Both men are temper-prone Southern "gentlemen" who can be persuaded, for the right price, to offer Schultz a slave girl for his private delectation. (She's cartoonishly disposed of -- gone with the wind, you might say, though the angle of the shot isn't quite right.) But I suspect it's one of those pictures that would seem much shorter and faster-moving if certain missing scenes were restored. (I later learned that, despite eight months of production and 18 weeks of post-production, things came right down to the wire and the first screening at the DGA was delayed two days for last-minute mixing tweaks.). Tarantino, according to Ebert is “a student and champion of exploitation films. The Black, the White and the Angry. "Django Unchained" has one pretty good suspense standoff in a saloon near the beginning and never tops it -- or even comes close to it. Anyway, it's the funniest scene but it's risky because the jarringly different tone can throw the movie out of whack. 'Pulp Fiction' has such an obviously comic spirit, even with all the weird things that are happening. Django Unchained was released in 2012 and has generally received very positive reviews. 45min. Jules Goes to Therapy in Her Own Special Episode of Euphoria, HBO's Painting with John is a Magnetic Celebration of Arts and Artists, The Nostalgia of Epix's Bridge and Tunnel is Filled with Wrong Turns, The Sister Sacrifices Logic, Tension as Its Twists Unravel, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time. Yet to watch Django Unchained. The second swoon was the entire sequence at Big Daddy's plantation, Bennett Manor aka Miscegeny Heaven. It is not necessarily the goal of any movie to be faithful to the script. There were however some dead crickets in my mind during the scene in "Django Unchained" where we visit a Southern Plantation run by a genteel monster named Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who for his after-dinner entertainment is having two slaves fight each other to the death. Set in the Old West and Antebellum … Menu. Tarantino says he hears laughter in his mind. QT says his favorite movie is Sergio Leone's 1966 "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," and "Django Unchained" is commonly described by fans and detractors alike as a "Spaghetti Western about slavery." I had a trepidation about doing the bag scene. His films challenge taboos in our society in the most direct possible way, and at the same time add an element of parody or satire. The climactic suspense piece s a dinner-table scene which consists of conversation about "mandingo fighters," a barbaric fictional bloodsport named after the 1975 exploitation film starring Ken Norton, a favorite of Tarantino's. Looking at his IMDb entry, I find that Tarantino has a film in pre-production that will be some kind of retread of Russ Meyer's "Faster, Pussycat! Django Unchained is an exhilarating rush, outrageously entertaining and, hell, just plain outrageous. However, it is Django’s partner Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) who stands out as the alter ego for the film’s writer and director Quentin Tarantino. And "Django Unchained" isn't so much violent (most of the shooting has little impact; this isn't Sam Peckinpah visceral violence, it's more like a Tom Savini special effects show). Tarantino is a man who tells us his early job was in a video store, where, if this can be believed, he viewed virtually every video. His latest critically acclaimed work is Django Unchained, a throwback to spaghetti westerns set during the height of American slavery in the mid to late 1800s. Django Unchained (2012) Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Only Tarantino could come up with such a wild cross-cultural mash, a smorgasbord of ingredients stemming from spaghetti Westerns, German legend, historical slavery, modern rap music, proto-Ku Klux Klan fashion, an assembly of '60s and '70s character actors and a leading couple meant to be the distant … Roger Ebert (may his intrepid, movie-watching soul rest in peace) called Tarantino the “ultimate filmmaker,” in his review of Django Unchained. The article is clearly well written, with no noticeable issues with grammar and/or spelling. Which is why just about every scene reminds you of some other movie, sometimes with a Tarantinian twist. P.S. Waltz/Schultz is such a splendid storyteller that I wondered how Tarantino had matched the story to the actor/character. He is the classic Uncle Tom, elevated to Granduncle Thomas, Esq. He digests their elements and reforms them at the highest level of their ambitions. The weekend's #1 top-grossing film was a retread, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D," with $23 million. After assisting Schultz he is given his freedom, but Django - having revealed a great talent for bounty-hunting - stays with the good doctor to form a more permanent partnership. So I did that, and they're actually scary, if I show that they're fucking idiots right at the beginning, I'm going to kick the whole sequence in the shins, right now. Stolen From Africa. you may like it. Of course, you can't judge any work by all the options that were considered but ultimately not chosen -- and virtually every screenplay (Tarantino's included) has scenes or sections that don't make it into the final cut, or that aren't even shot. "Django" has been criticized for its overuse of the n-word, a long-standing charge against Tarantino. The humour sprinkled throughout Django is perhaps the most surprising aspect of Tarantino's film. Quentin Tarantino, the writer and director of “Django Unchained,” narrates a scene from his movie. Armond White is its least. How Tarantino deals with the consequences of his betrayal sets the whole ending of the film into motion, with its satisfactory Quentonian celebration of violence, explosions, all that stuff. There's an important dramatic/thematic note to strike here -- about Django learning to master his emotions, to stay "in character" and separate his professional role from his personal reactions -- but the movie doesn't reach it. At some point in the scene, QT's laughter may be because the audience expects to see violence but doesn't expect to get it a such an extreme; he's rubbing it in. The moment feels to me misjudged and unearned. 2/5/13 This is a brilliant entertainment, in which Tarantino takes on the subject of slavery as he did the Holocaust in his previous film, "Inglourious Basterds." There's a brutal and horrific death-match that, preposterously, takes place in front of an upstairs fireplace at Candie's brothel. This included Peter Bradshaw comparing it … Just as more recently in South Africa, a system in which one person rules ten is made possible by the cooperation of some of the ten. I try not to read much of anything -- reviews, publicity features, interviews, certainly not scripts -- before seeing a movie, so that I can experience it fresh, on its own terms. He says he'll throw in a little extra for Candie's slave women Broomhilda, because she speaks German and he yearns to speak his native tongue. And even though we know the bounty hunters have to retrieve the body, we never get close to the dead man or his family so the killing business remains "clean." From the implied, to the bawdy, to the downright Pythoneseque sequence where the vigilantes argue over the effectiveness of their sackcloth disguises, Django uses humour to both ease the tension and reinforce it. The theatrical release of his latest film Django Unchained was greeted, in Metacritic-speak, with universal acclaim. That's Schultz and Django's first stop, and they easily find and take their quarry at the next one -- and re-use basically the same trick to escape from a tight spot that's never that tight to begin with. I wanted to start unambiguously with what I see as the highlights and later segue into discussing the reservations I have about the film in its current form. In fact, their favorite scene together (a charged encounter when Stephen, the House Negro, shows Django, the Freeman, to his room at Candyland) isn't in the movie. That is Samuel L. Jackson's work as Stephen, Calvin Candie's most favored and privileged slave. One thing he didn't learn from those exploitation classics was the art of sparse dialog. Because "Django" is so filled with violence and transgressive behavior, he told me something that day that's worth remembering when discussing "Django:" "When I'm writing a movie, I hear the laughter. Literally. As I was watching the story I'm realizing how similar it was actually, when I was breaking it down to the story told in the movie. He confronts Calvin with the obvious: It is Django who loves Broomhilde and desires her. In context, there was a reason for it. The same could be said for his contemplation on the director’s 2012 western Django Unchained. Bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz rescues Django from slavetraders in the hope he can identify a high-paying target. The same could be said for his contemplation on the director’s 2012 western Django Unchained. See what happens when they hang out every week here at At The Buzzer with Gary Sundt’s new comic-review hybrid, “Ebert & Armond: At The Movies”. But c'mon: We already know this has been presented as a cartoonish, cathartic revenge epic (possibly the second, after "Inglourious Basterds," in a trilogy of historical revenge fantasies -- see some possibilities here). That was something devised out of necessity by the late production designer J. Michael Riva after Waltz had an accident and was unable to ride a horse for a few months. The hammer, (off-screen but barely) is used by the fight's winner to finish off his opponent. Until now. But personally, I think that it's possible to make any kind of movie about anything -- which doesn't mean I'd rush right out to see an action movie about carpeting, but anything's possible. Specialising in lead fillings. Howard Stern praises Django Unchained and calls Quentin Tarantino a genius. No more. At last I've seen "Django Unchained," and here are my thoughts in a new blog entry, just now posted. Jackson and Foxx have said as much in interviews. Django comes to see himself as Siegfried, rescuing his beloved. Jules Goes to Therapy in Her Own Special Episode of Euphoria, HBO's Painting with John is a Magnetic Celebration of Arts and Artists, The Nostalgia of Epix's Bridge and Tunnel is Filled with Wrong Turns, The Sister Sacrifices Logic, Tension as Its Twists Unravel, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time. Though Ebert never wrote an official review due to ill health, he felt the movie warranted an in depth blog post during which he praised it as … Roger Ebert is the world’s most respected film critic. Tag Archives: Roger Ebert Django Unchained – what the experts said. This is an irrefutable fact: On the post-holiday weekend I'm writing, "Django" ended second at the box office with $20 million. I did it, felt ok about it, was scared about editing it. QT is grandiose and pragmatic, he plays freely with implausibility, he gets his customers inside the tent and then gives them a carny show they're hardly prepared for. Croce's lyrics resonate in ways I hadn't given thought to despite my familiarity with the song. What Tarantino has is an appreciation for gut-level exploitation film appeal, combined with an artist's desire to transform that gut… Read Review. Candie stages fights to the death with slaves called Mandingos, and Schultz says he wants to buy one of the fighters. He is a wizard from a fairy tale, a man capable of knowing about people's lives, steering their fates, seducing them into situations in which they receive the destinies they deserve. Here is a plot that requires a lot of information, and doesn't have any time to lose in introducing it or searching for it. The house servant who is a manipulative person, and me, the field servant, who just wants to kick ass and kill everybody.... Also: Walton Goggins' character Billy Crash was folded into Kevin Costner's and then Kurt Russell's Ace Woody after Russell left the movie, and he still doesn't get to become much more than a generic henchman (although he does memorably take a glowing hot knife to Django's nutsack). In everything but subject, that could be from a Looney Tunes movie. You can take this boy out of Blaxploitaion, but you can't take the Blaxploitation out of this boy. Schultz explains himself with the elaborate formality he will use all through the film. No doubt Stephen leads the most comfortable life possible for a slave at that time, but what a price he pays! To me, the most torturous thing in the world, and this counts for 'Reservoir Dogs' just as much as it does to 'Pulp,' is to watch it with an audience who doesn't know they're supposed to laugh. "Django Unchained" has one pretty good suspense standoff in a saloon near the beginning and never tops it -- or even comes close to it. The scene, which QT calls his "fuck you" to the KKK heroics in D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," also recalls the Robert's Rules of Order adopted by the People's Front of Judea in "Monty Python's Life of Brian." What about the comedy? This isn't sounding the way I want it to. I quote Wikipedia: "The Latin phrase deus ex machina comes to English usage from Horace's Ars Poetica, where he instructs poets that they must never resort to a god from the machine to solve their plots. Django Unchained, review There is strange and brilliant magic at work in Quentin Tarantino's new film Django Unchained, writes Robbie Collin. No one has glowering eyes that threaten more than Jackson's, and we can all but read his mind as he regards Django, Broomhilde and Schultz and sees through Schutz's story that he wants to pay a preposterous price just for someone to speak German with. There's another, older movie about slavery in the American South, I think it was from 1939.... What was it called? The fact that Schultz's ruse ultimately serves to turn a slave into an avenging outlaw is fucking thrilling to my black eyes. JE: I thought the build-up was a little clumsy (Bettina's attitude should have been more naive, unassuming), but the "Like Jerry" punchline was one of my favorite moments, too. Courtesy of Rottentomatoes.com . He digests their elements and reforms them at the highest level of their ambitions. My first impression was that "Django Unchained" was uncharacteristically sloppy -- not at all what I'd expect from a Tarantino movie. Later, I read QT's explanation -- which acknowledges the challenge, although I don't think the movie adequately tackles it: In the script they had the whole bag scene before the charge. Reply. of showing a persecuted black action-hero taking revenge on Whitey: Anybody ever seen "Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song"? Tarantino's predecessor, Russ Meyer, also loved to saddle his characters with unexpected names; in "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens," we find Eufaula Roop, Mr. Peterbilt, Dr. Asa Lavender, Semper Fidelis, Norse Flovilla Thatch and Beau Badger. He confirms that in some putrid sinkhole of his soul, he regards himself as white. Nobody really watches Michael Bay films expecting critically acclaimed works of art, but Ebert’s review of the 2009 blockbuster is just as fun, if not more: “ … This is the slave named Django (Jamie Foxx). Why does he do this? You asked for my falling-in-love moment, and I've many to choose from, but I'll go with QT's placement of Jim Croce's I Got A Name. Because he likes Django and hates slavery. Take Dr. Schultz's dental wagon with the big wobbling tooth on top, for instance. Schulz not only knows who and where Django is, but he knows where certain wanted men can be found, living under aliases. You may recall that "Inglourious Basterds," a movie I thoroughly enjoy and admire, retains a few residual scraps of discarded material (like Samuel L. Jackson's narration), but it's structured around four lengthy, impeccably constructed suspense set-pieces, each of which has ample time to intensify until the suspense is almost unbearable: the opening interrogation of LaPadite by Col. Landa, culminating in the slaughter of Shosana's family; Shosana's coffee and strudel with Frederick, Goebbels and Landa; the basement tavern scene with Bridget von Hammersmark and Lt. Hickox; and the apocalyptic revenge climax at the cinema. asks the slave girl giving Django the tour of Big Daddy's Bennett Manor estate), and put him atop a horse of his own. The losing slave screams without stopping, and I reflected that throughout the film there is much more screaming in a violent scene than you usually hear. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Tarantino loves dialogue and lets it run at unusual length for the quasi-exploitation genre. But "Death Proof," simple as it was, was lean and tautly constructed, with momentum, suspense, thrills, energy to burn. Ebert & Armond review Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained”! After assisting Schultz he is given his freedom, but Django - having revealed a great talent for bounty-hunting - stays with the good doctor to form a more permanent partnership. How odd that the path of the wagon and the slaves, which should have sailed past one another like two ships in the night, should meet head to head? Tarantino describes it in the script as appearing across the screen one letter at a time "(ala 'Rocky' and 'Flashdance')" -- which made me chuckle because it speaks to QT's obsessive affection for 1970s and 1980s pop culture. ‘Django Unchained’ Similar to Kill Bill in its themes of revenge fantasy, this aggressive piece of work makes a caricature of the deep South while also damning its people and practices. We never look back. Django Unchained is bold, hysterical, entertaining, brutal and daring, it is another masterpiece from the present-master of the western, Quentin Tarantino. If I had to do this whole thing over again I would have published this as a novel and done this after the fact.". If we think “Argo” is a tough call due to the lack of a Best Directing nomination, “Django” must be placed below that. Thrill! As a picture ostensibly about love, revenge and the ugliness of slavery, Django Unchained has almost zero subtext and is a largely soulless bloodbath, in which the history of pain and retribution is coupled carelessly with a cool soundtrack and some verbose dialogue. Roger Ebert called the film a “vomit-bag of racism and perversion-mongering.” ... Corliss’s review of Inglourious Basterds) As in so many Tarantino films, the featured players, especially the villains, get the juiciest roles. And while I reckon that more or less reflects my feelings about this movie, a mixture of appreciation and dissatisfaction (and my favorite critical sentence formation is always: "On the one hand this, but on the other that"), I didn't want to approach "Django Unchained" that way. A bigger problem is that the climax has been chopped into two anti-climaxes -- the first a giant-sized bloody blow-out and the second a half-hearted, by-the-numbers "showdown." I was reminded of "Downton Abbey" and the privileged conversations between the Earl of Grantham and the butler Carson. contribs) 13:58, 26 January 2015 (UTC) 'Django Unchained' is broad in it's coverage. It seemed to me that there were two big scenes that really didn't work, tonally and structurally -- and it turns out that both were huge chunks that had been moved from one place to another in the film. This movie won't leave me alone because I, too, fell in love with it. End of scene. The dramatic point might have been that Schultz shoots the first one and Django takes over sniper duties for the second one -- except Schultz doesn't give Django shootin' lessons until the obligatory montage sequence that comes later, followed by another scope-sight assassination scene. Ebert & Armond review Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained”! A "deus," for those few who may not, is a person or device in a story that appears from out of the blue and has a solution to offer. We know that he is a student and champion of exploitation films. In the film we'll find that Dr. Schultz, who we never see pulling any teeth, is a bounty hunter, searching for men who are wanted--"dead or alive." When I came home after seeing it I immediately looked up the screenplay (.pdf here), which I was sure would be available online "For Your Consideration" at The Weinstein Company web site. The following is a Rhetorical Analysis of a film review of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, written by Pulitzer winning, acclaimed and recently deceased film critic, Roger Ebert. Like other Tarantino films, there was great acting and film styles. Roger Ebert is the world’s most respected film critic. And how are they going to get along? That one, too, employed Christoph Waltz in a leading role, using his German-accented formalities to talk his way through situations. For this review, we're looking at the Wal-Mart exclusive with the standard Blu-ray packaging and an attractive cardboard slipcover. Just like on Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino will be casting top-shelf on his spaghetti Western. He digests their elements and reforms them at the highest level of their ambitions. Did I miss something?]. But it's not what a film does but how it does it, and in one sense the violence here reflects Tarantino's desire to break through audience's comfort level for exploitation films and insist, yes, this was a society and culture that was inhuman. 1.6k votes, 637 comments. Because me and Sam have this moment of black men -- the house servant, the field servant. But if, while watching the picture itself, you feel that, say, a scene or a character feels underdeveloped, or that something feels odd or out of place, you can sometimes dig up some interesting clues about how a movie came to be the way it is. Posted on July 21, 2013 by bestflix. After assisting Schultz he is given his freedom, but Django - having revealed a great talent for bounty-hunting - stays with the good doctor to form a more permanent partnership. This is a convenience making QT's story telling much easier. Because that's a death. Just when you think we might finally see some interaction between her and Django, she drops in a dead faint. He is a consummate filmmaker. It came out in 1971. Candie appears to have some kind of weird relationship with his Looney Tunes sister, a seemingly brain-damaged Southern Belle named Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly (Laura Cayouette), but it isn't developed into anything. The throwbacks to the spaghetti western classics that served as the film’s inspiration help to put it over the top. At this point in the film I found myself mentally composing a letter to Quentin, explaining why I stopped watching his film. Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him … Review of Django Unchained (2012) By Mick Lasalle (18,217) for San Francisco Chronicle (37,053) on 26 Dec 2012. Sadly, Boomhilda's own story has been all but eliminated from the theatrical release, so she isn't much of a character. While I was watching the second opera, I realized the stories were parallel. But when everything erupts into protracted chaos, the movie just bleeds out. So we did the charge, so fun to shoot, it was my "fuck you" to D.W. Griifith. And he's Walton Goggins, one of my favorite character actors from "Justified" and a spectacular guest appearance in "Sons of Anarchy" (and, I'm told, "The Shield," which I haven't seen). Though it might just entertain the sh.t out of the less discerning. This is just one of the funniest, most exciting pieces of film I have ever seen. All the material that didn't make it into the movie will be part of the finished comic book story. And then I'm going to make a decision. I make these scripts that are almost novels. His film leads us all the way to Candyland, where the odious Calvin Candie owns Django's wife Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington). Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 It's a brutal fight, covered with the blood that flows unusually copiously in the film. It's also the first scene to establish Schultz's M.O. Django Unchain my heart (and set me free). Armond White is its least. Kill!" Consider QT's audacity in allowing "Basterds" to open with so much verbiage. In the forward, he writes: So even though things might have changed from the script to the finished movie -- I might have dropped chapters or big set pieces -- it will all be in the comic. The article is clearly well written, with no noticeable issues with grammar and/or spelling. So, before I delve further into this, let me, as a former president used to say, make one thing perfectly clear: A movie is not a script and a script is not a movie. Rating: Four stars Consider now the curious character of Dr. King Schultz. [NOTE: See comments below. As for the "daring" idea ("Could a black director have made 'Django'?") ), At two hours and 45 minutes, "Django Unchained" is a long movie, and feels even longer. When it comes up that Django's wife (Kerry Washington) is named Brünnhilde (only she's not, because she's "Broomhilda" -- apparently, for reasons unknown, after a newspaper comic strip that started in the 1970s), Schultz tells Django the Norse legend of Brünnhilde und Siegfried. of exploiting his own whiteness to the fullest. I thought it was one of the funniest scenes in the script, but it played so funny on the page that I was positive I'd fuck it up, it was too funny. This comic is literally the very first draft of the script. In the New York Times, Tarantino said: "I still love "Death Proof." Why? How much you enjoy a Tarantino movie, then, may have something to do with how much you like the kinds of movies that he likes. This is how film critic, Roger Ebert titles his review of Quentin Tarantino’s newest film, Django Unchained. Why did I need to see him dying on the bed? That is, he makes movies that are mostly about other movies he's seen combined with things that have made him go, "I'd like to see that in a movie!" Django Unchained is a 2012 American epic black comedy western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.It is a highly stylized variation of the spaghetti Western, which takes place in the Old West and Antebellum South.The film stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, and was released December 25, 2012 in North America. "Django Unchained" isn't my dream scenario's epic statement, but it is the loud noise atop the snow-covered mountain, the sound that will hopefully cause the avalanche. This time, there are plenty of characters, but few with much character. It is a hard, unavoidable fact. The blood of the first one splatters the plantation cotton bushes; the blood from the second one splashes across the neck of his white horse. The tongue-in-cheek tagline is: "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Vengeance." Nobody will make you more aware of your own pulse than Quentin Tarantino. I heard my inner voice yell. For Tarantino, the lure of the title alone must have been irresistible, a tug in the back of his mind from those long-ago video store days. I Will Honor Them." As Tarantino told Taylor Hackford: Before we went to the second opera, he took me out to dinner and told me the story of the first opera. Consider the fight scene I described. That's the film John Waters has described as "not only the greatest film ever made, but the greatest film that ever will be made." "The Hobbit" was third with $17.5 million, and "Les Miserables" fourth with $16 million. Django Unchained je američki epski vestern iz 2012. godine kojeg je napisao i režirao Quentin Tarantino.U filmu su glavne uloge ostvarili Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington i Samuel L. Jackson, a u kinima u Sjevernoj Americi film se započeo prikazivati 25. prosinca 2012. godine.. Radnjom smješten u vrijeme nedugo prije početka Američkog … Not everybody at Candyland does. There are such scenes in most Tarantino films. You’ll laugh like hell at a KKK scene in which the Klansmen, wearing bags on … It features some of the things I love about Tarantino movies (off-the-wall-crazy choices, like a horseback montage set to Jim Croce's 1973 "I Got a Name" that's so anachronistically unexpected -- unlike the obligatory James-Brown-"Payback"-sample rap track -- that it made me laugh), and some of the things I don't (the over-reliance on cutesy, cliched and possibly anachronistic figures of speech: "Yes siree bob," "no muss, no fuss," "your goose was cooked," "the price of tea in China," "I like," "tasty refreshment" [see Jules' awkward "tasty beverage" Letterman line from "Pulp Fiction"], "right as rain" [intentionally misused? He called the film “beautiful” and concluded that it was “brilliant entertainment.” You can’t give a film a much higher rating than that. By Roger Ebert (24,704) for Chicago Sun-Times (34,120) on 08 Jan 2013. That's clever misdirection with the mandingo as a cover story. 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