Perhaps the fact that The Hateful Eight was so heavily marketed for its 70mm release, the widest such release since 1992, is a good indicator that the film’s primary strengths are in its cinematography. He said that Harvey Weinstein originally tried to get him to make the script into a play, but he wanted to make a film.
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In an interview following Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, the helmer shared with The Wrap’s editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman, “I’ve thought it out completely”.
The Hateful Eight goes beyond any previous Tarantino film in leaving us unsure where to stand. There’s no sympathetic hero, nor any chance to cheer along with what Uma Thurman in Kill Bill calls a “roaring rampage of revenge”.
“I think he has quite a few people lobbying him already”, she added.
“The Hateful Eight” included an overture and intermission – not commonplace since the ’60s.
Shortly after the dragging commenced on Twitter, it was reported that Stallone did thank both Coogler and his co-star Michael B. Jordan from the stage, but only after the show broke for a commercial. Tarantino participated in an anti-police protest back in October, leading cops to demand a boycott of his films. But I have to say… that I directed the movie that the great Ennio Morricone at 87 years of age did an original score for and won the Golden Globe. Let me take advantage of the situation I have right now and make it an event. But not everyone is who they claim to be, which fogs up the movie in mystery and paranoia.
This is what I believe Tarantino meant when he said the g-word word: a lowly space of despair.
Tarantino had previously mentioned possibility of bringing “The Hateful Eight” to Broadway in 2016, following the film’s NY premiere in December.
Over the weekend, using science, math and apples-to-apples examples, I made the case that there is no reason, outside of a series of public relations catastrophes, for the box office disaster that is Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight”.
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Like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, in lieu of a protagonist there are a handful of tetchy principal characters including dominant monologue-wielding ones such as wily silver tongue Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson).
