The Hateful Eight is really about the attempt to liberate one woman and how many men have to die in order to see that happen. While the lot of them are about as trustworthy as a pack of rattlesnakes the hardest of the bunch turn out to be the most trustworthy when it comes down to it. Ruth might have been able to be trusted if he survived, while Mannix and Warren were at least good enough at what they did to see everything through to the end. Of course they might have both died of blood loss eventually since they were in a bad way when the credits started rolling.
Do you think Quentin Tarantino has stock in any companies that manufacture fake blood?
10. Quentin Tarantino almost gave up on this film.
After the script was leaked online he considered giving up on it since he didn’t need anyone knowing what he was doing.
9. Tarantino’s obsession with 70mm film projectors was seen throughout this movie.
He absolutely had to have this type of projector and the theaters even had to retrofit their booths with the right type of projector to show the film.
8. In the original script Bob was supposed to be French instead of Mexican.
That could have possibly been one change from the original script.
7. Early test screenings had a run time of over three hours.
Even edited and pared down the movie still runs close to three hours in length.
6. All the main events in the film take place in one day.
From start to finish the whole movie is about one single day.
5. Red Rock, Wyoming, is an entirely fictionalized town.
There’s a Red Rock in Colorado but Tarantino decided to make this town up for the sake of the movie.
4. Christoph Waltz was offered a part in the film.
He would have played the part of Mobray but he declined to work with Tarantino again.
3. There’s no mention of why Daisy was being sentenced to hang.
Throughout the movie it’s made loud and clear that she’s going to hang but there’s never any reason why. At least near the end the proclaimed hanging finally took place as Warren convinced Mannix to do the deed.
2. The guitar that Daisy was playing was an antique from the 1870’s.
The guitar was on loan from the Martin Guitar Museum and was a priceless piece of history. There were six replicas made that could be smashed, but no one told Kurt Russell that on the first take Jennifer Jason Leigh was still holding the real guitar. He smashed the thing to pieces before anyone could tell him, and the museum stated that it would never loan out another guitar. Talk about a costly mistake.
1. There’s a lot of similarity to The Thing in this movie.
There’s no aliens in this movie but the similarity has to do with the fact that they’re all in a single room, it’s too cold outside to really go anywhere, and not a single one of them really trust each other.
Nothing like a room full of killers to make you appreciate the cold.
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