Many of us have dreamed of a western with the signature of Quentin Tarantino. After all, almost all of his films, though a jumble of influences, had the spirit and form of old-fashioned westerns, especially on the side of Leone. So when ‘Django Unchained’ hit the billboards in 2012, the expectation was high. And the result justified the wait.
Summarizing, we find a film that is, in its 90% of shots, a masterpiece, but in the remaining 10%, perhaps due to excessive hopes of finding perfection, it doesn’t quite work. But let’s stay with the good. Brutal violence, hilarious humor, impeccable technical billing, rousing soundtrack and dialogue to be raised and clapped.
10 curiosities about ‘Django Unchained’
one Foxx’s horse
For the filming of ‘Django Unchained’, Jamie Foxx He used, mind you, his own horse. Called the Cheetah, the pet had been a gift to the actor four years earlier for his birthday.
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2 DiCaprio’s Impetus
When Leonardo Dicaprio’s character, the unforgettable Calvin Candie, claps his hand on the dining room table in one of the best scenes of ‘Django Unchained’, the film reaches unprecedented levels of realism. And it is that, while filming this moment, the actor accidentally broke one of the glasses that were on the set and started bleeding for real, which did not stop him from continuing to act. A professional commitment so wild that it got a standing ovation from the whole team and dazzled Quentin Tarantino himself, who decided to use this scene in the final cut.
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3 Waltz accident
During one of the ‘Django Unchained’ workouts, Christoph Waltz was thrown from his horse and hit himself so hard that he broke his pelvis. A situation that led Jamie Foxx to give him a seatbelt saddle a few days later. It worked.
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4 With Will Smith in the lead
Before Jamie Foxx ended up starring in ‘Django Unchained’, in a decision that ended up being clearly the right one, other names such as Idris Elbra, Chris Tucker or, above all, Will Smith were considered. actor for whom Tarantino had written the role. However, despite the insistence and advice of his representatives, Smith ended up rejecting the proposal in another of those horrible decisions that characterized his last years of career.
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5 China delay
Although the film was a huge box office success almost everywhere in the world, in China they had to wait until April 2013 to see it. The main reason? They wanted less blood and for it to be darker. We can imagine Quentin’s face when these requests were made to him.
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6 Quentin’s cinema
During the filming of ‘Django Unchained’, the crew that worked on the film had the opportunity to enjoy a real treat: a movie theater rented by Quentin Tarantino himself in the area where some of his favorite films were shown every day, most of them from his private collection of westerns and samurai films.
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7 the sixth Samuel
“Django Unchained” marked the sixth collaboration between Samuel L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino. And it wouldn’t be the last. Previously, this amazing duo worked on “Point Blank Love” and four masterpieces as four solos: “Pulp Fiction”, “Jackie Brown”, “Kill Bill: Vol. 2” and “Inglourious Basterds”.
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8 different assembly
“Django Unchained” was the first film of Quentin Tarantino’s career not to have Sally Menke edit, since he died two years earlier. A loss that the director made up for with Fred Raskin, assistant to the aforementioned Menke in the two episodes of ‘Kill Bill’.
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9 the blue dress
The iconic blue suit that Django’s character wears in some moments of the film is inspired by the painting ‘The Blue Boy’. A Created by Thomas Gainsborough which, moreover, also directly influenced the first German film in history: ‘The boy in blue’, directed in 1919 by the master FW Murnau.
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10 Racism
In the middle of filming his famous scene, Leonardo DiCaprio had to stop because he was finding it particularly difficult to concentrate due to the very high amount of racial slurs appearing at this point in “Django Unchained”. At that moment, Samuel L. Jackson pulled him aside, separating him from the rest of the team, and told him: “Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us.” Genius and figure.
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Everything is in ‘Django Unchained’, especially in its first hour and a half, where one has the sensation of witnessing a timeless lyrical classic, discovering an unknown Tarantinian poetic to be controlled and dosed to excellence. A festival of fun, tension, action and romance, towards cinema and its characters, which once again reconciles the public with the genre.
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