Anyone Seen Django?

[Maliciouslarynx]

I seen this movie tonight and I enjoyed it. This movie isn't classified under comedy, however had a good few moments where the scene contained pure comedy. The action scenes were satisfying, I loved the effects they used in the action scenes such as when someone was shot the blood was emphasized and it certain scenes were unpredictable. I'd recommend this movie.

 

[Calmye]

Basically. The scene with the pre-kkk crackers was like a Seinfeld sketch. It was put in the movie to make white people comfortable. It was comic relief to let whites know that the movie wasn't really serious. It humanized the white racist slavers.

How did u Come to that cinclusion? it was basically saying how stupid the whole concept of the hooded sheets is /was anf out right making fun of southern whites stupidity..

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[Hiphoplives4eva]

Movie was OK but highly overrated. Yes Sam Jackson out acted everyone. Leo, Kerry, and Jamie were extremely average. The idea of Jamie Foxx as the main protagonist was an extremely poor choice. The nikka is way too fruity to be taken seriously.

Overall I give it a B-

 

[bangbreh]

sammy l is one mean, ugly lookin

in this flick.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Kerry with those fro puffs

 

[Nigerianwonder]

How did u Come to that cinclusion? it was basically saying how stupid the whole concept of the hooded sheets is /was anf out right making fun of southern whites stupidity..

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And thats the whole point. They were not just a bunch of stupid inbred cacs. They kkk were politicians, doctors, lawyers as well who hid behind those masks. Aint nothin funny about the kkk. Portraying them as a bunch of hapless baffoons only serves to make light of who they were and allow whites to feel comfortable.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

And thats the whole point. They were not just a bunch of stupid inbred cacs. They kkk were politicians, doctors, lawyers as well who hid behind those masks. Aint nothin funny about the kkk. Portraying them as a bunch of hapless baffoons only serves to make light of who they were and allow whites to feel comfortable.

Sounds like you would like the movie Birth of a Nation better

 

[MostReal]

And thats the whole point. They were not just a bunch of stupid inbred cacs. They kkk were politicians, doctors, lawyers as well who hid behind those masks. Aint nothin funny about the kkk. Portraying them as a bunch of hapless baffoons only serves to make light of who they were and allow whites to feel comfortable.

yea, I did not laugh at that scene. I've seen crosses burned in peoples yards before...it wasn't amusing at all. What I took from it was these people were just doing their 'everyday type of thing' is was no big deal to them.

 

[MouseTeeth]

yea, I did not laugh at that scene. I've seen crosses burned in peoples yards before...it wasn't amusing at all. What I took from it was these people were just doing there 'everyday type of thing' is was no big deal to them.

Which is exactly how open racism was in those times. They didn't think twice about it, rallying to kill a black person was just another regular weekday.

 

[Gravity]

How did u Come to that cinclusion? it was basically saying how stupid the whole concept of the hooded sheets is /was anf out right making fun of southern whites stupidity..
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Nigerianwonder pretty much nailed it but I'll respond anyway. Yes, that scene made fun of those white boys but it did it in a way that humanized them. That scene was like a Seinfeld sketch. The comic relief in that scene made whites laugh and it put them at ease. It depicted those men as blundering buffoons and made them almost seem harmless to an extent. That's far from reality.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Basically. The scene with the pre-kkk crackers was like a Seinfeld sketch. It was put in the movie to make white people comfortable. It was comic relief to let whites know that the movie wasn't really serious. It humanized the white racist slavers.

No it didn't, it lampooned them. In the very next scene as they get blown up, Django happily declares they are running away, and Shultz says "cowards tend to do that." You tell me how that humanizes racists. It was a brilliant turning of the tables: there are similar scenes in Birth Of A Nation and other racist flicks in terms of how blacks are portrayed as objects of humor/absurdity, and here QT flipped it on the white racists. Brilliant.

I really liked the movie brehs. Kinda feel that it climaxed with that first house shootout, thus making the second shootout seem small. I heard the original script was that Candie gets killed by Shultz, Django is arrested immediately, THEN he escapes the mining stuff and goes back and kills everyone similar to the way he did in the final cut's climax. I would have preferred that...

 

[Gravity]

No it didn't, it lampooned them. In the very next scene as they get blown up, Django happily declares they are running away, and Shultz says "cowards tend to do that." You tell me how that humanizes racists. It was a brilliant turning of the tables: there are similar scenes in Birth Of A Nation and other racist flicks in terms of how blacks are portrayed as objects of humor/absurdity, and here QT flipped it on the white racists. Brilliant.

When I say "humanize" I mean it in the sense that the scene pretty much made people forget just how evil those men actually were. Obviously QT used them as objects of humor and portrayed them as complete buffoons. My point is that in doing that he made light of how evil/despicable/dangerous those men actually were. That scene almost made them seem harmless, that's why it's so funny. That scene was so over the top and cartoonish that you couldn't even take it or the kkk like characters seriously, and that was the point.

 

[Calmye]

No it didn't, it lampooned them. In the very next scene as they get blown up, Django happily declares they are running away, and Shultz says "cowards tend to do that." You tell me how that humanizes racists. It was a brilliant turning of the tables: there are similar scenes in Birth Of A Nation and other racist flicks in terms of how blacks are portrayed as objects of humor/absurdity, and here QT flipped it on the white racists. Brilliant.

I really liked the movie brehs. Kinda feel that it climaxed with that first house shootout, thus making the second shootout seem small. I heard the original script was that Candie gets killed by Shultz, Django is arrested immediately, THEN he escapes the mining stuff and goes back and kills everyone similar to the way he did in the final cut's climax. I would have preferred that...

It plane as day idk how they don't get this.

 

[Rapmastermind]

I don't know why you and Rapmastermind are pissed off about Django Unchained? Like I said again... I think you guys are looking for the wrong reason cause it wasn't about the slavery movie, it was about the revenge movie.

You should have expected from Quentin Tarantino. He obviously paid a respect/nod to blaxploitation, which he did with this film.

1st it's just a movie, I'm not pissed. I just call it like I see it. To say the movie wasn't about Slavery is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be a documentary or factual account for it to be about Slavery. Slavery is the DNA of everything about Django, it drives the movie and the characters. Just cause someone isn't giving the A+ rating doesn't mean that person is mad. Art is subjective and affects people differently.

I gave the film a C+ in my review which is far from a D or F but at the same time I didn't like the comedic elements of the movie cause I don't feel Slavery is comedic at all. It also wasn't an action adventure. It was Hell for Blacks. I also agree with the KKK scene watering down the KKK which they actually marched on Washington and people in high political places were in the KKK. I just have a different view on this subject matter. I don't think this movie needed to be in Slave times. That's just me. The Django Dolls are exploitation of Slavery period and I'm glad people are speaking out about it:

'Django Unchained' action figures spark call for national boycott by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network

'Selling this doll is highly offensive to our ancestors and the African American community,' Rev. K.W. Tulloss, NAC's president in Los Angeles, told the Daily News.

Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network called for a national boycott Tuesday of action figures based on the controversial and blood-soaked slavery revenge flick “Django Unchained.” A 10-doll assortment of characters from the film was going for $299 on Amazon Tuesday.

“Selling this doll is highly offensive to our ancestors and the African American community,” Rev. K.W. Tulloss, NAC's president in Los Angeles, told the Daily News. “The movie is for adults, but these are action figures that appeal to children. We don’t want other individuals to utilize them for their entertainment, to make a mockery of slavery.”

Tulloss said he hadn’t seen Quentin Tarantino’s movie but heard it was “very good.” Fellow activist Najee Ali from Project Islamic Hope spoke alongside Tulloss in Los Angeles Tuesday and said he’s seen “Django” two times already.

“I actually enjoyed the movie, but we cannot support this type of commercialization,” Ali said. “I don’t seen any dolls representing Hitler that came from Tarantino’s (Holocaust movie ‘Inglourious Basterds’)...I don't see them making dolls of Holocaust survivors who are bald and starving in concentration camps.”

Neither doll manufacturer National Entertainment Collectibles Association nor licensing partner The Weinstein Company, the film studio behind “Django,” offered immediate comment on the controversy.

The new doll collection includes 8-inch action figures for Jamie Foxx’s lead character Django and his on-screen wife Broomhilda.

The call for boycott came after “Do The Right Thing” director Spike Lee said he considered the new movie insulting.

"American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them,” he wrote on Twitter ahead of the film’s Christmas release.

Speaking in Berlin on Tuesday, Tarantino defended his latest work saying the brutal abuse he portrayed pales in comparison to what slaves actually endured.

"The truth, or the reality, was a thousand times worse than what I showed,” he told reporters ahead of the film’s launch in Germany.

His “Django” is a modern mash-up that borrows heavily from the spaghetti western and blaxploitation genres, critics say.

'Django Unchained' action figures spark call for national boycott by Rev. Al Sharpton

 

[Piff Perkins]

When I say "humanize" I mean it in the sense that the scene pretty much made people forget just how evil those men actually were. Obviously QT used them as objects of humor and portrayed them as complete buffoons. My point is that in doing that he made light of how evil/despicable/dangerous those men actually were. That scene almost made them seem harmless, that's why it's so funny. That scene was so over the top and cartoonish that you couldn't even take it or the kkk like characters seriously, and that was the point.

First off it wasn't the KKK, which was not founded at the time. They were a rag tag group of racists out trying to kill a black man and his white friend; pretty evil thing to do, in the eyes of MOST people who saw the movie.

QT films always portray moments of levity in dangerous characters. Consider the ridiculous conversations two hit men continually got into in Pulp Fiction, or how comical yet dangerous the Jew Hunter was in Inglorious Basterds. Yet in Django, these characters are not portrayed in a positive or effective light - they're objects of scorn, ridicule, and disgust. The rest of the film features very serious racists who are very good at being racists (Candie especially), so the notion that the film trivializes slavery is just stupid. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest most non-rich slave owning southerners in 1858 were dumbasses.

No one left that movie thinking "oh boy, why were blacks so afraid of slavers back then, they were clowns lolll." Nah b. I thought it was brilliant the way QT flipped stereotypes throughout the film. Hell, nearly every white character in the film is a dumbass. Even the formidable Candie clearly wouldn't be as dangerous without the true brains behind him: Stephen, the black slave.

People are just looking for something to be offended by. When was the last time a major blockbuster film featured a black protagonist killing evil white people? When was the last film that portrayed slaves getting whipped, branded, castrated...and all the other stuff that history books leave out? And yall are complaining? If a black man directed this you'd be jumping for joy