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The D is Silent. AND UNCHAINED
Balefuego
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdM9vrCbowDjango Unchained is an American western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. The film was released on December 25, 2012 in North America.[5][6]
Set in the Deep South, the film follows Django (Foxx), a freed slave who treks across America with Dr. King Schultz (Waltz), a bounty hunter.
So did anyone else spend their christmas watching Jaime Foxx kill white folks? Cause I did and I loved this movie. So now there is a thread where people can talk about it with me.
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Also, I didn't know until now that Jackson was in this!
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can't wait to see this
I want Christoph Waltz to be in everything.
Turns out I wanted it really badly.
also can't wait to see this soonish
Wait
what
holy shit
can't wait even more to see this god damn
this fucking movie
it's basically 130 minutes of FUCK WHITEY and i am so ok with that
it's just so much fucking fun, even having read the script already
best part
that's franco nero
that's django
It will also be heavily altered for scenes with violence and language because the Philippines has the worst ratings board ever
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And then it turns out they'll just re-release Wild Wild West.
I like how the advertising gave me the wrong idea about the general plot of the movie, and also leaves out several major characters, so it surprised me in a way very few movies are able to nowadays.
As a white dude from Louisiana now living in Toronto, though, I have never been more aware of my place in white Canadian culture than I was in that theater.
My wife wasn't the only non-whitey in that theater but it damn near felt that way, and there were parts where people laughed where I would have expected them to be horrified or appalled
This film made me uncomfortable in all the right places and it felt weird when the folks around me weren't uncomfortable in the same spots
he is spike lee
This movie is legit hilarious though.
Like there's more humour then I'd say most of Tarantino's other flicks, barring Pulp Fiction.
no more histroically insensitive than pretty much every other western ever
Appreciate this Christmas time joy that only Quentin Tarantino can bring
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That ain't bad, but it's true
Big part of why I love Unforgiven so much
Man, this movie didn't really get "Tarantino as fuck" in as many spots as the other Tarantino flicks I've watched
give me an example (in spoilers)
the entire movie was tarantino as fuck it was just also Westerns as fuck
django almost getting his ding dong cut off for another
David Brothers' article at 4thletter
and there's a couple of articles linked at the bottom for alternate viewpoints, but I can link a less glowing one here
Thoughts on Slavery, Black Women, and 'Django Unchained' by Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic
dunno if they'd interest Mensch or other people here but yeah i dunno i thought they were interesting even if they were from before the movie came out
Well I mean it's hard to remember because I paid a lot more attention to the movie than to other moviegoers, but... uh
....also a lot of the white folks and asian teens around me laughed at the N word a few times I guess
Like they just thought that people using that language was inherently funny
Well as to the first thing that is not an uncommon reaction to that sort of violence, I have that reaction too. It's a combination of it being incredibly sudden and also the over the top way Tarantino tends to portray it.
It's not as cartoony in this as it is in something like Kill Bill but it's rarely played as grit and grim either, this is an epic hero's journey after all (of a sort)
As for the latter, it's all about context, there are times in the movie where I do think it is intentionally played for laughs, particularly anytime Samuel L Jackson's character does it.
thank u babe
And it has more to do with, like, removing yourself from it, I guess? Like any time Shane from the Shield would talk people would laugh, no matter what he was doing, but for me it was like Tarantino was holding up a mirror that showed the ugliest parts of my own culture
A lot of that is my own baggage I guess
Neotoma's black isn't he
is the fact that I know this racist
prepare to be mowed down in a hail of righteous gunfire
he's in the trailer brah
the reveal was still incredible but it would have been even better completely blind.