Here we are
again!! Did you miss us? After this short break we come back with Django
Unchained!! The Director and writter? Quentin Tarantino!!
This film
is an American western, as you may know; western is a kind of genre that became
very popular in United States from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Westerns are often focused on the
American frontier during the last part of the 19th century (1865-1900)
following the Civil War. They portrayed the conquest of the wilderness and the confiscation
of the territorial rights of the original inhabitants.
Iconics elements in westerns are: forts,
ranch houses, the isolated homestead, the saloon, the jail, the livery stable,
the small-town main street, or small frontier towns…
Quentin Tarantino and Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino is a well-known director because of his
original style. He has always betted high on modern crime thrillers such as Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs… but he had changed his
pattern with Django Unchained, using a real and very sensitive periods of
history as a backdrop of classic tells of revenge.
Quentin Tarantino is an American film
director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer, and actor. His films are
characterized by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter, and violence.
He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden
Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or.
Django Unchained was released on December
25, 2012, in the United States by The Weinstein Company.
PLOT: Texas, 1858, Django (Jamie Foxx) is a
black slave who is traveling on foot with some others slaves in order to be
sold. The owners of these slaves met a German bounty hunter (in that time a
bounty hunter captures fugitives for monetary rewards) named Dr. King Shultz
(Chirstoph Waltz). Shultz asked to buy Django because he knew about the Brittle
Brothers. As the owners doubted about the identity of Shultz, he decided to
kill them and free the slaves and he gave an advice: going to the north because
there they will be freer than the south… (Remember, dear friends, what we studied
about the reasons of the Civil war and the fight of Lincoln against slavery).
After killing the Brittle Brothers, Shultz
offers Django his freedom in exchange for collaboration in his duties. They become
partners and Django began to learn how to use guns. Dr. Shulzt decided to help
Django and free his wife Broomhilda, a black slave working in Mississippi under
the leading of Calvin Candie (Leonardo Dicaprio). He is known because of his
charm but his brutal leading of the Candyland plantation (Remember how cruelty
were black slaves treated in the south, and how the white owners used to live…
)
Django and Shultz travelled together to
Mississippi, in order to free Django’s wife with some tricks. I am not going to
tell you how it ends, because we hate SPOILERS! But I deeply recommend you this
awesome film!!!!
The landscapes, the luxury, the life
routine of black slaves, and how surprised were the citizens when they saw a
black men dressed with fancy clothes, riding a horse and using arms…. Are some
elements that may you evoke what we have already studied!!!
CRITIC:
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times: "The film
offers one sensational sequence after another, all set around these two
intriguing characters who seem opposites but share pragmatic, financial and
personal issues."
Peter Bradshaw, film critic for The Guardian: "I
can only say Django delivers, wholesale, that particular narcotic and delirious
pleasure that Tarantino still knows how to confect in the cinema, something to
do with the manipulation of surfaces. It's as unwholesome, deplorable and
delicious as a forbidden cigarette."
The New York Times, critic A. O. Scott compared Django
to Tarantino's earlier Inglorious Bastards: "Like Inglorious Bastards,
Django Unchained is crazily entertaining, brazenly irresponsible and also
ethically serious in a way that is entirely consistent with its
playfulness."
Richard
Brody,wrote in The New Yorker that Tarantino's "vision of
slavery's monstrosity is historically accurate.... Tarantino rightly depicts
slavery as no mere administrative ownership but a grievous and monstrous
infliction of cruelty."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.filmsite.org/westernfilms.html
http://screenrant.com/quentin-tarantino-western-django-unchained/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_hunter
CRITICS : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained
