On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote:
> Historically, Django stresses the indomitable, relentless resistance > to slavery by relatively isolated individual blacks, the pernicious > effects of the hierarchical division of the slaves, the touchiness and > understandable paranoia of the slaveowners against anything other than > full submission, etc. First I should confess that I am a huge fan of Tarantino, but I don't like Spielberg much at all (can't stand the sentimentality of his movies). It is true that Tarantino has a fetish for the n-word which he does use excessively and gratuitously, but that to me is a minor flaw. I agree with the second part of your comment above (the touchiness and paranoia of the whites is very much emphasized in Django), but I must disagree very strongly with the first part. Django absolutely does NOT stress the slaves' resistance to their oppression, quite the opposite; it showed just how difficult it was to even conceive of violent rebellion. The movie has been much criticized on these grounds - how most of the slaves portrayed in the movie were passive, but given the oppressive reality of the slavery regime, how could it be otherwise? Django is a revenge *fantasy*. This is very much along the same lines as "Inglourious Basterds". The Jews did not submit to the Nazis like sheep to the slaughter, but at the same time, the Nazis were too brutally effective for the kind of resistance shown in "Inglourious Basterds" to be anything more than a fantasy. That's the whole point. -raghu.
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