This article will explore gender-enforced roles in the film. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood denounces the importance of telling female-driven stories in film by replacing them with male-driven narratives. In saving Tate’s life, the film’s narrative shifts from one about redemption against a terrible crime, to one about saving a fragile male ego.ĭiCaprio and Pitt’s fictional characters reinforced gender norms. Instead, he uses the characters of Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth to take Tate’s agency away in the final moments of the film, in order to redeem a story of male aging in Hollywood. And he did, but he used two fictional male characters to do it Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth (Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt).īy creating a fictional narrative around the 1969 Manson Murders, Tarantino is denying not just Sharon Tate’s voice, but female-driven narratives in general. Fans and critics assumed Tarantino would use his ode to 1960s Hollywood to change the fate of Tate and the others that were killed that night in August 1969.
Many thought that Tarantino’s retelling of this time in Hollywood would be a chance for him to do what he does best rewrite history to right wrongs. Her death is sited as the end of the 60s, but no one really knows anything about her beyond that. More specifically, the missed opportunity to give tragically-slain actress Sharon Tate a voice.
Of course, the reporter was really referring to the criticism of how Tarantino treats women in the film. One could argue that it’s a career-long one for Tarantino, in which his ability to write about and work with women is questioned. Tarantino responded, “I reject your hypothesis.” What hypothesis was that? At the last Cannes International Film Festival during a press conference for Once Upon A Time…Hollywood, a reporter asked Quentin Tarantino why actress Margot Robbie had so little screen time and dialogue as Sharon Tate.
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