The Hateful Eight: 18 Easter Eggs & References You Need To See
The Good, The Bad And The Thing.
You can expect a lot of things from Quentin Tarantino films: violence, swearing, liberal usage of confrontational racial language and a slightly creepy obsession with feet. He's a dependable film-maker after all - an auteur, in other terms - whose commitment to his own topes is only as strong as the director's mainline into the beating pulse of film history. Because Tarantino is an obsessive film collector, his films are inevitably stocked full of references, parallels and straight up redone beats from films he loves and those that have in some way shaped his knowledge and style. Given that he is a massive Western fan, it's no surprise, then, that The Hateful Eight is positively drenched in Easter Eggs, references and homages to the genre. And the references go beyond that, dipping into Tarantino's own canonical mythology and borrowing liberally from other genres easily, to the point where watching almost invites the challenge of spotting where you've seen things before and why they matter to the director...