Quentin Tarantino's Film, The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino paints with a palette of the past. As a young man, he worked in a video store, studiously absorbing film. When he began creating movies himself, he construed the elements of classic cinematic storytelling into his own modern pastiche, this is what sets him apart, and why he is often considered the most influential filmmaker of the 90s. Nearly twenty-five years after his first major film Tarantino gives us his eighth film, The Hateful Eight.

The Weinstein company has rolled out the red carpet for Tarantino's film. Paying to install one hundred 70mm projectors in theaters across the States, and producing two hundred fifty pounds of film per screen, they’ve gone through a lot to give us the experience Tarantino intended. Regardless
He often professes his love of the old, especially when talking about movies, technology, and westerns. Django was similar to a western, but The Hateful Eight stands as his first true western. It begins slow, the dialog often feels molasses like, the characters are untrusting and it takes them all awhile to feel each other out. Although It often felt slow this sequence of meeting strangers is done very well. The dialogue furthers everyone's backstory and helps pull off the impressive feat of having eight separate well-developed characters. The halfway point marks a dramatic change, a 3-second 0-60mph acceleration from Tarantino’s impression of a western into Tarantino’s western. From here on out its full bore
With so much hubbub given to the lenses and the format used to shot this film, one may expect to find many shots of huge mountains and outdoor sets. But these unique features are instead almost exclusively used for up close, tight situations, almost entirely in the stuffy cabin. Each unique character is simultaneously slowly unfolded. The script offers everyone opportunities to stand out, and they all do, but the greatest performances are given by both, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Walton Goggins. The Samuel L Jackson character is great, but many times Tarantino references the actors iconic image, by slowing down funny lines and making him say self-referential lines that don't seem to fit in. It often feels like Tarantino is poking you in the ribs saying “huh? did you see what he just said, wasn't it