With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to
rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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The Italian western appeared in the mid-1960s, its aim both to compensate for the reduced number of American westerns and their lack of action. Shot in Spain by directors usually adopting American pseudonyms, they rapidly became known for ultra-violence, sadism, operatic staging, sharp colours, enormous close-ups and emphatic music. In the dubbed and heavily cut versions that reached the English-speaking world they had a crude quality that offended the few critics who saw them.They did, however, have a vigour and a broad Marxist thrust in their attitude towards capitalism and third world exploitation. They made a considerable impact on the Hollywood western in its last days (especially on those featuring Clint Eastwood, the only American actor to become a star through working in Italy), though the name of only one Italian director, Sergio Leone, has become widely known outside the world of the genre's aficionados.This sub-genre, known derisively as spaghetti westerns, more or less ended in 1978 with China 9, Liberty 37, a Spanish-Italian production that can be seen as a fable about moviemaking itself. Appropriately enough it was directed by Monte Hellman, the cult American maverick who co-produced Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut Reservoir Dogs in 1992. Because not only is Tarantino's first western, Django Unchained, a brilliant revival of the genre, it's an admiring and adroit harnessing of the spaghetti western to his own aims and purposes.
The name Django was frequently used in the 1960s for remorseless revenge heroes in Italian westerns, most especially the masochistic protagonist played by Franco Nero in Sergio Corbucci's Django, a 1966 picture banned in Britain for 25 years because of its extreme violence. Nero drags a coffin containing a machine gun around a corrupt post-civil war town on the Mexican border and clashes with the Ku Klux Klan. In Tarantino's picture (in which Nero has a cameo role) Django is a fugitive slave (Jamie Foxx) in the deep south two years before the civil war, who forms a curious alliance with an itinerant German, Dr King Schultz.
In an extremely funny sequence Django and Schultz challenge a raid by a hooded gang of proto-Klansmen. Schultz, a dentist-turned-bounty hunter, is evidently inspired by that frontier outsider, the dentist-turned-professional gambler Doc Holliday. He's seductively played by Christoph Waltz as the good side of the suave, silver-tongued SS Colonel Hans Landa in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Waltz's wit and composure lend a lightness of tone to an incandescently angry film.
Teaching in the form of the experienced passing on their knowledge has always been a major theme of the western, and Django Unchained is the story of Schultz freeing Django and transforming him into an individual person, Django Freeman. It's also about how the cynical Schultz, who affects to believe that bringing in criminals dead or alive as a bounty hunter is "a flesh for cash business" much like slave-trading, gets in touch with his own innate decency.
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A typical Tarantino movie with a Christoph Waltz as his best. He steal Jamie Foxx the show. Good chance to get another Oscar. I am not really a Westen fan, but this film is one of the best of this genre. I loved this movie. I laughed, I was shocked, I was entertaind the hole movie. I am sure I will see it more than once.
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| Domestic Total Gross: $162,805,434 | |
| Distributor: Weinstein Company | Release Date: |
| Genre: Western | Runtime: 2 hrs. 45 min. |
| MPAA Rating: R | Production Budget: $100 million |
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