exclusive "Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood" experience.
We're going back in time to
1969 with Quentin, Leo, Brad,
and Margot and taking you to the
L.A. hot spots featured in
Tarantino's mind-blowing film.
This "Eye on L.A."
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Hey, everyone, I'm Tina Malave,
and now that the most
anticipated movie of the summer
has hit the screens, we're
giving you an exclusive
behind-the-scenes look
at how you can have your own
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
L.A. experience.
But first, let's check out the
movie.
>> I'm Rick Dalton.
>> All the shooting --
I love that stuff -- you know,
the killing.
>> A lot of killing.
>> "Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood" is the story of a
1960s TV star, Rick Dalton,
played by Leonardo DiCaprio...
who feels like he's washed up...
>> Line.
>> ...and his best friend and
stunt double, Cliff Booth,
played by Brad Pitt who's never
looked sexier.
>> [ Laughs ]
>> They soon discover that they
have new and very famous
neighbors.
>> I'm Sharon Tate.
I'm in the movie.
>> You're in this?
>> That's me.
I play Miss Carlson, the klutz.
Oh!
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
>> Set amongst the stunning
backdrop of L.A., you'll go on
an emotional 1960s trip like
only Quentin Tarantino can
deliver.
>> What's unique about this
movie is it's -- it's a slice of
life of all of these people and
certainly the undercurrent of
the Manson Girls and how that
really changed America and
culture forever.
I mean, 1969 -- so many
radical movements and things
were happening during that time
period.
>> I don't make movies for
people that just kind of
passively sit there and let
the images glaze over them.
I want them to respond.
>> My hands are registered as
lethal weapons.
We get into a fight, I
accidentally kill you...
I go to jail.
>> Anybody who accidentally
kills anybody in a fight, they
go to jail.
It's called manslaughter.
>> It's like they're laughing,
they're laughing, they're
laughing.
Stop laughing.
Stop laughing, stop laughing.
Laugh. You know?
Now, when a director can do
that -- and I've been an
audience member and directors
have done that to me.
To me, that is an audience
having a good time at the
cinema.
That is why I go to the cinema.
>> And that's exactly why the
film received a seven-minute
standing ovation when it
premiered at the
Cannes Film Festival.
>> For us who live in L.A., this
kind of feels, in a special way,
like it's our film.
>> Well, that's kind of how I
feel because, you know, I'm a
L.A. native...
>> Yeah.
>> ...and, you know, the movie
takes place in 1969.
I was about six and seven in
1969, so I do remember
Los Angeles then.
This movie's almost a memory
poem of what Los Angeles was
like.
>> And you really take us on a
trip back in time to the 1960s
here in Hollywood.
Not only do we see that
beautifully in the film but also
on the streets.
When residents were coming out
and walking around
Hollywood Boulevard and seeing
what your amazing production
team did --
>> And action!
>> How did you choose what
places you wanted to kind of
resurrect that were no longer
around?
>> What we kind of needed to do
was find enough areas that
Brad Pitt in his car can
drive, like, four, five, six
blocks and look like he's
driving in a documentary
[laughs] not like some weird
Los Angeles with pot pharmacies
[laughs] hanging around.
And one of the ones we knew we
wanted to do was
Hollywood Boulevard, because
while there's a lot of different
things on Hollywood Boulevard
then there were before, those
big marquees for the theaters
that created that street are
still there, and we could
restore that.
We could restore the neon to
them and everything.
Then you had Musso & Frank's
right there in the middle and
you have the Sergeant Supply
sign right there across the
street.
So, those are gigantic
landmarks.
>> Quentin is very specific,
really, of what his -- what he
remembers or what he felt was
important at that time.
What was great was to bring real
things back and the excitement
as people saw the
Peaches Records store facade go
back on being painted, the
marquees of the
Pussycat Theatre, which was
iconic and the Vogue Theater and
the original neon and just
going, "Oh, my God," they're
bringing it all back.
>> Are there any things that
you guys put up that people can
still go out and see?
>> Yes.
Elaine Havelock -- she was a
poster artist who did
psychedelic posters.
And Quentin -- And he said, "Do
you know those posters?
I used to collect them I was
kid."
And we used it a lot, 'cause she
was very popular at that time.
So there's a mural right outside
of Musso's.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
It's a giant recreation of two
of her posters.
>> Oh, wow.
>> Yeah.
Same with the Aquarius mural.
You know, that took about two
weeks of painting, that mural,
hand painting it back, and it
was the Aquarius Theater.
And that mural was put up for
the opening of "Hair."
The painters -- the scenics we
had painting it back said it was
the most satisfying thing
they've ever done.
People all day long would stop
and just say "Thank you for
putting back," and "Is it
staying?"
>> For now, it is staying.
The rest you'll have to see on
the big screen.
But take it from Margot.
>> I'm telling you, when you sit
there you -- you can feel that.
You can feel the authenticity.
It's just -- You are truly
transported to 196
