The quote 'The only time black folks are safe is when white folks is disarmed' is a sharp line from 'The Hateful Eight.' To score this tense, winter-set Western, Ennio Morricone utilized the banjo in a non-traditional way. Instead of the fast, 'happy' plucking of bluegrass, he used the banjo to play slow, minor-key, and dissonant notes. This created a sense of 'frozen' dread that matched the film's claustrophobic setting. This choice showed how a familiar instrument can be subverted to define a new type of movie legend—the 'horror-western.' The banjo became the sound of the 'hidden' violence within the characters' dialogue about race and the Civil War.