- In Quentin Tarantino's new film 'The Hateful Eight', Daisy Domergue, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, finds herself on the receiving end of a lot of violence, such as gun-butt crack over the skull or a back elbow to the nose or a dousing of hot stew to the face.
- The New York Times’ A.O. Scott says that , “At a certain point, the n-word gives way to the b-word as the dominant hateful epithet, and ‘The Hateful Eight’ mutates from an exploration of racial animus into an orgy of elaborately justified misogyny.”
- Leigh says that Tarantino "doesn’t have an ounce of misogyny in him. It’s not in his writing. It’s not in his being," and that Tarantino writes the best parts for women.
- “This guy is the most pro-woman ever,” Harvey Weinstein said in an interview. “[Look at] Uma Thurman [in “Kill Bill”], Pam Grier [in “Jackie Brown”], Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger [in “Inglourious Basterds”]. If there are cries of misogyny, we will sit down and make them watch ‘Jackie Brown,’ and at the end of the ‘Jackie Brown’ seminar, they will have to say, ‘Hey, we’re just fishing for stupidity.'”
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Is Hateful Eight a vehicle for misogyny, or is QT the feminist king we don't deserve?
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