Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Other mistake: Cliff's dog is referred to as female but when it jumps up at a door towards the end of the film, it is male.

Other mistake: Rick Dalton's Cadillac has a badly worn steering wheel. In 1969, the car was not old enough to have had that much wear. It should have been painted.

Other mistake: George is blind but when talking to Cliff and telling Cliff he is touched that he came by to visit, George hits Cliff's left shoulder with his fist, a nice direct hit.

Other mistake: When he puts the 2nd can of dog in the bowl it's just a rerun of the 1st can being dropped in a bowl.

Other mistake: Over a car radio, KHJ's Robert W. Morgan is heard giving the weather forecast. The predicted high is "95 downtown, 105 in the valley." The scene takes place in the middle of winter, February 9, 1969.

Steven Lee

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Suggested correction: The daytime temperatures can reach that high in the winter.

The highest recorded temp for Feb 9 for Downtown LA is 89 set in 2016, and the highest February temperature ever there was 95 on Feb 20, 1995. "The valley" is too ambiguous to identify where it means. So while they "can", they don't, and any movie showing record-setting temps during winter, even if theoretically possible, would be considered wrong.

Other mistake: When Cliff picks up Pussycat off the street, he mentions about picking her up on Burbank Blvd to take her to Chatsworth. This entire route would start and end in the San Fernando Valley, but when the journey begins, they enter the 101 freeway from Hollywood Blvd (nearly 10 miles away from anywhere near the route).

Continuity mistake: During his conversation with the director, while discussing his costuming, Dalton's hair changes from messy and curled to gelled up and straight.

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Cliff Booth: Hey! You're Rick fucking Dalton, don't you forget it.

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Trivia: The director of one of Rick's Italian films is "Antonio Margheriti". That's also the alias Donny Donowitz uses in Inglorious Basterds.

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Question: What does Tex mean by "I'm as real a donut motherf'r?"Something significant?

Rob245

Answer: To put some context into the scene, three members of the Manson family (Tex included) have broken into Rick Dalton's house and are holding Cliff Booth at gunpoint. Cliff, who is high on drugs asks "Are you real", to which Tex replies "I'm as real as a donut, mother fucker." Tex was trying to answer Cliff's question stating whether or not he was real, but in the most intimidating way possible, and I guess donut was the word that came to mind that described how real he was.

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