Cinematic Storytelling:

Once Upon A Time In Holywood (2019)

This scene in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is loaded with meaning.

It felt like a moment in a horror movie.

I was really worried about Cliff Booth in this scene.

Then Tarantino breaks the tension with a very satisfying beatdown to a hippie.

On a little research I found out this is a representative of Clem Grogan.

Clem was one of the participants, along with Manson, Bruce Davis, and Tex Watson in the murder of ranch hand Donald "Shorty" Shea.

This scene is loaded with multiple meanings.

To Tarantino, as a filmmaker, film critic and film HISTORIAN, the late 1960s and early 1970s was a special time in cinema.

His personal golden age of cinema.

Till the Manson family came along and committed the Tate-LaBianca murders.

This event changed the culture of LA, and in turn changed the culture of filmmaking.

It ushered the age of the high concept filmmaking that would reach its peak in the 1980s.

This is also the beginnings of the merchandising-tie in.

In some ways Tarantino made a sci-fi film of alternate history with Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

In preventing the Tate-LaBianca murders, Tarantino is able to keep filmmaking in the path of the quirky independent filmmaking for a little longer.

Or perhaps forever

Watch the scene below.