when a great director creates his own genre, then subverts it

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The final Tarantino film will be Tarantino doing a parody of a Tarantino film about Tarantino films ... until it all collapses into a singularity of infinite Tarantino recursion parody.

They way I just watched this whole video without even moving a single inch from my chair and didn't get bored even for a single second shows how good the video actually is. Quentin is undoubtedly my favourite director of all time and this certainly is my favourite "Quentin Tarantino" video.

"Tarantino's style has almost become a genre in and of itself." You couldn't have said it better. Great video essay.

You just re-contextualized the entire movie for me and made me want to watch it again for the first time. Wonderful video!

You know, I never realized the character of Cliff is a deconstruction of the Hollywood action hero. He has all the traits: the athleticism, the nerves of steel, the looks, the violence, the expertise and the tragic backstory and yet he isn't any kind of hero, he is sad failure of a man that struggles to fit in anywhere. He's reviled by his equals and is only good for jumping out windows and fixing TV antennas. Damn.

Once Upon A Time is the closest we have to a true drama from Tarantino. Behind the layers of love for cinema history, the references, the suspense building from intersecting with the Manson family, the true story is the struggle within the characters. The plot revolves around the main question "Has the world went on without me?" "Am I important? Will I ever? Has I been and now i don't?". The cut scene when everybody congratulates Rick and he just cries in bliss always break me, It's not the face of success and breakthrough, but of reassuring himself. He is a tragic figure, and we make his journey alongside. Might be the most human of all of Quentin's films.

Tarantino has that special ability of getting great performances out of actors that no one expected had it in them, but also getting even better performances out of actors that people already knew were good. This is a quality that not all directors necessarily have, and it's one that we're seeing less of as this notion that a director's job is to "direct the camera" has taken over. It's truly going to be a loss for cinema if this guy really does retire.

I just can't believe this channel doesn't get as much recognition as it should.

Saw Once Upon A Time In Hollywood in the cinema with my father. Once it ended, he looked at me and said "I could have done with three more hours of that". I very much agreed with that statement

This is literally one of the greatest and best-edited video essays on a movie I've ever seen. You can tell the writer really loves Tarentino and I'm HERE FOR IT.

I think once upon a time is his best film as well. His films always have strong characterisation, but usually the characters are constructed to better service the narrative, whereas in once upon a time the narrative exists purely to better explore the characters, which is why it meandres all over the place. What stuck with me most about it was how much it contemplated insecurity, comparing yourself to others, and the source of happiness and fulfilment. I really didn't expect those themes from Tarantino, who seems so self-confident and opinionated. He was clearly in an introspective phase.

A film about a film about making films. This has some meta level quality to it!

After the animated scene in Kill Bill I've always wanted to see what a Tarantino anime would be like.

Once Upon a Time is the same genre as Inglorious Basterds in my mind, a historical fiction. Both cover a period of history with a Tarantino style and end with a fantasy reimagining of some event where a preferred outcome happens (the nazis being/ Manson murderers get killed)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Tarantino's Day for Night. Truffaut was the prototype for Tarantino. A man who loved movies so deeply that he played with genre and made the things he loved his own before making his masterpiece in one of the greatest movies about making movies.

you sir yourself arent half bad at makig videos

Man those side by side shots of the fake movies and their recreations is genius on a level I never realized before.

It IS better on re-watch. It's a little hard to define. It's incredibly self indulgent, but that's actually one of the things that makes it great (not usually a sign of greatness). But only truly after having seen it once and pieced it together will you become part of that indulgence, and at that point it's an incredibly laid back and fun film in many ways. I think it sits at the core of Tarantino's ode to cinema when all is said and done, and that's exactly what it was meant to do. In a weird way, watching it is like watching yourself watching a movie.

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