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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- The First Novel by Quentin Tarantino
- Lu par : Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Durée : 12 h et 39 min
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Description
Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.
The sunlit studio back lots and the dark watering holes of Hollywood are the setting for this audacious, hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the movie colony, circa 1969.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tells the story of washed-up actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a famous Western called Bounty Law. But 'it ain't been that time in a long time' and now Rick's only regular parts are as the heavy, ready to be bested by whichever young 'swingin' dick' the networks want to make a new star out of come pilot season. When a talent agent approaches Rick about starring in Italian Westerns ('Eye-talian Westerns?'), it only ignites a new crisis of confidence for the perpetually insecure actor.
And then there's Rick's stunt double, Cliff Booth, a war hero who killed more Japanese soldiers during the Second World War than any other American and who never thought he'd make it back home. If Rick's career has stalled, Cliff's has flamed out. Already living under a cloud of suspicion after the strange death of his wife at sea, Cliff makes the mistake of picking the wrong fight on set and is soon reduced to the status of Rick's full-time gofer.
Right next door to Rick's still glamourous Benedict Canyon home ('the house that Bounty Law built') some Hollywood dreams are coming true, and these dreams belong to Sharon Tate. Not only is she Mrs. Roman Polanski - married to the only true rock-star director - but Sharon is fast becoming a star in her own right, living life on the upswing in a tough town.
Only a few miles away, in the desert around Chatsworth, lives a different kind of dreamer. Charles Manson is an ex-con who has spellbound a group of hippie misfits living with him in squalor on an old 'movie ranch'. Little do his young followers know to what degree Charlie himself is an industry striver, more desperate for Columbia Records and Tapes' attentions than for the revolution he preaches.
These indelible characters - and many more: an acting child prodigy beaming with hope; a booze-drenched former A-lister who's lost it all - occupy a vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant life. Here is 1969, the music, the cars, the movies and TV shows. And here is Hollywood, both the fairy tale and the real thing, as given to us by a master storyteller who knows it like the back of his hand.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 10/07/2021
Exceptional expansion on the film
The book provides the reader with a new level of depth on most of the characters - so much so as to almost shift Cliff Booth to centre stage as the main character. The story unfolds in an interesting way, often glancing over major plot points featured in the film in a matter-of-fact way, opting to focus more on character development, rather than entertaining action sequences. The odd (and somewhat controversial) chemistry between Rick and Trudi is well executed and is sure to warrant a few re-listens to dialogue scenes.
Jennifer Jason Leigh's narration places the listener right in the middle of the action. Her ties to the Taranrino-film world lends a level of authenticity which would have been lost otherwise.
Both the book and the film are stand-alone classics, but together they form a fantastically entertaining work of art which adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
Tarantino's maiden voyage into the literary world is an exceptional one. I look forward to many more exhilarating titles.
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- Lars Hurtig
- 12/11/2021
Ganz großes Kino
Ich kann dieses Hörbuch sehr empfehlen. Wer den Film gemocht hat, wird dieses Hörbuch lieben. Man erkennt wie sehr sich Quentin Tarantino mit dieser Materie befasst hat, wie sehr er die Filme und Schauspieler dieser Zeit kennt. Teilweise wird dies in Rezension als langatmig und überflüssig kritisiert. Mir persönlich hat es sehr gefallen mehr über diese Zeit (Hollywood der ausgehenden 60er, frühen 70er Jahre) zu erfahren. Man kennt die Charaktere bereits aus dem Film, erfährt aber deutlich mehr über sie, besonders zu über den Stundman Cliff Booth. Zu erwähnen ist noch, daß das Buch eine leicht andere Handlung hat, als der Film, was es für mich eher interessanter gemacht hat.
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- Christian Engels
- 17/09/2021
Please more by Jennifer Jason Leigh!!
Story has ups and downs, but you can't stop listening to Leigh. Great actress.
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- Ernst
- 29/07/2021
Great stuff
Enjoyed the book more then the film. Great writing. And well researched! Hopefully Tarantino will write more.
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