Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ recreates his youth 

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Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” is a nostalgic fable, alternate history, love letter to film, violent fantasy. Production designer Barbara Ling says it’s also very personal.

“It is his epic. It’s extremely personal to Quentin,” she said on the Sony lot. “He always says, ‘This is how I became a filmmaker. Growing up [here], my mom letting me go to movies really early. Watching TV. Whenever I could, going to the bookstore or poster shop, getting another comic.’ Everything was geared toward what he was reading and watching.”

Tarantino’s deep knowledge of the area — Hollywood, the Valley — fuels the world of the film, just as Los Angeles native Ling’s does.

“He wanted as real as we could get, and not just landmarks. He would say, ‘I really like Van Nuys Boulevard. As a kid, I was driving on Van Nuys Boulevard in Panorama City — that’s where we used to go shopping.’

“The greatest line he ever said to me in terms of how things [for the film] were perceived was, ‘Imagine an 8-year-old lying in the back of his mom’s car, and his point of view.’ ”

Much has been made of the film’s restoration of 1969 Hollywood — the era-appropriate mural on Hollywood’s Aquarius Theatre, so many iconic façades in Westwood Village and Hollywood Boulevard. The production even repainted crosswalks to resemble those of the time.

Source: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ recreates his youth – Los Angeles Times