Apparently logic is not something you are capable of either.

Quoted from KevinLenihan Apparently logic is not something you are capable of either.

Says the man who doesn't understand my previous comments.

I'd like to see how logical you are... a game of chess will decide who's who on that score. Or would you prefer draughts? *The last one's a joke by the way.*

Is it really any different than some guy being forced to take a dick up the ass?

LOL.


--Steve

Just don't think about it, Kevin.

QT's take on the contained thriller.  More than anything, this reminded me of a greatly stretched out version of the tavern scene in Inglorious Basterds.  Heavily armed folks in a tight, claustrophobic space, many of them pretending to be someone they're not.  You know it's going to end badly for damn near everyone, but you have to stick around for the powderkeg to explode.  

That blazing dialogue, dripping atmosphere and remedial spelling mistakes all make for a distinctively Tarantino reading experience.  Always amazes me how the pages fly by when you're reading one of his scripts.  You glance up and realize you've just torn through forty pages.

Compared to previous works, Hateful Eight felt mighty thin on story.  Some fantastic imagery.  Colorful characters(although not among QT's most memorable).  And a gradual and unstoppable feel of Tarantino slowly closing his hand around your throat.  But in the end, there just wasn't too much meat on dem bones.  Maybe Tarantino is on to something with this idea of novelizing the script.  In the screenplay, at times,  it felt like he wanted to show a whole lot more story, but there just wasn't room.  With the novel he'd be free to expand it as far as he wants.  

Anyway, a great read.  And as always a master class in dialogue and atmosphere.  

Something I'm confused about. Does Tarantino really want to publish this specifically as a novel? Because the impression I got is that Tarantino actually wants to publish the script.

This may not seem to make any sense but Tarantino has gone on record multiple times saying that he considers his scripts literature and that every time he writes a new one, he could just as easily publish it rather than film it. His script for Natural Born Killers has already been published, reformatted so that it looks more like a play so as to be easier on the eyes.

More importantly, while there's plenty of articles saying that it's going to be a novel, none of Tarantino's actual quotes say this. I suspect it might've just been inferred by journalists and by extension everyone else.

I could be totally wrong on this but Tarantino publishing the script as opposed to a novelized version of it doesn't seem a stretch by any means.

You're probably right about him just publishing the script.  I've seen his scripts in paperback version before at the bookstore.  And, not sure if QT's writing style would be quite so effective in prose.  I know I've read quotes from him before where he expresses a certain envy about novelists and how they're able to take a story anywhere they want.  But the more I read the stories on this, the more it sounds like he wants to put Hateful Eight Behind him and move on.

My reading of his comment is that he will publish it as a script.

I must be the only one here that doesn't worship QT like he's Jesus. I don't care for his movies ...I do think his dialogue is outstanding and I have read some of his scripts...but I'll skip this one. Can't imagine watching that shit ...I can spend my money on better things. Sorry to be the odd man out. Or odd girl out.

This article says QT plans on making Hateful 8 into a novel.  But, who knows.  Also has some interesting speculation on what the movie would have made at the box office.

http://www.fool.com/investing/.....he-hateful-eigh.aspx

My money's on Tarantino making the prison film. Or something else entirely.

Out of all the projects Tarantino has had on the back burner or has prematurely announced, he's only made one (Inglourious Basterds) and that's only because he'd started writing it years ago. All the others are dead in the water, at least as far as I'm concerned. Tarantino's talked about so many prospective projects going back almost ten years and he always drops them the moment he has a new idea. I wouldn't hold my breath on him making any of them.

Just as well. Killer Crow sounds too rehashed after his last two and Kill Bill, Vol. 3 and The Vega Brothers just sound TERRIBLE. Think the latter can be ruled out completely considering how old the actors are now.

I don't see how he can claim his scripts are works fo literature when he writes lazy camera angles and 'we see'. In literature you shouldn't have to tell one what they see, you use prose to describe it.

So he'd need a rewrite on it either way. I have no love for his writing either, but I do like his ideas and dialogue.

I find it interesting fellow screenwriters would read and exploit the link to read a script that was leaked online and never meant to be read by the writer.

kind of hypocritical don't you think?

especially after the long anti piracy discussion I remember having not too long ago on this board.

Penoyer, if you read the interview with QT, he not only expects this to happen, he welcomes it. He mentions how he loves that his scripts are obtained and discussed on blogs.

Exploit? Is that the word you want to use? Is anyone using it to benefit themselves? Other than learning from his story skills, of course, but that hardly constitutes "exploiting" things.

It's amazing how quickly even simple threads like this turn into personal accusations these days. The forum here is supposed to be a place for writers to improve their craft. Sadly, it's become a place distracting bickering and cheap shots. Our time is better spent writing. Time for another break from the distraction, I guess. Too much work to do.

I think the difference in this case is that Tarantino was referring to when his shooting scripts leak for people to read and discuss, and not a first draft that wasn't intended for public consumption.

He's actually filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker for providing a link to download the script.