This episode features the guest voice talent of Morgan Jeske.
The videos in this series will cover Tarantino's latest film, The Hateful Eight, as well as it's cinematic, literary, and historical precedents. Ranging from cowboy novels of the turn of the 20th century to the horror films of the 70s. The series will try to contextualize Tarantino's film in the history of the western and how the film argues that the western is a narrative that has been built on some spectacularly vile and racist ideas.
This fourth episode of the series focuses on the history of the winter western, ranging throughout the entire history of the western. Along with this subgenre, this episode covers Elmore Leonard's contributions to the western, the television western, William Witney, William Wellman, Ida Lupino, Robert Altman, Andre De Toth, Sergio Corbucci's most political film, gore-western obscurity Cut Throats Nine, two Roger Corman productions shot in the town of Deadwood, and Takashi Miike's brilliant Sukiyaki Western Django.
This is something I've wanted to do with the show for a while and it is only now possible thanks to the support of our Patreon backers. This first series will be made available to them a little early in thanks for their support. We hope to continue making videos like this and we hope you enjoy this project and you can support us at the new level to make more of these happen. Prospective topics for future series include: Suspiria, Django Unchained, Death Proof, Kathryn Bigelow, and the early films of David Cronenberg.
- Sean Witzke, October 2016
References Used in Creating This Episode
- The Hateful Eight: A Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino
- 10,000 Ways To Die by Alex Cox
- "Quentin Tarantino Tackles Old Dixie By Way of the Old West (By Way of Italy" by Quentin Tarantino in the New York Times
- "Whoa Trigger, Auteur Alert!" by Rick Lyman in the New York Times
- Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing On Takashi Miike by Tom Mes
- Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman, King of the B Movies by Chris Nashawty
- From Shane To Kill Bill: Rethinking The Western, by Patrick McGee
- The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard
- Christopher Nolan interviewing Quentin Tarantino for the DGA.
Video clips include (listed as they appear):
- Cut Throats Nine (1972), dir. Jaoquin Luis Romero Marchent
- Django (1966), dir. Sergio Corbucci
- The Spaghetti West (2005), dir. David Gregory
- Track of the Cat (1954), dir. William A Wellman
- McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971), dir. Robert Altman
- Deadwood pilot
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- Bonanza
- Day of the Outlaw (1959), dir. Andre De Toth
- The Great Silence (1968), dir. Sergio Corbucci
- Django Unchained (2012), dir. Quentin Tarantino
- Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), dir. Takashi Miike
- Joe Kidd (1972), dir. John Sturges
- Pale Rider (1985), dir. Clint Eastwood
- Jackie Brown (1997), dir. Quentin Tarantino
- The Hateful Eight (2015), dir. Quentin Tarantino
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957), dir. Delmer Daves
- Valdez Is Coming (1971), dir. Edwin Sherin
- Hombre (1967), Martin Ritt
- The Tall T (1957), dir. Budd Boetticher
- The Golden Stallion (1949), dir. William Witney
- The Virginian - multiple episodes
- The Rebel - “Fair Game”, dir. Irvin Kershner
- Ski Troop Attack (1960), dir. Roger Corman
- Beast from the Haunted Cave (1959), dir. Monte Hellman
- On Dangerous Ground (1951), dir. Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray
- The Searchers (1956), dir. John Ford
- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (1966), dir. Sergio Leone
Songs featured:
- Ennio Morricone - "Spasmo #4" from Spasmo
- Ennio Morricone - "Nin Nanna in Blue (movie takes suite)" from Cat O'Nine Tails
- Ennio Morricone - "Immobile" from The Great Silence
- Ennio Morricone - "Prima Che Volino I Corvi" from The Great Silence
- Lalo Schrifin - "Lamar" from Joe Kidd
- Lalo Schrifin - "Joe Kidd Opening Title" from Joe Kidd
- James Horner - "The Queen" from Aliens
- Riz Ortolani - "Miami" from Goodbye, Uncle Tom
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