The Hateful Eight
Although it ’s technically a western , The Hateful Eightis so intense that by the final act , it becomes the closest thing Quentin Tarantino has made to a horror film . It has enough blood and gore and twists and turns to be debate an all - out chiller , whileits mystery story follow the shadowy synopsis of a whodunit .
Tarantino went through his contact list and pulled out hismost frequent collaboratorsto toy the mysterious character reference ofThe Hateful Eight . The cast members all gave terrific performances , but some were great than others . So , here are all the major performances inThe Hateful Eight , ranked .
James Parks As O.B.
James Parks is n’t a bad doer , but he does give the least memorable performance inThe Hateful Eight , because he ’s give very limited material in the venial role of O.B. , the stage driver hired by John Ruth to pilot the blizzard .
He ’s not one of the nominal eight , and once he ’s get John Ruth ’s stagecoach up to Minnie ’s Haberdashery , his role in the plot has been fulfilled , but he has nowhere to go . The poison coffee berry pot was a commodious way to get him out of the story .
Channing Tatum As Jody Domergue
Channing Tatum express up midway throughThe Hateful Eightto shoot Major Warren in the crotch from under the floorboards . He ’s revealed to be Daisy ’s brother who ’s been await for the right opportunity to strike .
At first , it was a playfulness surprise that Tatum was playing Jody ( even though there ’d been rumors that Tatum was in the cinema , and eagle - eyed viewers would ’ve spotted his name in the porta titles two hours to begin with ) , but beyond that , the presence of a democratic A - lister was just distracting .
Michael Madsen As Joe Gage
Tarantino always gives Michael Madsen some cool dialog to deliver , and he always breeze through it with perfectly put pauses and off - camera coup d’oeil throughout his line deliveries .
Joe Gage is easily the least developed fictional character inThe Hateful Eight ’s ensemble — the extensive cut of the movie released on Netflix mostly added scene expanding on his characterization — but Madsen still has a passel of fun with the role .
Kurt Russell As John “The Hangman” Ruth
After playing a murderous stunt driver for Quentin Tarantino inDeath Proof , Kurt Russell portray the bounty hunter John “ The Hangman ” Ruth inThe Hateful Eight .
His thick Southern accent and moustache - twirling are a little heavily - handed , but there ’s still mountain of o.k. act in this performance , such as the look of repugnance in his eyes as he realize he ’s been poisoned , or when he read Major Warren ’s forged Lincoln letter and sheds a tear .
Demián Bichir As Bob
When Tarantino told his friend Robert Rodriguez that he ’d write a Mexican character and asked him to recommend an player , the first name that came up was Demián Bichir . Rodriguez had worked with the Oscar - nominated charmer onMachete Kills .
InThe Hateful Eight , Bichir is relegated to the theatrical role of comical relief , which does n’t give him an awful passel to work with , but he still pick apart all of his lines out of the park with hilarious speech . Particularly , his pronunciation of the word “ cabrón ” never fails to get a jape .
Tim Roth As Oswaldo Mobray
Regular Tarantino age bracket Tim Roth channelize British lineament worker Terry - Thomas in the theatrical role of Oswaldo Mobray . He successfully threw viewers — and the other characters — off his trail out front of the big third - bit twist .
When he ’s revealed to be the criminal “ English Pete ” Hicox , it ’s surprising to hear that his reliable idiom is a Cockney one , similar toRoth ’s voice as Pumpkin in the porta and culmination scene of Tarantino’sPulp Fiction . Although his American speech pattern was a little shaky inReservoir Dogs , Roth never slips out of either of his accents inThe Hateful Eight .
Bruce Dern As General Sanford Smithers
As an passe - allied full general who executed contraband P.O.W.s at the Battle of Baton Rouge just for the Scheol of it , General Sanford Smithers is one of the most “ hateful ” member of the titulary grouping of eight deplorables . Bruce Dern leans into that , especially in the General ’s interaction with Samuel L. Jackson ’s Major Warren .
Dern ’s depicting of Sanders ’ unbridled hate speech devote Jackson the freedom to go all out with glee when Warren detail his torment of Sanders ’ boy . As he tells the story , Sanders is wordlessly seething , and Dern plays it brightly .
Walton Goggins As Chris Mannix
Having stray Walton Goggins as the indisputably reprehensible Billy Crash inDjango Unchained , Tarantino give the actor more of a luck to be likable inThe Hateful Eight . Chris Mannix shows up on a snowy plain in the middle of nowhere , claiming to be the new sheriff of Red Rock .
Goggins had both moment of comedy , like tossing away the poisoned coffee in a panic-stricken state , and moment of pathos , like defending General Sanders in front of Major Warren , and as common , he nailed both .
Jennifer Jason Leigh As Daisy Domergue
The only Oscar - make functioning inThe Hateful Eightis delivered byJennifer Jason Leigh in the function of serial killer Daisy Domergue , the “ Susan Atkins of the Wild West . ” Leigh played every one of Daisy ’s vicious grins with a worthy creepiness , but also bring in some nuance to her guitar functioning .
The violent treatment of Daisy throughout the film proved to be controversial among some viewing audience , but Leigh did a rattling business of spewing metaphorical maliciousness with every insult and chastening that comes out of her mouth .
Samuel L. Jackson As Major Marquis Warren
There are few actors who are more perfectly matched to Tarantino ’s directing panache than Samuel L. Jackson . His classical voice and commanding presence could n’t be better beseem to deliver Q.T. ’s ungainly monologues , while his expressive human face makes every closeup onThe Hateful Eight ’s Ultra Panavision 70 lenses a optical kickshaw .
The role of Major Marquis Warren , a bounty hunter who ’s onto the risky hombre from the origin and has a serious violent bar , was the ideal antihero — a tightrope paseo of likability ( sure , Warren ’s bad , but the others are worse ) — to make this one of Jackson ’s all - time most riveting carrying into action .
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