Donald "Shorty" Shea was a stuntman, just like Booth’s character. While Pitt’s character is a fictional creation partially inspired by real-life stuntman Hal Needham, the sequence does contain echoes of truth. In the movie, Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth makes a tense visit to the ranch to check on Spahn, and narrowly escapes from the homicidal cultists. But the real-life Fromme, who didn’t participate in the murders but went on to attempt to assassinate then-president Gerald Ford, maintains that she didn’t have a sexual relationship with Spahn. It’s been alleged that Manson instructed his followers to have sex with Spahn in order to keep him compliant, and in the film Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, played by Dakota Fanning, admits as much. He asked for someone whose name Hatami didn’t recognize, and was informed that the Polanskis resided at the property.Īnd the film’s depiction of the cult’s squalid life at Spahn Ranch was also rooted in truth- the young people lived in filth alongside the ranch’s owner, the blind and elderly George Spahn. This scene is also based in reality-during the murder trial, Tate’s friend, photographer Shahrokh Hatami, testified that while he was visiting the actor at 10050 Cielo Drive in March 1969, Manson came to the house. In the film, he’s told by Sebring (who's played by Emile Hirsch) that the house is now the residence of Tate and Polanski. Manson himself only appears in the film for one scene, in which he’s shown visiting Cielo Drive prior to the attacks and asking for someone named “Terry,” presumably music producer Terry Melcher. After culling out the bad ones, we had enough to make him a strawberry cake complete with fresh Cool Whip.” The best thing we found on this run was a flat of strawberries. “We all laughed and sang all the way to the Dumpster, dragging Dennis by his hand. “We wound up driving in Dennis’s burgundy Rolls-Royce to the back of a grocery store and showed him the art of dumpster diving,” Lake wrote in her memoir. According to Dianne Lake, who joined the cult when she was just 14 years old, that was true-and followers even took Beach Boy Wilson dumpster diving. In the movie, Manson girls are shown dumpster diving for food while singing songs. Some scenes of the film featured accurate depictions of the Manson cult. Manson and other members of the cult were later convicted of two more murders, that of music teacher Gary Hinman, who had introduced Manson to Dennis Wilson, and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea. After their highly-publicized 1971 trial, Manson, Atkins, Krenwinkel, Watson, and Leslie Van Houten, were all convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders. Manson and his followers were apprehended and indicted by authorities later that year. The following night, the cult members would also murder Rosemary and Leno LaBianca in their Los Feliz home. Tate was nearly nine months pregnant, and she reportedly begged her attackers to spare her until her child could be born. Watson, Atkins, and Krenwinkel shot and stabbed all five to death. Steven Parent, an 18-year-old friend of the property’s caretaker, was also on the grounds.
Polanski was in Europe at the time, but Tate was home with friends Jay Sebring, Wojtek Frykowski, and Abigail Folger. Cult member Linda Kasabian acted as a lookout. On August 8th, three of Manson’s followers, Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Tex Watson, broke into the Cielo Drive home. One of Manson’s murderous followers, Susan Atkins, later said that the cult leader "picked that house to instill fear into Terry Melcher, because Terry had given us his word on a few things and never came through with them." But by the summer of 1969, the villa was occupied by actor Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski. At the time of their acquaintance, Melcher lived at 10050 Cielo Drive with his girlfriend, Candice Bergen. But Manson became enraged at Melcher after he refused to offer him a record deal. He struck up a friendship with Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, and auditioned for music producer Terry Melcher. Manson preached to his acolytes of an impending race war, predicting that black people would emerge victorious over their white counterparts, and that the Manson Family would pass the carnage by living underground before emerging to rule over those who remained.Įven while positioning himself as a prophet, Manson pursued a career in music. They regularly used LSD, and followers were told that the cult leader was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Together, they lived in squalid conditions at Spahn Ranch, a 55-acre movie ranch that previously served as a film set for Westerns. He counted around 100 followers, most of whom were young women. 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's Style is Far Outĭuring the late 1960s, drifter Charles Manson lead a cult called the Manson Family.
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