Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker who both wears his influences on his sleeve and plasters them all over his movies. So when IGN sat down with the writer-director to discuss new film The Hateful Eight, we asked what audiences should watch to prepare for his brutal and bloody western. Two of his choices were easy and obvious, being violent oaters that take place in the snow. And the third was a book that he was in the process of reading, but by an author whose work is an obvious influence on the Hateful Eight script.
But we’ll let QT explain, and also reveal the somewhat dubious Poirot-inspired nickname that Samuel L. Jackson picked up during the shoot…
“If they wanted to prepare a little bit, one of the things about this western is… I do like dealing in genres, but I also like dealing in sub-genres. So there’s westerns, and then there’s spaghetti westerns. In this case there’s also the sub, sub-genre of snow westerns. And snow westerns – there’s not that many of them, but they’re there.”
“My favourite snow western is one of the great, nihilistic spaghetti westerns, done by one of my favourite directors, Sergio Corbucci, and it’s called Il Grande Silenzio, or sometimes The Great Silence, with Jean Louis Trintignat, and it’s terrific.”
“But there’s also another really good one from America, directed by Andre De Toth – who also did House of Wax – called Day of the Outlaw, with Robert Ryan and Burl Ives. It’s really, really good.”
“This is definitely my attempt to throw my hat in the ring writing a mystery, I’ve never written a mystery before. As a matter of fact right now, in the restaurant downstairs having breakfast, I’m reading And Then There Were None, because I’ve heard about it for a long time but I’ve never actually read it. That’s what I’m reading right now on my travels. This was my attempt to try to do a mystery.
“I asked Sam [Jackson], after he read the script, ‘What was your favourite part?’ And he goes ‘Well actually, my favourite part is when I’m just figuring out what happened to everybody, and I turn into Hercule Negro.’ That’s what we called that character through the whole shooting!”
So that’s your homework, as set by the man himself. The Hateful Eight is in U.S. cinemas now while it hits U.K. screens this week.
Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and loved talking to QT. He can be found talking nonsense on The Superhero Show and Twitter.
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