I thought this film was very disrespectful to hippies
It made them out to be, like, murderous psychos or something.
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A bunch of god-damn fuckin' hippies...
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Far out, man!
share Jay Sebring: Is everybody okay?
Rick Dalton: Well... the fuckin' hippies aren't. That's for goddamn sure.
No hippie chick!
shareAnd you were on a horsey….
shareI thought the same thing. He’s showing a time period when most young people, even Vietnam vets and older Hollywood actors were all hippies. And it’s QT’s favorite time period.
But that hippy element is completely absent from this movie - that part of LA in 1969 when everyone looked like Jim Morrison. And although the killers were a crazed hippy cult, the victims were definitely hippies as well - so was McQueen. But in QT’s alternate universe, it was down to the two older macho guys that looked like Dan August TV show to save the day.
It was all completely intentional. 69 was the year of the Manson Murders and Altamont, when the free-wheeling aspect changed, the bloom off the flower. He's weaving an alt-history epic, where the old is gently brought into the new. Like the title says, its a fairy tale.
But I absolutely loved it.
I’d say 1972 was the end of the 60s. Just like 1962 was end of the 50s. Godfather 1970 - was the beginning of a new era in cinema.
I don’t think Sharon was well represented here and the scene with Bruce Lee made my skin crawl. Pitt and DiCaprio did such a good job portraying those reactionary characters.
Disrespectful to hippies, imo, absolutely not, our perspective as we view the film is primarily through the lens of two individuals who are in the midst of a watershed moment in time and as such, they, being Clint and Rick, feel threatened as a great many people do when younger generations settle in and establish the relative time as their own.
Now I’m not condoning the feelings, or actions taken by those who act inappropriately in the face of change, I’m simply stating that the lens that we are viewing the hippies through is meant to serve as a contrasting element to that of Clint and Rick and nothing more.
Kind of.
“If only the old-line Hollywood people of the fifties and sixties had maintained their pride of place—if only the times hadn’t changed, if only the keys to the kingdom hadn’t been handed over to the freethinkers and decadents of the sixties—then both Hollywood and the world would be a better, safer, happier place. There’s no slur delivered more bitterly by Cliff and Rick than ‘hippie,’ and their narrow but intense experiences in the course of the film are set up to bear out the absolute aptness of their hostility.” The New Yorker 7/27/2019.