The following article contains spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a purposefully fantastical rewriting of the infamous Manson Family murders. So it’s ironic that this alternate history is also one of the more honest depictions of America’s favorite true-crime legend, revealing the perception of Charles Manson as evil incarnate to be more sensationalized myth than fact.
When people learned the premise of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood revolved around the Manson murders, it raised some eyebrows. Tarantino himself expressed the care he took to avoid yet another distasteful scavenging of Sharon Tate’s tragic death to sell movie tickets — even managing to convince Tate’s sister that his approach would be unlike any other. Read more…
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