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I was looking at this old photo-shoot of Brad Pitt earlier this week when I posted these pictures
on the Tumblr and thinking how good he can be when tasked with "crazy" - I see Brad ripped on for his acting a lot but I disagree, and he's definitely at his best when he's at his twitchiest.
Anyway I thought about this again this morning while reading the big word that Quentin Tarantino
is making a Manson Family movie and although they don't say who he'd be playing one of the names mentioned for the cast is Brad. Brad is probably too old to play Charles Manson at this point though? Charlie was in his mid-30s when the murders happened. I guess it depends on what story QT is telling. Other names bandied about for the cast are Samuel L. Jackson (shocker) and Margot Robbie...
... and Robbie would make a shockingly fine Sharon Tate, don't you think? The thing is it's some 50 years on and, well, I personally don't really have any desire to watch a reenactment of a pregnant Sharon Tate being horribly murdered.
Perhaps I'm weird and particular about it at this point since the audience recognition of her, as a real person, is now pretty slim, but I've seen
The Fearless Vampire Killers so many times and I hold it so dear that I recognize her, and that's kept me from ever watching any Manson anything. That's right - I haven't seen one of them. I mean I'm not really a saint here - if any of them had ever been hailed as any good I might've tried. But so far thankfully no such "luck."
That said I suppose I'll obviously have to see a Tarantino movie about it. What do we think? And who would we cast in all the roles? I mean, who the hell would play Roman Polanski?
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