tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236775104970910344.post1264180542221873151..comments2023-10-10T09:24:33.714-03:00Comments on bloody terror: Going to See Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood … AgainDave Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394730675283743852noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236775104970910344.post-14947804310614050352021-06-04T12:25:34.774-03:002021-06-04T12:25:34.774-03:00The entire Manson legend is a dreadful thing that ...The entire Manson legend is a dreadful thing that has haunted me since childhood of hearing about it (my elementary schooling was in the 70's), then coming at it from another angle in my later obsession with The Beatles, and then just documentaries and even with watching the films of Roman Polanski which grounded in reality... just nightmarish and sickeningly violent in inhumane.<br /><br /><br />But that's why this film worked for me in it's ending. I was in dread of that conclusion the entire time, there was that feeling brewing whenever it turned to the cult members and their compound turned up.<br /><br />But as soon as the fairytale ending started to unfold like Loony Tunes, and then when everyone "good" survives and they started playing what I instantly recognized as the haunting and mythical music from "Judge Roy Bean" (a favorite of mine when I first watched it on laserdisc), I put together a logic for the whole thing in my head. All of it, from an alcoholic actor getting washed up, to child star, to greasy producer... they all turn out okay. There was gold under all of it, This was as if a idealistic child were to look at the cynical decayed reality of Hollywood (Manson included) and then weave this story and say well, that's not how it was... but that's how it should have been. It was actually quite emotional for me.UFOclub1977https://www.blogger.com/profile/18220973670593534204noreply@blogger.com