Django Unchained Movie Blurb by Shale December 25, 2012 This movie is rated R for ... well, everything, including language. This blurb, like the movie is rated R. You been warned. This movie is by Quentin Tarantino as proclaimed in big red letters in the credits; as if you needed that with the ubiquitous red blood spatters thruout the movie. Also this movie, is set in the slave states of the west and south in 1858 so you hear the common dialogue of that place & time. Unlike the timid writers of today who use non-words (N-word) to describe this dialogue, niggers are quite abundantly heard in this movie. Get used to it or stay home. That said, we open with a bunch of slaves in chains being cruelly walked thru the woods of Texas barely protected from the cold and with whip lash scars on their bodies. They are approached by an erudite gentleman in a wagon who introduces himself as Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). They give him some good-ol-boy grief and he outshoots them and acquires Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave who can identify some wanted killers that Dr. Schultz is hunting for the bounty. Dr. Schultz, a German, is appalled at the system of slavery in America but needs Django to help him, even if coerced. He promises to free Django after he kills the killers and collects the bounty, plus he gets a horse and some pocket cash. In their first Texas town they enter Dr. Schultz asked Django why everyone is starring at him and Django says "They ain't never seen a ****** on a horse." Django's New Duds While spending time on the trail together, Dr. Schultz and Django become friends and after the first bounty, they continue as partners. Bounty Hunter Django ("Kill white ppl and get paid for it - what's not to like?") Dr. Schultz promised to help Django find his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) who was sold separately by their owner. Broomhilda is German-speaking, which intrigues Dr. Schultz. They locate her at the plantation of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is particularly cruel and depraved, enjoying Mandingo fighting to the death for his amusement and has no qualms about letting a runaway slave be torn apart by dogs. However, Candie is the typical Southern gentleman in demeanor and Dr. Schultz with his freeman Django posing as customers dealing in Mandingo fighters are guests at the Big House, much to the objection of the house slave Stephen (Samuel Jackson). Welcome to Candyhouse They locate Broomhilda and are in the process of buying her when things don't go as planned. Django & Candie You didn't think this movie would end without multiple blood spattering shootings and a couple of dynamite explosions did you? Oh there are some pretty brutal scenes here including one where Django is hanging naked, upside down from the shed ceiling about to get his balls cut off. (Some quite graphic anatomy of Foxx or a body double shown onscreen here). I enjoyed this movie - it sort of gives a catharsis to see fictional white slavers get their brutal comeuppance on screen even tho you know it didn't really happen.
I saw Django last night at the AMC theatre in Boston with a few friends and everyone was blown away :2thumbsup: Sam Jackson was the perfect house ****** (I'm black so i can say it) because it was so contrary to any roles he previously played. Hotwater
Samuel Jackson is an intimidating presence, whether a Jedi Knight or Nick Fury or that rotten pig in Lakeview Terrace. And, his portrayal of the sycophant house ****** (I'm white but tell-it-like-it-is) where he lords it over other slaves was equally disquieting. Could hardly wait for Django to set things right in the Big House.
You're right he has a serious dark-side to him (pun intended) lol.... but i was refering to his afrocentric point-of-view hotwater
I loved Samuel L Jackson as the house ****** (I can say it because I'm racist) because he was such an out of place character for the movie. Tarantino portrayed literally every white person (other than the main guy) as a black-hating sadistic psychopath. Not that this is a bad thing, it made the revenge that much more satisfying. However, I'm glad that he threw in a character who mixed things up. A man who accepted the reality he was presented with, which turned him into a self loathing, delusional maniac. Basically, he was the only person in the movie who wasn't a predictable stereotype. (I didn't have a problem with the stereotypes, I absolutely loved the movie. I'm just glad Tarantino threw in an unexpected character with a little bit of depth, and got a total badass to play him.)
Thats good to hear, i havent seen it yet, but if Leo wasnt in it wouldnt have bothered been burnt too many times of late trying to watch a tarantino movie, but looks lioe this is back to form
This was THE BEST movie I have seen in years. Blew me away. Crowd gave a standing ovation at the end.
Leonardo DiCaprio looks especially sinister. Awesome review. I'll check and see if this movie is still playing in my area. QP
i just got back from seeing it. it was really good. 2 hours and 45 minutes flew by. a lot more entertaining than the hobbit (of equal length). the crowd clapped when the big house blew up
I saw this new a couple of days ago, and I really enjoyed it. For me, a movie has to be really good, if it's a long one, and I was really interested to see what was going to happen next..so it kept me interested. Great movie!
Holy Cow! Was this a Tarantino movie? Someones grown up as a director. Turned into a Tarantino movie at the end, but first 3/4 was like some Scorcese shit going on, nuances everywhere Best Western in decades, Easily my favourite Tarantino movie. Leo is the Man. Had a laugh at what he did with his own cameo - dyno-mite! Unfortunately he is making Kill Bill 3, why I dont know, he should stick to whatever the hell he was taking when he made this
it was alright i hate it when he puts himself in a movie i was more impressed with don johnson than the house ****** sam
Best tarantino flick in awhile! It seemed more real.. gritty.. of course there were the long tarantino scenes and the ultra violence we have all grown accustomed to from him lol
i liked it i never, ever go to theaters, and a couple friends convinced me to come see a movie with them. i went to see this knowing nothing about it as i took my seat if i had known it was tarantino, i would have watched it a lot differently. i didn't even know until a few days later still enjoyed
I was surprised by the quality of this movie, QT definitely still has it - all the A-list start brought their 'A' game (especially Leo and Sam). I already want to see it again, felt like an instant classic.
Tarantino always has a Mexican standoff in his movies but I don't remember there being one in this movie, was there? It's one of Tarantino's trademarks. Unless there was one but I just don't remember it being in the movie.
I just saw this movie again today and thot of something mentioned a little in the beginning of my review. As you may have read or heard, Spike Lee claimed to be boycotting this movie then proceded to criticise it, sight unseen. Actually, he may have it in for Tarantino on a personal level, but it seems the Academy disagreed with him on that trashing and so does a local writer in Miami New Times. Screw Spike Lee By Luther Campbell Thursday, Jan 17 2013 Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is a brilliant flick. Describing a slave's search for his wife in the South and Old West, it more accurately depicts the African-American experience than any of the 15 movies about black culture that African-American director Spike Lee has directed in his lifetime. Last week, it garnered four Academy Award nominations, including best picture. But ever since it hit theaters on Christmas, Lee has been publicly trashing Tarantino. In announcing his personal boycott of the movie, the Do the Right Thing filmmaker tweeted, "American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western," and "It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them." Lee needs to get over himself. He's upset because Tarantino makes better movies. The man who put Malcolm X on the big screen is Hollywood's resident house Negro, a bourgie activist who tells white auteurs how they can and can't depict African-Americans. He complains that Tarantino uses ****** too much (100 times) in Django Unchained, but show me a white man in the 1800s who wasn't dropping n-bombs left and right. Tarantino is one of Tinseltown's cleverest directors. Some of the most brutal scenes in Django Unchained are metaphors for the unfair racial inequality African-Americans still experience today. (Spoiler alert!) For instance, Leonardo DiCaprio's plantation owner character, Calvin Candie, trains some of his male slaves to fight to the death in a sport called "Mandingo Fighting." When one of the slaves refuses to participate, Candie threatens to feed him to his wild dogs. That scene is analogous to professional boxing, in which the Bob Arums of the world control black fighters through fear and intimidation. In another scene, slaves are shocked to see Django riding a horse. That's like the people who stare at the dude who returns to the neighborhood driving a Bentley. Django warns the slaves he'll treat them worse than any white man. That's the truth about blacks in positions of authority in today's corporate America. They treat blacks worse than any white boss does. Lee could never pull off a movie like this. When he's not being an ass from his courtside seats during New York Knicks games, he's making films to which most African-Americans cannot relate.
I watched Lincoln last night, slow and boring and not even close to the reality of the time, and not a single shot about slavery in the whole movie, and only one brief scene about je human cost of the war They made Lincoln out to be concerned with slavery ahead of everything else, complete bullshit, he was known by historians as more preoccupied with keeping the union together. He knew if they didnt abolish slavery the war would pop up again. And most of the preesure about the slave trade came from the outside world, thanks to the biggest selling book of that century- Uncle toms cabin, written by a chick, no reference to that. Lincoln, the reasons for the start and finish of the civil war, very different to the way it was portrayed in that movie. So even though Tarantinos movie was fiction, it was a far better example of the way peoppe really talked, thought at the time. Speilbergs film re writting history to ensure it would be commercially successful in yhe US and grab a few oscars. Django shits all over Lincoln. Even with the acting in Lincoln, I dont see what Lewis did that was so remarkable, I thought Sally field and Tommy Lee stole the show. Political bullshit if that gets alo the oscars
