Unleashed Django Unchained: Real Life Fake Story Rough Draft Mark A Holden ENG225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Renee Gurley April 8, 2013 Abstract The latest movie in the saga that is the demented genius of Quentin Tarentino, Django Unchained is an amazing movie. Though racked and steaming in controversy and an overabundance of the N-word, the story and the acting pulled it through. The trio of Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington ad Quentin Tarentino sang in such good harmony as they made it through the script, the Academy awarded it an award for the script.
God move and great times. Tarantino Unleashed Django Unchained: Real Life Fake Story Well with a name like Quentin, you have to do something exceptional, or you got to be able to fight really good to make in the real world of Hollywood. With Django Unchained he seems to have done both. And it is an exceptional fight that he has won. Django is the movie one needs to watched at least twice-despite controversial use of the disgustingly mind numbing N-word-is a story of every slave’s fantasy, getting to kill the “massah” and either getting paid for it or just because of who they were.
Despite all of the controversy and all of the early leaks of the scripts and the movie, Django told the story and told it in a manner that made you feel as the movie’s director/writer wanted to feel. Django Set in the slave trade era of the Deep South with a flair for the Old West, the film follows a freed slave, played by Jamie Fox who begins travelling across the United States with a bounty hunter played by Christoph Waltz. Though Django is working for the good Dr. Schultz, he is really on a mission to rescue his wife played by Kerry Washington from a ruthless and vicious plantation owner played by Leonardo Dicaprio.
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Have you ever witnessed a well-adapted animal thriving in its environment? Well similarly when a book is transformed into a movie or play it needs to be adapted so that it can thrive in its environment. For example if you read a great book and when you watch the movie you see every scene that you read in the book, the movie won’t be so good. There are many examples in which we see a movie or play ...
It is a story that could have been told in a different manner had anyone else had taken up the mantel of command but Tarantino hits his mark. This is a movie that tends to scale many genres. It is an action film, it has shades of a comedy, it is a drama-simple and plain. But at the end of the day and at the end of the film we find that this was nothing more than a chick flick for guys! An action packed gore filled blood and guts action story that even though is based in historical violence it also has a hint of the romantic genre.
If there is a tale to be told call on Quentin Tarantino to tell it. Django is a story told in such a manner that it makes you feel good and bad for both the characters and yourself. Tarantino knows how to veer towards the edge of the cliff known as offensive without throwing himself or his audience over. In the form of a narrative this movie at times lags but if you were to take the time to watch it and delve into the cohesiveness of all the action you will see that it works.
Westerns with prominent black characters seem not to have gone over well in the past. One of the worst of this type was when the decision was made to turn Will Smith into James West. Here Jamie Foxx fills the role of the title character as no one else can or would have even tried to do. The ensemble of actors and actress that Tarantino assembled here were genius. Samuel L Jackson and his “Uncle Tom-esque” character was great and it took him out of his normal comfort zone. And never can too much be said about Kerry Washington.
Her role was of Django’s wife who had been taken from him by Calvin Candie. A majority of the film had run onto the floor until we saw Washington’s character in real time. But when we did she stole the show like a thief in the night. As for the shooting style of this film, classic Quentin and you know it. He collaborated with Robert Richardson, who he had worked with on several other films, including Glorious Bastards. Tarantino’s spaghetti western vision was captured perfectly by the one camera type of shooting this team seems to use so well.
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Now as for the editing of this film it was done with ease and skill and this can be seen in the way that the film stays true and cohesive to its form. A for the sound and music in this film, Django seems to have captured both the age and the genre of the film well. The audience is able to experience all of the feeling and emotion in each scene and even the sound of the bullets piercing the skin of all of the victims. There is a bit of music over voices at times but that is only in the intense scenes.
Like many other films by Tarantino this film had a bit of controversy and it seems as if it would have had more had not some major scene deletion had not went on. The film seem to touch a nerve of some and open the eyes of others. “Filmmaker Spike Lee, in an interview with Vibe magazine, said he would not see the film, explaining “All I’m going to say is that it’s disrespectful to my ancestors. That’s just me… I’m not speaking on behalf of anybody else. “[76] Lee later tweeted, “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust.
My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them. ” Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, interpreted the movie as “preparation for race war. ” (Spradley 2013).
These are just a couple of the things said about this film but in the end when it all counted Django received the accolades of the academy and why”: Because you felt just like Django and you felt just like Tarantino at the end of the film, he made you understand his perspective of this time and he gave you more than you bargained for the price of the admission.
Good job Tarentino and friends. Reference: Goodykoontz, B. , & Jacobs, C. P. (2011), Film: From Watching to Seeing, San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Spradley, J. (2013, January 11).
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The American Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved April 3, 2013, from American Cinematogropher: http://www. theasc. com/ac_magazine/January2013/DjangoUnchained/page1. php
