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Quentin Tarantino: [racial slur] In the roadshow version, the "n" word was used sixty-five times, which is a little over half the use in Tarantino's previous film Django Unchained (2012), which is said to hold the record for the movie with the most uses of the "n" word. In the general release, one scene between Sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) and General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern) was removed that used the word seven times, reducing the count to fifty-eight. Of the main characters, Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) is the only person not to say it.
After the script leaked online, writer and director Quentin Tarantino did not want to make this movie. However, after they did a brief reading of the script in Los Angeles, the cast was stunned and got excited for the film, and with Samuel L. Jackson persuading him to do this movie, Tarantino accepted.
Writer and director Quentin Tarantino said that some of Ennio Morricone's compositions for the film are the unused scores for The Thing (1982). Kurt Russell was the star in that movie.
The song sung by Daisy ("Jim Jones at Botany Bay") was performed by Jennifer Jason Leigh live on-set. The soundtrack for the film features the song, along with the sounds of the wood being hammered into the door, and dialogue by Kurt Russell and Leigh.
Writer and director Quentin Tarantino announced at Comic-Con in 2015 that Ennio Morricone would compose the score for the film. Tarantino remarked that it would be the first western scored by Morricone in forty years. He had previously used Morricone's music in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Death Proof (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012). Morricone also wrote a brand-new song, "Ancora Qui", for the latter. Despite stories of tensions between the two, Tarantino decided to have Morricone on-board to compose original music for the movie, making it the first film by Tarantino to use mainly an original musical score. Most of his previous films have used mainly source music, with only a few cues of original score.
At one point, Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) says, "A bastard's work is never done", which was the tagline on the poster for Inglourious Basterds (2009).
Quentin Tarantino: [Red Apple Cigarettes] Characters smoke the Red Apple brand of tobacco, also called Manzana Roja. Red Apple cigarettes appear in multiple Tarantino films, as a way to avoid endorsing real products, and perhaps to indicate that the films take place in the same universe. Minnie says she uses Red Apple tobacco. At one point Bob offers the others a Manzana Rojo cigar.
Quentin Tarantino: [racial slur] In the roadshow version, the "n" word was used sixty-five times, which is a little over half the use in Tarantino's previous film Django Unchained (2012), which is said to hold the record for the movie with the most uses of the "n" word. In the general release, one scene between Sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) and General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern) was removed that used the word seven times, reducing the count to fifty-eight. Of the main characters, Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) is the only person not to say it.
Quentin Tarantino: [testicles] This is Tarantino's fourth (and third in a row) movie where a character is shot in the testicles.
Quentin Tarantino: [long take] The opening credit sequence, which begins with a close-up of a crucifix and ends after the producer's credit, is one unbroken shot lasting around three minutes and forty seconds.
Quentin Tarantino: [long take] When Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) plays and sings the song, it is all done in one shot.