Manson 1.7 - Never Learn Not to Love

Manson - Never Learn Not to Love

Genre: Biography / Crime

Director: Antonio Campos

Writer: Lon Charles

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Danika Yarosh, Isabelle Fuhrman, Thomas Dekker, Sammi Hanratty, Tania Raymonde, Pete Ploszek, Christopher Cousins, Kim Raver and Ethan Embry

Plot: 1968. Dennis Wilson (Pete Ploszek) returns to his house after a long recording session and finds that Charles Manson (Jim Sturgess) and his friends have completely trashed the place. Wilson is annoyed, but Ella Jo Bailey (Danika Yarosh) and Patricia Krenwinkel (Isabelle Fuhrman) start to kiss his neck, which calms him down. Manson tells Wilson that he has written a song especially for the Beach Boys. In a studio, Dennis and producer Terry Melcher (Ethan Embry) record Manson singing "Cease to Exist". Wilson said he digs the lyrics and promises to play the recording for the rest of the Beach Boys to see if they want to record it. Manson is excited and offers Wilson some LSD.

1967. Bobby Beausoleil (Thomas Dekker) and Catherine Share (Tania Raymonde) are on the set of the western-themed soft-core porn film The Ramrodder at the Spahn Movie Ranch. They are both in costume as Native Americans when they director starts to run down the scene for them. Several other actors in costume arrive on the set and the director instructs the actors on the orgy scene they will be filming. Bobby and Share are paired up and instructed to simulate sex as close as possible without any penetration. After the day of filming, Bobby and Share have sex together in his car.

1968. Dennis Wilson tells Charles Manson he has good news for him. He and the rest of the Beach Boys decided to go ahead and record a version of Manson's song. Manson starts hooting and hollering with excitement. Wilson plays the tape for Manson, who becomes increasingly angry as the song plays. He demands to know what happened to his song, the song he wrote. Wilson tells Manson that his brother Brian is the chief song writer for the band and insisted on rearranging it, but it's mostly still there. Manson storms off insisting this isn't over.

Leslie Van Houten (Sammi Hanratty) sits in front of her parents Paul (Christopher Cousins) and Jane (Kim Raver). They look at her with disappointment. Paul expresses confusion at how Leslie went from being named the homecoming queen at Monrovia High School to being caught with drugs and getting pregnant. Leslie is crying as there is a knock at the door. Jane goes to answer it and greets a doctor. Jane tells Leslie that the doctor is there to take care of the baby. Leslie is confused and asks if the doctor is there to perform an abortion, but the doctor interrupts her and tells her that technically speaking, the procedure can't be called an abortion because the fetus is too mature. Later that night, after the procedure, Jane hands Leslie a garbage bag. She tells Leslie to bury the fetus in the back yard. As she cries Leslie digs a hole in the ground and places the bag in it and covers up the hole.

In San Francisco, Leslie is trying to score drugs in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, but nobody is willing to share with her until she meets Bobby Beausoleil and Catherine Share. Together the three of them all go to a park and take LSD. The three of them start to kiss each other when a couple of cops arrive and announce that any hippies found loitering in the park in 15 minutes will be arrested for vagrancy. Bobby tells them he knows of a place they can crash down near Los Angeles and they all get into his car and start heading south.

Charles Manson walks into Dennis Wilson's house late one night and starts loading up one of Wilson's car with valuables. Wilson asks Manson what he's doing. Manson says he's collecting payment for the Beach Boys using and ruining his song. Wilson says whatever, but after this they're done. He doesn't want anything to do with Manson or his groupies. Manson pulls a bullet out of his pocket and tosses it to Wilson. Wilson is confused and asks what it is. Manson says it's a bullet. Every time Wilson looks at it, Manson wants him to think about how nice it is that Wilson and his family are all still safe. Wilson grabs Manson by the head and throws him to the ground. Wilson then starts kicking and punching Manson, who starts crawling away and into Wilson's car. Manson starts pulling away in the car. Wilson throws several rocks at the car as Manson drives off with his car and valuables.