1969, Hollywood, California. The macabre crimes of the Manson family in the house of Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, two actors come down, black and white television series, the streets and cinemas of Los Angeles ... all in a shaker, mixed and shaken by Quentin Tarantino's master hand.

ALHAMBRA

The small California city of Los Angeles County was one of Quentin Tarantino's homes as a child. The film drinks both its cinephile passion and its childhood memories.

SOUNDTRACK

In quantity and quality of the musical selection, Tarantino is only comparable to Martin Scorsese. Here he alternates classics of the time such as Mrs. Robinson of Simon and Garfunkel or Hush of Deep Purple, with more remote themes from bands such as The Village Callers, pioneers of Latin rock. Special mention for the Bring A Little Lovin ' of Los Bravos.

CADILLAC

The Cadillac Deville in which Brad Pitt walks Leo DiCaprio throughout Los Angeles is owned by actor Michael Madsen, who makes a small cameo in the film. It is not the first time that Tarantino uses it: the car also appeared in Reservoir Dogs .

DI CAPRIO

He had been missing for four years after winning the Oscar with the reborn . The old pretty boy from Hollywood, who had already worn with Tarantino in Django unchained, gets into the skin of the proud, depressive and fickle Rick Dalton.

ESPÓILER

The filmmaker's open letter prior to the premiere of the film in Cannes made it clear: "I only ask that people avoid revealing anything that may prevent the public from seeing it after experiencing the film in the same way."

PARTY

The Playboy Mansion, with waitresses dressed as bunnies, is the scene of one of those parties that could not miss the coolest directors and performers of the time. The sequence was filmed in the authentic mansion, owned by billionaire Daren Metropoulos, who has also collaborated in financing the film.

GEORGE SPAHN

The owner of the Spahn Ranch, used for the filming of dozens of Westerns in the 50s and 60s, was also the owner of Charles Manson and his followers, a half-blind old man who welcomed them in exchange for the sexual favors of Manson's acolytes .

DAUGHTERS

In the distribution, the daughters of old acquaintances of Tarantino appear in secondary roles: Maya Hawke (daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke), Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore), Harley Quinn Smith (daughter of Kevin Smith), Margaret Qualley (daughter of Andie McDowell) ...

INTERCONNECTED

As in Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill , random pirouettes bring characters together and cause unexpected situations and connections. It is already suggested by one of the slogans of the film: «In Hollywood, everyone is connected».

JIPIS

In 1969 they were everywhere, hitchhiking at the intersections of Hollywood Boulevard, on the way to the Woodstock festival or making a dent in the film industry.

Khj

The radio station that Tarantino listened to at the time is almost as protagonist as the songs. «I remember how people listened to the radio in the car, you didn't have to tune in and look for one song or another, you could only listen to one station, you could hear it at full speed and you didn't turn down the volume when they put up ads. You simply spoke louder ».

LSD

The hallucinogenic touch of the film is borne by lysergic acid, the drug that swept through the 60s and 70s.

MARGARITAS

The favorite cocktail of alcoholic Rick Dalton (DiCaprio). In the bars they are asked two by two, at home they are prepared in XXL cups to drink while rehearsing the dialogues.

NARRATION

Unlike previous films in his filmography, the rhythm is leisurely and thoughtful and the events unfold almost linearly, without leaps forward and with brief flashbacks .

ORIGINALITY

In the era of remakes , reboots , sequels and spin-offs , Tarantino claims the value of the original scripts. In his own way, he also mocks movies based on real events. Tarantino's is a parallel universe, a Hollywood version of the 60s between pop and custom made pastiche.

Podophilia

Tarantino's fetishism with female feet is present again and in what way! It's almost a recurring joke rather than an author tick.

QUIJOTESCA

The relationship between Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) is similar to that of Quijote and Sancho Panza, the dreamer and the realist, loyal battle partners, often defeated but unaffordable to discouragement.

APPLE TOBACCO NETWORK

The final credits include a surprise in the form of an advertisement, quite different from those used by the Marvel franchise.

SERIES B

Low-budget films and minority genres run from the Tarantino bloodstream, from martial arts to western spaghetti or war cinema. Here are the tributes, quotes and winks to filmmakers like Sergio Corbucci, Phil Karlson or Tom Laughlin.

TV

It is the other bottomless pit that the director uses to put his memories into images, from series such as Lancer, The Green Hornet or FBI (with a traced plane of the original included).

LAST

For years, Tarantino has been threatening to stop directing when he shoots his tenth feature film. According to his calculations (which count the two parts of Kill Bill as a single film), this would be the ninth and so far has not ruled out that it is his final farewell to the cinema.

VIOLENCE

One of the hallmarks of Tarantinian filmography could not miss the appointment and does so in the most condensed and brutal way.

WEINSTEIN, HARVEY

It is Tarantino's first film without the support of the Miramax boss in production, after being denounced and indicted for sexual abuse against dozens of actresses.

SUCCESS X

At the moment it has only been released in the United States, placing second in the ranking of the highest grossing only behind the remake of The Lion King.

I

Tarantino, an egotist confessed, always manages to fill his reference scripts and anecdotes of his own life. Once upon a time in ... Hollywood , self-proclaimed as his "most personal movie," his childhood memories shape a Hollywood that is only at the head of the filmmaker.

ZÖE BELL

Since serving as a double Uma Thurman in Kill Bill , this specialist is one of Tarantino's fetish actresses. The double is a job that the filmmaker uses on a recurring basis, either in Death Proof or in this same film, in which Bell also served as a supervisor of action scenes.

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