What is Joe Gage writing?


Fellow IMDB-ers,
I was flipping through this film this evening, and wondered what Joe Gage was writing.
Is it really his life story? Is he simply writing over and over again "I can't take this for another minute, I'm going to kill them all?"
Your thoughts?


It is a moment of transcendence when one recognizes oneself as an adversary- Ramu

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I also noticed that John Ruth's overview when he predicts that one/all of them is working with Daisy and that one of them is not going to be as cool as leather or what have you, to have the patience to wait long enough for them to let their guard down is, as Daisy says "absolutely right."

I hadn't seen it in that light the first few times.

It is a moment of transcendence when one recognizes oneself as an adversary- Ramu

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When Daisy says "you're absolutely right" to John Ruth is that a "sarcastic confession" as TV tropes says?

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Depends on how you define the trope. If you consider the desired effect being part of it then it wasn't.

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My guess is to pass the time, he was literally writing some events from his life. Like Jody preached, they needed to be patient.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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I appreciate this!
However, it also suggests Joe is "going" crazy, and he seems pretty damn unhinged the whole movie to me. I wondered why Tarantino had him be quite so sinister in the initial exchange with John "Bob" Ruth. ;-)

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he's writing "why the fook am I in this movie"

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He's leaving proof behind in case their plan falls apart and since it did (every single person in the movie dies) I was hoping for a final scene where the 15 outlaws show up and see the mayhem that had just happened. Then they burn the place down as they leave. It's the same question as what was in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction. Lol

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I think the suit case from Pulp Fiction contained the diamonds that the gang stole from the jewellery store in Reservoir Dogs.

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That might have been a better ending!

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He tells John Ruth that he's writing his life story.

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As referenced in my initial post...

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