Review -Django Unchained (2013)

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained proves that reputations still count for everything in mainstream cinema, despite Ben Affleck's recent Best Picture win at the Golden Globes for Argo. Django has been nominated for 9 awards, and has already won Best Screenplay and Best Director at The Golden Globes. His previous movie, Inglorious Basterds was also nominated for 9 awards, winning the Critics choice for best original screenplay. Yet if we want to be reminded of QT at his best - well its been a long time since Jackie Brown, and even longer back to Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill One and Two. A much more recent example however is Seven Psychopaths, but this is a film by the relatively unknown Martin McDonagh. Its sits comfortably in that bracket, yet has been largely ignored.

In deciding that Django Unchained deserves to win a best writing award, it would be an oversight not to come to the conclusion that the main plot structures make little sense. The Schultz character (overacted nicely by Christoph Waltz) is a supremely gifted and successful bounty hunter who is seeking the nasty Brittle brothers. The three brothers have changed their names and Waltz cannot find them. But he can find someone who can tell him of someone who knows what these three look like. This is the Django character (Jamie Foxx).So Waltz goes to great lengths to free Django from the hands of some nasty looking slave traders, and enters into an agreement with his to get Django to help him. Afterwards he finds out, more by luck than judgement that Django has a natural gift for rifle shooting - Django is as surprised as he is.

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