'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' and the end of Tarantino OnceUponATimeInHollywood
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. It’s a tribute to the woman, not as a victim, but as an actress, a talented one on the rise. Within this meta moment of an actress playing Tate watching the real Sharon Tate resides the soul of Tarantino’s latest film. The legacy of a filmmaker, and all the jobs that entails, goes beyond the art they make and we consume. Their real legacy suggests a usefulness that lives beyond the roles they are expected to play.
Likewise, silence becomes crucial when Cliff strolls through Spahn Ranch. Music, both diegetic and non-diegetic, drops out in order to suggest a complete lack of life within that space, except for a fuzzy black and white television owned by a blind man, and watched by a cult deaf to the real concerns of the outside world. Once a set for movies and television, Spahn Ranch is a pop culture black hole in the midst of a cult consumed by, and succeeding in, becoming part of pop culture.
Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth’s drowning optimism concerning their careers in the rapidly changing Hollywood are kept buoyant by Tate’s brief though important appearances throughout the film as a kind of manifestation of the Hollywood dream. She’s the divine spirit within the hills, and Rick and Cliff ultimately need her as much as she needs them. The film repeatedly goes back to the idea of usefulness.
When we think of Tarantino, we often think of him through the lens of exploitation cinema. It’s this factor that has perhaps led some viewers to referas Tarantino’s least Tarantino film. Yet that is a limited window through which to view the filmmaker, and if anything, the latest Tarantino is the most Tarantino.
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