Unlike most men of the Old West, Schultz is an Old World man of many words, rarely using one where four or five will do as he articulately and amusingly explains himself to a succession of skeptical and well-armed ruffians. After considerable verbal ado, he takes down the leaders of a chain gang of slaves, one of whom, Django Jamie Foxx , can identify the notorious Brittle Brothers, for whom Schultz hopes to collect the considerable reward. In a heart-to-heart, Django reveals that his wife was sold away to another master, but of particular interest to Schultz is the news that her name is Broomhilda or so the reliably idiosyncratic speller Tarantino presents it and that she speaks German, as she was raised by people from the old country.
Some of it is over-the-top nutty, and a few things — like a mass argument that sounds like a bunch of modern Californians nattering at one another — come off as rather silly. But much of it is inspired or close to it, just as the underlying outrage at the fact that slavery even existed in this country until years ago, is well and truly felt. We can accept that as some sort of truth.
But then Schultz risks his life to help Django find his slave wife, who has been sold to a plantation owner in Mississippi, and the movie becomes nonsensical. The vicious comic cynicism of the first half gives way to vicious unbelievable sentiment in the second half.
The murderous bounty hunter has a heart of gold. In Mississippi, Schultz finds his rhetorical equal in Calvin Candie Leonardo DiCaprio , an elegant plantation grandee who wears his hair long and his beard finely clipped, and who speaks in even lengthier sentences than Schultz.
DiCaprio plays this burlesque version of power-mad dominance with overwhelming relish, stroking his locks and beard like a Victorian stage villain; he even delivers a detailed lecture on phrenology a pseudo-science beloved by racists in the nineteenth century with thundering passion.
The word is all over hip-hop and street talk, of course, but the taboo against it is the most powerful of all taboos in journalism and public discourse. But freedom to do what?
He tosses the word around again and again. Whites say it, blacks say it. They use it functionally, as a descriptive term, and contemptuously, in order to degrade.
Samuel L. Jackson, as the unctuous and tyrannical Stephen, uses the word with especial vigor as a way of keeping down all the other blacks and ensuring his own predominance. Well, sure it is, but how much of that talk does Tarantino need to make his point? How much of this n-wording is faithful reporting of the way people talked in , or necessary dramatic emphasis, and how much of it is there to titillate and razz the audience?
By the end of the movie, the n-word loses its didactic value as a sign of racism. Yet the ordeal helped him find his narrative, and oddly, many bad breaks improved the film.
After 18 weeks of frantic, painstaking postproduction, he finished the film in the nick of time, on Nov. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. December 20, pm. Related Stories. Rated R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language and some nudity. Did you know Edit. Trivia When Calvin Candie Leonardo DiCaprio smashes his hand on the dinner-table, DiCaprio did accidentally crush a small stemmed glass with his palm and did really begin to bleed.
He ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene. Quentin Tarantino was so impressed that he used this take in the final print, and when he called cut, the room erupted in a standing ovation.
DiCaprio's hand was bandaged, and he suggested the idea of smearing blood onto the face of Kerry Washington. Tarantino and Washington both liked this, so Tarantino got some fake blood together. Goofs Dynamite was not invented until by the Swede Alfred Nobel , while this film features it on several occasions and is set in Quotes Dr. Django : Yeah. Django : Yes. Crazy credits There is a small additional scene with the 3 men in a cage at the very end of the credits.
User reviews 1. Top review. A masterpiece! Django Unchained is a Hollywood movie depicting the story of a former slave turned freeman who just wants to get his wife back. He will stop at nothing to unite with his wife. A brilliant masterpiece of a movie. The gut-wrenching way in which slavery in past-America is depicted is simply awe-inspiring.
Quentin Tarantino goes all out to show the viewers what slavery was like in those days. Every character in the movie were aptly cast and put on a splendid show.
Every scene with Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz is memorable and impressionable. All in all, this is a Tarantino movie. So, you gotta watch it.
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