Quentin Tarantino is known to be a master of hiding many Easter eggs within his gems of films, and it is no surprise he would do so in his latest Western-drama, ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’. Margot Robbie, multiple Oscar-nominated actress, who plays a small yet consequential role in the film, teased that there is a 20-hour cut of the Oscar-winning film.
Margot Robbie plays the role of Sharon Tate, award-winning director Roman Polanski’s wife, who was murdered by the Manson Family Gang in California in 1969. In an interview with The Variety, she reveals that there exists a 20-hour cut of the movie that was so far unknown to all Tarantino fans. The conversation had initiated with discussions of longer cuts of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, where Robbie jokingly says that she would like to watch 5-hour cuts of all of her films. This is when she adds:
There’s a 20-hour cut of “Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood” that would…there’s so much more that you didn’t get to see, that we shot that was amazing, and for a million reasons obviously, can’t make the cut.
There may be “a million reasons” for Tarantino to keep his film from public eyes, but the fans want more. However, it is highly unlikely to expect the 20-hour cut in the upcoming future. Earlier in 2020, Tarantino had announced the release of a 4-hour cut of the film which is yet nowhere near release.
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Apart from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino enjoys releasing longer cuts to his films, or just talking of unique cuts that never actually materialise. The latter can be seen in the case of the Kill Bill series. A compiled version of the two volumes of the 2003 revenge martial arts film was expected by Tarantino fans, which has yet not been delivered. Given Tarantino’s control over the work he does, it’s unusual that there isn’t a wider variety of cuts to his most popular films.
Unlike focussing heavily on violence as in the case of most Tarantino films, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood revolves around personal relationships and the nitigrities of being a star in Hollywood. Based on a rather fascinating time in the cinematic history of the country, a lot of story can be expected to unfold in the 20-hour cut, if at all we find ourselves opportune enough.
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