![]() However, when Sadie crashes into his pool during the final confrontation while flailing a gun around, he immediately gets out of the pool, goes to his garage, gets out a flamethrower, and roasts her. Beware the Nice Ones: Besides his Jerkass diva tendencies, Rick is otherwise cordial to most people.Ax-Crazy: Being under the influence of alcohol can make him dangerously homicidal, as evidenced during the final confrontation.This is much more emphasized in the novel where the two meet and are in drastically different places despite having similar starts to their careers. Always Someone Better: Rick claims that Steve McQueen beat him out for the lead role in The Great Escape.Possibly a Take That! to Wanted: Dead or Alive, whose main character Josh Randall (played by Rick's rival, Steve McQueen) preferred to bring his quarries in alive. This also extends to Rick's character, Jake Cahill, on Bounty Law - an amoral Bounty Hunter who makes no effort to bring his targets in alive, and in fact describes other bounty hunters who do as "amateurs".When he finally agrees to go to Rome to star in spaghetti westerns, his characters are specifically described as anti-heroes, fitting the change in his on-screen perception from heroic lead to villainous "heavy." Rick is not only a self-pitying alcoholic with Jerkass tendencies, but he specializes in playing this type of character.The novelization delves deeper into Rick's disorder, and even has him form a brief friendship with Duel before the latter's suicide. This was inspired by Pete Duel, star of Alias Smith and Jones, who suffered from the same issues and eventually died by suicide because of them. Ambiguous Disorder: It's not made explicit during the movie, but Tarantino told DiCaprio to play Rick as having undiagnosed bipolar disorder that he self-medicated with alcohol. #LULU ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD MOVIE#
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