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The Hateful Eight fanedit (Released)

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Here’s my first swing at fanedits, non other than Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Whole idea started with “god damn it, Quentin, no talking in the movies” thought, when I first heard the narration. So far, there are five major edit points:

  • no Quentin
  • no Jack White
  • no Roy Orbison
  • no chapters
  • as less Channing as possible

Other than re-edited opening titles, there are many small nips and tucks, and I also want to fix blue-ish snow and maybe mess with colors a bit.

Final running time is 122 minutes. Story goes chronologically now. Many cuts to pace it up, mostly in prologue and towards the final gore resolving. Changed closing credits music with Bacalov “Il Grande Duello” theme. There’s also a nod to Peckinpah in there but I’ll let you find it.

https://forums.fanedit.org/showthread.php?tid=14203

color correction comparison, original is up:

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You really only need to hang mean bastards,
but mean bastards you need to hang.
John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth

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why aren’t the images showing in above post? what’s going on?

edit: nevermind, that’s some weird someimage thing

You really only need to hang mean bastards,
but mean bastards you need to hang.
John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth

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Just my opinion, but I prefer the original colours as they were from the photochemical source. Snow or shots emphasizing chilly weather, etc were always tinted bluish in photochemical timed prints. In most cases, the blue dyes shifted towards purple. This was done to make the audience feel the “chill” as we subconsciously associate blue with cold and yellow with warm temperatures. I saw this in the cinemas and the colour timing was gorgeous. I wouldn’t change it to something that looks grayish and less cinematic.

I hated the digital grading of ‘The Revenant.’ Apart from the immersive and video-like camera angles (which I did not like too much), there’s nothing inspiring about the colour grading of that movie for me. Though the feature itself is quite good and a better film than The Hateful Eight, overall.

As for your changes, I do agree that Both Tarantino’s expository voice-over and Channing Tatum are somewhat distracting. But the former I can live with because it sounds good from a purely aesthetic point.

Regarding the chapter marks, I wouldn’t remove them as they add suspense to the film; like reading a thriller novel where you want to find out what happens in the next chapter,i.e, a page-turner.