Of course, Quentin Tarantino will not just be satisfied with the map gun. It's already the eighth movie, and his confidence has already filled every corner of the movie. The opening of the movie is almost freeze-frame for nearly 5 minutes, and retro subtitles are added leisurely, just like a low-cost film from the 1980s. The story of the whole film, in the final analysis, is very simple, even to the point of boring. Most of the 160-minute movie is in a small house on a snow-covered mountain, and there are few iconic plots. But the director is so confident and took it easy to shoot it beautifully.
I think this calmness comes from four aspects: detailed description, structure and rhythm setting, the reveal of the character image, and the ridiculous humor. There are spoilers below, it is recommended to come back after watching the movie to continue.
"The Hateful Eight" is not like the predecessors "Jiang Ge" and "Shameless Bastard", which started a big killing soon after the opening. Its plot has been dormant for a long time, but the audience can always feel nervous. The mystery lies in various details. When the bounty hunter first entered the wooden house, several people in the house shouted and ordered him to kick the door, but the old gentleman on the left side of the screen did not say a word, which seemed a bit strange. The conversation between the black and Mexican in the stables, and the black people looking around guardingly after entering the wooden house, the shop rules that are not allowed to wear hats, the candy in the floor cracks, and the talk and stop when eating beef stew, all seem to imply something Tricky. The result was echoed one by one in the second half of the film, and some echoes were not easily noticed until the second time after looking back. For example, the British are very concerned about the companions of the bounty hunter. As soon as the female prisoner enters the door, he says that the person who tortures her is carrying two people. It turns out that they are exchanging information. The scene where the old man didn't say a word became the gathering point of the entire film timeline.
When the audience was suspicious and worried that something big would happen, Quentin began to sell private goods without delay. Just like Churchill in "Shameless Bastard" is about to talk about a movie theory, the British began to explore the dispassion of public power to execute the death penalty as the root of justice. Bounty hunters make coffee, Mexicans go beef stew, and ugly cowboys record their own life stories. At the same time, the ruffian humor must not be absent. The eight people have exactly any background, race, region, and gender. The map artillery on all sides is full, and they are placed in the snow-sweeping Wyoming Mountains in the 19th century. There is no pressure for political correctness. Every time someone enters the room, the room will be yelling and kicking the door. Two boards are used to nail the door, and then the camera carefully follows until both boards are nailed. Just make your audience anxious.
Just when the audience was about to feel tired, the highlight came, and it was also gradual. Firstly, I told a story with an extremely heavy taste from the mouth of a black man, and used vivid pictures to express it. The audience withstood the visual impact, and also completed the first character reveal-this black man played by Samuel Jackson is not A so-called good person. After firing the first shot of the film, I used the chapter "The Secret of Domoge" to play suspense, letting the audience rack their brains to guess who was poisoned, but let the audience know who was poisoned. Staring anxiously at the screen, people continue to talk nonsense and map cannons, delaying poisoning, dying of you. At the moment when the audience did not expect, the bloody performance suddenly began. Whether it was vomiting blood, headshots, or smashing people's eggs, it was absolutely unambiguous, and the amount of blood spurting was also a level of nasty fun.
The truth has come to light, the film is just halfway through, how to play it? Insert the story before the beginning of the film. When watching "Inglourious Basterds", no one thought that Hitler would be shot to death in a French cinema, so that scene was unexpected; and in this episode of "The Hateful Eight", all the audience knew the people in this room. The director will start to make coffee, buy sweets, teach French, and play chess. You don’t need any plot, just let your heart hang in your throat. The moment the fire was opened, a series of character images were revealed by the way: the polite British and the useless people who were bloodied by a knife on their necks turned out to be cruel killers. The nasty brain-dead sheriff turned out to be a hero. And the southern general who insisted on his beliefs in the first half of the movie and died due to a duel, turned out to be a coward (at least not a brave man) who only wanted to save his life. Finally, go back to the main timeline through the above scene. This time the audience understood why the old gentleman didn't say a word.
As for the ruffian humor, anyone who has seen the director's previous works will not be unfamiliar. In addition to the aforementioned map cannon, the blizzard is about to come, there are also a series of nonsense, repeated kicks, heavy-mouthed stories, and broken eggs. The most obvious is the moment the female prisoner was hanged and was handcuffed to her. That's the hand. But in general, this taste has given way to a delicate narrative structure and a grasp of rhythm.
It is also a story in the snowy mountains of Wyoming in the 19th century. "Wild Hunter" focuses on the beauty and cruelty of nature, while "The Hateful Eight" just uses this background to lock a few people in a room and stage a bad taste. New Dragon Inn. In the ending song of the magical nature, have you ever come back to your senses, who are the eight evil men?
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