Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Django Unchainged

Django Unchainged is a film set a few years before the Civil War while slavery is still a means of life and currency.  The main Character, Django, is bought by a bounty hunter who teaches him his art and helps in become a better killer.  After a winter of working together as bounty hunters Django receives help from his teacher Dr Shultz, to free his wife who is captive by one of the largest slave owners in Mississippi.  After trying to trick the slave owner into selling him his wife, they are found out and forced to pay highly to obtain her freedom.  Just before leaving, however, Dr. Shultz starts a shoot out with the members of the household in which the head of the house dies and Django is captured.  After escaping his captures he returns to the house where he kills the few remaining workers on the farm and rescues his wife.
This film is filled with incredible shots, lighting, music, and special effects that make it an outstanding film.  Even the way that the director uses text to explain where and when the plot is currently taking place is extraordinary   Mainly when the main characters go to Mississippi and the entire screen is taken up by the word as it slowly moves across the screen.  This was an interesting decision because it made it look like going to Mississippi was going to be a dramatic, action filled events.  The music was also interesting.  It would go from normal music expected from that time to actual gangster rap during massive shooting scenes.
This film is unbelievably obvious to be a Quentin Tarantino film.  Nearly every aspect of the film screams Tarantino.  He does an incredible job bringing the movie to life and was very deserving of the oscars that they won.  This movie shows an interesting take on the slave trade and the way people used to live during those times.  Tarantino's  use of visuals, both camera and costume/scenery, brings the entire movie to life and makes the viewer believe that they are in the slave trade themselves.

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