Anyone Seen Django?

[YouMadd?]

Now that you phrase it like that, it makes more sense that Schultz killed Leo. I took it as a surprising twist when it happened, but it also functions to show that when he has to choose his greater motivation, he chooses a moral high ground and superiority over "lesser whites" instead of genuinely helping the black man and his wife.

If schultz is "good", liberal whites, that's a powerful and truthful critique of them and their real motivations.

I might be restating myself, but I feel like I'm seeing this in a new light. This movie was deep to me and commented a lot on American race relations.

I agree... Even the brothel with all black women... Named after cleopatra? But all of the sculptures of cleopatra were white... It had me like

Or even Leo's monologue about the difference between black people's brains and white people's brains...

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

You're white, right? Speaking on a black critique of a film?



Why don't you attempt a response?

Why bother? The fact that you were salty that Candie's phrenology speech wasn't rebutted with some detailed counterargument, as if it deserved one, is ludicrous, and serves to show how little you actually understand. Same goes for your dismissal of the Dumas exchange as some insignificant throwaway line. Every point you made was

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Some minor things I dont get:

-What was up with that chick with the axe?
-Why did Jamie take the saddle off the horse at the end?
-Why didn't they just kill Django when he surrendered? I get the whole wanting to torture him angle, but they were just shooting at him the prior 10 minutes TRYING to kill him.

Like I said, minor shyt.

 

[YouMadd?]

People keep forgetting the movie is a nod to the blaxploitation era and most if not all of the jokes were directed at racists whites. The slurs while in abundance add authenticity. A movie set in antebellum south without the n-word.

No one is saying they shouldn't say at all, but a lot of it wasn't needed... shyt, Samuel L's character sometimes started Talking like it WAS a 70's blaxploitation film... So the dialogue wasn't always accurate to the time period anyways...

 

[re'up]

There was so much good in here, performances, cinematography, gun fights....but I thought overall, it was lacking in story, uneven, overlong, repetitive, too indulgent...someone said, in a review, 'The emperor has no clothes', in reference to Tarentino, and I am almost inclined to agree, I didn't like this or 'Basterds', Waltz gives the exact same performance, Samuel Jackson had me cracking up, and I thought had the most interesting role. A 'C' movie imo...

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Some minor things I dont get:

-What was up with that chick with the axe?
-Why did Jamie take the saddle off the horse at the end?
-Why didn't they just kill Django when he surrendered? I get the whole wanting to torture him angle, but they were just shooting at him the prior 10 minutes TRYING to kill him.

Like I said, minor shyt.

Yea, and once again, why the hell did James Remar (Dexter's dad) play two characters, Butch (Candie's enforcer with the top hat) as well as one of the guys in the opening sequence marching the slaves.

As far as why they didn't kill Django...I think they just needed the movie to go on.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Okay, one more burning question ..James Remar (Dexter's dad) played TWO characters in the movie. He played Candie's right hand man Butch. But he also played one of the brothers in the VERY opening scene that was marching Django as a slave.

Anyone else pick up on that? He's listed in IMDB as playing both characters, so i know it wasn't just my mind playing tricks.

lol I knew I wasnt trippin. when they met leo and I seen dude I was like WTF. I even thought maybe the reason he was wearin the hat was to hide his fukked up domepiece from the headshot he took. even django questioned why he was wearin a hat inside. I was really expecting a twist there, but never got it. kind of an odd move to have him play two parts.

 

[HHR]

I'm sure this thread is a veritable bloodbath of idiocy, so I'm just gonna drop in quick

The movie was brilliant. The performances were EXCEPTIONAL.

It's probably not QT's best film and probably not a masterpiece...but it's a remarkable film. Some of his more interesting style choices were more distracting than enhancing (most notable the ridiculousness of the chick flying backwards/sideways at the end ). That said, most of them worked flawlessly.

Great film. Relentlessly entertaining. One of the best of the year

 

[TheDarceKnight]

lol I knew I wasnt trippin. when they met leo and I seen dude I was like WTF. I even thought maybe the reason he was wearin the hat was to hide his fukked up domepiece from the headshot he took. even django questioned why he was wearin a hat inside. I was really expecting a twist there, but never got it. kind of an odd move to have him play two parts.

Yea IMDB has him listed as playing the characters Ace Speck & Butch Pooch.

 

[RickyGQ]

This movie was black excellence at its finest....it was pretty much a live action version of the Catcher Freeman episode of Boondocks....

It was WELL cast and everybody did a GREAT job..especially Leo and Samuel...I wouldn't be surprised if they got Oscar nominations off this...but I will be a tad bit IF they win and it had to take Leo and Sam to play a slave master and a Uncle Tom for them to get it....but other then that..they did a GREAT job..

I'm gonna admit, "******" was said TOO much during this movie...but giving the setting and the time period....it was expected....

The flash back scenes were bad and uncomfortable...but they were NOTHING compared to the flash back scenes from Amisted...trust me on that

Visually...the shyt left me like

Spoiler

The shot where Jamie was riding a white horse with holding his rifle on his way to save his life left me like

The ending had me screaming "BLACK POWER" and putting up my black fist...and looking at white people like and while some of them had that look like

After I watched the movie..I realized why Spike Lee was hating on the movie...he was mad he didn't make the movie

Quentin Tarantino is one of the G.O.A.T and this movie proved that...from having one movie where he made Hitler do the Harlem shake with them bullets...then in his NEXT movie have a black man kill slave owners.......how could u hate that man!?!?

Honestly, QT is probably the only dude who could make a movie like this. No way in hell is Spike though...

 

[O.Red]

Am I the only one that thought the Phrenology speech went over peoples heads? I know there are people out there stupid enough to believe it true after seeing the movie.

 

[O.Red]

Did anybody wonder who the woman in the red mask was?

 

[spliz]

What I dont understand is how muhfukkas can go watch a movie set in slavery times and not expect to hear the N word a lot?..

 

[RickyGQ]

I wonder how much of this movie lends to the QT theory that all his movies are in the same universe, I.e. which charecters in the movie were ancestors of other QT characters.

 

[Busby]

I wonder how much of this movie lends to the QT theory that all his movies are in the same universe, I.e. which charecters in the movie were ancestors of other QT characters.

QT has said on numerous occasions that all his films are in fact in the same universe and the characters are related in some way..

Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc.

You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino's movies are technically two universes - he's gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk 'Til Dawn take place in a 'movie movie universe'; that is, they're movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.)

also explains it here too..http://www.cracked.com/article_19323_6-movie-tv-universes-that-overlap-in-mind-blowing-ways.html


watch this video too...Take a walk through the Tarantino Universe - Miramax