Django Unchained

One of Tarantino's best.

 

I did actually. But lol at using that as a barometer for anything. It's far from brilliant. As far as story goes it's one of Cameron's worst. Half the appeal is merely the stunning visual exhibition. It's nothing compared to Aliens.

 

Firstly, Alexandre Dumas was not black.



His grandmother was black.Mixed ethnicity, yes. But black, as is said in the film, no. Of course, it's conceivable that Waltz's character said that simply to throw Candie off, but again, it's just a clumsy effort by Tarantino to intrude a classic author. I'm not saying the reference is inappropriate. I'm saying it seems to me like a cheap and poorly orchestrated one which is actually hinting at The Count Of Monte Cristo; a man wrongly imprisoned, in this case enslaved, escapes, amasses a large amount of money along with some handy skills, and then takes revenge on the three men responsible (in this case The Brittle Brothers). Maybe that's all just coincidence and I'm reading too much into it. Fuck knows if Tarantino has even read Monte Cristo. But the book has been viewed by experts as an analog to black emancipation.

Nah, I didn't get that sense. I mean you could feel as you were watching it that something would happen before they left. It's a Hollywood movie ffs. A peaceful retire does not make for exciting viewing. But Candie himself didn't show any sign of wanting bloodshed. If so, why wait until then? He wanted acknowledgement that in the game of cat and mouse, battle of wits between he and Schultz, he was the victor. When Schultz declined, he felt robbed of his victory. Hence the whole "I think you're a bad loser, Docter." "And I think you're an abysmal winner."

My point is Waltz's character, who is portrayed throughout the film as cunning, wise and calculating would not have been so stupid as to take that as an invitation to initiate a firefight, particularly in a room in which they were heavily outnumbered and had already surrendered their weapons (bar a concealed derringer pistol). I can imagine a man of pure vanity doing something so reckless, but again, that's not at all how Schultz was throughout the entirety of the film. It just felt out of character to me. But you know with Tarantino, the blood's gotta arrive at some point. And plenty of it.

 

Um..........no. 3 of his 4 grandparents were white and he had white skin. He had a mixed heritage. He was not black, as Shultz suggests in the film.

 

Nice effort.

 

He's half-cast, to my knowledge. He's not black, that's for sure.

 

He should've mentioned that he had black blood in him or that his grandmother was black. Saying bluntly that he was black is disingenuous and untrue.

In either case, I don't believe Tarantino introduced Dumas into the film because he was a quarter black.