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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel (edizione 2021)

di Quentin Tarantino (Autore)

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Narrated by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction ?? at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal ?? is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.

RICK DALTON ?? Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?

CLIFF BOOTH ?? Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .

SHARON TATE ?? She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.

CHARLES MANSON ?? The ex-con's got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he's their spiritual leader, but he'd trade it all to be a rock 'n' roll star.

HOLLYWOOD 1969 ?? YOU SH… (altro)

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Titolo:Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel
Autori:Quentin Tarantino (Autore)
Info:Harper Perennial (2021), 400 pages
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Pensándolo seriamente, si Quentin Tarantino decide un día dejar de hacer cine para convertirse en escritor, perderemos a un cineasta, pero ganaremos a un magnífico narrador en la literatura. El paso de Tarantino de la dirección a la escritura se siente como una transición natural luego de esos monstruosos guiones en Pulp Fiction (1994) y Inglourious Basterds (2009), por mencionar sólo dos ejemplos en una filmografía corta, pero certera. Érase una vez en Hollywood (2021) es una novela que expande y renueva el universo planteado en la película de 2019; nos encontramos de nuevo con las desventuras del actor en decadencia Rick Dalton y la vida marital de la encantadora Sharon Tate con Roman Polanski; sin embargo, el verdadero protagonista del relato es el doble de acción Cliff Booth, el personaje interpretado por Brad Pitt. Dividido por capítulos, en sus 400 páginas el libro agrega nuevas escenas que dan información sobre el pasado de Booth; sabremos si en verdad mató o no a su esposa y cómo fue que consiguió a la temible/adorable pitbull Brandy. Atiborrado de referencias a series de televisión, películas y nombres de actores/actrices de la época, Érase una vez en Hollywood resulta un deleite para los fanáticos del estilo del director, y demuestra lo que Tarantino ha decretado desde su primer ejercicio artístico en 1992: el cine no es sólo imagen, el guion es tan importante como el plano y es en los divertidos diálogos donde está la inconfundible marca de la casa. También hay la habitual violencia, música, western, muchos pies, e incluso algunas autorreferencias que van enlazando con cada capítulo una narración que divierte e intriga al mismo tiempo, revelando en sus minuciosas descripciones dónde decide poner Tarantino la cámara cuando llega al set. No cabe aquí la pregunta si la película es mejor que el libro o viceversa, la experiencia cinematográfica se enriquece de la literaria en un ameno viaje al corazón del Hollywood de finales de los 60. ( )
  armandoasis | Dec 11, 2022 |
Ce premier roman du scénariste et réalisateur Quentin Tarantino porte le même titre que son neuvième film. Il n'en est pas pour autant la novélisation, mais plutôt une vision complémentaire des scènes décrites dans le film. À travers ce roman, l'auteur approfondit ses personnages et y développe encore plus son amour pour le cinéma de la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle. Le plaisir de lecture est assez intense et d'autant plus si l'on a aimé le film et qu'on se le rappelle, ou qu'on le regarde à nouveau en parallèle de la lecture. On se prend à rêver que Quentin Tarantino prenne le temps d'écrire un roman sur chacun de ses huit précédents films. Un espoir quasiment vain. Il nous reste à nous plonger à nouveau dans ce roman, pour une seconde lecture sûrement tout aussi passionnante ! ( )
  Patangel | Sep 26, 2022 |
I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. It just might be the best film of the past decade, and just about my favorite one, though QT is always an easy sell with me. So of course I was going to buy and read his novel based on the film. Tarantino has never actually written and published a book before, so for us fans it was a big deal. Was it worth the price? Did it live up to expectations? Is Tarantino as good of a storyteller on the printed page as he is on the movie screen? I think every fan may have a different answer, for this book is very much written for the fans. If you haven’t seen the movie, you are really going to be in over your head reading it. This book, like the film, is definitely not plot driven, we simply hang with a set of characters for a set period of time in the Hollywood of 1969, get to know them, and wait for the inevitable conclusion when a certain group of hippie killers collide with a has-been TV western star and his loyal stuntman friend. Only in the book, that ending of the film is just mentioned in passing about halfway, for this is not a straight screen to page novelization of the film, but mainly a companion piece to it where the author/director fills in some back stories, and elaborates on what was happening behind the scenes.

In the book, we again meet up with Rick Dalton, the former star of Bounty Law, now reduced to guest spots on other actor’s shows and contemplating traveling to Italy and Spain to make spaghetti westerns for Sergio Corbucci, which Rick sees as the ultimate degradation, and Cliff Booth, a hero of WWII and veteran stuntman with some unsavory incidents in his past. We also spend some time with Sharon Tate, the beautiful starlet on the verge of major stardom, and married to the very hot director, thanks to Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski. And lurking around is Charles Manson, the leader of a hippie “family” made up of cast off and runway kids, the epitome of the counter culture, who in reality, just badly wanted to be a rock star, if only the powers that be wouldn’t keep brushing him off. We learn a lot about Rick’s early days in TV westerns and how the industry worked in those days, and Cliff’s background is fleshed out, and the question of whether he murdered his wife is answered. We meet up with Sharon in a flashback that poignantly recounts her journey from Texas to Los Angeles to seek her fortune in the movie business, and later on her visit to the movie theater where the Matt Helm film where she was a featured player is playing. There are some interesting anecdotes on TV in the ‘60s told by Rick that is clearly Tarantino just riffing on the past, and the same with a section where Cliff muses on his favorite foreign films that is clearly the author speaking. There are long passages where the pilot script of the western TV series Lancer is gone into in great detail, which makes it sound much more dramatic and interesting than a show that came in on the tail end of the TV western fad in the late ‘60s and soon faded into obscurity. Lots of now obscure names are dropped, everybody from George Maharis to George Peppard to Ty Hardin to Kaz Garas, and if you haven’t heard of them, they were big deals for a very short time in Hollywood long ago. There was a section on the excessive drinking habits of some famous actors of the time that is interesting if true. Tarantino often touches on how fleeting fame is in a cruel business that uses talent and throws it away. This is made plain in a sad encounter Cliff has in Spain with the wreck that was once Aldo Ray. Fame, attention, adoration and the wealth and sex that came with it was the measure that everyone was judged against, and once you’d obtained it, you were never free of the fear of losing it. And if you felt it slipping away, you scrambled and grabbed at anything which would get it back. In 1969, guys who wore pompadours and were big deals when Kennedy was President, now had to put on hippie wigs and fake moustaches in order to try and fit in among the long hairs and denims of a new Hollywood.

Though many readers have complained that parts of this book are indulgent, while other parts are just a wallow in a past that they know nothing about, I’m not among them. I totally dug the vibe of this book, and happily went along for the ride, trusting in where Tarantino was taking me. I like that Tarantino really has genuine affection for this time and place, and the people who made it so unique—the rising stars, the has-beens, and the never-weres. He doesn’t judge them, except for the truly evil Manson, he just asks us to take them as they were, and the stories their lives told. Other writers on this period would be quick to condemn the casual sexism, racism, homophobia, and “toxic masculinity,” of 1969, but Tarantino, never one to parade his virtue, lets the time and place speak for itself, and the reader take from it what they will. There’s a part of me that hopes he is not completely done with Rick and Cliff yet. Maybe a sequel that gives us a hint at what happened in the years ahead. Does the fame that would come after dispatching a gang of hippie killers lead Rick to a comeback? Does Cliff find a new career as a director of ‘70s action films?

And I really liked it that the book was produced like a mass market paperback from the era, always thought it was a mistake for the publishing industry to get away from that model. Like 1969, one more thing that came and went, and is fondly remembered. ( )
  wb4ever1 | Jul 6, 2022 |
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As a kid and teenager I read A LOT of movie novelisations. A lot of this was down to me inability to see the movies they were based on. In a world before VHS (in my house at least), missing something at the cinema meant missing it until it turned up on network TV. Plus there as the pesky fact that many of the films I really wanted to see were ones forbidden by my parents. Books, on the other hand, were always fair game. So whilst even the mildest horror films were out of reach, my local library had the books based on David Cronenberg’s fucked up body horror S&M nightmare ‘Videodrome’.
It would be fair to say then, that movie novelisations have given me a lot of reading pleasure over the years, but honestly, they’re generally companions to the movie they are based on, rather than independent works of art. Fans might rave about Alan Dean Foster’s ‘Alien’ adaptation, but the gulf between movie and book is far greater than book to movie conversions. No-one ever does ‘novels that were better than the films they were based on lists’.
So Quentin Tarantino’s novelisation of his film ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is a strange thing. Partly because movie novelisations aren’t really a thing any more, conversely because he’s a big name and it’s his first novel, also because it’s really kind of brilliant.
What makes it so good? Well most importantly it turns out Tarantino can write. I expected the dialogue to be good (because duh) but in reality it’s all good. Easy to read, inventive and fun. The words flow beautifully off the page and the story and characters grip.
Secondly, it’s very different from the film. Don’t get me wrong, a lot is the same, but the focus is different. The Manson family are less of a big deal. Cliff is the main character (rather than then dual billing that Pitt and DiCaprio had in the film), and also more of a dick than he seemed with Pitt’s grinning face slapped on his character.
Thirdly, the prose form allows Tarantino to indulge his film nerd side even more than the movie did. There are long sections in the book that read like articles from film journals. Some might find that off putting, but I kind of loved it. Even more so than the film, it feels like his love letter to Hollywood. The shift in focus away from Manson allows him to indulge that side even more and the result is a more tender piece. It still has a satisfying story to it, but it’s one more rooted in characters than action. Weirdly (and perhaps brilliantly) it ends up feeling like the book came first.





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  whatmeworry | Apr 9, 2022 |
Väldigt levande berättelse om Hollywood 1969. Både fram och baksidorna. Man känner igen Tarantinos stil från filmerna. Det enda som drar ner betygen från full pott är att den faktiskt inte riktigt handlar om någonting speciellt. ( )
  Mikael.Linder | Mar 20, 2022 |
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This book is dedicated to My Wife DANIELLA and My Son LEO Thanks for creating a happy home from which to write in. ALSO To all the actor Old Timers who told me tremendous stories about Hollywood in this period. And it's because of them that you hold this book in your hands now. Bruce Dern * David Carradine * Burt Reynolds * Robert Blake * Michael Parks * Robert Forster and especially Kurt Russell
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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML:

Narrated by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction ?? at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal ?? is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.

RICK DALTON ?? Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?

CLIFF BOOTH ?? Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .

SHARON TATE ?? She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.

CHARLES MANSON ?? The ex-con's got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he's their spiritual leader, but he'd trade it all to be a rock 'n' roll star.

HOLLYWOOD 1969 ?? YOU SH

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