Rick Dalton

It is 1969 in Hollywood.

Movie star Rick Dalton, his career is on the downward slide, but a guest spot on a TV show and the possibility of a second act making spaghetti westerns in Italy could turn things around for him.

Meanwhile, he's got his long-term friend and stunt double Cliff Booth, who has a run-in with a community of hippies under the sway of a mysterious guru named Charlie...

You can draw your own conclusions from that.

yeah yeah i mean something tarantino is noted for as a as a creative person is creating fully lived lived in worlds and fully rounded backstories for all these characters i mean even if the act he says the actors don't have to know it and the audience doesn't have to know it but i have to know it i have to know it exists and yeah that's He's alluded to it before when he's talking about his previous movies, but I think it's the once upon a time in Hollywood novelization, maybe the first time that he sort of put it on the page.

It delves into the lives of the characters, gives them a bit more backstory.

And yeah, it shows you what he was thinking when he was creating the characters of Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth in particular.

Yeah.

Okay.

Or Rich Eisen pulls a Rick Dalton.

What's his name? Rick Dalton.

There he is.

Uh-huh.

So I did a little research, added a couple of bonus sites that turned out to be incredible.

Okay, this won't necessarily be in chronological order, but one of the first places we went to was the house in Studio City that served as Leonardo DiCaprio, a.k.a. Rick Dalton's house in the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

And in the movie, he lives next door to the Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate-rented house where the Manson fuckheads in real life walked over the gate and killed Tate, her unborn child, and four others.

Now, as I said, I don't love Tarantino, but I do like how he revised the events of that dreadful night in August 1969 and turned it into a happy ending.

In Tarantino's world, the three Manson thugs break into the wrong house, Rick Dalton's house, and they receive some primeval fucking justice from Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth.

a stuntman played by Brad Pitt.

The ending is so satisfying, with a whopper of a flamethrower scene involving a swimming pool.

He was in films also, The Fifth Element and The Final Storm among them.

His speech impairment movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in which TV actor Rick Dalton struggles with a subtle...

Real life inspired stutter that flares up when he feels insecure or off camera.

Number four, Luke Perry.

are you,

Rick Dalton now, or what? Are you going to fry some hippies in your backyard? I should probably go get that flamethrower and see if this stuff's flammable, and man, is it ever.

And here's the crazy part is the little ignition trigger on my flamethrower doesn't work anymore.

So I have to start a fire, then turn the propane on and get it closed.

Sure, he's had a hefty career leading up to this.

He's not exactly like Rick Dalton where he's slumming it as a guest star on Batman.

He still has a career to go after this, but like It's like a significant guest star to get on a Batman

TV show.

People were coming out of the woodwork wanting to be on Batman.

It's Shelley Winters a couple weeks ago.

You had Van Johnson, but Van Johnson, I think, as the minstrel, was on the Rick Dalton path at that point.

Yeah, more so, for sure.

He's written sequels.

The Cliff Booth, Rick Dalton are like his darlings.

Again, this should have been his final movie was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

He did it too early if you really want to abide by this dumb rule he has.

"This iconic reaction image comes from the 2019 film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.

In this specific scene, Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Rick Dalton, is sitting on his couch with a drink and a cigarette while watching a television broadcast of an old television show episode he guest starred in.

He points enthusiastically at the screen right as his scene is about to come on.

Online, the screenshot became widely popularized as the Pointing Rick Dalton-" Or Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme template, which people use to express a sudden feeling of excited recognition.

[laughs] Uh-huh.

I love it.

Would you like to learn more about where to stream this movie, or are you looking for details on any other popular Leonardo DiCaprio memes? Pointing Rick Dalton.

So now I could copy this and then load up some YouTube here and put some sound with it.

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when we have talked about the Tarantino movies, you know, we're saying Rick Dalton, we're not saying Leo.

You know?

No, I, I think it's a good point, too.