Author: Quentin Tarantino
Genres: TV & Movie Tie-In, Fiction, action, adventure, Movie Industry
You surely watched the movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Now read the book and find out all the missing stuff and thoughts of characters that you can never see on a screen.
If you are a Tarantino fan, then for you this book is already recommended and points are a hundred out of a hundred. But For others… you can continue reading the review.
The book is enjoyable; with various parallel (and eventually intersecting) tales that lead to what I can only imagine is the start of the film. And, if the reader has some historical knowledge, and watched the movie already, then they will know what happens following The Last Chapter.
Tarantino effortlessly mixes history and fiction, leaving you wondering, about Bruce Lee and military and many other things, and then you’ll ask yourself about reality and fiction. Was that real in the movie or just the imagination of Tarantino?
The reader gets insider terminology and gets behind-the-scenes access to locations, people, and historical events that are only known to a very few elite Hollywood insiders. It's probably for the best that the majority of the characters in the book are deceased. They'd probably have something to say about how they're portrayed. Lots of it made me angry, but I calmed myself by saying it is just a book and a movie so just enjoy the comedy and book and in the case of the movie, the acting.
This review can go on and on but better you read the book and watch the movie if until now you didn’t. In summary, it’s about how Hollywood and the industry use a person and spits him/her out and the fakeness and other stories that are related to the writer and nod to his favorite movies, personalities, and other stuff from his life like his father. Still a good read and an enjoyable story and situation.
From The Back Cover:
“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 SHOULDA BEEN THERE”
I was going to give a hundred points but for what they tried to do with a real-life legend Bruce Lee, I am not going to give full points but still, it’s a hundred percent recommended read. Just don’t get angry if you are a fan of the great legend Bruce Lee and think of it as an attempt at getting more people talking about the movie and watch it; in simple words a cheap trick for publicity.
Rating: 90/100
Recommended: 100/100 YES.
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A Promised Land - Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt - Giles Goat-Boy - James Herriot's Dog Stories - Rich Dad Poor Dad - Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography - The Last Templar - The Book of Flying - Queen Of Egypt - Pharaoh's Destruction - A Non-Fiction Writing Machine - IMPROBABLE - The Eight - The Millionaire Next Door - Riley Thorn And The Dead Guy Next Door - Atomic Habits - DUNE - The False Mirror - From the Corner of His Eye - Nightmares & Dreamscapes - Captain Sinbad - Jaws of Darkness - JAWS - The Fifth Angel - Papillon - Nine Lives - The Doomsday Conspiracy - The Da Vinci Code - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - The Last Thing He Told Me
