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Under the Influence

How Quentin Taran­ti­no took inspi­ra­tion from The Great Silence

26 Jan 2016

If you liked The Hate­ful Eight you’ll love Ser­gio Corbucci’s 1968 film that inspired it.

With its snowed-in set­ting, homi­ci­dal boun­ty hunters and orig­i­nal Ennio Mor­ri­cone score, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hate­ful Eight bears a strik­ing resem­blance to Ital­ian direc­tor Ser­gio Corbucci’s blood-soaked Spaghet­ti west­ern from 1968, The Great Silence.

In a brand new series of video essays, Adam Cook looks at the sim­i­lar­i­ties between these two polit­i­cal­ly-charged epics, start­ing with its cyn­i­cal, grit­ty sub­ject matter.

Watch the first episode of Under the Influ­ence below and if you like what you see be sure to sub­scribe for more.

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