FILMS
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD One of the many misconceptions about Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film is that it would be cast in the mould of his idol Sergio Leone’s epic revenge western Once Upon A Time In The West (1968). It definitely has that film’s sweep and the scale, yet Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood never attempts to reach the darkly dramatic, operatic heights that Leone strove for. Instead, it is something altogether more intimate, a seductive and immersive hangout movie that carries its pop-culture baggage in much more discreet and polished packages than we’ve perhaps seen from Tarantino before.
The first two-thirds of the movie is a Pulp Fiction-style back-and-forth covering the first weekend of February 1969. Fading TV star Rick Dalton is preparing for his latest gig, playing the heavy in an episode of TV western Lancer, leaving his now unemployed stuntman and gofer Cliff Booth to run
