Once Upon A Time in 1969

Now I was not around in 1969.

But I have a feeling that Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is gonna make me feel as though I was.

And I can't wait.

Because as I look around at current film culture, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are two of the very few larger-than-life movie stars we have left.

Guys who can still cultivate good old movie-star mystique.

Guys who we don't know everything about just by looking at our phones, social media or TMZ.

In their respective roles as fading star Rick Dalton and Dalton's longtime stunt double/buddy Cliff Booth, they sure do evoke the classic buddy movie vibe of Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Here is the trailer for Newman and Redford's classic movie Butch Cassidy and The  Sundance Kid, from 1969:




Both Hollywood and Butch share filmic DNA strands about the last gasps of soon-to-be bygone eras. And in Hollywood's director Quentin Tarantino, we have a man who thinks in widescreen 70 mm canvasses, as seen in this trailer for The Hateful Eight, from 2016:




Tarantino also has the screen writing chops to add a real layer of believability and authenticity to the proceedings. Unfortunately, the controversial aspect will be how the inclusion of real-life actress Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie, is handled in the script, which features her moving in next door to DiCaprio's Dalton. By all accounts, Tate was a talented actress and sweet gentle soul, who in no way deserved the brutal slaying she got at the hands of the lunatic Manson family on August 9, 1969.

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