Django Unchained - Part 1

[PWN3R]

At the very end, I thought I was going to burst an artery laughing when [BLACKOUT]Samuel Jackson shouted "Jesus, help me kill this n*****". The delivery was just way too perfect.[/BLACKOUT]

Best line in the whole damn movie. I was dying. Sam Jackson is so good, man.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Yeah jackson stole the show for sure. It was one of those roles where you don't realize that out of the whole movie he was probably only in it for like 15% of the time because it was so memorable.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Not surprised, but it was best movie of the year for me. I'm going again tomorrow or Sunday. QT's still got it.

 

[Bruce Malone]

[BLACKOUT]I was hoping that Django was going to grab the shotgun from Candie's bodyguard before he had a chance to shoot Schultz. Polar opposite of Inglourious Basterds for a Christoph Waltz character. Throughout Inglourious Basterds, I kept thinking "I can't wait to see Col. Landa bite the dust." He never did, of course, but I was still satisfied with his fate. Here, I was hoping that he would survive. Go figure.[/BLACKOUT]

Here's quinton's explanation for why [BLACKOUT]Schultz[/BLACKOUT] had to die:

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QT:...Now, here's the thing, though. If Schultz's plan had worked and they were able to kind of con Broomhilda out of her owner Candie's clutches and get her bill of sale, then Django would have taken her to New York. She probably would have gone on the abolitionist cocktail party circuit, telling her tales of woe and everything, with Django because he's not an outlaw now.

He's still on the right side of the law at this point, if that were to happen that way. And everything would be great for Django, and everything would be great for Broomhilda, but he would not be the hero of the story.

HLG: No.

QT: Schultz would be the hero of the story. Things have to go awry, and Schultz has to be taken out of the picture for Django to truly emerge as the hero. He has to actually be caught. He can take down a lot of people, but he actually has to be caught. And like a character through Negro folklore, he has to get out of his predicament solely through cunning and guile. And then he has to make the choice to go back yet again. Anything else and he's not the hero of the story.

HLG: So that's why you sacrificed King Schultz.

QT: He had to pass on for Django to truly take the torch. And there's another narrative thing going on as well. Just the way Django probably feels about it, a little bit to some degree, the audience feels that I have shown two big sequences where Schultz has painted his way into a corner that there's no way he can get out of, and then he talks his way out. So we have two set pieces setting this up, and now we have a big third one. And by this time, the audience should actually feel that Schultz can handle anything.

I sort of predicted that would be the case as the movie went along, one of them was going to have to go and i had an idea of who it would be.

 

[the last son]

I still say the N-Word was overused. In my opinion we get it, white people are saying the N-word can we move on now. But, as I said still probably the best movie I saw all year. I hope it gets a sequel. I'm also in the minority that Will Smith would not have been better than Foxx for the movie.

 

[Octoberist]

This also rejuvenated Foxx's acting career. Not to say he was in a career slump, but he's in strange place right prior to Django. Mostly doing cameos (Horrible Bosses) or bit roles (Due Date, which oddly enough featured Foxx in the trailers but never mentioned his name), I've heard he's been writing and creating projects, most of them now stuck in Development Hell.

But since Django, he's gonna be in White House Down and Amazing Spidey 2.

 

[MadVillainy]

Yeah I noticed about Foxx's career

But I didnt hear about his writing and creating. Which projects was he making?

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah I noticed about Foxx's career

But I didnt hear about his writing and creating. Which projects was he making?

He was writing the Laverne & Shirley adaptation. Odd as hell.

http://www.slashfilm.com/jamie-foxx...l-and-jennifer-garner-still-attached-to-star/

Even though later Foxx denied it, I wouldn't be surprised if he was developing it and it fell through.

Also, he's developing a show on TNT.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/tnt-developing-buddy-crime-drama-from-jamie-foxx-and-rob-port/

 

[Holiday]

I haven't had that much fun at the theater in a long, long time. Hilarious but also brutal. Big Daddy's response to being asked if Django should be "treated like white folks" was maybe my biggest laugh. I'll see this one again at least once.

 

[Sawyer]

It's kinda funny looking at the changes they made to Samuel L. Jackson to make him appear old. The dude's in his mid-sixties and he doesn't look any older than 50.

 

[EML420]

Saw it yesterday I liked it a lot I loved Leo and Jackson banter.

I don't know if Will Smith could have pulled off the coldness Foxx did in some scenes.

 

[Mike_D202]

Seen the movie, loved it.

Was I the only one that noticed that there wasn't ONE Indian/Native American? And it was supposed to be a western. Just thought it was odd. Then again, it wasn't technically set in the old west. More like the old southern/east.

 

[Victarion]

The original title was "Southern" or "A Southern." So SLJ was

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the villain of the piece? Also what was the most brutal scene in the film?

 

[RockSP]

I don't see any ill will directed towards any persons of a particular race or culture in his movies. If you think he has I'd like to hear some examples.

Keep reading...

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

I can't speak about the people who are upset about the use of the word in just this particular movie, I think it's more Tarintino having a thing for the word in general. The Pulp Fiction scene you mentioned, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance. Denzel Washington had words with him on the set of Crimson Tide for the racist dialogue Tarintino injected into some scenes he was brought in to rewrite.

I haven't read the original script, but from what some people have said online, that word was used a lot more there than in the final film (which is still supposedly a lot), and a rape scene of Django's wife was removed. I know that Reginald Hudlin is one of the producers on the film, and I can't help but wonder if he had anything to do with suggesting the changes.

In the end, Tarintino can write what he wants, and people can chose to see his movies or not. I certainly don't live in some fantasy world where that word is not used to this day, so its use in a movie isn't going to crush my world. Out of curiousity: I haven't seen Inglorious Basterds, was the "k-word" used a lot in that movie?

 

[RockSP]

I thought Foxx was good and be managed to pull the role off but i think the film would have been better if Tarantino casted a more tougher lead like Smith or Elba

Haven't seen the movie yet so I can't comment on Foxx's performance, but "tough" is not a word I've ever associated with Will Smith lol.

 

[terry78]

The original title was "Southern" or "A Southern." So SLJ was

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the villain of the piece? Also what was the most brutal scene in the film?

Probably the

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mandingo fight that Candie is watching

. That is probably the only scene that had people really squirming.

 

[Figs]

Out of curiousity: I haven't seen Inglorious Basterds, was the "k-word" used a lot in that movie?

I think it was only used once in the film but it's been awhile.

 

[Bruce Malone]

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In the end, Tarintino can write what he wants, and people can chose to see his movies or not. I certainly don't live in some fantasy world where that word is not used to this day, so its use in a movie isn't going to crush my world. Out of curiousity: I haven't seen Inglorious Basterds, was the "k-word" used a lot in that movie?

No it wasn't and with good reason. The "K word" is purely an american slur that word was was not used in germany.

As for Django and the N-word its use in the film in the time and period it was set in was totally appropriate. A lot of people don't realize that until the turn of the last century the n-word was sort of an "accepted slur", go to google archives and you'll see newspaper headlines with that word in them during that time.

So complaining about the n-word being used in a film set for a good part in 1850's Mississippi would be like complaining about the word "negro" being used in a movie set in early 60's there.

 

[terry78]

It's the whole thing they were doing with Huck Finn and wanting to ban it due to ****** Jim.

 

[RockSP]

No it wasn't and with good reason. The "K word" is purely an american slur that word was was not used in germany.

Interesting. So what was the german slur...and was it used a lot in the movie?

 

[Bruce Malone]

There was no one particular slur used as i recall. I don't even know if there really was one particular slur used by germans against jews and i actually know a good deal about the holocaust.

I believe Jews were mostly just called "Juden" (german for jew) and with some sort of insult attached.

 

[bullets]

I loved the movie. I still prefer IB and Pulp Fiction, but it was a good bit of fun. To me, the best parts were Waltz and DiCaprio and Jackson. Any time any of them were onscreen, or interacting, the film was magic. The tension building up to [blackout]Doc shooting Candy[/blackout] was, unsurprisingly, astounding.

I do have a quibble that I think the ending was self-indulgent. I think the film's real climax comes about 15-20 minutes before its actual ending. Stretching it out just sucks the energy out of the movie, save for Jackson's final two scenes. I think the fact that [blackout]QT even cameoed at this point as an Aussie[/blackout] highlights how over indulgent it was.

Still a great movie.

I did think it should of ended a little sooner. The massacre felt a little excessive. However Quentin outlined why he thought it was necessary.
It's a really good film. All the performances were fantastic. Samuel L Jackson got a lot of laughs at our theater.

 

[Warhammer]

I was wondering if the ending scene when [blackout]Samuel L. Jackson got shot[/blackout] was supposed to be intentionally funny or not. Because we are so used to [blackout]Samuel L. Jackson cursing up a storm being hilarious as hell[/blackout], my theater busted out laughing like crazy. I was absolutely weak. Tears and everything.

 

[Superhero 101]

Haven't seen the movie yet so I can't comment on Foxx's performance, but "tough" is not a word I've ever associated with Will Smith lol.

True but imagining smith saying " I like how you die boy" sounds much more better in my head I can also imagine smith execution of the character done a lot better I am not saying I thought Foxx was bad but I just prefer smith over Foxx

 

[Black Narcissus]

Yeah jackson stole the show for sure. It was one of those roles where you don't realize that out of the whole movie he was probably only in it for like 15% of the time because it was so memorable.