'Django Unchained' a film by Quentin Tarantino

[BurnetRhoades]

There's a lot more Ennio Morricone than rap music on the soundtrack, if that's really putting you off.

He used Spaghetti Western music in a WWII movie, as well as all sorts of other anachronistic music. He always uses anachronistic music, in every movie.

People will enjoy a lot of films more, whether they're his or not, if they get over this idea that what they're seeing and hearing is supposed to always be taken literally. Sometimes it's appropriate to go into a movie expecting literalism. His entire filmography up to this point makes that expectation completely foolish anymore where he's concerned.

This was the first of his films that features any music created specifically for one of his films, a few tracks. He selects music usually from his own record collection. You can think of his films almost as visuals to accompany a mix tape. The music is used for its emotional and tonal qualities and not (necessarily) its literal connection to the film, setting or images taking place.

Tarantino is a collage artist, arranging found objects in an interesting way, generally speaking, and his true talent is writing the glue that connects them all. The rap track bothered my brother but I explained to him, when he thought maybe it would be better to use a Blues piece instead, THAT would actually be more of a mistake. The Blues is closer to the source material but still anachronistic. Its closer proximity to the subject matter while still being incorrect means it's actually more like an error (the line he treads with his use of dynamite and shell casings for cap-n-ball guns).

The contrast created is so great yet it's still so fitting when viewed as a whole. That contradiction...hell, contradiction at so many levels... is one of this film and all of Tarantino's films most interesting qualities. The elements themselves, what they say or mean at face value, none of that is exceptional. It's only when you look at the whole and what all these seemingly contradictory parts mean, or might mean, or might mean to you, or might mean to him, that's what makes his movies worth talking about and viewing repeatedly.

[Zombie Yojimbo]

"The Blues is closer to the source material but still anachronistic."

Blues was created by slaves.......pretty sure.

[BurnetRhoades]

"The Blues is closer to the source material but still anachronistic."

Blues was created by slaves.......pretty sure.

And rap music was created by black folk who were, most likely, the great-great-grandchild of a slave. Anachronistic means not of that time. The Blues that people know, songs they would recognize, artists they would know and therefore recordings used would have been from the early 1900s at the earliest. Fitting for something like Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? but not here.

The proliferation of the Blues and its transcendence from its origins in plantation folk music occurred post-Civil War and post slavery.

[Darkgod]

He used surf music for pulp fiction... Who cares if he used rap for this... And people calling this a spaghetti western are off... I see a basis, but besides Nero there really isn't any other connection ... Excellent movie none the less, 9/10 but won't win best picture... Only two movies have won Bp without a best director nom.

[BurnetRhoades]

Pick up the latest issue of Fangoria for in-depth clarity on its Spaghetti Western roots (even though it pains me that one of the articles was written by Lian). It's a lot more than a glorified cameo.

[Dr. Dakota Block]

Was really surprised at how great this movie was. It was hilarious, interesting and perfect amount of violence. 9/10 for me.

[BurnetRhoades]

...really interesting if you're at all into the audio of movies.

[Zombie Yojimbo]

Bravo, Dick Gregory!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2481918.html

[BurnetRhoades]

Wow, that was interesting.

I actually like Spike Lee's movies, the ones I've seen. He just always comes across as a douche in interviews. My favorite of his is He Got Game...and I don't like basketball. Don't like watching it (outside the Harlem Globetrotters in the '70s). Don't like playing it. But I forgot all about that for those two hours or so. I just don't understand how a filmmaker smart and talented enough to make a film that makes me forget how much I dislike basketball could be so closed-minded and aggressively ignorant.

[Zombie Yojimbo]

Jamie Foxx weighs in on Spike Lee comments :

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/jamie-foxx-...201300893.html

I'm happy to hear more African Americans speaking out against Spike Lee's crap!

[Macready]

Jamie Foxx weighs in on Spike Lee comments :

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/jamie-foxx-...201300893.html

I'm happy to hear more African Americans speaking out against Spike Lee's crap!

Hey, when your'e a douche your'e a douche. Doesn't matter what color your skin is, the douchebag gene isn't racist and runs in all humans no mater what race. Jamie Foxx isn't a douche so he is speaking out. Good for him!

[Mogwai]

Er, he's "speaking out" to defend a hack who thinks that ultra slo-mo coupled with ketchup splashes over a cliched cowboy jangle does a thoughtful film make. It's crude, adolescent guff from beginning to end and no amount of Jamie Foxx bareback galloping his steed to vengeance over a played out and plagiaristic note will convince me otherwise. The very fact that this turgid wank is even up for awards shows that the mouth-breathing proletariate are easily entertained by juvenile revenge fantasies.

That being said, it is a Tarantino film though so perhaps it's just fucking great and I'm just not as kewl as him? Come to think of it... even his name is just the bestest thing eva - Quentin (makes me go all gooey and brings to mind geek chic public schoolboys) and 'Tarantino'? Well, that just makes me think of big scary spiders. He's clearly tapped into all you tapheads so I've changed my mind.

Best moovie evar.

[Zombie Yojimbo]

Er, he's "speaking out" to defend a hack who thinks that ultra slo-mo coupled with ketchup splashes over a cliched cowboy jangle does a thoughtful film make. It's crude, adolescent guff from beginning to end and no amount of Jamie Foxx bareback galloping his steed to vengeance over a played out and plagiaristic note will convince me otherwise. The very fact that this turgid wank is even up for awards shows that the mouth-breathing proletariate are easily entertained by juvenile revenge fantasies.

That being said, it is a Tarantino film though so perhaps it's just fucking great and I'm just not as kewl as him? Come to think of it... even his name is just the bestest thing eva - Quentin (makes me go all gooey and brings to mind geek chic public schoolboys) and 'Tarantino'? Well, that just makes me think of big scary spiders. He's clearly tapped into all you tapheads so I've changed my mind.

Best moovie evar.

Believe it or not, Mog, Zero Dark Thirty is also up for an award......Strange things are afoot at the circle K.

[Mogwai]

^
Mmm, I believe Silver Linings Cashback is also nominated?

[Zombie Yojimbo]

^
Mmm, I believe Silver Linings Cashback is also nominated?

It's almost as though the quality of the movie doesn't even matter anymore......I'm pretty sure Avatar won a few awards, too.
He he he........

I do like Django Unchained, though.

[Mogwai]

Get the fuck out of Dodge - you'll be telling me that Titanic won awards next. I wasn't born yesterday.

[Zombie Yojimbo]

Get the fuck out of Dodge - you'll be telling me that Titanic won awards next. I wasn't born yesterday.

Titanic? That piece of shit? Liar. Not in this world, my friend.

[Mogwai]

Nah, seriously pal, cross my heart and hope to die, stick an Oscar in my eye.

[The Bear Jew]

Jamie Foxx weighs in on Spike Lee comments :

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/jamie-foxx-...201300893.html

I'm happy to hear more African Americans speaking out against Spike Lee's crap!

Good for Foxx, Spike Lee is just a piece of shit in my eyes. He's just pissed that he's pretty much irrelevant and that Tarantino does way more in terms of films that empower African Americans...

[Scorpion_#701]

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