I found his narration in Hateful 8 stranger than Russell’s here. Although it is odd that he pops up in the beginning to contradict the drunk driving claim, and then not again until the time skip and last act of the film.

Multiple accusations have been made about him raping underage girls, it’s possible he gets busted on a different one. And then, as Steve McQueen predicts in the film, Jay Sebring will be there for Sharon.

I think they’ll get a divorce. Partly due to Hollywood stereotypes, partly due to Rick’s immaturity and the lack of interaction between him & Francesca, lastly because the film ends with him leaving the house to drink with the Polanski friends. If your wife gets attacked, you should try to make sure you’re there for…

Manson didn’t send a backup car in case the first one failed.

I think the problem is that Tarantino himself is very much a product of that, and he really loves the 70s much more than the 50s.

I know many people compare Rick Dalton to Tarantino, but Tarantino is still quite successful. There was lots of competition from studios for him after the Weinsteins went under, he doesn’t have to go to Europe to film things like Woody Allen.

I know that some people have written that precisely because it’s been so long there may be young people now unfamiliar with those events.

I know the hippies are set up to be exploiting Spahn as far as Cliff would view things, but it also has Spahn show that he really is blind and just wants to have his TV time with Squeaky. Nobody else is going to take care of Spahn, to the menacing Manson crew don’t come across that way to him.

My understanding is that Inglourious Basterds takes place in his Realer Than Real universe, whereas Kill Bill takes place in his Movie Movie universe, as the sort of movie that a Realer Than Real character might watch.

I guess it’s been so long since I saw TGTB&TU that I didn’t pick up the similarity.

Tex says “I’m the Devil and I’m here to do the Devil’s work”. One of the other cultists yells at Tex to shoot Cliff and he cocks his revolver pointed at him right before Cliff sics Brandy on him. That’s about as justified as it gets.

It’s a little weak, but the switch isn’t just because they recognized him but also because he disrupted their earlier plan by coming out and ordering them to leave. He basically did all he could to mark himself as representative of what they hate.

I liked it, partly because I’d never seen any of Tate’s actual work and really only knew of her in the context of her murder. This film is (partly) about Tate living, so he wanted to show us the real Tate. Editing Rick into the Great Escape when his character didn’t even get to do that within the universe of the film…

I think that is part of some people’s problem. Bruce is like one of Rick Dalton’s heavies on a tv episode, there to get shown up and demonstrate how tough the hero is. They want to continue thinking of Bruce as the hero, not some jerk who got deservedly thrown into a car after needlessly picking a fight on a tv set.

After Jackie Brown he’s largely made schlock, but the bulk of this film indicates that he doesn’t have to.

I thought it was implied, although the film doesn’t come out and state it so people can consider it ambiguous. I will acknowledge that his refusal of Pussycat’s offer does paint him as someone who won’t violate certain rules (particularly towards women), although on the other hand his personal feelings toward his wife…

It would have been funny if the guy passed out partway through fixing the tire, so then Cliff had to do most of it himself.

They ask Cliff if anyone else in the house, and when he replies “In the back, sleeping”, Tex says “Go get him”, assuming it’s Rick instead of Francesca.

Shortly before seeing the film I listened to the Battleship Pretension podcast where they discussed this (and other movies they saw recently). I had already heard that Tate survived, but they mentioned Rick using a “blowtorch”, which is the sort of thing a civilian might actually have in their shed. I thought it might…

Shock-jock Tarantino definitely doesn’t have delicacy (at least not since Jackie Brown), but this particular film depends on the Manson stuff. I’d like for him to try making a 100% comedy, but this film has those Manson murders as its cornerstone.