Re: politics, QT in an interview sees his film as the anti-Birth of a Nation.
It's also full of inside references to specific spaghetti western films, including superannuated actors who were in those films: http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/a-guide-to-all-the-movie-and-tv-references-in-django-unchained.html On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:31 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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