“ | When we've been having our trip sessions, I've been expanding on this one idea in my head. [...] We all grew up watching TV, you know what I mean? And if you grew up watching TV, that means you grew up watching murder. Every show on TV that wasn't I Love Lucy was about murder. So my idea is... we kill the people who taught us to kill. I mean, where the f--k are we, man? We are in f--king Hollywood, man. The people an entire generation grew up watching kill people live here. And they live in pig-sh-t f--king luxury. I say f--k them. I say we cut their c--ks off and make them eat it.
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― Susan telling Tex, Katie and Flowerchild about her idea to justify their murders. |
Susan Denise Atkins, also known as Sadie, was a major antagonist in Quentin Tarantino's ninth film Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. She was a member of the Manson Family cult, leaded by Charles Manson, sent to kill residents of Terry Melcher's former house. She was based on the real-life murderer of the same name.
She was portrayed by Mikey Madison.
Biography[]
Background[]
Atkins was born on May 7, 1948, in San Gabriel, California.
In late 1967, she met Charles Manson, who later invited her to join his cult, the Manson Family.[1]
Spahn Ranch Encounter[]
Sadie was present on cult's headquaters Spahn Movie Ranch during a visit from Hollywood stuntman Cliff Booth. Later, along other cult members, she yelled at Booth as he was exiting their territory. Atkins was also one of the witnesses of a battery Cliff performed on the cultist who had pierced a tire in his boss, Rick Dalton's, car.
Rick Dalton Home Invasion[]
On August 8, 1969, Atkins was sent to Ciello Drive alongside three other Manson Family members (Tex, Katie, and Flowerchild) with the mission to kill all residents of Roman Polanski's house (including actress Sharon Tate).
However, after an accidental encounter with Polanski's neighbour Rick Dalton, she comes up with a plan to murder him instead in retaliation for introducing an entire generation to a world of murder though his portrayal of the protagonist in violent western TV show Bounty Law. The idea gains the crew's approval (except for Flowerchild's who subsequently flees the scene) resulting into a home invasion of Dalton's house.
Shortly after breaking in via the front door, Sadie, Tex and Katie met Cliff Booth (intoxicated with LSD) in the living room, which unfolded into a fight beetwen the invaders and the stuntman. In an attempt to charge at Booth, Sadie was knocked on the ground by a toss of a dog food can. Injured and frightened, she tried grabbing Tex's revolver but was brutally bitten by Booth's pit bull Brandy in the process.
Eventually she managed to escape from the house with the gun, shattering a glass door and falling into a pool, where she stumbeled upon Dalton. She subsequently managed to take a few shots in the air before being burnt alive by Rick via a flamethrower.[2]
Two of her companions had been killed before her by Booth.
Trivia[]
- In reality, Sadie, Katie, and Tex, unfortunately, managed to kill Sharon Tate and her friends.
- In the movie, Sadie is killed by Rick, but in reality, she died on September 24, 2009 from natural causes.