Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 10:29:53 GMT -6
This is a typical Tarantino film with all the standard stuff. Well defined "bad"/good guy. Well defined enemies. LOTS of action, and blood everywhere! Not his best, though. His usually magnificent dialogue (think Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill) was missing. Over half the script was wasted on Dr. Shultz, a German dentist who is a bounty hunter while in America. This was a terrific character, but way overdone. Less is more, sometimes. He hooks up with DJango, a slave, after buying his freedom and they hunt and kill their bounty all winter long. Along the way, DJango is promised they will find his wife who was sold elsewhere and reunite them. The search is on. It is a long and tedious search filled with references to slaves killing white people and gunshots galore.
It was filmed beautifully and the sound score was fantastic. A true nod to Spaghetti Westerns! Yet, it fell flat.
Here is what I learned from DJango, Unchained:
1. Never go to a movie if you know how it ends (exactly) before you go in. The trailers had told me all I needed to know.
2. Slavery just isn't comical.
3. White guilt isn't, either.
This was a 2 hour and 45 minute lecture with buckets of blood, idiot "white folks", the word "ni**er" repeated every 50 seconds and the oh, so predictable ending.
One fun point. Tarantino always shows up somewhere in his own films. Look for him. You will know him by the change of dialogue. When it comes to others, or other movies of his, no language is foul enough. He is the only character NOT to say "ni**ger". That both surprised and disappointed me. It would appear, after taking the challenge of a VERY delicate subject, making it "funny", and getting the rest of the cast involved, at the end of the day, he saw his own failed attempt, and bottomed out when challenged with the tough dialogue, himself.
Jamie Foxx is DJango. Don Johnson plays a great cameo as Big Daddy. Christoph Waltz plays the dentist. Kerry Washington is Broomhilda. And Leonardo DiCaprio steals the entire movie as Calvin Candie.
It was filmed beautifully and the sound score was fantastic. A true nod to Spaghetti Westerns! Yet, it fell flat.
Here is what I learned from DJango, Unchained:
1. Never go to a movie if you know how it ends (exactly) before you go in. The trailers had told me all I needed to know.
2. Slavery just isn't comical.
3. White guilt isn't, either.
This was a 2 hour and 45 minute lecture with buckets of blood, idiot "white folks", the word "ni**er" repeated every 50 seconds and the oh, so predictable ending.
One fun point. Tarantino always shows up somewhere in his own films. Look for him. You will know him by the change of dialogue. When it comes to others, or other movies of his, no language is foul enough. He is the only character NOT to say "ni**ger". That both surprised and disappointed me. It would appear, after taking the challenge of a VERY delicate subject, making it "funny", and getting the rest of the cast involved, at the end of the day, he saw his own failed attempt, and bottomed out when challenged with the tough dialogue, himself.
Jamie Foxx is DJango. Don Johnson plays a great cameo as Big Daddy. Christoph Waltz plays the dentist. Kerry Washington is Broomhilda. And Leonardo DiCaprio steals the entire movie as Calvin Candie.
