The screaming query, like so much in Tarantino's latest ahistorical revenge fantasy, assumed a lot of its audience. The crowd roared. But let's start with the obvious. America was not ready for Django before the mass murder in Newtown, and it's even less ready now. That is a good thing. During the two hours and forty-five minutes that Tarantino takes to tell this unlikely story—of a freed slave turned freelance bounty hunter on a quest to save his wife—some intriguing ideas do pop up.
But like an arrogant professor who can't help insulting his audience, Tarantino's offenses overwhelm his insights. The problems begin with the script. The n-word is not a bug here. It's a feature. It is the connective tissue of the screenplay. It is the epithet setting the opening scene. It is the relentless insult that follows Django, played with abiding intensity by Jamie Foxx, from slavery to freedom. And it is the recurring personification of the antebellum South's racist hierarchy, as white and black characters alike say they've never seen a black man on a horse.
That alone will leave many people cold, even if audiences recall the n-word's ostentatious use in classics like Pulp Fiction , Jackie Brown , and, most chillingly, as the trigger of the climactic hostage scene in True Romance , when Dennis Hopper used the word to bait Christopher Walken into a rash murder. Tarantino, of course, has long argued that his dialogue simply reflects reality. The Gangsta Rapper Defense. It is one thing to reflect a tragedy, however, and another to revel in it.
And that tick goes way beyond the rhetoric in this movie. Murnau is best known for creating the "Unchained" camera technique. The name "Django" is a Romani name, meaning "I awake". It was very popular amongst musicians and jazz-enthusiasts for having been the adopted name of Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt , a Romani-Belgian jazz-guitarist known as Django Reinhardt , whose story was told in Django This was the real-life nickname of Ken Norton , the actor and boxer who starred in Mandingo While Kevin Costner turned down the role of Ace Woody a character that doesn't appear in the final film , this is not the first time he has rejected a role offered to him by Quentin Tarantino.
The character of Bill in Tarantino's Kill Bill films was originally written with Costner in mind, and eventually offered to him, but he refused.
That role went to David Carradine , who died in , and to whom this film is dedicated. In the scene in which Stephen Samuel L. Jackson is describing what will happen to Django Jamie Foxx after he is shipped to the mining company, Stephen ends his monologue by saying "And that will be the story of you. This is a trademark of Tarantino's: reusing names and relating characters amongst his scripts.
King Schultz partly mirrors the real-life Doc Holliday, also a dentist turned gunfighter. This is the second time Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington have portrayed a married couple. When Django Jamie Foxx and Dr. Minnesota Clay is the name of a Western movie directed by Sergio Corbucci , the same director of Django During the first forty minutes of the movie, with the exception of a single scene at Big Daddy's Don Johnson's plantation, Dr.
King Schultz Christoph Waltz drives a wagon, rather than riding a horse. This was because Waltz had injured his pelvis in a fall from a horse prior to principal photography.
Analysis of the script shows that there was only a small amount of dialogue that ever had to be re-written, due to the cart. True Romance was also written by Quentin Tarantino. Although the film is often considered a part of the Western genre, writer and director Quentin Tarantino preferred to refer to the film as a "Southern", due to the film's setting in America's deep south. The film's release was delayed in China by government censors in April Their requests included "turning the blood to a darker color, or lowering the height of the splatter of blood.
The opening song is the soundtrack that played during the opening credits of Django by Luis Bacalov. While it is known that there is a link between Dr. However, fans have theorized that Dr. Schultz was related to this Paula Schultz character, possibly as in husband and wife at some point, who were separated shortly before the doctor went to pursue his career as a bounty-hunter.
Other theories suggest that Paula Schultz could have been Dr. Schultz's estranged daughter or long-lost sister. Tarantino has not confirmed this, however. Many of the actors and actresses were playing characters written with them in mind, including, among the more sizable roles, Christoph Waltz , Leonardo DiCaprio , and Samuel L. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was cast in a minor role as Jano, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with his directorial debut, Don Jon Was described by Samuel L.
Jackson in an interview as " Shaft on a horse. Denzel Washington was considered for the role of Django, but was deemed too old. In the beginning of the film where Dr. King Schultz frees Django, one of the slave owners calls one of the slaves "Blueberry". Blueberry takes place during the American old west, where the main character starts out as a racist, but after he is saved by an African-American, he becomes a gunman who fights against all kinds of discrimination.
Marks the fifth time writer and director Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Franco Nero , making his cameo in the film, is seen wearing white gloves. This may be a reference to his wounds in Django However, this should not be seen as him being the same character in both movies, as Django took place in the s, and this movie took place in the s.
King Schulz insists on saying good-bye in English to M. Candy because in English, the word has a certain finality to is, while in German, auf Wiedersehen actually means "until I see you again. Adieu is used when you never expect to see someone again. For someone you do expect to meet again, you would say au revoir. Franco Nero was considered for the role of Calvin Candie, but instead was given a cameo appearance as a minor character.
Nero suggested that he play a mysterious horseman who haunts Django in visions and is revealed in an ending flashback to be Django's father. Quentin Tarantino opted not to use the idea. Takes place in Calvin Candie's speech about phrenology concerning the skulls of slaves is a pseudoscience, and had been disproven by the s, which furthers Mr.
Candie as being ignorant. Leonardo DiCaprio does not appear until one hour and three minutes in. These are the names of the horses of, respectively, silent Western stars William S. The final showdown with Django and the hillbilly trackers was written to be entirely different. Stonesipher, the head of the trackers, was originally to be a stronger, and more threatening villain to Django.
There was a scene written in the final draft of the script with Django killing the trackers with an axe. He then faces Mr. Stonesipher, and the two engage in hand-to-hand combat, with Stonesipher nearly defeating Django, but eventually losing. Russ Tamblyn , whose character in this movie is named "Son of a Gunfighter", starred in Son of a Gunfighter Also, Tamblyn's real-life daughter Amber played the character named "Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter". Despite Quentin Tarantino writing the role of Django specifically for Will Smith , he ultimately decided to pass on the film, due to him seeing the character as not being the lead.
He told Entertainment Weekly, "Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead. I was like, 'No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy. Just not for me. Sid Haig was a strong contender for the role of "Mr.
Stonesipher", so much so that casting director Victoria Thomas informed Haig's agent, "It's a lock". Quentin Tarantino scheduled, and later cancelled at the last minute, two auditions for Haig. Two months later, the role quietly went to David Steen instead. Tarantino, being known for his extremely dry humor, this "prank" is presumably rooted in Haig turning down the role of Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction Jackson does not appear until one hour and twenty-six minutes into the film.
Tarantino used this effect in Reservoir Dogs and Death Proof Jackson and Walton Goggins. Coincidentally, The Hateful Eight is set in the same universe as this movie, but is not a sequel. Jackson and Walton Goggins play different characters in both movies. This movie, along with True Grit , repeated a rare pattern, where twenty years earlier, two westerns the other being Dances with Wolves were nominated for Best Picture two years apart.
After the actors left the project, the minor roles that were going to be played by Michael Kenneth Williams , Sacha Baron Cohen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were removed from the film. In a January interview with Vanity Fair, costume designer Sharen Davis said much of the film's wardrobe was inspired by spaghetti westerns and other works of art. For Django's wardrobe, Davis and Quentin Tarantino watched Bonanza , and referred to it frequently.
The pair even hired the hatmaker who designed the hat worn by Little Joe. Davis described Django's look as a "rock-n-roll take on the character". In the final scene, Broomhilda wears a dress similar to that of Evelyn Stewart 's character in Blood for a Silver Dollar Davis said the idea of Calvin Candie's costume came partly from Rhett Butler, and that Don Johnson 's signature Miami Vice look inspired Big Daddy's cream-colored linen suit in the film.
King Schultz's fake chinchilla coat was inspired by Telly Savalas in Kojak In one of the scenes at the beginning, Tarantino used an arrangement of the main music theme from Two Mules for Sister Sara , directed by Don Siegel , and original score written by Ennio Morricone.
Production designer J. Michael Riva died on June 7, , long before the Christmas Day release. This movie is his final credit. Quentin Tarantino 's first movie not edited by Sally Menke , who died in He is a Francophile, and it is a tradition among the French to greet each other by kissing on the cheeks.
The screenplay for this film was featured in the Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year. King Schultz's hat was made especially for the movie. It's a combination of a derby and a traditional cowboy hat.
Christoph Waltz kept it as a souvenir. Quentin Tarantino included scenes in the snow as an homage to The Great Silence I liked the action in the snow so much, Django Unchained has a big snow section in the middle", Tarantino said in an interview. Django is dressed in his "Blue Boy" attire, but when Little Jody looks at his image in the mirror next to the tree where she is tied, Django's head and hands are invisible in the reflection, elevating his mythic stature to that of an enchanted figure.
In Gothic lore, specters and ghosts are unable to see their own reflections. This is technically not the first western Django movie on which Quentin Tarantino has worked.
He played a minor role in Sukiyaki Western Django The rifle used by Dr. King Schultz is a Sharps Buffalo, which appeared twenty years later than what the movie would suggest. Gainey and Lil Raj Brittle Cooper Huckabee is from Django , when the main antagonist in the latter movie is using Mexican civilians as target practice.
King Schultz's wife. On the gravestone, it states that Paula Schultz died in This film takes place in to , and Dr. King Shultz may have been married at some point in his life.
The scene with the Australian slave traders was originally written a little differently. Instead of two Aussies and the Southern hillbilly man played by Michael Parks , according to the final draft of the script, there were supposed to be three Australians, and the characters had more dialogue. Early in the film, Christoph Waltz kills a town Sheriff, and is about to be arrested by the local U. Marshal, until he pulls out an arrest warrant for the man he has just killed. In the first draft of the script, Dr.
King Schultz was written to be more vulgar. David Steen plays Mr. Stonesipher, Candie's dog handler. The last time Steen worked with Quentin Tarantino , he played a dog-handling cop in Reservoir Dogs A decade earlier, Samuel L.
George Lucas named the character after the protagonist of Django , which was Quentin Tarantino 's inspiration behind this movie. In this movie, Jamie Foxx 's Django is a slave-turned-bounty-hunter. Three Unnamed Klansman - Blown up with an exploding cart trap set up by Dr. Three Horses - Blown up with an exploding cart trap set up by Dr.
Spencer Gordon Bennet - Shot in the chest by Django. Unknown Person - Murdered off-screen in an unknown manner by Smitty Bacal and his gang, mentioned on a wanted poster.
Smitty Bacal - Shot in the chest by Django. Chuck Wilson - Shot to death by Django and Dr. Bobby Lowe - Shot to death by Django and Dr. D'Artagnan - Mauled to death by dogs on the orders of Calvin Candie.
Old Ben - Died of unspecified natural cause several years before the show, skull shown. Calvin Candie - Shot in the heart by Dr. King Schultz - Shot in the chest by Butch Pooch. Butch Pooch - Shot in the chest by Django.
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