Two: Chapter Three, at dinner time, when the sheriff played by Walt Goggins questioned the authenticity of the letter from Major Warren, played by Samuel Jackson, about Lincoln’s letter, Samuel admitted it was A lie, and Kurt, who was convinced of this, couldn't accept this fact, and splashed the entire bowl of stew on the face of the female prisoner next to him. Everyone pay attention to this moment, who made a subconscious action in the picture. That's right, it was a cowboy played by "Mr. King" Michael Madsen. He stood up subconsciously, and then, in order not to make his actions appear abrupt, in the following background, we can see his figure, he went to serve a bowl of stew. And why did Quentin arrange for him to do this, and why did he arrange this detail that would hardly be noticed by the audience? The answer will be revealed in later chapters.
3: At the beginning of Chapter 4, Quentin’s narrator said that the sheriff, the bounty hunter and the hangman were arguing, the major was drinking brandy, the Mexican was smoking, and the female prisoner had not left the chair. Two people carried the body out. One of them was the coachman OB who lost the lottery. The other did not participate in the lottery. He volunteered to help carry the body to the ice and snow outside the house. And this person, he has absolutely no reason to do so. He is still the cowboy. This setting is really awesome, it's so perfect. Because if the audience ignores this point, it will not have any impact on the understanding of the following story, because the foreshadowing it planted will not be used later. If the average creator lays a foreshadowing, it will definitely play a role. And Quentin's foreshadowing, its only function is to show the subtle criminal psychology of the cowboy. In addition, the following reasoning did not mention things like alibi or the time of committing the crime. Quentin knew that he was not making a reasoning film, so there was no such old-fashioned stuff. Even so, he still has a thorough grasp of the psychology of all the characters. When I watched this movie for the fourth time, I was impressed by this detail.
Four: Between the third and fourth chapters, the film theater arranged a 15-minute break, and when the film continued, the time in the film also passed by fifteen minutes.
Five: In Chapter Three, when Kurt ran to collect the cowboy's pistol, he resisted. During the resistance, the hangman was dropped by the way. If you don’t mind my spoilers—I’ve done my best to not spoil them in the previous part, but I still can’t bear that people who haven’t watched the movie come to read my review-Cowboys and Hanging. People are actually a group, but they behave like strangers. This can also be seen in the details in Chapter 4, when the Mexicans exposed themselves, the cowboys and the hangman took a step back. Before the last minute, everyone was in their role.
Six: When a cowboy stands up and admits that he is poisoned, we should consider, why is it him? The first explanation is that he is the lover of the female prisoner, which also explains his very inconspicuous subconscious action in the background of Chapter 2. However, we can still get a second explanation: the hangman next to him is also his accomplice. He asked the major to stop at that position. Even if the major was dealt with, and the cowboy’s gun was confiscated, he knew that his accomplice was still on his body. With a pocket pistol, at this time, even if the sheriff shot him because he was poisoned, the gun of his accomplices hangman was their last guarantee for rescuing the female prisoner. Therefore, he must come to the poison. After the poison is finished, he who has a criminal mind will take the initiative to leave the house for a few minutes, and at the last minute, he must stand up and confess the crime. At that moment he bet all his chips on Tim Rose.
Seven: In the fourth chapter, the appearance of Minnie and Daddy Sweet Dave is very strange in the cold music. And here are a few explanations: the identities of several villains; why the door was broken; why there were sugar balls on the ground when the major entered the door; how did the Mexicans know that Minnie smoked a red apple cigarette; why the Mexicans did not pay attention to Minnie The rules for entering the shop and taking off their hats-because they only came in once and didn’t realize it was the rule; Sweet Daddy’s chair; why the general stared at the camera when he came out; why did the bounty hunter squirt out the coffee when he entered the door , And then go to make a pot of coffee by herself-Minnie's coffee is too strong, the coachman likes it, and the tourists are not necessarily so.
Eight: The first two chapters are almost full of dialogue, and there seems to be no life-and-death conflict, so many viewers who watch the lively comment that the first two chapters are relatively dull, and the latter part is more exciting. In fact, this is all shit, these guys shouldn't watch Quentin's movies, they should watch Chen Kaige and Tsui Hark's rubbish. The first two chapters used a lot of dialogue to explain the identities, personalities, and political positions of the three people, and even the terrible nature of the female prisoner was also shown. These are two great chapters. In this first chapter, the Lincoln’s letter discussed in the second chapter contributed to the sublimation of the whole story’s theme. It is also closely related to the conflicts in the following chapters. In the second chapter on Major Warren’s past, it is said that his black head was once offered a reward of 40,000 US dollars by the Southern Army, and there were also 5,000 US dollars after the war. This part of the chat content was used at the end of Chapter 3 and became the main part of the story.
Nine: In the first chapter, when the major said to the female prisoner why Kurt’s bounty hunter was called the "hangerman", he said: When the hangman catches you, you will be hanged die. In Chapter 3, Kurt said that only the most cold-blooded prisoners should be hanged. In the last scene of these two sentences, the major and the sheriff both started talking. This successive reference is very touching. This is an unwritten little agreement between the three villains, the major, the bounty hunter, and the sheriff. Although the eight villains have their own evils, these three people who met unexpectedly on the road formed a touching friendship in the end. ——I don’t even know if it can be regarded as friendship. But that is undoubtedly the very moving part of this whole story of intrigue. Second only to Lincoln's letter.
(This article is selected from the fourth part of Tang Renfeng's "The Seventh Evil Man": "Eight Evil Men". Follow the WeChat public account "Thirteen Evil Men" to read the full text.)
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