Movie Review: Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino (Sophie)

I like the way you die boy

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Django Unchained is another one of those Quentin Tarantino master pieces and some even say the best he did since Pulp Fiction in 1994. Released in late 2012 it grossed an estimated $162.8 million at the US box office alone! It stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and even Samuel L Jackson, who is in my opinion unrecognisable in this movie in character and mask.

The movie is set in early America just before the Civil war and can be divided into two sections. The first part a mock western and the second a trail of revenge, probably because Tarantino loooves revenge.

The story line starts with German-born bounty hunter Dr King Schultz, posing as a dentist, freeing (or more or less stealing Django) from slavery, as he is n need of his help find the runaway gangster by the name of the ‘Brittle Brothers’. So the two go off and do the Western thing, hunt the bad guys and collect the bounty. Django, however has only one thing in mind, finding his long lost love Brunhilde, who is lost in the slave trade. This quest to find Brunhilde and take revenge on those keeping her in slavery takes part in the second half of the movie.

My favourite scene of the movie is the one where the African-American housekeeper Stephen, played by Samuel L Jackson, questions the validity of Django, played by Jamie Foxx, to be riding on a horse. I have not yet count how often the N-word and some deem the frequent use of it in the movie to be controversial, but after 180 minutes running you do get used to it.

The movie not only ends with, but has throughout, this violent absurdity of people dying in the extravagant, obscene, over the top, profound ways, which bring you to the point where you either switch off or laugh it off. After Inglorious Basterds, this makes me believe that this is, where Tarantino like to push the audience right to the edge of what’s funny – what’s artistic and what’s not. This is where he seems to be most comfortable in his film making, meaning gets a very good movie out of it. And that this is in fact what makes a Tarantino movie a great movie – the utter and complete nonsense of it in its entirety. Django unchained is being sadistic and pushes moral boundries and ambitions at the same time.

The cast of this movie, just as in Inglorious Basterds, is define. Christoph Watlz for the second time starring in a Tarantino movie goes on to win an Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for the second. Even Tarantino himself makes a cameo appearance, as an Australian Cowboy. Gold.

Another rainy day - time for another legend - Quentin Tarantino (Sophie)

It’s a Bingo

Inglorious Basterds is war film mostly set at the end of the World War II around Germany and France. It was directed by Quentin Tarantino and stars the likes of Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Diane Kruger.

The film can be subdivided into 5 chapters. Chapter one starts ‘once upon a time’ in Nazi-occupied France and introduces Colonel Hans Landa, played by Christoph Waltz, as the most meticulous, successful and feared member of the Waffen-SS, also known as the ‘Jew-Hunter’.  And this is basically what he does in that very first chapter, hunting Jewish people hidden by the French community. He does so in true Quentin Tarentino style – over-the-top – out-there and in-your-face!

Chapter two, which is set in the spring of 1944, introduces the soon to be well renown ‘Inglorious Basterds’ led by Special Forces Lieutenant Also Raine, played by Brad Pitt. According to Ltd Raine, the sole and only mission is ‘killing Nazis’.

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Chapter three portrays ‘A German Night in Paris’. In German occupied Paris Shosanna is living under different identity and is the proprieter of a cinema. The cine has been chosen to screen a Nazi propaganda movie. This leads Shosanna to decide to burn down the cinema during the screening and killing all people, among them high ranking Nazi Officers, in the cinema.

Operation KINO (German for cinema), an operation with basically the same intention as all previous plots introduced in chapter five, however let by the British is introduced next. This chapter brings one of my favourite scenes, this is when the British agent gets discovered by ordering 3 drinks in tavern using the wrong three fingers. A big shot out between the Basterds, the Brits and the Nazis occurs, again in true Tarantino fashion. There are less survivors then there is blood.

Chapter five holds the grand finale of the movie. Takes the longest, has the most dead people in it and the most actions by far. The inglorious Basterds arrive at the cinema, pretending to be Italians. A cover which is in the end blown from the first minute.

I can’t tell you how the movie ends and who lives and who dies, but when considering that one should keep in mind that this is Tarantino movie and that the outcome is somewhat predictable.

The maestro (Tarantino) himself self has once again shown, that he has a great artistic freedom in what he does and that what he does, appears to turn into gold in an instant. A big credit also has to go to the cast. Up and foremost to Christoph Waltz, who is undoubtedly one of the best actors out there at the moment and has won the 2010 Best Actor in a Supporting role for his part in Inglorious Bastards. All in all – I think all what Tarantino is saying is the following:

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