Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight: 10 Things You Need To Know
6. It's His Rio Bravo
So the basic set up of The Hateful Eight, as released this past week, is that Russell's bounty hunter is delivering Leigh's fugitive to Roth's hangman in a town called Red Rock. The near-Arctic conditions force them to hole up with Jackson and Goggins's strangers at Minnies Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive, they are greeted not by the proprietor but four unfamiliar faces. Demián Bichir's Bob, whos taking care of Minnies while shes visiting her mother; Roth's Oswaldo Mobray; Michael Masden's cow puncher; and Bruce Dern's Confederate General Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all So basically, it's a Western set in a single location, with tensions flaring thanks to a mismatched bunch of people in a tough situation. It's pretty much Rio Bravo, then?
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