... Please, I... Look, Randy, I'm asking you to help me out, man. If the answer's no, the answer's no, not no with excuses. Hey, man. This ain't a fucking Andy McLaglen picture, you know? I can't afford to hire a bunch of guys to smoke cigarettes and sit around talking to each other all day on the chance that I might use them. I got a four-man team here, Rick. If I need more than that, I gotta get it approved. And, you know, I gotta look after my dudes. Hey, and if your dudes were a better match for me, I'd say, "Okay, you got me," but-but that's not the case, and you know it. - He's a great match for me. - Yeah, no... Hey, you could do anything you want to him. Throw him off a building, right? Light him on fire. Hit him with a fucking Lincoln, right? Get creative. Do whatever you want. He's just happy for the opportunity. - Rick. - Yeah?
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[SIGHS] BILLIE: You know, this is probably the shittiest weather ever. The shittiest weather on the shittiest boat with the shittiest person. [LAUGHS] Natalie, my sister, said, "He's a loser. He's a loser." They all said it, "He's a fucking loser," and I didn't believe them. So I guess I'm the fucking idiot. And now you're not gonna talk to me? What, you don't feel like fighting? Well, I feel like fucking fighting because I've been up here by myself for four hours on this fucking shithole of a boat. Yeah.
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Now, I'll put you in wardrobe, but you don't stunt, I don't pay you. Appreciate the opportunity, Randy. I won't let you down. You know my wife Janet, don't you? Yeah. Steer clear of her. Now, I admire Cassius Clay, I do. What I admire is, in his sport, there's an element of true combat. When Cassius Clay meets Sonny Liston in the ring, that's not two athletes posturing. That's combat. Two men trying to kill each other right now. If you don't beat him... he kills you. That's beyond athletics. That's beyond Wide World of Sports, you know? That's two warriors engaged in combat. That's what I admire. In martial arts tournaments, they won't let you fight like that. It's very frustrating. You stand in front of a guy, and you just wanna let him have it. Ha! But you can't. So you gotta do this playacting, patty-cake version. Cassius Clay. Sonny Liston. Joe Louis. The colored boxer, not that white kickboxing asshole. They do what they need to do to win. They unleash as much punishment as they have to to defeat the other guy. But in martial arts tournaments, I do to win what they do to win. I unleash all my power. I kill people. MAN: If you fought Cassius Clay, who would win? BRUCE: Well, that would never happen. MAN: But if you did, what do you think would happen?
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My name's Cliff. I'm Rick Dalton's stunt double. - BRUCE: Stuntman? - Yeah. BRUCE: You know, you're kind of pretty for a stuntman. That's what they tell me. BRUCE: So did I say something funny, stuntman? - Yeah, you kind of did. - What's so funny? Look, man, I don't want any trouble. I'm just here to do a job. But you're laughing at what I'm saying. But I'm not saying anything funny. So, what do you think is so funny?
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
What I think is... you're a little man with a big mouth and a big chip, and I think you should be embarrassed to suggest you'd be anything more than a stain on the seat of Cassius Clay's trunks. Brother, you're the one with the big mouth. And I would really enjoy closing it, especially in front of all my friends. But my hands are registered as lethal weapons. That means, we get into a fight, I accidentally kill you, I go to jail. Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It's called manslaughter. And I think all that "lethal weapon" horseshit is just an excuse so you dancers never have to get in a real fight.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood