Tarantino Made This Movie For Me...and Me Alone

Its true.

Here's why.

ONE: I was alive in 1969. I'll bet that a bunch of you weren't even born for decades after that. And I wasn't a baby in 1969, either. I was an early teenager. That's old enough to remember 1969 pretty damn clearly.

TWO: I lived in Los Angeles in 1969. Even if some of you were alive in 1969, many of you probably didn't live in Los Angeles. So I knew those streets and freeways shown in OAITH.

THREE: I listened to KHJ radio in 1969, in Los Angeles. Even if some of you were alive in 1969, and lived in Los Angeles, maybe you didn't listen to "Ninety Three KHJ!" I listened to it every day. I didn't drive yet in 1969, but it was on the radio in my bedroom and sometimes in the car when my parents drove(at my request) and I'd take the radio up on the roof during lazy summer days with friends and it would be our "background music" (along with the patter of the "KHJ Boss Jocks" like Humble Harve and the Real Don Steele. )

FOUR: KHJ radio had a sister TV station called KHJ Channel 9. I watched that channel, which was "non-network and independent." The radio station would advertise movies which were going to be on KHJ TV that week. Hence, in OAITH, we get a close up of Al Pacino's Mercedes hood ornament as we hear the KHJ TV announcer(I recognized his voice) talk about a movie with Virna Lisi coming up later that week. Such memories!

(As it turns out, key to QT creating the mood for OAITH was his finding a cache of audio tapes from actual 93 KHJ broadcasts in the 60's. These included the Mug root beer commercial as Brad drives up to his trailer; the "macho" cologne commercial that plays over Polanski and Sharon Tate in their car; an Adam West/ Burt Ward Batman contest over the end credits, and the Virna Lisi movie ad. )

Best of all: on the shot of Pitt's car(well, Leo's car) making its "clean getaway" from the Spahnn Ranch, we hear on the car radio the "soft, slow version" of the KHJ radio jingle: "Nine...ty ...three K....H....JJJJJJ...) This signals "dusk and the end of the day" and cues up Jose Feliciano's California Dreamin' over Sharon Tate leaving the movie theater and Cliff picking up Rick at the end of the day.

FIVE: I couldn't drive in 1969, but in a few years, I could and...I drove those same freeways as Brad Pitt drives...and on Hollywood Boulevard as he drives. Almost as fast.

SIX: The movie shows the Cinerama Dome lighting up for the night ("Krakatoa: East of Java" is playing.) I saw a few big roadshow attractions there, including Khartoum, in the 60's.

SEVEN: I know exactly where I was when I learned that Sharon Tate and friends had been slaughtered. Coming out of a movie theater having seen the rather lousy film "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies" with Tony Curtis. They had "late afternoon editions" of newspapers then, and on the street was a paper with "SHARON TATE MURDERED." Shocking news. And a scary few months before the killers were caught.

And so...I hope that the rest of you enjoyed this movie, but as you can see, Tarantino made this movie for me, and me alone.

Or is there somebody else here from 1969 Los Angeles?