It's an idealized Romantic snap shot of Hollywood and the world when it was arguably at it's peak late 60's before it all fell to shit
It's not really about plot but if you really want one then it's Daltons redemption. The film shows how Hollywood disgard of their unwanted Actors and when we meet Dalton he is going through the process. Rather than simply boot out the people they don't want they put them through a degrading drawn out affair where they use the star power to bring on a new studio up and comer similar to WWE
So Dalton has this realisation and after encountering the young girl decides to go down fighting. Leading to him having to really act rather than stand around pretty dressed as a cowboy like he was used to. All of this is fantastically played by Di Caprio in his best ever role IMO.
Then you have Brad Pitt, for as good looking as he is and famous i find his films and his acting rather boring. QT knows exactly how to use him, get your shirt off get those shades on and just look super cools stop pretending your an Actor.
It took me 3 times to like this myself first two went over my head before it clicked. Agree the Margot Robbie scenes are shite but Di Caprio,Pitt, the chemisrty, dialog, sountrack, reacreation of that era and underlying bittersweet message really hit home for me.
You aren't getting films like this again, Movie stars are going extinct proper cinema is going extinct this film feels like a goodbye
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stickman38 (3018)
a month ago
That's a great analysis of the film, Lucia. I agree with everything, except for the Sharon Tate/Margot Robbie scenes. I thought it was a really sweet moment when they showed her doing things that Sharon would have probably done if still alive. It was a great snap shot of Hollywood from a bygone era. The nostalgic feeling of this film is amazing, maybe one of the best I've seen in a movie. I really liked this film a lot.
The Tate scenes almost brought tears to my eyes. lol.. I know, it sounds corny but some movies will have this effect on people. Pitt and Di Caprio are really good in this too. And yep, Pitt is a movie star and not exactly an actor. He's pretty good at 'tough guy' roles though. He was good in that WWII film, Fury. He plays a tank commander and a rather convincing one at that. Have you seen it? It's not exactly a great film in my opinion but it's got some pretty intense battle scenes.
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Lucia2016 (520)
a month ago
The part that always gets me is when the sun is going down and Out of time plays, or it might be California Dream maybe both need to watch it again. It's in one part totally totally Romantic in the shots of the City the style and laid back attitude of Pitt but at same time like the sun is literally going down from that way of life.
The Hippy carefree attitude soon to be replaced by a depressed angry one
No i haven't seen fury War films are my least favourite genre a lot of it is history rewriting propaganda and they are slow and miserable but i did hear it was good. He is great in certain films but when tries to to serious philosophical super deep stuff like Babel and tree of life i think he's wasted
He should be like a Steve Mcqueen
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