Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

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?

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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

john connor vs. machines in general and skynet in particular

Can't wait to see who plays BleepBorp

Early money is on Leif Garrett.

i really love pretty much every movie he's done on some level.

i can honestly say that i like pretty much every movie he's done, but the drop-off after kill bill 1 has been pretty severe.

i don't know if i would go with "severe", but noticeable, sure. but i think Death Proof is underrated and i thought Basterds was a bounce back up in quality.

agree w all that. death proof has some pretty major flaws, but is better than its rep suggests. basterds is almost there, but the pieces don't quite fit together and pitt's performance is horrible. still pretty enthused abt django unchained.

not excited about presence of Sweaty Bigface

pretty excited about everything else tho

Foxx'll likely do fine, but the screenplay really does read perfectly for Will Smith.

yeah, still kinda disappointed that he wouldn't do this. lol @ Tom Wopat being in this tho.

absolutely hate Will Smith, glad he's not in this

also lol @ Tarantino starring in a Takashi Miike movie in 2007 called Sukiyaki Western Django

i really can't stand most of Smith's work either, but for some reason this felt perfect for him.

I think he's only gotten better since KB1 frankly.

for those who've read the script: any signature tarantino dialogue?

"dick dick dick..." *bang* *cue morricone theme*
"how many dicks was that?"
"three."
"THANK YOU"

3 1/2 pages of dialogue by masked raiders complaining that they can't see through the eyeholes that Willard's wife cut into the bags they're wearing.

...too spoilery?

for some reason i don't really ever consider death proof as "A Quentin Tarantino Film"

I loved Death Proof in the theater, slightly less in the DVD director's cut (though the scene w/ Mary Elizabeth Winstead singing is <3), it's probably my #2 Tarantino behind KB1.

Director's Cut is totally worse. was much funnier when the lapdance scene was cut out.

i love that googling any random female celebrity these days, auto-fill brings up "___________ feet" as one of the top results. (noticed yet again when googling MEW to remember which character she was)

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7200000/Mary-Elizabeth-Winstead-Death-Proof-Widescreen-Wallpaper-mary-elizabeth-winstead-7221026-1280-800.jpg

lol at movie billboard

ws all the Death Proof girls