(This article contains some minor spoilers for Django Unchained and be warned that most of the clips included are Nsfw)
Like many of Tarantino’s previous films Django Unchained is filled to the brim with film references. Below I’ve attempted to guide you through some of these references and links to other films.
I’ve only seen the film once at a screening and am sure that given the opportunity to sit down with the film on Blu-ray I will undoubtedly find even more, so the following is in no way definitive but hopefully provides some answers to for those wondering what Tarantino was referencing in Django Unchained. Also, most importantly, hopefully it will lead you to check out some of the films in question.
The most obvious film reference in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is right there in the title. Django was a 1966 ‘spaghetti western’ directed by...
Like many of Tarantino’s previous films Django Unchained is filled to the brim with film references. Below I’ve attempted to guide you through some of these references and links to other films.
I’ve only seen the film once at a screening and am sure that given the opportunity to sit down with the film on Blu-ray I will undoubtedly find even more, so the following is in no way definitive but hopefully provides some answers to for those wondering what Tarantino was referencing in Django Unchained. Also, most importantly, hopefully it will lead you to check out some of the films in question.
The most obvious film reference in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is right there in the title. Django was a 1966 ‘spaghetti western’ directed by...
- 1/18/2013
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Quentin Tarantino's new movie is a reminder of Hollywood's failure to properly grapple with slavery. In fact, all the intelligent movies come from the exploitation sector, says John Patterson
Can you name a single great mainstream American movie about slavery? I don't mean Birth Of A Nation or Gone With The Wind, both of which more or less endorse the Peculiar Institution; or Amistad or Beloved, which are adequate on the facts but no one's idea of great movies. I mean a great American movie possessed of an understanding of the full extent of slavery, its bottomless obscenity and violence.
No, I didn't think so. I'm not yet sure if Django Unchained, with Jamie Foxx as Nat Turner by way of Black Zorro, is actually a great American movie (though I haven't enjoyed a Tarantino movie this much since Jackie Brown), but it does not stint in its determination...
Can you name a single great mainstream American movie about slavery? I don't mean Birth Of A Nation or Gone With The Wind, both of which more or less endorse the Peculiar Institution; or Amistad or Beloved, which are adequate on the facts but no one's idea of great movies. I mean a great American movie possessed of an understanding of the full extent of slavery, its bottomless obscenity and violence.
No, I didn't think so. I'm not yet sure if Django Unchained, with Jamie Foxx as Nat Turner by way of Black Zorro, is actually a great American movie (though I haven't enjoyed a Tarantino movie this much since Jackie Brown), but it does not stint in its determination...
- 1/14/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Hollywood’s past is littered with dead genres. The road musical. The screwball comedy. The giant insect attack picture. It’s inevitable that certain styles will outlive their usefulness and grow stale; they end up in the scrap yard of ideas, waiting to be salvaged for parts. Even something as hopelessly camp as blaxpoitation, forever associated with funky grooves, Cadillacs and huge lapels, never really gets buried. Instead it ends up absorbed into the collective bloodstream, influencing other genres, sharing its tropes, popping up from time to time as a resurrected spoof.
The lineage of blaxpoitation doesn’t go back far, but it’s strong, fixed to the present by a wave of continued influence, laying the groundwork for films as current as the recent “Cop Out,” which recalls the pioneering mixed-race dynamic while disposing of the racial element. And while the buddy cop movie wasn’t born from the blaxpoitation flick,...
The lineage of blaxpoitation doesn’t go back far, but it’s strong, fixed to the present by a wave of continued influence, laying the groundwork for films as current as the recent “Cop Out,” which recalls the pioneering mixed-race dynamic while disposing of the racial element. And while the buddy cop movie wasn’t born from the blaxpoitation flick,...
- 3/4/2010
- by Jesse Cataldo
- The Moving Arts Journal
We got an E mail today from director Joe Dante and it inspired us to remind our new readers of Joe's fantastic web site, Trailers from Hell. The unique aspect of the site is that Dante and other prominent writers and filmmakers run vintage trailers from classic and cult movies with the commentator giving an overview of the film and interesting background facts. Consider it as a capsule special edition DVD. We should warn you, however, that there is no such thing as a brief visit to Trailers from Hell. You'll almost certainly be tempted to spend quite some time searching through and playing trailers and listening to the amusing and informative commentaries. Like Cinema Retro, the films that are covered are wildly eclectic. If you thought Retro was far out for including tributes to Don Knotts and Sam Peckinpah in the same issue, consider that on Trailers from Hell,...
- 4/9/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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