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Academy Award-winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino returns with his most infamous, most brilliant, most masterful screenplay yet...
At the end of the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Domergue to justice. Along the roa...more
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Feb 02, 2014
Bettie☯ rated it
liked it Shelves: us-western, summer-2015, tbr-busting-2015, play-dramatisation, re-visit-2016, civil-war-american, us-wyoming, racism, recreational-homicide, prisoner
News item: This week Quentin Tarantino decided to sue Gawker after the site published a link to the filmmaker's leaked 'The Hateful Eight' script. In an attempt to make the screenplay harder to find the filmmaker also asked Google to remove several websites that linked to or wrote about it. Thus far, however, the search engine is refusing to comply.
13.08.2015: The Trailer
Opening: Last stage to Red Rock
EXT - White Winter Wyoming mountain range - Snowy Day
If you like Tarantino then your tongue wi...more
The Hateful Eight:
Take one Mason jar. Add two bounty hunters, some frozen corpses, a woman on her way to a noose, and two stagecoaches and various passengers. Sprinkle in some suspicious minds, duplicitous characters, time jumping, and don't forget to throw in some racial tension and bigotry. Chill for approximately 24 hours (in a blizzard). Shake vigorously. Throw at nearest wall (I mean really wind up and pitch) and thoroughly enjoy watching the violent explosion of glass shards and gore a la...more
Feb 28, 2016Sabrina Grafenberger rated it really liked it
Not one of the eight main characters is really likeable or someone to root for, yet somehow you want to know what's happening with them and you get hooked.
This was a really good read and the first screenplay that kind of reads like a novel. The dialogues and monologues are well written and filled with dark humor and violence.
I read the screenplay before watching the movie and I ended up liking it more than the movie itself. There are a few things that were left out of the film which are in the s...more
Aug 12, 2015
Michel rated it
really liked it Shelves: ebooks, action-susp
Wow!
(Thx for the link, Bettie!)
I can see why Tarantino is PO'd his script is floating around: he didn't want the whole world to know his, er, terminal ending before they saw the movie!
But he shouldn't worry, we'll go see it when it comes out, GLORIOUS 70 mil SUPERSCOPE an' all.
Meantime, I ma stay away from coffy!
And jelly beans…
Feb 10, 2014awesomatik.de rated it really liked it
Das mediale Trara war groß als Tarantino vor wenigen Wochen die Arbeiten an seinem neuen Western abbrach, nachdem das Drehbuch durchgesickert war.
Ich dachte mir, wenn das Kind sowieso schon in den Brunnen gefallen ist, dann darf ich es wohl auch lesen.
Schon das Drehbuch zu Django Unchained fand ich sensationell (und um einiges besser als den Film) und so konnte ich es kaum erwarten meine Augen auf den frischen Text zu legen.
Und was soll ich sagen! Wie immer geht es reichlich bleihaltig zur Sache...more
It has all the hallmark moments of a Tarantino classic movie. The dialogue with everything to play for, with a buildup in tension, with an unclear ending; the time movements; the focus to just one place; the authentic accents; the quirky and immediate characters realized through quick anecdotes or gestures.
It clearly needed a few more drafts to be complete. And it lacks the originality of Pulp Fiction precisely because Pulp Fiction did it first. Still, and so, worth the couple of hours of time...more
I'm usually not a fan of reading screenplays, but this one was so good I couldn't put it down. Although it helps to have watched the movie, Quentin Tarantino really sets the scene and tone with his colorful, descriptive background language, which some of it you would not get from the film. Also, I caught a lot more of what is going on from the book than what's in the movie because I could read the dialogue at my own pace.
Tarantino has a way of making a script still read like a novel.
Jan 31, 2016Mahmoud Fouad rated it really liked it
(it's hot and it's strong and it's good)
استخدم تارانتينو هذه الكلمات في السيناريو على لسان عدد من الشخصيات واصفا القهوة التي تقدمها استراحة(محل خردوات ميني..لاحظ الاسم)على أحد طرق وايومنج والتي تدور فيها أحداث السيناريو..في رأيي هذه الكلمات تصف أعمال تارانتينو..فهي ساخنة ومثيرة يعيد فيها إحياء فكرة الthriller بعد أن ظنناها شبعت موتا..وهي قوية بما تحتويه من حوارت ثرية وبليغة وشخصيات متعددة الطبقات..وهي جيدة لأنها بسيطة وتخاطب الجميع...أتابع تارانتينو باستمرار ومشروعه الضخم لإحياء التراث السينمائي...more
Dec 30, 2015Carolyn rated it it was ok
I saw the movie recently. Thought it was ghastly, grotesque, gruesome and gory and must confess I liked it. There were a couple of elements of the mystery which puzzled me. I downloaded this book thinking it was a novelization of the movie which would resolve a couple of questions for me. Alas, discovered it was the shooting script for the movie, so abandoned it.
I did it again. I read another Tarantino script after swearing Death Proof was my last. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. I like to make notes while I read screenplays because I consider them research as much as pleasure. With Tarantino scripts I find myself editing. And making exasperated comments.
Errors and spelling mistakes aside (yes, he's guilty of they're and their, in an Oscar script), once again, this story is a whole lotta talking and nothing much happening. I've come to the conclu...more
Jan 05, 2018Keith LaFountaine rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I love reading screenplays, mainly because they provide me with further insight into the film. Tarantino is a unique writer and an even more unique director, so reading The Hateful Eight was a bit like watching it -- he's a very visual writer, often mentioning the 70mm Superscope film he is going to use, and expounding on a specific image of a cross.
It's also interesting to see what was cut out of the film, and quite a bit was cut out -- a flashback, a couple scenes of dialogue, etc. Not stuff t...more
better than most books I've read
May 15, 2017Hua Mulanah rated it really liked it
after seeing the film i had to read the script and I'm glad i did.
it was so good
Mar 10, 2016Ira Livingston rated it it was amazing
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فيلم رائع يتحدث عن وقائع تنقلك الى مكان اخر
غير تلك الاريكة البالية التي تجلس عليها لمشاهدة الافلام متلذذا بما هو على طاولتك من تسالٍ .
A good western, but unfortunately nothing really new. Just a shoot'em up story. Quentin is good at writing gross bloody scenes almost like he's bored of normal killing. He might want to work on actually creating shock factor in his stories themselves. Otherwise all you remember is the gross violence. So with that said it was still good but because there was nothing really 'new', I gave it a 4.
Quentin Tarantino is such a great screenwriter. I could not put this down. I finished it so fast and automatically wanted to read it all over again. I cannot wait to see the movie!
Quentin Tarantino puts great details and his stories never fail to amuse me. Love him!
Jan 12, 2016Donna Sanders rated it liked it · review of another edition
Not bad. I little weird reading the screenplay but I was able to visualize the setting which was weird with minimal description
Jan 10, 2016Crystal Salas rated it liked it · review of another edition
The Hateful Eight
Surprised it was so short and an actual script for the movie. It was classic Tarantino humor/ violence/ gore, loved it
Dec 29, 2015Anthony McDowell rated it it was amazing
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an Academy Award- and Palme d'Or-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and stylized violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004), Death Proof (2007), and Inglourious Ba...more
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