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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Novel: Every New Tarantino Universe Easter Egg


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Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’s novel adds several new Easter eggs, connections, and references to the Quentin Tarantino universe not previously included in the 2019 film. The movie follows aging actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he comes to terms with the end of Hollywood’s golden era in 1969, while helped by the loyalty of his best friend and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Though a tribute to 1960s Hollywood, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also features a glum shadow as it incorporates the Manson family and Hollywood's infamous Tate murders from the same year.

The book version is a cinephile’s dream, wherein Tarantino goes on about films of the 60s and 70s, their significance, and his opinions on them. Interestingly enough, he turns Cliff Booth into a cinephile where he can really flesh out his interpretations of the late ‘60s cinema, whereas Rick Dalton mostly just namedrops major actors, directors, and films of the time that he either admires or envies. Additionally, the novel provides much more depth into the backgrounds and inner workings of Rick and Cliff, giving firm answers to some ambiguous events in the movie.

While the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood book includes dozens of references to Westerns and classic cinema that vaguely inspired Tarantino’s film career, there are also several new connections to Tarantino’s own film universe. The original film had references to previous films with characters’ names and plotlines, cameos by Tarantino actors, and the typical Tarantino brands like Red Apple cigarettes, and the book is no different. Here are all of the new Easter eggs to the Tarantino universe featured in the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel.

Pulp Fiction

The earliest new reference to another Tarantino movie occurs when Rick arrives at a meeting with agent Marvin Schwarz (Al Pacino in the movie), though the meeting occurs in Schwarz’s office in the book instead of the restaurant in the movie. Before the men get into a serious chat about Rick’s career arc and how he should consider making Spaghetti Westerns, Marvin offers Rick a cup of coffee. The two then get into a lengthy conversation about good and bad coffee, which is eerily reminiscent of a famous scene from Pulp Fiction.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s book is referencing the section in Pulp Fiction where Jules and Vincent go to the house of Jules’s friend Jimmie (played by Quentin Tarantino) to hide the car where they accidentally killed Marvin. Jimmie invites them in and gives them cups of coffee, where Jules continuously compliments Jimmie on the gourmet nature of his coffee. Jimmie then launches into how he buys expensive coffee because he wants a good flavor that he can taste, while his wife buys cheap, low-grade coffee. Rick and Marvin’s conversation is nearly identical; Marvin talks about how his coworker has classy coffee, not lesser Maxwell House, then they interrupt their film talk to discuss how good the coffee is once they actually drink it.

Inglourious Basterds

Tarantino already included Rick Dalton’s film The Fourteen Fists of McCluskey as an Easter egg to Inglourious Basterds in the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood movie, though the book stretches it to strengthen the reference. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Rick Dalton stars in a film where his character kills a group of 150 Nazis by setting them aflame with a flamethrower. This is an obvious reference to Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, in which the film climaxes at a Nazi movie premiere where hundreds of Nazis are killed by Shosanna and the Basterds when the cinema house burns down.

In the first chapter of the novel when Rick sits down to meet Marvin Schwarz, Marvin begins to see how well Rick’s films fared in European audiences. He explains that most of his other films and Bounty Law did mediocre with European audiences, but Rick's The Fourteen Fists of McClusky was an absolute smash in France. Tarantino’s emphasis on France enjoying the film enhances the Inglourious Basterds Easter egg due to the locale of the film, where Basterds’ Nazis are all killed at a French movie theater and most of the film takes place in WWII France.

Reservoir Dogs

When Cliff picks up the Manson girl Pussycat (played by Margaret Qualley in the movie), who Tarantino’s novel reveals is actually named Debra Jo, they have an introductory chat on the way to Spahn Ranch. One of the most obvious Easter eggs to the Tarantino universe is when Pussycat coyly asks Cliff, “What’s your name Mr. Blond?” The indication is intentional by Tarantino considering Mr. Blond is likely the most famous alias from Reservoir Dogs. Mr. Blond (Michael Madsen) is a part of the crew pulling a heist that grows wrong, though he is the most erratic of the bunch as indicated by his brutal torture of a cop wherein he cuts off his ear to “Stuck in the Middle with You.”

The Hateful Eight

After the events of Rick and Cliff killing the Manson intruders, Rick’s fame is renewed and is offered new film projects by many of his old directors. One such offer is to star in a sequel to The Magnificent Seven, which happens to be one of the most famous Western series of all time. The Magnificent Seven fits into the Tarantino Universe in its connection to The Hateful Eight, from which its title is inspired.

Django Unchained

Early on in the novel when Rick and Marvin are speaking, the director Sergio Corbucci is brought up. Corbucci was an Italian director known for making several Spaghetti Westerns, which have a close connection to Rick’s career conflict in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The director’s first major success was the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), depicting the adventure of a former Union soldier, Django, and his associate, a Mexican-American prostitute, Maria, as they battle Confederate white supremacists and Mexican revolutionaries.

Corbucci’s Django was a primary inspiration for Tarantino’s 2012 revisionist Western Django Unchained, where Dr. Schultz, a bounty hunter dentist frees formerly enslaved man Django and the two embark on a journey to find and free Django’s wife while cashing in bounties of slavers along the way. Franco Nero, who originated the role of Django in Corbucci’s film, even made a cameo appearance in Django Unchained.

David Carradine & Michael Parks

With Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's novel being dedicated to the duo along with a few name drops throughout the plot, Hollywood actors David Carradine and Michael Parks are two new key Tarantino Easter eggs. Michael Parks was known for his recurring character Texas Ranger Earl McGraw. McGraw appeared as the policeman in Death Proof, From Dusk Till Dawn (starring Tarantino), and Kill Bill Vol. 1. Aside from his Earl McGraw character, Michael Parks played Esteban Vihaio in Kill Bill Vol. 2 and a LeQuint Dickey Mining Company Employee in Django Unchained. David Carradine is best known in the Tarantino universe for portraying the titular villain in both of the Kill Bill films.

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