On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote:
> There was an interesting piece in Slate contrasting the Tarentino film > with the original Django and some blaxploitation films of the 70s. > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/12/django_unchained_tarantino_s_movie_seems_tame_compared_with_the_blaxploitation.html > > Tarantino has been very upfront about the influence of 70s blaxploitation films and Hong Kong martial arts movies on his own work. Indeed this is where he says his obsession with the n-word comes from. He is very self-conscious and unapologetic about it: http://belatedbaby.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/sampling-blaxploitation-hip-hop-the-browns-and-tarantino/ Maybe I was imagining it, but the Samuel L. Jackson performance was > striking. His obsequiousness was so over the top that you could see his > character (I could, at any rate) using it but not being defined by it. It > was Samuel L. Jackson, after all. I half-expected him to wash his hands of > his master at the end, but instead his hatred for Django remains dominant, > and more consistent with the character. > Yes, I too thought the Samuel Jackson character was very striking and that Jackson's performance was a bit over-the-top. -raghu.
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