Why Once Upon a Time In Hollywood Might Be The Best Tarantino Movie Yet

You may or may not
have heard somewhere on the internet, but legendary film maker Quentin
Tarantino is making a new movie this year. As usual, the expectations are
freakishly high, but there’s several reasons why we can assume that Tarantino’s
latest effort will probably be his best to date.

Naturally, it’s not
the first time this has been said about one of his movies, so we should
probably break down the arguments we can find all over the internet (apart from
the amazing score on RottenTomatoes) and see if it’ll hold up or not.

It Might Be His
Last Movie

I know, this is a
pretty lame reason to start with, since every movie before this one might have
been his last one before the next one was made. That said, this is the first
time Tarantino himself is being vague about whether he’ll make another movie,
and why would he end his career on a low?

It’s A Movie About
Movies

Consider this movie
less of a regular film but more of Tarantino writing a very long love letter to
the art form he’s been a part of for so long.

It Has
Non-Fictional Elements To It

The movie has Roman
Polanski and Sharon Tate in it – in 1969, the year that the latter was murdered
by Charles Manson, no less. It also includes the Playboy Mansion and references
dozens of things that were going on in the late 60’s.

The Cast Is Amazing

Tarantino always
manages to get great actors for his movies, but this one stars Brad Pitt, Leo
DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, … And I’m sure there’ll be some Tarantino alumni to
surprise us in the movie left and right.

It’s Freakishly
Long

The movie is almost
three hours, which means that after Avengers:
Endgame, we’re dealing with a second “epic conclusion” movie. Well, if this
one concludes Tarantino’s career as a movie director, that is.

There Was Much Secrecy About It

Granted, Tarantino’s
last movies all had leaked scripts before release, but this one took the
Marvel-approach: much like in the long runtime, only a singular copy of the
entire script was made and only Tarantino had access to the full script of the
movie.