Much of this is a complaint that Django was not some other movie, but the language point is interesting. We expect people in that era to use the n-word, but did they use the word motherfucker? I kind of doubt it. The same for Fox's homophobic insult of one of the white gunmen. Fox talks like a modern ghetto stereotype, another indicator of the film's shallowness. Contrast the language in Huckleberry Finn, or the baroque dialog in the remake of True Grit.
I would love to see a movie about Nat Turner or Toussaint L'Ouverture, but I wouldn't expect it from Tarentino. As a commenter on Facebook said, he lives in "Movieland." On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > http://jacobinmag.com/2013/01/why-django-cant-revolt/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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