![]() ![]() Image: Columbia Pictures Buddies: Brad & Leo He softened the edges and gave each princess their own happily ever after. Walt Disney did this with many of the gruesome fairy tales he adapted. Little Red Riding Hood is saved from being eaten by the wolf. As we finally get to the brutal climax of the film, the horrifying nature of the original story is given the Disney treatment. This is cluing us in on Tarantino’s own insecurity and reason for telling this particular fairy tale the way he does. She tells him that Disney’s like would come only once a generation. “He was a visionary” she explains to Dalton. ![]() The real subtext of the scene comes in the effusive praise the young ingenue has for Walt Disney. The story he’s reading is a metaphor for his own life, but too on-the-nose to be the actual point of the scene. He’s reading a western potboiler about a bronco buster in the middle of his own mid-life transition, trying to make his way in a scary new world, but everything seems so dark. ![]() The specter of his recent death is just another reminder of that uneasy transition of this version of Hollywood, one that Tarantino so clearly loves.ĭuring the scene, DiCaprio breaks down into tears thanks to the in-the-text subtext of the film. Near the middle of the film, Rick Dalton is trying to relax on set and takes a seat next to a precocious 8-year old method actor (Julia Butters) as she reads a biography on Walt Disney, who had just died three years prior. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |