Django Unchained [MA]

In the South, bound in chains is a black slave named Django. One night he is freed by a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz, who seeks him to help him identify and capture three wanted brothers. After the job is done the two continue as a team through the winter, developing Django’s vital hunting skills and speed with a pistol. Now a free man, Django has one goal: to find and rescue his wife whom he lost in the slave trade years ago. Aided by Schultz the search leads the boys to the plantation of “Candyland” owned by the infamous and brutal Calvin Candie. Upon being granted into Candie’s company and home, they arouse the suspicion of Candie’s faithful house slave and the plan begins to take a bloody and violent downward turn. 

New Tarantino movie: FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC! I freaking worship Quentin Tarantino. He can do no wrong. Django Unchained was bloody, brutal, dramatic, and riddled with bullet holes of red-hot wit! I LOVED THIS MOVIE! 

In the South, bound in chains is a black slave named Django. One night he is freed by a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz, who seeks him to help him identify and capture three wanted brothers. After the job is done the two continue as a team through the winter, developing Django’s vital hunting skills and speed with a pistol. Now a free man, Django has one goal: to find and rescue his wife whom he lost in the slave trade years ago. Aided by Schultz the search leads the boys to the plantation of “Candyland” owned by the infamous and brutal Calvin Candie. Upon being granted into Candie’s company and home, they arouse the suspicion of Candie’s faithful house slave and the plan begins to take a bloody and violent downward turn. 

For all that I love Tarantino, I do have a somewhat negative opinion that I’d like to put on the table at this point. This movies is fucking brilliant, don’t misunderstand me. My only but about it is that it and Inglourious Basterds really are taking on that sleek shine of big budget Hollywood movies, which is unbecoming of Tarantino in some way for me. The genius of Tarantino was established through his ability to make freaking phenomenal movies on a small budget, that were rough and unpolished, and fuelled solely by the fantastic writing and the performances of course. Django Unchained is still a brilliantly written movie; I particularly love Tarantino’s reformation of the Western genre, and there are numerous areas where his irrepressible wit reigns supreme, but I can’t help but think that the Hollywood Blockbuster Polish is having a somewhat tarnishing effect on the roughness and raw genius that is a Tarantino movie. Please don’t take this to mean that I hated the film (fuck I will be adding this to the collection quite literally as soon as I finish this review), but the rougher and more intellectually creative films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction: they’re the reasons why I worship the Man. If this were my first Tarantino movie, I’d love him and think he was killer for it, but I wouldn’t worship him for it. 

Enough of that, let’s now get to the juicy genius of this flick! For a start, Christoph Waltz: fast becoming one of my favourite actors right now! He delivers a significantly memorable performance loaded with cheekiness, compassion, not to mention that he brings all the comedy and best lines to the movie. He’s impossible not to love in this flick, which is a complete bolt away from the delightfully sinister character he played in Inglourious Basterds. I LOVE YOU MAN! 

Jamie Foxx stars as Django and man alive he was brilliant! He never missed a trick or gave anything away and there this irrevocable coolness about him. Tarantino’s screenplay, which bagged him the Academy Award is an absolute winner, loaded with bloodshed and delightful bouts of darker comedy. I’ve always admired Tarantino for his writing. 

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (another brilliant performance), Kerry Washington, Jonah Hill, Walton Goggins, James Remar, David Steen, Dennis Christopher Laura Cayounette, and Samuel L. Jackson (but of course), Django Unchained is another classic in Tarantino’s repertoire packed to bursting with blood, violence, action, drama, and comedy. IT’S FREAKING GENIUS AS USUAL!