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Django Unchained Thesis

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Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained could be his most violent and controversial films to date, but at the same time could be his most heartfelt “feel good” movies he has ever written and directed. Tarantino is no stranger when it comes to making controversial films known for his gritty bloodshed flicks like the Kill Bill series and Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino pulls out all the stops on Django Unchained paying homage to the classic 60’s spaghetti western film Django starring Franco Nero who has a short cameo in Django Unchained. Tarantino takes us back in time to the old wild west with his shots of the desert canyons and wide angle shots of the old southern cotton fields while still keeping us in touch with modern day with his excellent use of modern music as a soundtrack.
Django Unchained is set in the south two years prior to the Civil War. Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave who becomes parlayed of his captivity by the eccentric bounty hunter Dr. King Shultz (Christoph Waltz) in return for information of his next bounty, the Brittle brothers. The outlaw Brothers who worked on the plantation Django and his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) used to live on before the two were split apart and sold at …show more content…

It was criticized and banned from many countries but also went on to make over 30 non related sequels using the core characteristics and name from the original film. Django can be considered the James bond of spaghetti westerns. Even though Django unchained is set prior to the Civil War Tarantino makes great use of the soundtrack and choice of bright colored costumes and modern accessories like sunglasses (which many believed to have not been invented and popularized during the time) to give the viewer a modern feel that no Django type of movie has ever tried to do

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