Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

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"

That looks awesome. I hope the lighter tone is honed to throughout.

"honed to"?

Not too sure how light a tone can be taken wrt buying and raping a slave.

think he means "hewed to" xp

It'll most likely be a seriocomedy, like every other film Tarantino has made.

it's funny how the trailer's cut really fast like any other trailer, but tarantino's movies tend to be the opposite of that. so no trailer could really convey anything like the flavor of his pacing, which is one of the things that makes his films enjoyable.

^^^my thoughts exactly

This looks like such an unbelievable piece of shit. Watching critics fall all over themselves to take it seriously is gonna end the year on an awesomely tragicomic note.

yeah, you know that di caprio scene is at least 25 min long

xp

Yeah, sorry, I meant hewed.

Not too sure how light a tone can be taken wrt buying and raping a slave.

Dunno, that trailer is pretty much non-stop LOL fodder, so we've got at least some idea. We all know the trailer is to some degree misdirection - scenes will be longer, less flashy - but I hope the tone stays ironically light. I consider "Pulp Fiction" pretty much a straight-up comedy, so I guess I hope this hews closer to that than the more serio-comedic "Kill Bill" or "Inglorious Basterds."

This looks like such an unbelievable piece of shit.

I can imagine not liking the final product, but I don't see how you could say this based on the trailer alone. What is it that bugs you about it?

they tend to release different trailers with different tones. a "dark" trailer, a "funny" trailer, etc. so i wouldn't read too much into that trailer. honestly aside from some glimpses of nice visual moments the trailers don't really have me worried or excited. it's the guy's track record that has me excited.

What is it that bugs you about it?

Every line of dialogue. Every performance. Every scene. The whole thing repulses me on an almost physical level. I feel like if someone praised this movie in my presence, I might smash out all their teeth with my shoe.

I feel like if someone praised this movie in my presence, I might smash out all their teeth with my shoe.

Sounds like a scene from...a Tarantino film.

lol

haha

:D <- toothless grin

:H

one left

What is it that bugs you about it?

Every line of dialogue. Every performance. Every scene. The whole thing repulses me on an almost physical level. I feel like if someone praised this movie in my presence, I might smash out all their teeth with my shoe.

― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:28 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A+. when you troll, at least keep it frisky.

Trailer's modeled on Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Xmas-counterproframming style.

As long as they use the original Django theme I will probably enjoy this movie no matter how dumb or ultra-violent it is. I <3 Luis Bacalov.

the color looks really good. i dunno if it's been timed/processed yet, but it's super sharp and snazzy looking.

DiCaprio's bad teeth are mesmerizing

http://mindweaponsinragnarok.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/django-unchained-incitement-to-racially-motivated-murder-adn-the-silence-of-the-splc-adl-mass-media-and-professoriat/

This is a ridiculous complaint on so many levels - firstly Django's a fictional character, secondly it's rhetorical hyperbole, & thirdly it's applicable only to a specific historical context (i.e. isn't that the same kind of thing the religious right claims makes pro-genocide statements in old testament acceptable or at least irrelevant today); also, there's nothing even remotely immoral about a freed slave wanting to kill key players in the white slave-supporting power structure at the time.

The link came from this tweet in my twitter feed
heartiste ‏@heartiste
Any white person who sees the movie Django is committing the equivalent of bending over and asking for an ass-ramming. http://tinyurl.com/bzl6yv5
Retweeted by Black Conservative

say whatnow

Lol this reminds me of the conversation I overheard at lunch the other day, two older white woman just fretting over this movie and the "implications" of advocating the murder of white people. If nothing else, lets give QT credit for outing ignorant people.

Some of them appear onscreen during the film, too.

welp i guess I'm bending over asking for an ass-ramming then because I am SO seeing this

lol

Would Marcellus Wallace bend over for an ass-ramming?

has Spike Lee weighed in on this yet?

No, but the NAACP has...

Outstanding Motion Picture
• “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• “Django Unchained” (The Weinstein Company)
• “Flight” (Paramount Pictures)
• “Red Tails” (Lucasfilm)
• “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds” (Lionsgate)