Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (a Spaghetti Western) scheduled for release Christmas 2012

[curbsideprophet]

For those of you who enjoyed it ( I loved it ) where would you rank this in the top movies of the past decade? Is it in the conversation....??

With a biased love for QT movies already, I think I'm fitting this in my top 10 

 

[deleted]

Top 25-30.

 

[antonlavey]

A lot of denial in this thread, at the end of the day the only issue here is that a white man made this movie. You're telling me in Mississippi during slavery times people wouldn't be dropping the NWORD at a black man overstepping his boundaries? Maybe I just don't expect much from Mississippi but that's how I assumed Mississippi was in the 1800s. And if black people today are getting sensitive about it, maybe Tarantino did a good job of authenticating the disrespect black people had to endure during those times.


First people were complaining that they didn't show the hardships of slavery, now people are saying they showed too much. Make up your minds.

 

[mronegative]

You're just hardheaded, aren't you?

I understand he cares about the movie but I feel as though he didn't feel the responsibility. And I'm not sure he could being who he is. He's not just a white man but in his own words"can handle rougher stuff than most people."

This dude has been interrogated over his slavery film more than the bs origins of Scientology guy OR the American waterboarding and assassination of Osama bin Laden lady. If you don't think he felt some type of responsibility...more than most filmmakers. More than most black filmmakers even, than you're ignorant and salty that a black filmmaker didn't make this.

His attitude and slang in interviews shows a lack of connection.

Just stop it.

Also how can you write a movie and not have your own personality show in the work? Impossible.

You're right. He wishes he was a black bounty hunter that killed white slave-owners and could say the n-word all day long. You caught him.

And I don't agree with him denying that he overused the nword. Yes in that time and in the south they used it....but not every other word. He's lying through his teeth or just dumb if he thinks they talked like that.

Oh word? Educate us on how often they said it.

Why not admit it was written that why for shock and laughs

You're right again. He had to use the n-word all the time, because that was the only way to shock people about American slavery.

 

[lyonbc1]

Big i respect your response but I don't agree. I seen other interviews also. He said he even spoke with Sidney Pottier. I understand he cares about the movie but I feel as though he didn't feel the responsibility. And I'm not sure he could being who he is. He's not just a white man but in his own words"can handle rougher stuff than most people.". His attitude and slang in interviews shows a lack of connection. Also how can you write a movie and not have your own personality show in the work? Impossible. And I don't agree with him denying that he overused the nword. Yes in that time and in the south they used it....but not every other word. He's lying through his teeth or just dumb if he thinks they talked like that. Why not admit it was written that why for shock and laughs

But see that is his personality I think, the slang coming off that way...he's kind of an eccentric guy it seems from all the interviews I've seen. And in the interview Jamie Foxx is the one who said that statement about not having an idea, but c'mon you have to put it into the context. He said it was before one of the scenes when Kerry was getting whipped with lashes and they would play music on set in between...then Jamie requested Fred Hammond's "No weapon"...which is a powerful song in that moment too. He basically was saying that being on an actual former slave plantation, filming that scene and having the actors, even himself kind of "get hit with the emotion of it all" at that moment and even an older black woman on the set grabbed a little child and started fellowshipping...THEN QT said "I had no idea" and even he welled up while filming it. He didn't just say "oh I had no idea this movie would bring up certain feelings about slavery for black people" Jamie even made a point of it to say, yeah it's different now that we're actually here...in the moment". IF he didn't care or had a lack of passion or connection that would've never happened, he could have never had that "Oh now its hitting me" moment at all. I mean dude's favorite historical figure is John Brown the extremeeeeee abolitionist


It's like reading about a traumatic event and then actually seeing it and physically being there in the same location where such awful, unspeakable injustices took place. It brings out a different emotion in you when you are actually visually seeing it. Plenty of people probably feel that way when writing something very personal and then having to read it aloud or present it visually to others on a platform, I did the same when I spoke at my grandpa's funeral.

And to your last point, I dunno if you're from the South or have family but my first cousin and his family live down there, and they STILL get called the N word and hear people saying the word with frightening degree of regularity. My little cousin is 12 and has had at least 3 incidents at school and its 2012. So I don't think its farfetched at all to presume actual slave owners who have literally no regard or respect for blacks as even people (3/5ths clause and all) would use the word so casually. It honestly didn't bother me that much because 1) I knew going in with all the "outrage" that it'd be used a lot and 2) because it fits with the time period. I mean Huck Finn has the word 200+ times in the book and thats from 1885. Mark Twain would know how people spoke in that era even more than QT....so its not dumb to think that at all, in fact its probably closer to reality.

 

[cruthik3]

The KKK scene was one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen.

 

[mronegative]

Thank you.

 

[jaywalkinsince91]

The django/ samuel jackson intro scene was one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen.

Fixed.

Spoiler: proof

Candie: please show our guest to their rooms

Sam j: massa i can undastan the kindly german fella but this ***** hea?!?!

Candie: yes, is there a problem with that?

Sam j: no, no prollum as all sir Candie , long as we burn the sheets, the pillows, the matress and the frame

 

[cruthik3]

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

also when Django shoots Sam Jackson at the end when he's screaming on the floor he yelled, "Jesus, please help me kill this n****," slayed me.

 

[solewoman]

So many quotables

Sam made me hate his character

Movie was long but went by fast

Kkk scene was hilarious

Good movie

And soundtrack was trill Ross tupac John legend!!!

 

[powerballin]

My point is if you write a movie like this then you should already be in the mental and emotional place to understand how powerful it will be when making it come to life filming. How is he surprised by the moment?

And you really think the word being used over 100 times isnt excessive? You really think the way they spoke was realistic. Honestly they shouldve been a variety of slurs to make the dialogue more natural. Im not saying the word wasn't used back then. Just not every other word. Look at the Wire. They could've used the word way more in the dialogue but they didnt.

 

[legendairy stinson]

My point is if you write a movie like this then you should already be in the mental and emotional place to understand how powerful it will be when making it come to life filming. How is he surprised by the moment?
And you really think the word being used over 100 times isnt excessive? You really think the way they spoke was realistic. Honestly they shouldve been a variety of slurs to make the dialogue more natural. Im not saying the word wasn't used back then. Just not every other word. Look at the Wire. They could've used the word way more in the dialogue but they didnt.

The Wire set in early 2000s.
Django, 1859 AND in the south.

 

[superblytrife]

the LOST fan in me was so damn happy when Django killed the first brittle brother..

i will forever hate MC Gainey.

So that WAS him?!!!  

I knew he looked mad familiar, ol' The Others lookin' boy.  

 

[powerballin]

My point is if you write a movie like this then you should already be in the mental and emotional place to understand how powerful it will be when making it come to life filming. How is he surprised by the moment?
And you really think the word being used over 100 times isnt excessive? You really think the way they spoke was realistic. Honestly they shouldve been a variety of slurs to make the dialogue more natural. Im not saying the word wasn't used back then. Just not every other word. Look at the Wire. They could've used the word way more in the dialogue but they didnt.

The Wire set in early 2000s.
Django, 1859 AND in the south.

You missed my point homie. The wire is about inner city youth and criminals in Baltimore. Do you think they aren't using the nword every other word? I know for a fact they do. You telling me whites used it more back then than today's inner city youth in a place like bmore, dc, Chicago? _ please loll

 

[onlyXXVIII]

Anyone else notice how the camera would focus on the same veiled woman once or twice a few seconds at a time for no reason?

 

[infam0usp]

It's sad that this movie is the best representation of black love in a major motion picture.

TROLLOLOL

 

[ace rawstein]

dont see how it is even possible to argue the usage of the n-word during slavery. none of us truly know...but I would bet on the side that the usage was quite frequent.

Say QT replaced half of the n-word usage with the word "boy"... i dont think it would have been the same. Not saying that the visuals wasnt enough to remind the audience of the time period but the language had to match that. But with that being said I can understand if ppl find it excessive. but I like QT's response that if he didnt include it, he would be lying.

 

[antonlavey]

You missed my point homie. The wire is about inner city youth and criminals in Baltimore. Do you think they aren't using the nword every other word? I know for a fact they do. You telling me whites used it more back then than today's inner city youth in a place like bmore, dc, Chicago? _ please loll

lol why are you acting like you're a certified expert on how white slave owners from Mississippi spoke back then? I think all of this is simply a projection of your distaste for white people saying the word period and you're allowing it to cloud your judgement. White people probably called their slaves worse in 1800s. They didn't refer to black people as "black" or "African Americans" they simply just called them animals or the NWORD. Why is this so hard for you to believe? Cause white people today say" NWORD" when they recite Chief Keef lyrics?

 

[RustyShackleford]

Really happy how Tarantino handled Broomhilda's situation. Was scared of seeing her yambs being violated on camera

 

[big j 33]

Anyone else notice how the camera would focus on the same veiled woman once or twice a few seconds at a time for no reason?

Do you mean the woman with the bandana and axe? Nothing came of it, but we can assume her role might have been cut for time.

 

[powerballin]

You missed my point homie. The wire is about inner city youth and criminals in Baltimore. Do you think they aren't using the nword every other word? I know for a fact they do. You telling me whites used it more back then than today's inner city youth in a place like bmore, dc, Chicago? _ please loll

lol why are you acting like you're a certified expert on how white slave owners from Mississippi spoke back then? I think all of this is simply a projection of your distaste for white people saying the word period and you're allowing it to cloud your judgement. White people probably called their slaves worse in 1800s. They didn't refer to black people as "black" or "African Americans" they simply just called them animals or the NWORD. Why is this so hard for you to believe? Cause white people today say" NWORD" when they recite Chief Keef lyrics?

You dont have to be a expert to hear the dialogue in the film and notice how unnatural alot of it is.  Imagine if I talked to you like this "Anton I don't agree with you Anton, Thats the problem I have with you Anton, ok Anton".  Does that even sound normal? QT had that script jam packed with nwords word to the Amistad.

I have no problem with whites or anybody in the movie saying the word. I've already said that.  My issue is the blatant excessive use of the word and people actually believing that's normal.  Also you say blacks were called worse right?  I know and in my last post I said that.  Where were all the other slurs and names?  Oh he didn't use them because they don't have that same shock value. 

Don't talk to me in a that tone homie.  Save alll your emoticons and talk like a man.  Don't insult my intelligence. 

 

[big j 33]

random trivia, but the guy who asked Django to spell his name and said "I know" when Django said the D is silent, that was Franco Nero.. who played the original Django in the 60s

 

[hymen man]

cool fact, didn't know that

 

[powerballin]

random trivia, but the guy who asked Django to spell his name and said "I know" when Django said the D is silent, that was Franco Nero.. who played the original Django in the 60s

thanks for sharing. Plvn said this on the last page tho

 

[legendairy stinson]

You dont have to be a expert to hear the dialogue in the film and notice how unnatural alot of it is.  Imagine if I talked to you like this "Anton I don't agree with you Anton, Thats the problem I have with you Anton, ok Anton".  Does that even sound normal? QT had that script jam packed with nwords word to the Amistad.

I have no problem with whites or anybody in the movie saying the word. I've already said that.  My issue is the blatant excessive use of the word and people actually believing that's normal.  Also you say blacks were called worse right?  I know and in my last post I said that.  Where were all the other slurs and names?  Oh he didn't use them because they don't have that same shock value. 

Don't talk to me in a that tone homie.  Save alll your emoticons and talk like a man.  Don't insult my intelligence. 

You have no idea what you're talking about. You're just babbling for the sake of babbling.