Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

I thought that was Clancy Brown who Waltz shoots near the beginning, but apparently it's James Remar. Also, both James Remar and James Russo are apparently in this.

Think that's Franco Nero at the bar with Django (II).

Highly anticipating Samuel Jackson's haircut (bald on top, puffy white on sides?).

OF COURSE it has a remixed version of The Payback

― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ real talking

...REVENGE!

Ta-Nehisi Coates says No thanks, not for me.

nothing like judging a movie by its trailer

isn't that what a trailer is for?

no?

I will see the shit out of this movie, but the trailer itself doesn't really do anything for me.

by way of comparison, the trailer for Children of Men was HORRIBLE, so much so that it made me not want to go anywhere near the film - and yet when I did eventually see it I thought it was one of the two best sci-fi films of the last 20 years

The other was Species.

close but no Short Circuit

yeah the trailer for this is surprisingly generic, but i'm pretty sure the inglourious basterds trailer (or several of 'em) was nothing special either. in any event, people who write think pieces about movies based around their trailers are just--

isn't that what a trailer is for?

no?

more yes than no. it is meant to elicit a belief that the film is worth paying to see all of it, which is def a preliminary judgment of the film.

It's marketing, and most of the time the director of the film doesn't even have anything to do with it (although i doubt that's true in this case to be fair)

xpost

no it is not. it is a preliminary judgement of WHETHER YOU WANT TO SEE THE FILM. and if you actually know anything more about the film or the people who made it that might actually supersede or at least complement the trailer. jeez, people.

looks cool. IB had crappy trailer too. i feel confident now that will smith would've been horrible in this

nothing like judging a movie by its trailer

― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:40 AM (4 hours ago)

script has been out for a year

People who read QT scripts the moment they leak are the worst savages.

lol I'm not an actor, I don't read scripts

"if it was all in the script, why bother to make the movie?" - nicholas ray

well Ta-Nehisi Coates is an actor and a pretty damn good one xp

Back in college, months before it came out, someone gave me a copy of the "Pulp Fiction" script. I literally opened it up, saw the word "chainsaw," then closed it back up again until I had seen the movie.

apparently robert downey jr does that with the word "warehouse."

"I've been reading a lot of scripts lately. You know, it's a lot cheaper than GOING to the movies." - Troy McClure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH1TSNIYj5E

lots of corbucci-style shock zooms, nice.

he should cut the film like that & keep it under 12 minutes

Sam Jackson looking like I hoped he would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it6rDhrnaVY

god this looks unbelievably stupid

that being said, i will see it and enjoy it

Sam Jackson looking like I hoped he would.

granddad freeman?

I am looking forward to seeing this!

samesies

god this looks unbelievably stupid

Lack of stupidity would have been fatal in Inglourious Basterds imo

yeah but stupid comes in many forms

Quentin says things, etc.:

Django Unchained a Shaft prequel? Really? There’s one more week of shooting on Django, and they just did scenes with Jonah Hill as a member of the Regulators (the pre-Civil War version of the KKK). Quentin Tarantino said it turned into one of the funniest scenes he’s ever done, which he says is up there with the name-colors conversation in Reservoir Dogs. There is one character in the movie that ties into the larger Tarantino-verse which he’s keeping a surprise, but he says Kerry Washington‘s character Brunhilde von Shaft is, in his mind, an ancestor of John Shaft – this prompted QT to start singing the theme song out loud. The panel was moderated by Anthony Breznican from Entertainment Weekly, who said he needed a whole new level of grandiloquent profanity to describe Django, a “twisted, bloody fairy tale,” before introducing Jamie Foxx, Walton Goggins, Don Johnson (with Jeff Bridges-looking facial hair and gray ponytail), Christoph Waltz (long hair and a bushy white beard that almost looks false, like Santa Claus), Washington, and Tarantino (in a leather jacket, dorky felt fedora, and a T-shirt depicting many of his characters as kids playing in a sandbox).

Asked about historical accuracy (i.e. will there be anything like killing Hitler,) Tarantino said there was no need: the pre-Civil War South can’t be depicted as any scarier or more surreal than it was in real life. Django begins the story as an anonymous slave on a chain gang and becomes a cowboy and hero at the end. Foxx drew on experiences growing up in Texas, where he said he had “certain parallel experiences” to Django.

Waltz said he loved that Italians had taken the American genre of the western and made spaghetti westerns, and now American director Tarantino is appropriating their take on that genre. His character, a dentist named Dr. King Schulz, “doesn’t care about other white men.” He doesn’t “rescue” Django, but needs him.

Tarantino said he felt most westerns bend over backwards not to mention slavery, and placing western tropes in the antebellum South with a black character made it fresh for him.

The “sizzle reel” was put together with industry viewers in mind, (featuring only stuff from the first half of the movie, Tarantino noted). “If this is good enough for the industry, it’s good enough for the fans.” The audience predictably loved the exploding gushes of blood, gunshots, Johnny Cash music (possibly temp for the trailer, but let’s hope it’s not), Johnson decked out like Col. Sanders, Foxx shooting Mr. Friendly from Lost (Seriously, he looks exactly the same in this movie as he did on that show) in the chest saying “I like the way you die, boy,” the goofy giant tooth on a spring atop Waltz’ van, the bright blue suit worn by Foxx and mocked by slaves who can’t believe a free man would choose it, Foxx training as a gunslinger against a snowman, and wreaking righteous vengeance with a whip against one of the men who once tortured and branded him. Visually it felt perhaps closest to Kill Bill – which makes sense, since Kill Bill 2 was arguably Tarantino’s first go at incorporating the spaghetti western meme.

Goggins’ character was described as the kind of person Basil Rathbone used to play in swashbucklers, the “schemer who has the king’s ear.” Johnson got a big laugh when he said he worked on his Big Daddy accent by studying Foghorn Leghorn. It turns out Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t in the movie after all, but Quentin still wants to work with him on something. Answering the inevitable fan question, Tarantino said he has no idea what his next movie will be.

Johnson got a big laugh when he said he worked on his Big Daddy accent by studying Foghorn Leghorn.

If he doesn't bust out a 'Boy I say boy' at least once I will feel cheated.

the spaghetti western "meme"?

We live, as you know, in a stupid world.

the italian neorealist meme

im really into silent memes

meme-en-scene

y'all need to watch mandingo in the next few weeks so we can have a thread about mandingo. the richard fleischer movie i mean.

Tarantino's shirt sounds kind of awesome, tbh.

Asked about historical accuracy (i.e. will there be anything like killing Hitler,) Tarantino said there was no need: the pre-Civil War South can’t be depicted as any scarier or more surreal than it was in real life.

So glad he made Nazi Germany so much scarier and more surreal.

haha ya... that was one era that really needed a little help in the scary dept

i think tarantino was just being P.C. in making sure he was not apologizing for slavery. not that he was wrong to do so.

i do question his use of the word "surreal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-xIrJLBBxw

lol Jonah Hill

i laughed at "who knows what could happen"