Django Unchained - Part 2

[Airwings]

In the end, there was a flashback with the dentist saying that Django will be the fastest gun in the west. And the closing song was from the first Trinity film.
Awesome enough that Tarantino picked that forgotten old tune for his new film. But do you guys think he paid a homage to Terence Hill and the fact that he has played both these characters before?
Or does he gives hints that Django will end up as "the right hand of the Devil" and actually become Trinity (something we will never see anyway, exactly the same thing as when Blake discovered the Bat Cave)?

 

[dark_b]

what i like about the Django night scenes is that they were not tinted blue. nice to have it with natural colors.

 

[redhawk23]

The film is expected to reach 400 million world wide. That is nuts.

 

[Bruce Malone]

It's crazy how Tarantino's movies just keep getting bigger in everything scale, budget, revenue taken in. He was blown away by the success of IB but this is essentially blockbuster territory here.

I wonder if he's gonna keep this going with a big budget follow-up? I wonder how big QT can go?

 

[dark_b]

after IB a lot of people watched old Tarantino movies because they liked IB. now they watched Django. plus Waltz is fun.

 

[redhawk23]

Violence is pretty much inherent to a Tarantino film, but I really hope he steps away from the revenge plots a bit.

 

[redhawk23]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/opinion/williams-django-still-chained/index.html A well written criticism of the film from, of all people, actor Jesse Williams (who I know primarily from Cabin in the Woods).

 

[RockSP]

A well written criticism of the film

Indeed.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/opinion/williams-django-still-chained/index.html A well written criticism of the film from, of all people, actor Jesse Williams (who I know primarily from Cabin in the Woods).

I usually don't read stuff like this, but wow. This is a fine piece of writing.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Well written article, but eschews the mark quite a few times and strawmans Tarrantino's intent one, glaring, essay breaking time.

If, like Tarantino, you show up with a megaphone and claim to be creating a real solution to a specific problem, I only ask that you not instead, construct something unnecessarily fake and then act like you've done us a favor.

Tarantino never claimed to "solve" anything, he merely claimed to have been responsible for talking about slavery in a way America has not in thirty years. Which isn't untrue at all when you compound the utter blackout of slavery related media in this country and the subsequent murmur of slavery related talk in media (TV, Radio, especially) along the film's release.

 

[redhawk23]

He goes on to address that though, either in that article or his longer analysis on his blog. (Which I would link directly but the header photo is a nude photo of Kerry Washington) Is simply showing up and starting a conversation worthy of praise when your actual contribution to said conversation is quite troublesome and really only reinforces many of the problems that are already there?

 

[redhawk23]

Sidenote, Jesse Williams blog post is headed by a magazine scan. I don't know from which magazine. In the photo Kerry Washington is nude and is hanging on Tarantino who is standing there wearing a robe.

Given the film they were promoting at the time and the things that happens to Kerry Washington's character in the film, that photo seems to be way off base in my opinion.

 

[Ziggyman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IW51RQfa5jw

Is Waltz Catholic? Why would they ask him about the pope?

Because Catholicism is a major religion and a huge organization and the pope stepping down is an historical moment that hasn't happened in 600+ years. You don't have to be catholic to find it interesting or have an opinion on it. That being said, it was an irrelevant stupid question.

Read somewhere that the question came from David Arquette doing silly Oscar "coverage" for Howard Stern...

 

[TheIrishAvenger]

Blu-Ray Special Features

• Remembering J. Michael Riva: The Production Design of Django Unchained
• 20 Years In The Making: The Tarantino XX Blu-ray™ Collection
• Django Unchained Soundtrack Spot
• The Costume Designs of Sharen Davis
• Reimagining the Spaghetti Western: The Horses & Stunts of Django Unchained

 

[Thundercrack85]

I assumed Schultz was supposed to be Jewish, given his fairly progressive social views and profession (dentist, that is).

Most Austrians are Catholic though (so Waltz himself probably is Catholic, or at least, of Catholic background).

 

[kvz5]

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/03/25/will-smith-django-unchained/

Will Smith on turning down 'Django Unchained': 'I needed to be the lead'

When Quentin Tarantino’s western revenge-fantasy Django Unchained was first announced, casting rumors pegged Will Smith as the titular slave-turned-vigilante. But Smith, who teams with his son Jaden in this summer’s sci-fi epic After Earth, tells EW that he turned down the part because his character would’ve been second-fiddle to the bounty hunter (played by Christoph Waltz) who teaches Django his trade . “Django wasn’t the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead!” says the Men in Black star, whose departure opened the door for Jamie Foxx to play the role.

Smith says that before he left the project, he even pleaded with Tarantino to let Django have a more central role in the story. “I was like, ‘No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!’” (Ironically, Waltz was considered a supporting actor during his Oscar-winning award season, while Jamie Foxx was promoted as the movie’s lead.)

But no hard feelings: Smith was a big fan of the final product. “I thought it was brilliant,” he says. “Just not for me.”

 

[dark_b]

he was joking here. he is not that direct in interviews, to tell the public that everything needs to be about him.there had to be other reasons IMO.

this comment (a joke) combined with the fact that he is in a Shyamalan movie will be enough that fanboys bash Will Smith for the next 5 years.

 

[terry78]

Any excuse. You could tell he was being sarcastic.

 

[redhawk23]

It is a solid point though that Django is not exactly a proactive or interesting lead character for most of the film.

He has no arc until the end of the film when he is recaptured and the film basically goes through a microcosm of itself in order to finally get the point across without Waltz's predominance getting in the way of Django developing as a character.

Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor in a backdoor Lead Actor role. He didn't steal the show (i.e. as he did in Basterds) but rather WAS the show for the majority this film's runtime and story.

It's not surprising that Smith wouldn't be interested in the role and he wasn't the only one who passed.

 

[vanson]

i'm aware that sarcasm isnt easy for me, cause i'm not native english but for me it doesnt sound like he joked at all... if he really meant that, its a really *****ey thing to say...

on the other hand, its always better to say that he himself didnt want it than "the director didnt want me"

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Any excuse. You could tell he was being sarcastic.

I don't know about him being sarcastic, but I do agree about him just giving any excuse. That was a lame excuse, seeing as how Django was indeed the main character of the movie.

 

[RockSP]

on the other hand, its always better to say that he himself didnt want it than "the director didnt want me"

The director did want him, though...

 

[redhawk23]

I don't know about him being sarcastic, but I do agree about him just giving any excuse. That was a lame excuse, seeing as how Django was indeed the main character of the last ten minutes of the movie.

Fixed.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Fixed.

Please, don't "fix" my comments. I know and meant what I said. Django was the main character of the movie.

 

[redhawk23]

He was the lead but was underserved and undeveloped for the majority of the runtime mostly due to having to compete with the almost-lead Dr. Schulz.

Waltz's role was a "supporting" character to about the same extent that Rooster Cogburn or Atticus Finch could be described as "supporting" which is to say it wasn't.