Pussycat once upon a time in hollywood movie#
Pussycat once upon a time in hollywood tv#

Roman is coming off Rosemarys baby and is establishing himself as one of the first auteurs outside that studio system. Roman and Sharon represent new Hollywood. The people who thrives in the golden age of Hollywood have to adapt or ultimately give up. He’s a war hero and killer but the war is old news and stunt doubles are giving way to new age action stars like Bruce Lee.

Pussycat once upon a time in hollywood tv#

Rick Dalton is an aging tv star who has tried to get tv but ultimately isn’t Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood and is destined to be slowly forgotten. It really is about people living through the changing of the guard. I haven’t read it, just passing on what I’ve heard in podcasts. Readers of this thread might like to know that a few months ago Tarantino wrote a novelization of Once… which expands (or even has alternate versions) of some events, and fills in gaps. Perhaps it’s a reminder that charismatic badasses like Brad Pitt can be flawed or terrible people too.

As u/SisterRayRomano pointed point, it’s an allusion to Robert Wagner. Although… perhaps through Sharon he’ll meet Polanski and have a second coming, ala Travolta?Īs for why Booth may or may not have murdered his wife - I don’t think every single incident has to necessarily support the theme I’ve been describing.

Pussycat once upon a time in hollywood movie#

When Pacino’s producer character first told him that villain of the week roles in Italy was the best he could do, Dalton was incredibly frustrated but by the end of the movie he’s accepted this. I think Dalton definitely did well to resurrect his career, but it’s a notch down in terms of superstardom. In my headcanon, in this universe Bruce Lee does not die, and lives to see the success of Enter the Dragon. I think another way of reading his survival underscores the admission that this is a fairytale fantasy, and that in real life, very bad people exist and get away with horrible things. One reading is that he’s simply a red herring. I think Manson’s presence is really open to interpretation. Old-school Booth battles the hippies who have taken over his old stomping grounds, but there is the feeling that his kind are on the way out, and the hippy revolution is just around the corner. Dalton, once a leading man in his own TV series, is struggling against changing tastes and the next generation of actors. The parallel plotlines of Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth suggest that the industry and the culture was already changing, and that change is inevitable. However, the title acknowledges that this is all a fairy tale. Tate’s murder symbolized a loss of innocence that changed the industry forever.

Once… is Tarantino’s tribute to what he saw as a golden time in Hollywood.