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I enjoy Quentin Tarantino's Movies, but I wasn't a huge fan of this movie. I strongly disliked the entire Manson Family plot. However, I really enjoyed Leonardo Dicaprios storyline. I thought it was the only real story in the film. So I decided to cut out EVERYTHING about the Manson family and have the movie be strickly centered around Leo/Rick Dalton.
The film is now tighter at 93 minutes. The movie starts with Leo being a washed up actor in Hollywood who admires Sharon Tate, his next door neighbor. He gets a job on a TV pilot and we watch him struggle, but eventually he regains his confidence and finds new success. The only apperiance by the hippies is when Cliff sees them crossing the road when they are driving back home, and in the flashbacks involving buying the acid cigarette.
Most of Brad Pitts scenes without Leo are cut. Including him fixing the antenna, the flashbacks to him "killing his wife" and his fight against Bruce Lee, a lot of his scenes driving and his scene alone at his trailer.
A lot of Sharon Tate was also cut. We see her arrive at her house in the beginning, then in the middle when Rick has his emotional breakdown, when she drives to the movie theater and looks at her movie poster and then at the very end. Everything with her going in to see her movie, or going to the playboy mansion, or anything at her house is cut from this version.
Instead of the Manson family breaking in, Cliff simply gets high on the acid cigarrette after walking his dog and passes out. After that Rick talks to the guy at Sharons gate, the discussion about the break in is complety cut. Rick simply introduces himself to the guy, Sharon says hello on the speaker and invites Rick in to meet her friends.
Inorder to get this film to remain feature length I added most of the deleted and extended scenes back into the movie, including the full scenes of Bounty Law and the Green door song, the Meeting the two Brothers scene and Rick and the director talking on set. The Charles Manson deleted scene is obviously not included.
The movie is still very much a slow burn, but I think at 93 minutes that is much more tolerable. It is the story of a struggling actor and we really get to be there with him on set and that is something I think the drawn out nature of the scenes really accomplishes.
The film is now tighter at 93 minutes. The movie starts with Leo being a washed up actor in Hollywood who admires Sharon Tate, his next door neighbor. He gets a job on a TV pilot and we watch him struggle, but eventually he regains his confidence and finds new success. The only apperiance by the hippies is when Cliff sees them crossing the road when they are driving back home, and in the flashbacks involving buying the acid cigarette.
Most of Brad Pitts scenes without Leo are cut. Including him fixing the antenna, the flashbacks to him "killing his wife" and his fight against Bruce Lee, a lot of his scenes driving and his scene alone at his trailer.
A lot of Sharon Tate was also cut. We see her arrive at her house in the beginning, then in the middle when Rick has his emotional breakdown, when she drives to the movie theater and looks at her movie poster and then at the very end. Everything with her going in to see her movie, or going to the playboy mansion, or anything at her house is cut from this version.
Instead of the Manson family breaking in, Cliff simply gets high on the acid cigarrette after walking his dog and passes out. After that Rick talks to the guy at Sharons gate, the discussion about the break in is complety cut. Rick simply introduces himself to the guy, Sharon says hello on the speaker and invites Rick in to meet her friends.
Inorder to get this film to remain feature length I added most of the deleted and extended scenes back into the movie, including the full scenes of Bounty Law and the Green door song, the Meeting the two Brothers scene and Rick and the director talking on set. The Charles Manson deleted scene is obviously not included.
The movie is still very much a slow burn, but I think at 93 minutes that is much more tolerable. It is the story of a struggling actor and we really get to be there with him on set and that is something I think the drawn out nature of the scenes really accomplishes.