Linda is too scared to go with the other three and takes the car keys and drives off leaving them. I had heard some Manson followers had actually said this. Then psycho Sadie goes on a rant about how TV showed her generation how to kill by showing murders every week on the small screen. When Rick goes into the house, the killers suddenly realize that he was the star of the TV show "Bounty Law". Then Rick hears them driving up and has an angry altercation with them, then I was a bit surprised that real life characters were suddenly intermingling with fictional characters on a night when a horrible historic moment happened. I knew what was coming and was dreading this moment, I was hoping that Tarantino would not show the gruesome murders but I was preparing myself. Then Manson followers Charles "Tex" Watson, Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel, Susan "Sadie" Atkins and Linda Kasabian are driving up the road. Sharon Tate and some of her friends arrive at her home (which is right next door to Rick) to spend the evening together. Cliff and his faithful pit bull Brandy are staying the night at Rick's house. Rick has returned from several months filming some spaghetti westerns in Italy.He has also gotten married to an Italian actress. The final act comes up for the biggest shock of all. Cliff is still suspicious but leaves the ranch. He finds him now old and blind (Bruce Dern in a great cameo) but at least alive. Cliff is concerned about his old friend George and demands to see him. Her vacant eyes and cold manner make for some suspenseful moments. Dakota Fanning (I did not recognize her) plays Squeaky, one of the real life Manson girls. The scenes at the ranch are quietly disturbing. Cliff sees a bunch of mostly hippie girls hanging around and asks if George Spahn the original owner of the ranch still lives there. I have read nearly everything about the Manson case, so I knew where it was going now. The film starts to turn dark when Cliff picks up a teenage girl hitchhiker who wants to be taken to Spahn Ranch, a run down movie set where he once worked. We see actual clips of the movie, (with the real Sharon Tate) and cuts back to her reactions, she becomes delighted when the audience laughs at her comedy bits and applauds at her fight scene with Nancy Kwan. One of my favorite scenes is when she goes to a movie theater to watch "The Wrecking Crew" a film she made in 1968 with Dean Martin. We see not only how beautiful she was but also how good and kind she was as well. Tate unfortunately is best known today as the most famous of the Manson family murder victims. Margot Robbie has an almost magical presence playing actress Sharon Tate. ![]() The late Luke Perry has his final film appearance in these scenes also. ![]() Dalton has some funny and touching scenes opposite a precocious 8 year old actress while doing the "Lancer" episode. An actual series "Lancer" is recreated here, I never saw this show when it aired since it was on up against "The Mod Squad" in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dalton is now playing guest role villains on TV. ![]() There is good recreations of TV westerns of the time, Dalton had been the star of "Bounty Law" a show that never existed but is clearly based on Steve McQueen's "Wanted Dead Or Alive" series. They also represent doubles of each other in real life, though Dalton is angry and frustrated at his failings in life while Booth is perfectly happy to be his pal's gopher and handyman. Pitt plays Cliff Booth his stunt double/driver and all around best bud. Dicaprio is Rick Dalton, a TV cowboy actor who longs for movie stardom but has now hit the skids. Leonard Dicaprio and Brad Pitt give career high performances. The movie is set in the Hollywood of 1969, just before the brutal Manson family murders. I have seen this film twice in the last two days, I probably will see it many more times.Tarantino has shocked and surprised me before, but this was the biggest shock of all.
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