Django Unchained

[ThePowerCosmic]

That's good news, I like her.

 

[Duke]

With more cast members joining this movie, it has me psyched!!! I love Tarantino movies & Kurt Russell happens to be a favorite actor of mine, plus Dicaprio. I can't wait to see this!!

 

[HighFivingMF]

Just imagining the opening credits makes me squeal.

 

[Duke]

Just imagining the opening credits makes me squeal.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Good for Kerry. Being the female lead in a Tarantino movie has been a career-making move for a lot of actresses.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Good for Kerry. Being the female lead in a Tarantino movie has been a career-making move for a lot of actresses.

Doesn't Kerry already have a pretty good career so far, though? She's been in plenty of movies.

 

[Hypestyle]

hopefully ms. washington will get to wear some sexy outfits and have plenty of dialogue..

 

[Dr. Evil]

Doesn't Kerry already have a pretty good career so far, though? She's been in plenty of movies.

Yes, but she's one of those "you know the face, but maybe not the name" types.

 

[Stringer]

It's a pretty risque role to say the least. Her character goes through a hell of a lot in the script.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Yes, but she's one of those "you know the face, but maybe not the name" types.

That's true.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Doesn't Kerry already have a pretty good career so far, though? She's been in plenty of movies.

I'm thinking along the lines of Uman Thurman: turning a star into a big star.

... who can do highly paid garbage like Batman and Robin, The Avengers and Percy Jackson.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

I'm thinking along the lines of Uman Thurman: turning a star into a big star.

... who can do highly paid garbage like Batman and Robin, The Avengers and Percy Jackson.

Aww, Percy Jackson wasn't that bad.

 

[Cmill216]

Aww, Percy Jackson wasn't that bad.

Percy Jackson was surprisingly watchable.

 

[terry78]

It'll be a pretty crazy turn for Washington. Her roles aren't safe per se, but they're not controversial.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Screenrant says that Washington is in "exclusive negotiations" for her in this movie:

http://screenrant.com/kerry-washington-django-unchained-cast-sandy-137765/

She (Washington) does have a Twitter page and apparently Tweets alot, so I would assume that once those negotiations are done, she'll tweet about it.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Really? None of the cast excited you before JGL? REALLY?

This is me questioning your taste.

This is me not giving a ****.

 

[Still Wynning]

This is me not giving a ****.

Are there any actors that you do like? Besides JGL, Jennifer Lawrence and maybe a few others?

'Cause it seems like, for the most part, I almost see you do nothing but hate on one actor/movie or another.

Are you just really, really hard to please or something?

 

[HighFivingMF]

She's referred to Chris Evans as "Captain Hotness" but I think it's ridiculous.


Because "hotness" doesn't even rhyme with "America. "

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Are there any actors that you do like? Besides JGL, Jennifer Lawrence and maybe a few others?

'Cause it seems like, for the most part, I almost see you do nothing but hate on one actor/movie or another.

Are you just really, really hard to please or something?

I didn't hate on any of the cast of this film. I don't think I dislike one cast memember as a matter of fact. I'm mostly not excited for this film because I didn't like Basterds and I'm growing tired of QT's films sameness. There are tons of actors that I like. I'm not going to write down all of their names right now but my posts about them are out there.

She's referred to Chris Evans as "Captain Hotness" but I think it's ridiculous.


Because "hotness" doesn't even rhyme with "America. "

I do like Evans as an actor and anyone who have actually followed my posts would know that. Gosh there are sooo many actors that I like that I'm shocked to be accused of hating everyone.

 

[Still Wynning]

I didn't hate on any of the cast of this film. I don't think I dislike one cast memember as a matter of fact. I'm mostly not excited for this film because I didn't like Basterds and I'm growing tired of QT's films sameness. There are tons of actors that I like. I'm not going to write down all of their names right now but my posts about them are out there.

Fair enough.

 

[HighFivingMF]

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony LaPaglia has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained cast. LaPaglia will play the leader of a group of greedy Australians who encounter slave-turned-bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) as they are escorting a group of slaves recently purchased as fighters. LaPaglia said he and Joseph Gordon Levitt will play mean brothers, and LaPaglia said he was bowled over by the script. “It’s wildly ambitious and imaginative, deals with that subject matter in a way it hasn’t been dealt with before,” LaPaglia told me. “The way the cast has shaped up, it’s exciting to be involved.” It will be the second film in a row where LaPaglia can readopt the Australian accent he grew up with, but dropped for many of his Hollywood roles and the series Without a Trace. He wrapped the PJ Hogan-directed Mental with Toni Collette and Liev Schreiber, a film that LaPaglia said is partly based on the filmmaker’s own experiences. “I play the father, who in real life had committed his mother to a mental institution, who had five kids, picked up a hitchhiker [Collette] on the way back and said, you’re taking care of the kids now. “ LaPaglia said Hogan got rights to tunes from The Sound of Music, and uses them in unexpected ways. “I absolutely assassinate Edelweiss, just tear it to shreds so badly that I’m sure Christopher Plummer would have a fit. It was meant to be terrible, and it is.”

Now that he’s rebuilding his movie career after a seven season TV run, LaPaglia can’t help but notice how badly the conditions for actors like himself have deteriorated. “I could see the writing on the wall back then, where the film business was going and what my place would be in it, and between that and my wife telling me she was pregnant and me wanting to stay home and see my daughter grow up, I made a decision that was ahead of the curve,” he said. “It was a pragmatic decision that a lot of people didn’t understand at the time.” So how are things now? “When you work for studios, the majority of the acting budget goes to the handful of megastars, and what is left is surprisingly small, and surprisingly non-negotiable. They actually go down a list, start at the top and say, ‘will you do the part for X,’ and if somebody says no, they go right on to the next actor. That’s not a criticism, just a recognition of how the business runs now.” LaPaglia puts himself in a group he calls “careers in various states of disrepair,” and he said it encompasses the largest pool of working actors, many of whom have to do six or more movies a year just to make ends meet. “It doesn’t seem the ideal way to cast a movie, but somebody on that list is going to say yes. I’d like to get back into studio movies, but am happy I can take my time. There are more interesting things in the independent sphere, generally speaking. Why do you think so many veteran actors are turning to TV series?” LaPaglia said he enjoyed his TV run, but if he ever does another, it would likely be the edgier kind on cable. “Network TV series are designed to hit straight down the middle, to appeal to the masses, a common denominator that neither offends or excites anyone. If I ever went back on TV, it would be cable, and I’d never say never.” LaPaglia is repped by CAA and Industry.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/ant...-to-tv/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Dr. Evil]

LaPaglia had a British accent on Frasier.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Haha, this is actually pretty cliche casting for Tarantino, but I like it.

 

[returntovoid]

‘Django Unchained,’ And Stereotype Subversion As Revenge
By Alyssa Rosenberg on Oct 31, 2011 at 4:07 pm

Ta-Nehisi, Adam Serwer, and Jamelle Bouie have been having an interesting conversation about Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s slavery revenge flick, and whether, if we need revenge, what sort of form it ought to take.

Adam looks at the rise of Jewish revenge flicks and searches for a parallel: In Jeffrey Goldberg’s review of Inglorious Basterds, he writes about dreaming about killin’ NAZees as a kid, delighting in Quentin Tarantino’s “story of emotionally uncomplicated, physically threatening, non-morally-anguished Jews dealing out spaghetti-Western justice to their would-be exterminators.”

His initial anecdote helps explain that Inglorious Basterds is not primarily a film about killing Adolf Hitler, although that’s the form that catharsis takes. The true “revenge” of Inglorious Basterds is in the banishment of a particular stereotype, the idea of the weak, fearful Jew who goes helplessly into the ovens.

The film Defiance, about a group of Jewish partisans in a forest in Belarus during World War II, has a similar aim—in the woods, the manly, unintellectual Jews played be Liev Schriber and Daniel Craig suddenly become leadership material, while the nebbish former academics are portrayed as contemptuous weaklings. And I suppose what has always bugged me about both of those films is that somewhere deep inside they see Jews the way anti-Semites see Jews, and are actively working to convince not just the world but themselves otherwise.

And Jamelle riffs on a secondary point Adam makes about the extent to which Django Unchained would serve a similar purpose:
The problem with Django Unchained is that African Americans have never had a problem with being portrayed as aggressive and prone to violence. Indeed, that’s the stereotype we’ve worked to reject. As Adam notes, “[A] film in which a slave kills his masters may vicariously avenge a historical injustice, but it lacks the catharsis of defying the accepted narrative that narrowly limits what being black is supposed to mean.” In his eyes, a real black revenge story isn’t Django Unchained, it’s The Cosby Show.

I don’t disagree! But I think Adam is a little too neat in dismissing the value of a film like Django Unchained could have in subverting other expectations. The thing about Nazis is that they’re the usual sortof villains – few people sympathize with them, and even fewer people see their legacy as something worthwhile. No one likes them, and so it’s easy to kill them en masse.

The same isn’t true of antebellum and Civil War-era America. With few exceptions, Confederates are glorified in Hollywood – either as the honorable losers of a war, or as vengence-seeking crusaders. It’s a variation on the Lost Cause mythology – slavery plays only a bit part in most popular depictions of the Confederacy, and Confederates are almost always portrayed as tragic figures.

Relatedly, I’m curious how the movie’s going to handle gender and relationships between men and women, because one of the acts that inspires Django’s revenge is the brutal rape of his wife, played by Kerry Washington, who’s then turned over to an owner who may be even worse. It seems like there’s been a spike in really strange and disturbing commentary about black men, black women, and marriage recently, and it’s hard to imagine that, intentional or not, this movie won’t play into that conversation.

It is, after all, about a black man who aggressively defends a black woman — and we won’t know until the movie’s under production whether that woman gets to aid in her own defense or not — standing up for the sanctity of a marriage that wouldn’t have been recognized by law or custom.

I’m obviously not on board with the idea that marriage is for white people, or that black men are either pathetic or pathological. And I have no idea if Django Unchained will be liberating or exploitative. But if nothing else, I suppose it’ll be something different in an industry that creates very few roles for black actors and very few stories about black families and often sticks to a few very circumscribed narrative arcs.

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/201...chained-and-stereotype-subversion-as-revenge/

 

[Pink Ranger]

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony LaPaglia has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained cast. LaPaglia will play the leader of a group of greedy Australians who encounter slave-turned-bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) as they are escorting a group of slaves recently purchased as fighters.

I think I know this character: