Django Unchained: New Tarantino Western!

[buttahflake]

this looks fun.

[Crampedon]

I'll buy. looks hokey but entertaining. The blue suit at the end is a bit too pimp for the time period, looks like something Chris Isaac would wear for his encore!

[dookeyXXX]

1. It's been getting some heat in terms of potential racist content

2. Make sure you see the original Django spaghetti's so you have an idea of his source material:


DJANGO (1966) w/ Franco Nero


DJANGO, PREPARE A COFFIN - aka Django Sees Red aka Viva! Django (1968) w/ Terrance Hill


DJANGO STRIKES AGAIN (1987) w/ Franco Nero (this is the "sequel" to the original)


I believe there were quite a few "Django" movies made during the hey day of Italian Westerns, but these I have listed above are the more popular (and easier to find) ones.

[snapt]

For the hype I'm not blown away by the trailer so hopefully it still has that Tarantino edge to it.

[Tye 1on]

Filmed for a week in Jackson last summer.

[brice618]

It's Tarantino, the point is the gratification of what you really wish would happen in life. Hokey is just part of our own imagination, and we all fucking love it.

[dookeyXXX]

Actually kinda surprised that QT is re-visiting the spaghetti western genre (afterall, Kill Bill 2 was nothing more than a spaghetti western update).

That said, glad to see he roped Franco Nero into appearing in the film. I hope that he has a more substantial part other than the forced camp cameo where he asks JF "what's your name?", though.

[dookeyXXX]

Just read a mini-interview with Tarantino in the newspaper. In the piece he mentions a few films that he used as source material for Django Unchained.

Naturally, one of them is the 1966 Django (clip included a few posts above), but a few others are interesting.

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Nevada Smith (1966)

Day of Anger (1967)

He also cites the swashbuckler films of Basil Rathbone, the ones where Rathbone would portray "the scheming man whispering in the king's ear". Not sure which ones those may be, but I have a hunch he could be specifically citing The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Captain Blood (1935); The Mark of Zorro (1940); The Court Jester (1956)...

As always, Tarantino is culling his material from a wide array of films (in many ways QT might just be the premiere film historian of the last 20 years. I'd love for him to write a book where he details all the films that have inspired him. That would be a great read (granted, there are quite a few articles floating around the Webz that detail where he has taken inspiration for characters and scenes, but having QT actually review all the films he's watched and subsequently been inspired by would be a hoot).

[splat]

As for his sourcing, QT takes not only plots but copies the best camera angles from other movies to use in his own. He uses what has worked best in the past and combines all those elements into his productions.

[Hugh Conway]

for the 2012 sight and sound list QT listed his top 12 films:

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone) [1]
Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
The Bad News Bears (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
Carrie (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
Dazed And Confused (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
The Great Escape (1963, dir. John Sturges)
His Girl Friday (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
Jaws (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
Rolling Thunder (1977, dir. John Flyn)
Sorcerer (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
Taxi Driver (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)

which is interesting to compare to his 2002 list:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
They All Laughed (Bogdanovich)
The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
Carrie (De Palma)
Coffy (Hill)
Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
Five Fingers of Death (Chang)
Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)

[Alaskan Rover]

Am I the only one who was thinking Django Reinhardt...the legendary guitarist (although of a style I do not covet), and then asking: "What in HELL does Tarantino have to do with Django Reinhardt???"

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[Falldise]

I just saw this. Good movie, I would rate Basterds higher but still unique moviemaking that you do not see enough of. The slavery stuff was pretty harsh, but why sugarcoat it.....

Thoughts?

[ASmileyFace]

I enjoyed it a lot but I love Tarantino flicks. Definitely up there in terms of brutalness but also was way funnier than I expected. Well worth the trip if you can stand the "bad" stuff.

I'd also bet that it has the most N-bomb drops of any movie ever.

[iceman]

Am I the only one who was thinking Django Reinhardt...the legendary guitarist (although of a style I do not covet), and then asking: "What in HELL does Tarantino have to do with Django Reinhardt???"

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[fantastic_damage]

Anyone notice the Red Bandanna character? Appeared to be a woman and she was shown 2 or 3 times. Not sure what QT has going on there but there must be a reason...inside joke...masked cameo perhaps?

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(but this oughtn't change your opinion on either of us)

[idiot]

Saw this last night.

Pretty awesome, but I agree that the slavery/racism aspects were harsh. Definitely the most N word uses I have ever heard in a movie, and not the "yo my rap is tight style"

Overall this movie rocked, and certainly delivered with the killing. The humor was also there even with dealing with such a subject.

[jm2e]

Can a movie about slavery be criticized for racism? Seems kind of retarded. As it would be if a period piece used the term "African American".

[powpig]

Just saw this last night, been avoiding this thread til I did.

I love QT's flicks and always make an effort to see 'em on the big screen. Django did not disappoint.

Thanks for those lists Hugh. A couple flicks there caught my eye.
I always loved Sorcerer, read an interview with Friedkin once where he talked about how filming that river crossing scene was as intense as watching it.
And when I was a kid, my Dad used to take my brother & me into downtown SF to see kung fu movies. While I really don't remember a thing about it, I do remember that Five Fingers of Death was one of the best we saw.

for the 2012 sight and sound list QT listed his top 12 films:

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone) [1]
Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
The Bad News Bears (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
Carrie (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
Dazed And Confused (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
The Great Escape (1963, dir. John Sturges)
His Girl Friday (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
Jaws (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
Rolling Thunder (1977, dir. John Flyn)
Sorcerer (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
Taxi Driver (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)

which is interesting to compare to his 2002 list:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
They All Laughed (Bogdanovich)
The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
Carrie (De Palma)
Coffy (Hill)
Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
Five Fingers of Death (Chang)
Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)

[Mike Pow]

Watched it last night.

Loved it.

Only negative is QT's ego getting the better of him and casting himself.

[abraham]

Watched it last night.

Loved it.

Only negative is QT's ego getting the better of him and casting himself.

Hasn't he done that a few times? From what I understand thats why there was the focus on the red bandanna, she was one of the actresses in death proof

[Ripzalot]

loved it. i think i like it better than basterds. the raid scene was probably one of the funniest moments in any QT film. some pretty sadistic stuff in it too, not for the squeamish.

i was thinking the red banana girl was paying some homage to an old film but i have no idea what it was. the QT cameo was kind of odd because he is so clean shaven compared to everyone else. maybe he does that on purpose to "camp" it up a bit.

[TheDon]

I thought it was bad ass. IMO best save pulp fiction.

[arild]

I thought it was bad ass. IMO best save pulp fiction.

I found it the most straight forward of his flicks, but I really did enjoy it. The minute or so in the end got a bit too campy for my tastes, but didn't ruin it at all. Will probably see it a couple more times. The scene where django and schultz enters the small texas town was pure gold, in my opinion.

The german was the best character overall, brilliant acting.

norsk

[summit]

Saw it last night... great movie... although I'd have made it shorter by not including the mine plot etc