As “Django Unchained” was held just before the Civil War, “The Eight Salopards” ( “The Hateful Eight” ) happens a few years thereafter.
In a stagecoach through the Wyoming countryside, the bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) takes a woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to be judged.
Isolated by a snowstorm
He met the commander Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), an ex-soldier northerner became bounty hunter, and renegade southern Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins).
Caught in a snowstorm, they find refuge in a neighboring relay haberdashery Minnie. They are greeted by four strangers (played by Bruce Dern, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Demian Bichir), with whom they will have to stay until the lull in a relentless behind closed doors.
Eighth Quentin Tarantino movie (if we consider “Kill Bill: Volume 1″ and “Volume 2″ as a single work) “The Eight bastards” revisits the western genre while clearly marked paw director “Pulp Fiction” , who has been interested for several years to historical topics, from World War II in “Inglourious Basterds” in the Civil War here.
chiseled and abundant Dialogues
This film “speaks less than the Civil War itself as relations between whites and blacks at that time “, he however explained at a press conference in Paris.
“I think this theme has never really been addressed by the great westerns directors’ , he added, estimating it was “his contribution to the genre” .
chiseled and abundant Dialogues, stylized violence, nonlinear structure, with flashbacks, paying particular attention to the music, made this time by Ennio Morricone, the legendary collaborator Sergio Leone: all the usual ingredients of the films of Tarantino met.
Ultra Panavision filmed in 70 mm
The black humor, offset, fun and parody that usually make the salt of his films, however, are less present here.
In a tribute to the epic theater of yesteryear, the film lasts almost three hours with musical opening and intermission. It is filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 mm – widescreen format used for the last time in 1966, which in particular magnifying landscapes.
“The Eight bastards” does not fail to refer more – as often with the ultracinéphile Tarantino – to popular culture, here Western television series of the 60s like “Bonanza” , “The Virginian” and “Gunsmoke” .
“A little friendly bunch of guys”
“I especially watched those that had great guest stars” , he recounted.
“Generally, they played foreigners who arrived in the city, and we did not know very well what to think of them. As in, we learned more about their past “.
It stresses have “found this really interesting aspect” and have wanted to do a film where “History would focus on these characters “, making it appeal to some of his favorite actors, Samuel L. Jackson (” Pulp Fiction “, ” Django Unchained “) to Tim Roth ( “Reservoir Dogs” , “Pulp Fiction” ).
For the filmmaker, “The Eight bastards” “its closest film + Reservoir Dogs +” because it shows him as “a bunch of nifty little guys who find themselves prisoners in a closed” .
“A more literary turn”
Theatrical, the script was first played on stage by the actors in front of 1600 people in April 2014 in Los Angeles before being transposed to the screen. Tarantino was reluctant at the time to finally make a movie because his script was leaked on the internet.
The filmmaker, which he repeats at every realized only ten films – considering then turn to writing novels and plays – recognizes that “there is often a theatrical aspect in his work” and since “Kill Bill” , this “took a more literary turn “.
“I take writing more seriously than I did during the first ten years of my career. And I love that “, he let go.
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