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Nothing official has been said, but it is likely that there wasn't any character for him to play in the script. While Jackson is frequently cast in Tarantino's films, he was also absent from Death Proof and Reservoir Dogs (though the latter was made before Jackson and Tarantino met). So it's by no means a must that Jackson appears.

The way Tarantino counts it his movie list thus far is 1. Reservoir Dogs 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Jackie Brown 4. Kill Bill 5. Death Proof 6. Inglourious Basterds 7. Django Unchained 8. The Hateful Eight 9. Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood

Kill Bill was released in two parts so other people may be of the opinion this is two movies and other people may also count Four Rooms as one of his movies since he directed a segment of it, but he does not consider it as one of his directoral efforts. This goes for the single scene he did for Sin City too.

However, in most of the Kill Bill Vol.2 film posters used when the film was released, it could be seen clearly "The 5th film by Quentin Tarantino". Most people asumed that Tarantino just changed his mind or that he is just very bad at counting specially when it serves his intentions (like matching his 8th film with another 8 in The Hateful Eight).

It's the score from a 1974 World War II movie titled Hell River. The score is by Vojislav Borisavljevic. There's a very quick shot of that movie (showing Rod Taylor) before it cuts to Rick Dalton with the flamethrower: making it seem as if both scenes were from the same Rick Dalton movie, titled "The 14 Fists of McCluskey". Even the end credits credit the "Hell River" theme.

Like in the movie, the episode of Lancer is based on the pilot episode of that series. The title is The High Riders.

Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) is playing the character played by Joe Don Baker in the pilot. The last part of the summary is: "Issues come to a head when it appears that Johnny may be working for Day Pardee, the leader of the marauders."

Jon Don Baker's Pardee is the Dakota character played by Leonardo DiCaprio. But what needs to be known to really understand the Lancer scene is that Lancer's pilot is about the patriarch (not in the movie) locating his two estranged sons. One of the sons was a gunfighter, played by James Stacy (Timothy Olyphant), the other a classy city slicker (Luke Perry).

It's not known, however, if there was a little girl in the episode. According to the IMDb page for this pilot episode, the youngest actress was 20 years old. The episode that Quentin Tarantino had child actress Julia Butters watch might have been another episode of the same series.

Andrew Duggan, who plays the patriarch on Lance, does appear in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood on the cover of a TV Guide read by Sharon Tate's houseguest.

..... There was no little girl in the cast of Lancer -- especially with the last name of Lancer. The closest would've been Theresa O'Brien, who was the 16-17 year old daughter of Murdoch's best friend and Foreman who is killed at the beginning of the pilot. Theresa, who was born on Lancer and had lived there her entire life with her father after her mother left them, becomes Murdoch Lancer's ward and Johnny and Scott's surrogate 'sister'. But she is a young adult and no where near a little girl. That character is completely made up by Tarantino for this movie.

After the film's release, Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, complained that Tarantino portrayed her father as an arrogant and boastful jerk that loses a fight to Brad Pitt. She also stated that her father never claimed that he could defeat Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) in a fight.

Tarantino responded to this by saying that he took the quote about Bruce Lee claiming he would defeat Muhammed Ali from the Bruce Lee's biography by his widow, Linda Lee. While that was said in the book, Linda Lee was quoting a reporter. So it's possible Tarantino misread or misremembers the quote as Bruce Lee's own. More recently, Tarantino stated that Lee was notoriously disliked by stunt men because he had a habit of actually hitting them during fight scenes. So if Lee had that reputation amongst stunt men, it makes sense that Cliff, a stuntman would dislike him.

As far as Lee being arrogant and boastful, Lee was known to be very confident, rightfully so. Keep in mind, when we see Lee in the film, it is in a memory that Cliff Booth is having. So we are seeing it from Cliff's perspective. For whatever reason, Cliff didn't seem to like Lee and would perceive his confidence as arrogance.

Lastly, when it comes to Brad Pitt beating Lee in a fight; first of all it isn't Brad Pitt vs. Bruce Lee. It's Cliff Booth vs Bruce Lee. Could Brad Pitt best Bruce Lee in a fight? Likely not. Could fictional character Cliff Booth beat Bruce Lee in a fight? Maybe. As he's a fictional character and mentioned to be a war hero, he may be very skilled in hand-to-hand combat. Lee suggests a friendly contest of who can knock the other one down. Lee scores the first point by jump kicking Cliff in the chest. Cliff scores the second point by flinging Lee in to the side of a car. They then trade a few blows before almost immediately being interrupted before a winner could be determined.

To sum it up, it's understandable that Lee's daughter, or any fan of Lee for that matter, wouldn't be pleased with the portrayal of her father in the film, it is a fictional portrayal in a fictional story of Lee fighting a fictional character in a biased memory from the perspective of a character who didn't like Lee.

The entire Lancer show-within-the-film scene can be confusing because the main character is named Johnny Madrid, who was played by James Stacy (played here by Timothy Olyphant), and he seems to be friends with the villain/heavy played by Rick Dalton.

Here's the story, and it makes the Lancer scene more interesting, and less confusing...

Madrid was an orphan who grew up on the Mexico border, and became a fast-gun who didn't know that he was the son of Murdoch Lancer or the brother of Scott Lancer (Luke Perry, the only Lancer we actually see).

In the pilot, Madrid is not very fond of Murdoch Lancer (as he tells Rick Dalton right before DiCaprio's Dalton curses himself in his trailer) but that's because he hasn't yet found out he's the son of Lancer.

In other words, he doesn't know that he is, in fact, a Lancer.

So for the first part of the pilot, Madrid is an old friend of the villain (who Dalton plays and who Joe Don Baker played in real life), and they both knew each other in Mexico (where Madrid was raised), but by the end of the episode, he will find his place in the world, and the series title "Lancer" makes more sense since Johnny Madrid is Johnny Lancer.

------------------- Actually, Murdoch Lancer (Andrew Duggan) was a rich rancher who had moved West with his wife and had a huge ranch in California. He was married twice. His son, Scott's (Wayne Maunder) mother died in childbirth. He sent his young son, Scott, to Boston to be raised by his late wife's family. Then he met and married a pretty, Mexican girl. She had a son, Johnny (James Stacy). For reasons unspecified, she left him, taking her son with her, and returned to Mexico. That's why he used the name Johnny Madrid. He wasn't an orphan. He knew Murdoch was his father. When Murdoch's ranch was threatened, he sent for his two sons to come to California to help him out. That was the premise of Lancer.

........ Catherine Lancer (Scott's mother) died in childbirth, but her father -- who despised Murdoch Lancer for taking his only child away from him, took baby Scott back to Boston, leaving Murdoch no means to retrieve him as it was all the way across the country (it was a long sea voyage at that time since the intercontinental RR was not finished) and he did not have the money to fight Harlan Garrett in court. He tried to retrieve Scott when he turned 5, but was threatened with an expensive and long court battle by Harlan, who was a wealthy and well respected businessman in Boston.

Johnny's mother, Maria, ran off with a gambler when he was 2, but the reasons for her departure were never really given. She was young, impetuous and unhappy were the only conclusion that could be drawn. She lied to Johnny, telling him his father threw them out because of their Mexican heritage. He didn't learn the truth -- that Murdoch had loved them and wanted them both -- until he returned after the Pinkerton agent Murdoch had hired found him about to be executed in Mexico. Murdoch had searched for Johnny Lancer continuously, not knowing his younger son did not use the name Lancer and had become known as the notorious gun hawk Johnny Madrid.

The pilot episode briefly introduced these most of these facts with subsequent episodes fleshing them out a bit.

Because the family name of the characters is Lancer. It's amusing that a member of the Lancer family happened to serve with the Bengal Lancers.

Brandy!

She is a Pit Bull and was played by three dogs: mostly Sayuri but also Cerberus and Siren.

Anne Francis

No. The song was written in 1956 and was originally recorded by singer Jim Lowe. The 1972 pornographic film "Behind the Green Door" took it name from one of the lyrics.

No, (at around 21 mins) it's a yellow/red board for Tanya Hawaiian tanning butter/lotion!

Later (at around 31 mins) there is a radio commercial for the same company. It begins soft while Roman is having coffee and Sharon is sleeping, and continues to play loud and clear while Cliff and Rick drives to the movie set.

The Bristol-Myers radio ad can be heard as track 8 on the soundtrack album, or be found on YouTube.

Kurt Russell was the narrator. Telling the story as his character, Randy Miller.

No. Cliff hasn't worked as a full time stunt man for "quite a while now'" and the episode of FBI aired on Sunday of that week.

While talking to Jim Stacy, Stacy asks if the rumours were true that Rick was in the running for the role of Hilts before McQueen got the role. Rick states that he never had a meeting or audition for the role. As the conversation plays out, it is inter-cut with footage of Rick in The Great Escape as Hilts.

Interpretation 1) Rick never got approached about the role, but did find out his name was in the running and so imagines himself as Hilts. Knowing that the film launched Steve McQueen in to superstardom, it's likely a painful thought for Rick.

Interpretation 2) Rick actually did get the role of Hilts. But was replaced by Steve McQueen after a few days of shooting. Likely due to Rick's excessive drinking or the director didn't feel he was fitting the part. So Rick downplays his involvement in the film by saying he never even had an audition. The footage we see is one of the few scenes he got to film before being replaced.

Yes. He's credited as "Director of the Red Apple Cigarettes commercial". Which is actually a post-credit scene of Rick Dalton filming the commercial. So Tarantino's cameo is only his voice.