Monday, January 4, 2016

The lights go dark and a red and black screen with the illustration of a stagecoach and the title Overture appears. The music by Ennio Morricone starts and you know that you are witnessing movie history here.

This is the 8th film by Quentin Tarantino. “The Hateful Eight” a film shot in 70mm ultra panavision by the renown cinematographer Robert Richardson and the intention is to create the experience that we lost over digital in the late 60’s.

“The Hateful Eight” is divided by six chapters which introduce a very peculiar cast of outlaws who don’t have any remorse of kill everyone to achieve their goal. A trip on a stagecoach carrying The Hangman (Kurt Russell) and The Prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) it’s been stopped by a unwelcome passenger “The Bounty Hunter” who is carrying a 3 dead bodies who needs to bring into town. Then another unwelcome passenger shows up, but this time of chapter 2, “The Sheriff” (Walton Goggins) who needs to get into town for his assignment, the new sheriff of Red Rock. During the stagecoach ride the story unveils showing every character true colors and real intention of their journey to town, including one of the movies let motive “The Lincoln Letter”

Finally they arrive to Minnie's Haberdashery where they meet with the rest of the characters “The Mexican” (Demián Bichir), “Little Man” (Tim Roth) “The Cow Puncher” (Michael Madsen) “The Confederate” (Bruce Dern) where the story take shape into a major conflict that involves: racism, US north and south, justice and poison.

Tarantino creates a theatrical experience never seen on his films, probably because his movies moves all over the place and tells the stories by so many points of views, which involves several narrators and locations. This time the film explore a single place where the conflict start and ends. The film is bloody like we used with him, violent and satirical. The dialogues are witty, sarcastic and filled with profanity. The story develops in a linear way until a point where Tarantino brings his magic touch.

“The Hateful Eight” is a great film that brings back the essence of westerns with a twist of pop culture.

If you really want to experience this movie in glorious 70mm try to catch up in their special engagement roadshow. Overture, Intermission and a nice program as a souvenir.


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