Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Shouldn’t Be Historically Accurate

Brent L. Smith
Jul 25, 2017 · 8 min read

We know from Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012) that Quentin Tarantino has a penchant for mixing hyper-violence with historical fiction. A movie “based on true events”, that deviates from the facts, may rub some people the wrong way, but, at the end of the day, movies are movies. Even documentaries have their skewed…

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