Soupçon of P, then moccasin anorak, then flight of fancy

[peterthooper at juno.com]

Once upon a time in Hollywood 
Not spoilers exactly but, well, tmi if you haven’t seen it









A) the Manson character reminds me a lot of Doc in IV the movie. Evil encroaching on the goofy hippie persona headspace, treated in IV the book. 

B) Brad Pitt’s shoes are being touted on the Minnetonka website, and in fact are back ordered due to demand.
https://www.minnetonkamoccasin.com/men/styles/boots/classic-fringe-softsole-boot-men

 reason I noticed is that in 1969 I wanted a pair of them with soft soles because they look so much cooler that way, but knew they would wear out in no time on pavement and hard floors.
Also, in all my experiments with soft soles, the uppers and soles get misaligned, though I don’t think I have a particularly twisted gait. Even Mr Pitt was unable to avoid a bit of twistage, though it’s minimal.

Had some props manager given me them instead of (pre workforce) needing to justify them to Hooper Senior, certainly would’ve worn them out in about two weeks, feeling pretty cool. 

So the nostalgia I feel for then was tempered by even then having nostalgia for an unpaved  America where they would’ve lasted longer.

Is it tempered or intensified, though? I guess tempered if you hook up the nostalgias in parallel, and intensified if you connect them in series. But little moments like that and the songs and commercials (“Sun-in, and sunlight, and you’ll be blonder tonight” or the opening bars of “Mrs Robinson”) are really savory touches.

Saw it twice, the first time without reading much criticism if any and developing my thought and reactions ... the second time after reading some of the objections and interpretation and watching some interviews and stuff and it was as usual, I like my own interpretation better than any of the critics but I already had that from the first time, so I started thinking how I would diverge from what he did, my own humble non-director’s edit.

Ended up leaving to pretend I was doing that, well also I just wanted a stroll outside but it was after midnight and they weren’t going to let me back in, and was rewarded by a whole bunch of really great tunes on the car radio and thinking “okay, first off I would’ve done a part one and part 2, both under 2 hours. Secondly, I guess I would’ve kept the sweetness and light image of Tate and Polanski - as one of the reviews pointed out, the ellipsis in the title and the title itself points to a sort of fairy tale ethos.
Third - obviously - I’d follow Cliff and Rick quite a bit farther, in the same directions indicated by Mr T with no further complications per se but developments, locking in the friendship with the people in the big house up Cielo Drive, but also - I mean, this is a QT joint - Rick goes to the hospital the next day, brings bagels, and the 2 of them bring that flamethrower to the Spahn Movie Ranch - o-or Charlie sends more weaponized nymphets at the Dalton compound,  (obviously some complications would have to ensue to get everything done and nobody in trouble, but heck, you’ve got Brad Pitt and Leonardo DeCaprio and Cielo Drive and the Spahn Ranch and they would probably let you wreak all kinds of mayhem on Hollywood Blvd that he barely burnished the surface of! And you could do a more puissant second intervention on the Spahn guy and get your money’s worth from Bruce Dern!”)

Yeah, I get that his vision is different from that, and I think it is a pretty darn good flick actually as it is. But even if you didn’t want to go that whole route, you could still split it in two 100 minute pics, and at least bring Al Pacino back towards the end with another meaty restaurant scene (I suppose I’d find it hard to get backers who’d sign off on him borrowing the flamethrower for a Götterdämmerung at the Spahn Ranch. <sigh>)
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