Ninth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 film The Hateful Eight is the second film directed by the director in Western style. Shortly after the end of the American civil war, the film tells the story of characters who take refuge in a hut while trying to survive a snow storm, and the conflict between them. What distinguishes this film in terms of visual language is that it exhibits narrative codes exclusive to the director, besides the typical Western film narrative codes. The Hateful Eight movie was selected for this study because of its visualization style and different image/visual language, which are different from the known features of the classical Western style. The aim of this study is to examine the different image/visual language used in The Hateful Eight, which is uncommon for the a typical Western movie, using cinematographic analysis. For this purpose, the narrative elements (lighting, camera angle, shooting scale, framing, composition, fiction, music, etc.) that make up the film language in The Hateful Eight will be examined.