Rick Dalton, the last fictional great actor of classic Hollywood directed by Tarantino, dies

“You’re fucking Rick Dalton. Don’t forget it,” Cliff Booth, Dalton’s double and trusted man, snapped at this down-on-his-luck actor who lived days of wine and roses as the lead in the television series ‘Bounty Law’.

Leonardo Dicaprio got a new nomination for the Oscars playing this fictional character in ‘Once upon a time… in Hollywood’, the latest and one of Quentin Tarantino’s best films with which even Michael J. Fox has claimed to have left the performance inspired by Tarantino and an improvised scene by DiCaprio. In it, we were able to witness the decline of a Hollywood actor trying to adapt to the new television times in the 60s with his double Cliff Boothto which he gave life Brad Pitt.

Such is Tarantino’s affection for his plots and characters that they continue to live adventures in this expanded universe with details such as the continued use of Red Apple, the same fictitious brand of cigarettes seen throughout his filmography, or the revelation of that the sadistic Mr. Rubio from ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and Vincent Vega from ‘Pulp Fiction’ are actually brothers. Laugh at the MCU and its cohesive stories.

In this way, a recent tweet from ‘Video Archives Podcast’the official count from Twitter by Quentin Tarantino and his partner Roger Avary in which, in podcast format, they revisit classic movies on VHS and discover new ones, has delivered news that has left the world of cinema in shock. This tweet informs us of the death at age 90 rick dalton, clarifying that Dalton was at home in Hawaii when he died. He survives her wife Francesca.

It is time, therefore, to say goodbye to protagonist of titles that probably you have never seen and that you will never see, but that in the head of the American genius behind ‘Once upon a time in… Hollywood’ are reference works of the seventh art, such as the trilogy ‘Fireman’, ‘Bounty Law’ either ‘McClusky’s 14 Fists.

It should be remembered that after the artistic decline of this old glory and its double, an event occurred that could have changed one of the most sinister chapters in Hollywood: the showdown in an alternate reality against the family of Charles Manson in which both friends managed to prevent the murder of Sharon Tate and that he put Dalton’s career back on the map and revitalized, participating in a couple of projects from major studios or becoming the main villain of the television show ‘Mission Impossible’. Will we have a tribute to Dalton in ‘The ‘Movie Critic’, Tarantino’s tenth and final film?

In case this did not happen, since PHOTOGRAMS we want to remember the great Rick Dalton with his favorite toy: a flamethrower Destined to burn the Manson clan. Rest in peace.