The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood script was kept locked in a safe while filming to prevent any spoilers about the film's ending from leaking. The Quentin Tarantino directed film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and was the favorite to win Best Picture. Tarantino's previous scripts have had the unfortunate luck of leaking to the public before the movie is released.
Tarantino is known for taking classic storytelling tropes and turning them on their head with his unique directorial perspective. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is a pitch-perfect example of the writer-director at his best. The tragic story of Sharon Tate is well etched in the annals of history. Still, Tarantino's film subverts audience expectations by giving Tate (beautifully portrayed by Margot Robbie) a happy ending. Although the film ultimately lost out Best Picture to Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has solidly earned its place as another Tarantino classic, and a love letter to Hollywood itself.
Per an interview with Filmmaker Magazine via IndieWire, Tarantino's first assistant director William Paul Clark described how and why they kept the film script so closely guarded. Clark worked with Tarantino on many of his movies and wasn't surprised when the director wanted to keep the third act of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood locked in the accounting office safe.
"We kept the third act in a safe in the accounting department. You come, you get your script, you go into the little room, you go read the third act...When you're done, you give the script back, they put it back in the safe and you leave."
Clark also noted in the interview that the safe was carried by the crew when they went out to shoot on location. While it may seem drastic to enforce such strict measures over the third act of a script, the payoff was well worth it upon viewing the actual movie. In a world where spoiler culture runs rampant, it's nice to see a film without knowing any of the details beforehand. Tarantino's script security may seem like overkill, but it must be frustrating to have a whole team of cast and crew pour their hearts and souls out into a movie or television show only to have it spoiled before it premieres.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood may not have had a historically accurate ending, but it's the one that left audiences happy and satisfied. It's always fulfilling to see the good guys triumph over the bad (especially when the bad guys get brutally blazed with a flamethrower). The story of a washed-up actor, and his stunt double, unwittingly saving the life of an iconic actress may not have been what really happened, but in Tarantino's universe, it did. Thanks to his due diligence, audiences were in for quite a lovely surprise. A happy ending is rare in movies nowadays, but sometimes that's what the world needs.
Source: IndieWire
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