Quentin Tarantino on ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ ... the Book!
The Big Picture
The Ringer
4.2 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 119 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Ringers' Music Critic Rob Havilla curates and explores 60 iconic songs for the 90s that define the decade. |
| 0:05.9 | Rob is joined by a variety of guests to break it all down as they turn back the clock. |
| 0:10.1 | Check out 60 songs that explain the 90s exclusively on Spotify. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Sean Fennesy and this is the Big Picture a Conversation Show about once upon a time in Hollywood, |
| 0:26.1 | the novelization. Joining us today, live in the flesh to do so, is the author of that novel, |
| 0:31.1 | the writer, director, and my stro, Quentin Tarantino, joining me to talk to Quentin for several hours, |
| 0:37.3 | frankly, is Chris Ryan. Let's go right to our conversation with Quentin Tarantino. |
| 0:47.0 | Holy shit, we've got Quentin Tarantino on the show. |
| 0:49.0 | Quentin, thank you for being here. Good to be here, mate. |
| 0:51.2 | Chris, you and I both read this book in about four days. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah, it's a novelization of once upon a time in Hollywood, a film that you and I both loved. |
| 0:57.8 | Quentin, there's an obvious first question here. Why did you write a novelization of this movie |
| 1:01.9 | that just came out that everyone loved? I've always been a big fan of novelizations. They were like the, |
| 1:08.3 | the very first adult books that I ever read at like 11 or 12. And you know, back in the 70s, |
| 1:16.7 | you know, you go to the 711 and there would be the comic books and the spinner racks and then |
| 1:20.9 | there would be the paperback spin or racks and they would be filled with horror novels and crime |
| 1:25.8 | novels and romance novels and movie novelizations. And and some of the craziest move, |
| 1:32.0 | a meatballs has a novelization. It's quite moving. Yeah, I really kind of want to read the |
| 1:39.3 | meatballs novelization just to see exactly what they did. But the thing was though, I, I love them. |
| 1:47.0 | I thought they were really, really cool and some of them and actually I, |
| 1:53.8 | fairly an authority on them and and some of them are just a pretty much straight adaptation |
| 2:00.6 | prose version of the screenplay. But a lot of them are quite different. Oftentimes a lot of times |
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