re: Just finished watching Once upon a time in Hollywood and I just don't get it

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I just don't understand the story Tarantino was trying to tell, that's all.

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Okay, the title is "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", so it's a fairy tale. It covers kind of the same ground Lynch did with Mulholland Drive, albeit from a different angle.

It is a simultaneous homage to the films of Sergio Leone, John Ford, Howard Hawks, etc., actors like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, but mostly the guys who didn't really hit it big or stay big. Plus the stuntmen who did a lot of hard work for little to no recognition. Plus, it is a statement on the end of the 1960s - that really strange period of time when we were landing on the Moon AND the Manson killings were underway.

A love letter to the Hollywood that wasn't, really, but most folks in the business wish existed. And not just the industry, the city in which QT grew up in.

That's the point.