Quentin Tarantino?s new film, The Hateful Eight, is about an octet of travelers?bounty hunters, ex-soldiers, and prospective lawmen?holed up at a traveler?s stop, Millie?s Haberdashery, in the post-Civil War Midwest and as Harvey Weinstein called it, Tarantino?s most political movie to date.
Tarantino argued at a press conference on Saturday, that the movie consists of a racially-charged milieu of violence and distrust that is not so far removed from today?s America.
The filmmaker said, ?[We made this movie] during that last year and a half where many of the themes that we were dealing with, we were watching on television when we got home. We?d come to set and talk about them. But the one good thing about the script getting out there is I?m on record for having written it before all the shit started popping off.?
Tarantino was in the middle of a firestorm this fall, leading police unions across the country to declare him auteur non grata.
He declared at an Oct. 24 Rise Up October rally in New York City held to call attention to the deaths of victims like Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Tamir Rice at the hands of police officers, ?I?m a human being with a conscience. and when I see murder I cannot stand by. And I have to call the murdered the murdered and I have to call the murderers the murderers.?
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