Django Unchained - Part 1

[Figs]

I like how Tarantino said that Di Caprio was channeling Vincent Price as Calvin Candie, or something along those lines.

OK...now I'm really sold!!!

 

[Bruce Malone]

The first 6 pages of the Django Unchained comic adaptation. It was based on the original script draft so having seen the movie it's pretty interesting the little bit of dialogue that was changed here and there.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/12/django-unchained-comic/?pid=8908

 

[terry78]

Nero cameo was classic. I thought I was gonna be the only one who recognized him but it got applause.

DiCaprio, man....once his intro starts, every second Candie isn't onscreen you're counting them until he returns, he is that engaging of a villain.

 

[MadVillainy]

In short I liked this a lot.

Everything was good. The acting, the action, the drama. I was pleased by pretty much everything. SLJ deserves an Oscar nod, imo over DiCaprio, for bringing Uncle Ruckus to life and the "Clansmen" scene was hilarious.
My favorite scenes were the shootout in Candyland (That James Brown/Tupac mashup was sick) and then DJango whipping the slave master near the beginning

The only thing I didnt really like was that I thought it went a little too long. I felt the gunfight in the mansion shouldve been the end. And this one is minor, but I didnt like the Rick Ross song. I like rap and maybe Im biased because I dont Ross but i just didnt like it. I mean Nas, Rakim, hell even Jay Z or Kanye wouldve been better than him. Isnt Tarintino bffs with RZA? Shouldve put Wu Tang on there.

But I still liked it a lot. I'll definitely buy this when it comes out 8.5/10. I would put this as my 3rd favorite Tarintino film

on another note I think the controversy surrounding the use of the n-word is f***ing ridiculous It's set in freaking slave times what did people think was going to happen. It's not like the "dead n-word storage" scene in Pulp Fiction (which always felt weird to me). It's a movie set in the 1800s in the world of slavery. If they made a MLK movie don't you expect them to say the n-word. I think the whole complaint is stupid

 

[terry78]

I noticed Reggie Hudlin's name in the opening credits as a producer, I did not know he was involved.

 

[the last son]

I give it a 8/10. First the positives. Good acting all around. Good soundtrack but as others have said rick ross song had no place in this movie. The scene was great and the song brought it down. The action scenes were really well done. A pretty fun film.

Now the negatives. The movie was long and after a while it felt long. Some truly dumb scenes in the movie that just didn't make sense. I thought Dicaprio was way too over the top. First couple of scenes were great but his act wore thin after a while. Was really looking forward to watching Waltz after his performance in Basterds. Was not really given much to do.

Now top 5 performances in the movie.

Samuel L Jackson

Jamie Foxx

Christopher Waltz

Kerry Washington

Leonardo Dicaprio.

Again like the film and would recommend it if you don't mind sitting for a long time.

 

[terry78]

You really put Leo at the bottom? Tarantino wanted him to play it that way more than likely. Look at all his villains in his movies, that's exactly how most of them act.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Yeah Leo was great and i'm sorry there's no way you can put washington over him. Her character was pretty much the macguffin the reason for the journey more so than a fleshed out character.

The 2nd time this year marketing overplayed the significance of a female character in a film (think skyfall and berenice marlohe).

Don't get me wrong she was fine in the limited role but it wasn't a fully out fleshed character like Leo and his monsieur Candie.

 

[terry78]

Yeah, from some of the trailers and what not I thought maybe it would turn out that

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she ended up with some kind of Stockholm Syndrome and became attached to Candie as one of his harem or something and ends up actually betraying Django at the end

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

Weren't JGL, Kurt Russell and other famous actors cast in this movie but left production? Anybody know what parts they were supposed to play?

 

[HighFivingMF]

Weren't JGL, Kurt Russell and other famous actors cast in this movie but left production? Anybody know what parts they were supposed to play?

I haven't seen it yet, but apparently JGL was an Australian near the end and Walton Goggins had his role combined with Russell's.

 

[Galactus10]

First review



www.indiewire.com/article/review-qu...ained-is-messy-as-hell-but-we-love-him-for-it

Just got out of the theater.

Loved most of it and really enjoyed but this review if on point altho I loved Leo on screen all the time

 

[Octoberist]

I haven't seen it yet, but apparently JGL was an Australian near the end and Walton Goggins had his role combined with Russell's.

Is that why [BLACKOUT]QT cast himself as the Aussie?[/BLACKOUT] Haha.

 

[gwynplaine]

I might be wrong but I think the Aussie was the other guy, Walter Parkes' partner.
Anyway, I really liked

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How Tarantino died in thist:

 

[Slick]

SLJ deserves an Oscar nod, imo over DiCaprio, for bringing Uncle Ruckus to life

Lol me and my friends thought the same thing. Great movie loved everything. I do want to see the longer cut tho.

 

[Superhero 101]

I might be wrong but I think the Aussie was the other guy, Walter Parkes' partner.
Anyway, I really liked

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How Tarantino died in thist:

Yeah everyone in my theater laughed at this and the hercules joke and the scene with the KKK

 

[Bruce Malone]

Interesting, Tarantino considering finishing his "revenge trilogy" of Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained with "Killer Crow".

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: You've targeted Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and slave owners in Django Unchained. What's next on the list of oppressors to off?

Quentin Tarantino: I don't know exactly when I'm going to do it, but there's something about this that would suggest a trilogy. My original idea for Inglourious Basterds way back when was that this [would be] a huge story that included the [smaller] story that you saw in the film, but also followed a bunch of black troops, and they had been f--ked over by the American military and kind of go apes--t. They basically -- the way Lt. Aldo Raines (Brad Pitt) and the Basterds are having an "Apache resistance" -- [the] black troops go on an Apache warpath and kill a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base and are just making a warpath to Switzerland.

So that was always going to be part of it. And I was going to do it as a miniseries, and that was going to be one of the big storylines. When I decided to try to turn it into a movie, that was a section I had to take out to help tame my material. I have most of that written. It's ready to go; I just have to write the second half of it.

HLG: That might very well be the third of the trilogy.

QT: That would be the third of the trilogy. It would be [connected to] Inglourious Basterds, too, because Inglourious Basterds are in it, but it is about the soldiers. It would be called Killer Crow or something like that.

HLG: When would it be set?

QT: In '44. It would be after Normandy.

http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unchained-part-1-django-trilogy?page=0,0


Interesting as he's talked about doing a sequel (or prequel) to IB and this would serve as that in a semi way.

 

[terry78]

I would figure he'd do something with the Native Americans and have them go after the colonists or something.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I saw this last night and liked it alot! I will give it an 8/10 a really solid flick. The acting, story, action were well done but the movie was a bit overlong and some things could have been cut. The biggest gripe that I have is that I wish Calvin Candie's

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death could have been more brutal and or gruesome since he was such a terrible evil character. Maybe have some of his slaves do him in or Django

Other than that great film and the KKK scene was hilarious. But this movie also made me realize how bad slavery was for my ancestors( I am black,though I already knew how awful it was).

 

[terry78]

I will give QT credit for accurately depicting the stuff that was done to slaves at that time, like the marching in a line and having horse collar/muzzles, and those collars with meathooks around them so if they managed to come into contact with another slave that one would get impaled.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Saw this last night and I liked it a lot. Not as good as Basterds and doesn't quite have the panache of what could make it just as good, but it's probably my third favorite Tarantino film.

The entire cast was excellent. Jackson went and surprised me and gave a scene stealing performance. Leo chewed the scenery and was a diabolical villain, exuding southern charm and malice. He was having fun. Tarantino got one of my favorite performances out of him. My only complaint is that I wish I saw more of him. That entire dinner scene and the build up to everything was excellent. Leo was off the ****ing hook.

Waltz of course, is always excellent. Every moment he is on screen you just love him. You could say he was born to recite Tarantino's dialogue.

And of course Jamie Foxx really impressed me, turning out a really cool, badass performance.

Out of all of that, this probably has the best humor in any of his movies. The bag scene was hilarious.

 

[PWN3R]

Sally Menke. That's what this film is missing. The way the flashbacks are used in this film... it's almost too linear for a QT film. She will be severely missed.

Not saying Django is bad (can't wait to go again). Also for you Sunny fans: Jaimie Foxx literally hangs dong.

 

[MadVillainy]

Foxx gave a really good performance, I never doubted he wouldnt. But I still wish Will Smith couldve done the role

 

[Doctor Jones]

Seeing Smith would have been cool, especially now that we know how his character turns out. And it definitely would have been different from the roles he plays. The question is how different the acting choices and direction could have been since they're different actors. I thought Foxx really fit into Tarantino's world of what his characters demand in his scripts. Especially for this. Smith is an undeniably great actor, and it would have been really cool to see him doing the things Foxx did in this.

 

[PWN3R]

Part of me still wishes that too. It's unfair to Foxx because he really went for it... but the possibility of a Will Smith revival coupled with QT is almost too much.

Still, Foxx deserves all the credit.