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Re: The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 12:21 am
by domino harvey
Tarantino details the genesis of the new miniseries version and confirms he personally re-cut parts of it a few years ago with the film’s editor after Netflix approached him with the idea of incorporating unused footage to make it longer
Re: The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:32 am
by therewillbeblus
I took Sean Baker's advice from Letterboxd and watched Cut-Throats Nine as a double feature with The Great Silence in reference to this film, and the former is an extremely pronounced influence. Fans of harrowing grindhouse cinema and especially Corbucci's bleak tone in his masterpiece should check this out pronto. I'm surprised Tarantino hasn't talked about it more, since it checks so many of his boxes, including the Man on a Mission action subgenre he adores so much. It's also incredibly gory (moreso than the average film from this period) and it was fun to identify all the key setpieces directly lifted for The Hateful Eight.
Re: The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 1:27 pm
by Big Ben
therewillbeblus wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:32 am
I took Sean Baker's advice from Letterboxd and watched
Cut-Throats Nine as a double feature with
The Great Silence in reference to this film, and the former is an
extremely pronounced influence. Fans of harrowing grindhouse cinema and especially Corbucci's bleak tone in his masterpiece should check this out pronto. I'm surprised Tarantino hasn't talked about it more, since it checks so many of his boxes, including the Man on a Mission action subgenre he adores so much. It's also incredibly gory (moreso than the average film from this period) and it was fun to identify all the key setpieces directly lifted for
The Hateful Eight.
What's of most interest to me is that despite Quentin Tarantino's reverence for Sergio Leone I'd argue that he's more like Sergio Corbucci which is a comparison QT himself has acknowledged. The Great Silence is fascinating in this regard because it's the exact opposite of everything you'd expect an American Western to be at this time right down to it's ghoulish denouement. You can certainly see how well certain set pieces transferred to the political hotbox that is The Hateful Eight.