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[[The Hateful Eight]] - movie/TV references and inspirations | [[The Hateful Eight]] - movie/TV references and inspirations | ||
==Movies== | ====Movies==== | ||
* The Great Silence - Spaghetti Western w/ Snowy mountain backdrop | * The Great Silence - Spaghetti Western w/ Snowy mountain backdrop | ||
* Cut-Throats Nine - Euro Western w/ Snowy backdrop / prisoners | * Cut-Throats Nine - Euro Western w/ Snowy backdrop / prisoners | ||
* For A Few Dollars More - Spaghetti Western feat/ Bounty Hunters. Col. Douglas Mortimer, ex Civil War soldier turned bounty hunter like [[Major Marquis Warren]]. | * For A Few Dollars More - Spaghetti Western feat/ Bounty Hunters. Col. Douglas Mortimer, ex Civil War soldier turned bounty hunter like [[Major Marquis Warren]]. | ||
==TV== | ====TV==== | ||
“It’s less inspired by one Western movie than by Bonanza, The Virginian, High Chaparral...Twice per season, those shows would have an episode where a bunch of outlaws would take the lead characters hostage. They would come to the Ponderosa and hold everybody hostage, or to go Judge Garth’s place — Lee J. Cobb played him — in The Virginian and take hostages. There would be a guest star like David Carradine, Darren McGavin, Claude Akins, Robert Culp, Charles Bronson or James Coburn. I don’t like that storyline in a modern context, but I love it in a Western, where you would pass halfway through the show to find out if they were good or bad guys, and they all had a past that was revealed. “I thought, ‘What if I did a movie starring nothing but those characters? No heroes, no Michael Landons. Just a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true. Trap those guys together in a room with a blizzard outside, give them guns, and see what happens.’" - Quentin Tarantino | “It’s less inspired by one Western movie than by Bonanza, The Virginian, High Chaparral...Twice per season, those shows would have an episode where a bunch of outlaws would take the lead characters hostage. They would come to the Ponderosa and hold everybody hostage, or to go Judge Garth’s place — Lee J. Cobb played him — in The Virginian and take hostages. There would be a guest star like David Carradine, Darren McGavin, Claude Akins, Robert Culp, Charles Bronson or James Coburn. I don’t like that storyline in a modern context, but I love it in a Western, where you would pass halfway through the show to find out if they were good or bad guys, and they all had a past that was revealed. “I thought, ‘What if I did a movie starring nothing but those characters? No heroes, no Michael Landons. Just a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true. Trap those guys together in a room with a blizzard outside, give them guns, and see what happens.’" - Quentin Tarantino | ||
Revision as of 19:37, 5 September 2015
The Hateful Eight - movie/TV references and inspirations
Movies
- The Great Silence - Spaghetti Western w/ Snowy mountain backdrop
- Cut-Throats Nine - Euro Western w/ Snowy backdrop / prisoners
- For A Few Dollars More - Spaghetti Western feat/ Bounty Hunters. Col. Douglas Mortimer, ex Civil War soldier turned bounty hunter like Major Marquis Warren.
TV
“It’s less inspired by one Western movie than by Bonanza, The Virginian, High Chaparral...Twice per season, those shows would have an episode where a bunch of outlaws would take the lead characters hostage. They would come to the Ponderosa and hold everybody hostage, or to go Judge Garth’s place — Lee J. Cobb played him — in The Virginian and take hostages. There would be a guest star like David Carradine, Darren McGavin, Claude Akins, Robert Culp, Charles Bronson or James Coburn. I don’t like that storyline in a modern context, but I love it in a Western, where you would pass halfway through the show to find out if they were good or bad guys, and they all had a past that was revealed. “I thought, ‘What if I did a movie starring nothing but those characters? No heroes, no Michael Landons. Just a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true. Trap those guys together in a room with a blizzard outside, give them guns, and see what happens.’" - Quentin Tarantino
Source: Deadline
