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Django Unchained | Hype Thread | QT Goes Western

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Its obviously the Austin Powers outfit

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Saw this motherfucking movie again. The scene where Django
hears the story of Brunhilda, and his and Schultz's back and forth
still made my eyes almost tear up a bit (they was burnin'). So good.

Also noticed this time around in Stephen's first moment on screen,
he was signing checks, foreshadowing that he's the "man behind the man," and, essentially, the one who's running the plantation.

And when Django
dives backwards out of the dining room into the foyer and shoots the guy by the door
made me think of the beginning of the first shootout in The Killer (1989). I know Samuel L. Jackson mentioned in an interview that Tarantino combined spaghetti Western, slave epic and Hong Kong action cinema in this movie, and the move isn't something you see in every film shootout, so I wonder if that was a direct homage.

Solo said:
Yeah, no.
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How so?
 
Finally got around to seeing it and loved it. I invited my friend along last minute and he doesn't really follow QT so he had no idea what the movie was going to be like. He enjoyed it as well though. I think the best part of the movie is laughing at all the stuff that in reality shouldn't be a funny thing. I'm not sure if I liked it better than Inglorious Basterds though. I felt like that movie did the tense dialogue sections a bit better. Loved the blood and gunshot effects in this movie though. They were glorious.
 
Saw it a second time and realized that James Remar (Dexter's Dad), plays two characters in the film:

1) Right at the beginning, he plays Ace Speck. The first person that Dr. Schultz kills.
2) Then secondly, as Candle's henchmen Butch Pooch.


Was surprised I didn't catch it the first time... seems weird that QT would have him play two characters, though.
 
DrEvil said:
Saw it a second time and realized that James Remar (Dexter's Dad), plays two characters in the film:

1) Right at the beginning, he plays Ace Speck. The first person that Dr. Schultz kills.
2) Then secondly, as Candle's henchmen Butch Pooch.


Was surprised I didn't catch it the first time... seems weird that QT would have him play two characters, though.
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As it's been said numerous times in this thread, QT casted Remar in two roles as a nod to older filmmakers who used the same method while making their spaghetti westerns.
 
Andrew. said:
As it's been said numerous times in this thread, QT casted Remar in two roles as a nod to older filmmakers who used the same method while making their spaghetti westerns.
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Well not just that, but QT did have Michael Parks in two roles in Kill Bill, and the same went for Gordon Liu in the same movie(s).
 
Guys, what was the deal with the chick who had the ninja mask and was living with the rednecks on Candie's plantation? I never figured that out.
 
koryuken said:
Guys, what was the deal with the chick who had the ninja mask and was living with the rednecks on Candie's plantation? I never figured that out.
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That was Zoe Bell, the protagonist of Death Proof. QT probably just asked if she wanted to cameo in it and she chose the role, no idea why she got the extra screen time with the picture thing though.
 
koryuken said:
Guys, what was the deal with the chick who had the ninja mask and was living with the rednecks on Candie's plantation? I never figured that out.
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Oh crap, totally forgot about that!! I thought it was building up to something but...who knows? Probably some character that's gonna be in a future QT movie...
 
Spring-Loaded said:
And how.
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:lol. "Quite spectacularly so."

I bought the Django soundtrack on iTunes. This thing is so wonderfully addictive. They've ordered the tracks the same order they appear in the movie. Listening to this on the way to work feels like I'm rewatching the movie.

The track list (courtesy of this link):

1. Winged
2. Django (Main Theme) - Luis Bacalov, Rocky Roberts
3. The Braying Mule - Ennio Morricone
4. In That Case, Django, After You...
5. Lo Chiamavano King (His Name Is King) - Luis Bacalov, Edda Dell'orso
6. Freedom - Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton
7. Five-Thousand-Dollar Nigga's And Gummy Mouth Bitches
8. La Corsa (2nd Version) - Luis Bacalov
9. Sneaky Schultz and the Demise of Sharp
10. I Got a Name - Jim Croce
11. I Giorni Dell'ira - Riz Ortolani
12. 100 Black Coffins - Rick Ross
13. Nicaragua - Jerry Goldsmith featuring Pat Metheny
14. Hildi's Hot Box
15. Sister Sara's Theme - Ennio Morricone
16. Ancora Qui - Ennio Morricone and Elsa
17. Unchained (The Payback/Untouchable) - James Brown and 2Pac
18. Who Did That To You? - John Legend
19. Too Old to Die Young - Brother Edge
20. Stephen The Poker Player
21. Un Monumento - Ennio Morricone
22. Six Shots Two Guns
23. Trinity (Titoli) - Annibale E i Cantori Moderni
24. Ode to Django (D is silent) - RZA

My favourite tracks right now are Nicaragua (the song that plays as Schultz, Django, Candi and co. all finally arrive at Candiland) and Who Did That To You (awesome song, after Django dispatches the Aussies).
 
Just got back from seeing the film. I enjoyed it, but it was probably my least favorite Tarantino flick. But then again, following the fantastic Inglourious Basterds didn't do the film any favors either.

I was surprised with how straight the movie was played. Aside from the last 30 minutes, the film was relatively realistic. Maybe it was my fault for expecting IB in the South.

Django's smile as the mansion burned was freakin' hilarious.
 
wenis said:
What a succient and concise argument. If like to subscribe to your news letter perhaps.
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Well, aside from being blue, Django's outfit doesn't even look much like the Blue Boy outfit. And "Unchained" is hardly an uncommon word. And a million other reasons this is a biiiig stretch.
 
Love alot of the tracks on the album sountrack. Really like Ancora Qui. I have no idea what she is saying but it sounds nice to the ear when I listen to it.

Tracks like I got a name, 100 black coffins and Django are also other favorites of mine.
 
Saw this movie on New Years Eve and I love it. It's up there with Inglorious Basterds to me.

And one of the reasons might be because my friends now call me Black Hercules.
 
Really great review from the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2013/01/07/130107crci_cinema_lane

The new Quentin Tarantino picture, “Django Unchained,” stars Jamie Foxx as a slave named Django, and mid-nineteenth-century America as the chains. Our hero is freed by Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a bounty hunter posing as a dentist, who appears to have escaped from a Buñuel film; trim of beard and florid of rhetoric, he would rather die than act uncivilly, and would rather kill than prolong an unsavory argument. He needs Django as a witness, to identify potential targets, and the pair become a team, dispatching wanted men and handing over the corpses for cash.

The first half of the tale is skillfully balanced, the best thing that Tarantino has done since “Jackie Brown,” and its comedy bristles with barbs. To watch a posse of marauding Klansmen, hooded with white bags, complain that they can’t see through the eyeholes is to wish dearly that D. W. Griffith, who lauded the Klan in “The Birth of a Nation,” were at one’s side. But something happens to the pace and the poise of “Django Unchained” as the hunters head South and the screen fills with the word “Mississippi.” Here resides Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), slave owner, brocaded fop, and master of Candyland, the plantation estate where his subjects toil, among them Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), Django’s wife. But is Tarantino truly engaged with those subjects? He is happy to film whippings, in unstinting detail, or the incarceration of Broomhilda, whom Django has come to save. Yet she barely exists as a character, and even Django seems to morph from a near-silent sufferer into an avenging angel, grinning in glory, without passing through the usual stages of personhood. What really grips Tarantino is the chance to bait us, as he has done before, with metronomic mentions of the N-word—uttered with especial relish by Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), the majordomo of Candyland, and the most terrifying of Uncle Toms.

The reason for the crawl and slither of these later scenes is plain: the director is coiling himself, as is his wont, for an apocalypse of blood. Dr. Schultz triggers it with one brief deed. “I couldn’t resist,” he says, and that mix of mock-apology and merry boast is purest Tarantino. He has such a fine eye, and his travelling shots of horses and riders are a hint of what tremendous cowboy flicks he might have made, in a straighter age, but his films continue to be snared in a tangle of morality and style. Tarantino is dangerously in love with the look of evil, and all he can counter it with is cool—not strength of purpose, let alone goodness of heart, but simple comeuppance, issued with merciless panache. That is what Django delivers, and it’s the least that Candie deserves, together with other defenders of the Southern status quo: such, at any rate, will be the claim of Tarantino’s fans, although I was disturbed by their yelps of triumphant laughter, at the screening I attended, as a white woman was blown away by Django’s gun. By the time Tarantino shows up as a redneck with an unexplained Australian accent, “Django Unchained” has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.
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Great film is great. Still was too long for its own good. You didn't notice it except that it started to suffer from "multiple ending syndrome".
 
Phoenix said:
Great film is great. Still was too long for its own good. You didn't notice it except that it started to suffer from "multiple ending syndrome".
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I felt like it was too long, but I didn't get that "multiple ending" feel from it. It just continued on past a point where I thought it was going to end, and I enjoyed it because it wrapped things up,
and Stephen was the actual overseer of the plantation.

It sure wasn't like fucking Spider-Man 3. Dear god.

reKon said:
https://soundcloud.com/unchained-soundtrack/06-freedom-28clean-29
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This scene was such mix of heart-wrenching and touching, and this song helped drive that home.
 
While I'm painfully self-conscious of my tendency to fall back on food-related metaphors in my film reviews, if you're gonna make a food metaphor, this is a pretty good one.

Anthony Lane said:
By the time Tarantino shows up as a redneck with an unexplained Australian accent, “Django Unchained” has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.
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Sauced. to DEATH.

Tasty sauce, too.
 
Phoenix said:
Great film is great. Still was too long for its own good. You didn't notice it except that it started to suffer from "multiple ending syndrome".
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I agree. Not bad enough that I was bored, though.

Also agree that the music was awesome. Fit really well.
 
FatboyRoberts said:
While I'm painfully self-conscious of my tendency to fall back on food-related metaphors in my film reviews, if you're gonna make a food metaphor, this is a pretty good one.



Sauced. to DEATH.

Tasty sauce, too.
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But if you're intending to cook al dente, the last thing you want to do is cook it even more beyond that.

:P
 
Can anyone find a gif of Django pulling his scarf down just before this?:

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That smile ha gave Schultz, and then Schultz tips the bullet casing out the hat like a champ...

The song during that scene fit perfect as well.
 
blainethemono said:
This one I think ?

http://youtu.be/yFsFKJvnEIA

I think that was the song during the training montage but I dunno if it was still playing at that point
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That's the one I'm thinking of. I remember it playing during that scene, because that sort of dissonant string part near the end played when they were riding up to that cabin in the mountains when that sheriff offered them to try some cake, and he asked who the dead guys they brought with them were.
 
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