RELEASE THE DJANGO!
Jan. 31st, 2013 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAnd the first really good film of 2013 is …
Django Unchained
Let’s start by saying a LOT of ink has been (and will be) written about everything from gratuitous racial slurs and OTT bloodshed to historical inaccuracies and racial issues. Which makes Django Unchained like every other Tarantino film, really. And like all of his films, Tarantino wears his influences proudly on his sleeve, which is always going to put certain people off.
But as a Spaghetti Western tribute film, it’s very well done. And it’s also very well-written, with memorable characters, some brilliant performances (Christoph Waltz does it again) and snappy dialogue driving a story that’s fairly straightforward but a good one for the genre. The only real drawback is the length, but then Sergio Leone isn’t exactly known for brevity, so okay.
As for the above-mentioned distractions, all I can say for now is, if you do a slave-gets-revenge film and you get people talking about the rights and wrongs and morality and justification thereof, you’ve made a good film.
The “D” is silent,
This is dF
Django Unchained
Let’s start by saying a LOT of ink has been (and will be) written about everything from gratuitous racial slurs and OTT bloodshed to historical inaccuracies and racial issues. Which makes Django Unchained like every other Tarantino film, really. And like all of his films, Tarantino wears his influences proudly on his sleeve, which is always going to put certain people off.
But as a Spaghetti Western tribute film, it’s very well done. And it’s also very well-written, with memorable characters, some brilliant performances (Christoph Waltz does it again) and snappy dialogue driving a story that’s fairly straightforward but a good one for the genre. The only real drawback is the length, but then Sergio Leone isn’t exactly known for brevity, so okay.
As for the above-mentioned distractions, all I can say for now is, if you do a slave-gets-revenge film and you get people talking about the rights and wrongs and morality and justification thereof, you’ve made a good film.
The “D” is silent,
This is dF
