Hopefully it's not another glorified screenplay

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I like that scene of the person crawling backwards
Feels ominous

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I read the novelization of OUATIH. Should've remained a screenplay cus it damn sure ain't a novel. It's like almost every single instance I read of where prose was supposed to be, you'd find setup for a scene to guide you to the next exchange of dialogue. Prose was very lacking. Oh and Cliff Booth is far from charming in it, unlike in the film

I heard he wrote the screenplay originally as a novel first, then molded it into a screenplay and then probably remolded it back into a novel when it was time to release the book

Just imagine the setting portion in a screenplay, along with what the people are wearing in the scene. That was the prose in the book. The fun of reading a novel is character interiority and for the most part, QT foregos that or doesn't explore it in interesting ways. He's very much zeroed in on the characters exchanging words but that's really it

That’s interesting cus I’d imagine he’d wanna take that opportunity to dive deep into the characters since he’s big on character creation and backstories.

You know what’s funny? When it comes to actual screenplays he’s known for over writing his actions lines and descriptions when it should be a little more simple.

So sounds like he’s stuck in an uncomfortable middle? Where he doesn’t explore enough for prose but he explores too much for screenplay

He still gets caught up in the weeds when it comes to over describing some parts of the book like the show Lancer in the book has a lil too much time dedicated to it (and you can tell it's cus QT loves him some Westerns lol). I could tell he struggles with underwriting parts that could potentially flesh out his characters, and overwriting when it comes to superfluous detail

I’m a Fincher fan. He’s actually one of my fav directors. I’m hip to how his films look, but they seem to be getting worse lol

im nervous about this guys lol

fincher been gone since mindhunter ended, no way this isn't trash

that Hollywood novelization was 50% the movie script and 50% using Cliff Booth as a mouthpiece for Tarantino's reviews and musings on films from the era

For sure. And it's not even like I was expecting Cormac McCarthy but damn...

The Killer was fantastic and has grown on me immensely

I urge you to give it a rewatch (or two)

But yes, this doesn't look great so far

Tarantino movies also feel like certified screenplays

Most underrated movie of the decade

looks dope

the killer is a fun genre piece, and mank is also a great film

guess you can say that i wank for mank

Yeah I rewatched recently, great movie fr and I remember not liking it much at first when it dropped.

I plan to watch Mank too, I didn't even know it existed until like last year I think lol

Murder, blackmail, theft, extortion — just another summer in Hollywood. It’s 1977, eight years since Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) encountered the Manson family in Quentin Tarantino’s parallel history of 1969, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” In THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH, directed by David Fincher from a new script by Tarantino, the fairytale is over. Los Angeles no longer needs a hippie-slaying stuntman the way it did. But Hollywood will always have problems, problems that can only be solved by someone with Cliff’s unique (occasionally extralegal) abilities. When he’s not earning his keep bartending or as a projectionist, Cliff Booth is a fixer — solving situations for Hollywood’s great and, sometimes, not so good.

He’s curious when he gets a call from talent agent Karen Crosby (Elizabeth Debicki), on behalf of her client, TV megastar Charlie Peters (Scott Caan) — a man known for doing his own stunts. And he’s further entertained and intrigued when he meets other characters in Charlie’s world, from his knowing wife Toni (Carla Gugino) to pro football champion turned screen star Roderick “Hot Rod” Harrison (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Then there are the Verdusco brothers (Matt Groove and JB Tadena), mysterious gangsters causing mayhem across the city. What was once a fairytale is now a crime story — a cocktail of violence, ambition, and desire that could only happen in LA.