Tarantino took his title from Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time films, and his hero Rick Dalton goes to Italy to make spaghetti westerns.
Film· 2019· Drama
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
What influenced Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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Quentin Tarantino digitally places Rick Dalton into The Great Escape, in Steve McQueen's part, to show the role Dalton nearly got.
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History
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Real-world influenceHIGH
- Manson Family murders
The film is set in Los Angeles in 1969 around Sharon Tate and the Manson Family, and builds to the night of the Tate murders.