Anyone Seen Django?

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. 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

Ain't shyt wrong with the action figures. Many films that have cult followings have get action figures and the aren't targeted to kids but adults that are into collectibles. This is just another case of people talking about something they have no knowledge of.

I myself would love to get my hands on the Django one.


Look at NECA's site to get an idea at what they make
http://necaonline.com

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

Ain't shyt wrong with the action figures. Many films that have cult followings have get action figures and the aren't targeted to kids but adults that are into collectibles. This is just another case of people talking about something they have no knowledge of.

I myself would love to get my hands on the Django one.


Look at NECA's site to get an idea at what they make
NECA - National Entertainment Collectibles Association

breh you are talking to brick walls at this point. they are for some reason glossing over the fact that almost all of qt's movies dating back to reservior dogs all have collector dolls.

 

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breh you are talking to brick walls at this point. they are for some reason glossing over the fact that almost all of qt's movies dating back to reservior dogs all have collector dolls.

I'm beginning to see that.

 

[Rapmastermind]

LOL @ some of you acting like those Django Dolls are cool. This is why most all Black Leaders are coming out and saying they are making a mockery of Slavery. It's ok. Get your Django Dolls. I bet they come with Slave Whips and Nooses too. I hope those Django Dolls are worth it:

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

LOL @ some of you acting like those Django Dolls are cool. This is why most all Black Leaders are coming out and saying they are making a mockery of Slavery. It's ok. Get your Django Dolls. I bet they come with Slave Whips and Nooses too. I hope those Django Dolls are worth it:

breh i don't want the dolls, but i'm not offended about them either. i'm not going to pretend that almost every movie gt has made doesn't have collectible dolls associated with them. i know for a fact that amazon advertises things based on your previous search history.

 

[OmegaK2099]

those werent the kkk by the way this took place in 1858 Nathan Bedford Forrest didnt start the first kkk untill 1865

 

[HendriX]

Its a damn shame people still nitpick Tarantino movies..

corny ass motherfukkers..its a tarantino flick.

this is a classic..you will realize that 10 years from now

 

[Tony D'Amato]

I always wanted black dolls when I was a kid

Does Django have 2 guns?

 

[OmegaK2099]

how come morricone wont ever produce a full on soundtrack for tarantino he was supposed to do one for inglorious basterds but declined, then for this one he only submitted one song "Ancora Qui"

 

[Gravity]

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

1st of all, I clearly said "kkk like characters" so it's obvious that I was aware that they weren't the actual kkk. You're trying too hard.

Yes, people like you are looking for something to be offended by. I simply expressed an opinion, you don't have to agree with it my man. I understand that you like the movie and all of that, but take QT's dikk out of your mouth and stop acting hurt because I am expressing a view that you don't like. You're defending QT when he's not even being attacked. Django is what it is, a QT blaxploitation slave revenge flick. You can say whatever you want but there's simply no getting around that. Pointing out how bad it made whites look or how much fun it made of whites doesn't change the fact that it's an "entertaining" movie using slavery as the backdrop. Knowing that, there's no way that it could not trivialize slavery. This isn't a historical documentary that is handcuffed to the facts and reality regarding slavery, its just a fictional movie about a slave getting revenge. If you don't think that things(regarding slavery) were watered down or that QT took people's feelings(white and black) into account when making this film then you're an idiot. This movie was made to entertain, not educate or inform. This isn't about me being "offended" by the movie. If anything, I'm offended by people like you who feel the need to bend over backwards defending the movie from the truth. I kinda understand, you don't want to really like a movie that trivializes and exploits slavery. Lying to yourself isn't the way to resolve that conflict though.


"the truth, or the reality, was a thousand times worse than what I showed."

Quentin Tarantino

 

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LOL @ some of you acting like those Django Dolls are cool. This is why most all Black Leaders are coming out and saying they are making a mockery of Slavery. It's ok. Get your Django Dolls. I bet they come with Slave Whips and Nooses too. I hope those Django Dolls are worth it:

trollmastermind

 

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Gravity, if a black director made this movie the exact same way, would you still feel the same? Honestly.

 

[Gravity]

Gravity, if a black director made this movie the exact same way, would you still feel the same? Honestly.

I answered that question in this very thread before I even saw the movie. Scroll back through.

 

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I answered that question in this very thread before I even saw the movie. Scroll back through.

You know how big this thread is?

 

[Gravity]

You know how big this thread is?

You expect me to look for it?