Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

i saw an interview w/ QT once in which he was sitting on a couch in what i presume was his house underneath a giant stylized portrait of what appeared to be QT as a black man

say what

could have been wrong though

could have just been a giant stylized portrait of QT, which i mean still

This script is CRAZY crazy crazy. Gonna make IG look like "Full House".

I think i know the portrait you're talking about. Don't think he's meant to be black in it though. I saw it in this extremely weird show where QT and Fiona Apple just hung around with each other in Austin. It was an incredibly awkward viewing experience.

The painting or watching the two them together?

Still don't get why it's being called a "Spaghetti Western". It's something else completely.

the two of them. Apple just kept trailing off into these strained silences while Tarantino cackled on regardless.

Isn't Tarantino calling it a "Southern"?

I guess a lot of people are saying he uses a lot of "n-bombs" in the stage directions, occasionally out of nowhere.

yep, starting on like the second page. he capitalizes it too

Still don't get why it's being called a "Spaghetti Western".

because it's called Django?

Just a name. Has nothing to do with the SW character. Could be about Django Reinhardt (sp?).

It's clearly not just a name though

also definitely not about django reinhardt

Django Unfingered

kinda wishing it was about Django Reinhardt now

this does seem like trolling though... he's obviously aware that one of the elephants in the room re: his career (apart from his foot fetish) is his odd relationship to black culture, and after pretty much ignoring it completely for awhile now he's just going to make a big deal about it and BLOW PEOPLE'S MINDS. or something.

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2105/screenshot20110719at104.png

It's like telling Philip Roth to ease up on the sex.

Yup, that's the one PP

yeah that definitely makes me really really uncomfortable, but i wouldn't say it puts him in blackface

You can't tell in that photo, but he's wearing a really gross sleeveless top there which was another disquieting element of the show

i don't care if tarantino is black, white, purple

the one thing about reading a tarantino script (that hasn't been cleaned up for publication) is that it'd be very very obvious dude didn't finish high school even if you didn't know that already. not asking for a masterful prose style in what amounts to a list of shooting directions but there are like four or five grammar boners on every page.

also everyone who said something about the gratuitous n-bomb drops in the shooting directions otm. jesus, quentin.

where are you guys reading this script I don't get it

if you google django unchained screenplay pdf the mysteries of the universe will be revealed 2 u

I was going to say, I thought it was pretty common knowledge at this point that his scripts all float around the web well in advance of the movies.

yah i read inglorious bastards back inna day and expected to hate it tbh

You can hear him squint.

haha excellent

I was going to say, I thought it was pretty common knowledge at this point that his scripts all float around the web well in advance of the movies.

back in the day I had to pay $20 for photocopies on the wrong-sized paper of Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers before they came out

yeah i gotta say that his dialogue reads waaaaaaay better if you imagine it coming out of specific actors mouths. (if you act it out in your mind, basically.) reading screenplays flat/as prose makes even 90 percent of the interesting ones seem flimsy, not all there, etc.

Read about the first third of it this afternoon. I'll go see it...but I wouldn't be surprised if I have to leave Mississippi to do it.

the problem is that i keep reading the "dr. schultz" dialogue in the voice of hans landa, which makes everything hilarious even if it's not intended to be.

I was going to say, I thought it was pretty common knowledge at this point that his scripts all float around the web well in advance of the movies.

yeah his, and basically ever other screenplay too

Okay, probably, just seems like Tarantino's get a lot more widely discussed than others, outside of specific circles.

oh, yeah, that's the picture. if it weren't quentin tarantino the portrait being black as opposed to just being artily purplish probably wouldn't even have occurred to me, but as it is quentin tarantino it's pretty lol.

the one thing about reading a tarantino script (that hasn't been cleaned up for publication) is that it'd be very very obvious dude didn't finish high school even if you didn't know that already. not asking for a masterful prose style in what amounts to a list of shooting directions but there are like four or five grammar boners on every page.

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:03 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

haha otm, this really struck me when i was flipping through IB a while back, though the fact that he seems almost semi-illiterate is sorta part of the charm, like the phrase 'inglourious basterds' is something you would see doodled on a folder next to a flaming skull and the old stussy 's' logo

http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/stussy-s.jpg

Greenville's in Washington County, but I digress.

QT's act gets a little tired sometimes, but he can still turn up some suspense.

The screenplay's a good read.

He's remaking the same movie over and over in different settings, though. Shosanna vs. Nazis in general and Landa in particular; Django vs. slaveholders in general and Calvin Candie in particular.

It does read an awful lot like Bastards--makes me wonder what the third in a rescue trilogy would be.

(er, make that Basterds)

I was thinking of Django as part 3 of a revenge trilogy with Kill Bill and IB. I'd rather he made an entirely new film than play around in formal exercises.

So what's next, his science fiction epic?

^^ otm, i was hoping this was the last of his revenge fantasies too. i mean, once you've done the Holocaust revenge fantasy and the slavery revenge fantast, how exactly do you go bigger?

(xpost)

but i am still looking forward to this. i realize its no longer trendy to say so, but i really love pretty much every movie he's done on some level.

Baldo vs Minuvaxxians in general and BleepBorp in particular.

lol, would watch

Can't wait to see who plays BleepBorp