And as Walton Goggins tells it, that ambiguity is something the cast wrangled with during and after filming.
We called it The Haters Coffee Club.
Wed all have a cup of coffee and sit in our chairs and discuss what might happen today.
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Some of those conversations still continue to this day.
There is no right answer.
An obvious SPOILER alert for those who havent seen the film yet.
Its also justice, and its also moral and righteous, he says.
It is delivering a sentence and a punishment that was around everywhere in our country at that time.
Maybe it would have been a life sentence today.
This is a person who has been tried and convicted by their standards.
But does Mannix actually have the authority to sentence Domergue at all?
For nearly every act that seems morally straightforward, theres a detail that undercuts it.
Take the Lincoln letter as another example.
For Goggins, the sentiments of the letter fraudulent or not still speak volumes.
They have gone through what they have gone through to get to this point of understanding each other.
And yet, as the letter says, we still have a long way to go.
Thats what we have control of, really.
This is all part of the fun ofThe Hateful Eight.
There are different meanings to derive from it depending on your perspective.
