"Django Unchained". Analysis and reflection by Rosse - Mary Gallardo

I could say a lot of things about this movie, for example, I could say that its special effects were made perfectly, or that it has a powerful message, hide behind its violence, but it´s very common, so I want to put my focous on some characters, curiousities and negative consequences that Tarantino saw after the movie was realized.

1. About the characters 

I think, in general the most of the characters were well realized, everyone had a shocking role and created a surprised feeling to the audience, but there are some that called my attention: 

• Django: He was bought for the German Dentist Dr Shultz and worked with him to kill some people who were wanted by the police in Texas. The life of this ex-slave was changed forever, because he learned how to kill and it was useful to gain the society respect. However, his thrist of vengance went himself to lose the control, in spite of his good intentions. This default of his personality was about to take himself to the slavery again, after Django killed a lot of Mr, Candie´s employees.
• Dr King Shultz: At the beginning of the movie, this German humpty hunter appeared like a kind of hero who was worried about the slavery or the justice, but he was looking for Django to kill the Britlle brothers, who were Carrucan Plantation workers. In spite his interests, he started to feel admiration for Django when he saw that he was like Sigfried, a famous legendary german character, who did everything to rescue Broomhilda, the princess, and this is the reasson why he was a good man, after all.
• Stephen: He was, in my opinion, the most shocking character, because he had a bad treatment to black slaves, although he was a black employee too. I think, like we saw last class, it is because he had a power possition with some priviliges and a lot of years of Candie´s family service.

2. Tarantino talked about his movie

In relation to the first point, Quentin Tarantino did an interview where he talked about all his characteers to "Django unchained" and the perception of the actors. This was posted on Youtube in July of 2013 (watch interview),

3. Quentin Tarantino recieved bad critics

Quentin Tarantino, diffused by Radio Demente.cl

After "Django unchained" were realized, there was a very strong polemic agnaist Tarantino from afroamerican people, who said he used too much the derogatory word "niger" in this movie and "The hateful Eight" (2015), in comparison with the bad word to refering white people. They called people don´t watch Tarantino´s movies, because he was "racist", but the director didn´t feel so much worried about it. This fact was published by The Guardian in 2015, here is the piece of news.

4. Conclusion

As all Tarantino´s movies, this production is very violent, but, at the same time, is very beautiful and metaphoric in some camera shots, like the example with the "white blood" in the cotton field, and the Django´s mission to save his wife and the rest of slaves, killing their owners. 

But I think the most beautiful part of the movie was when Dr Shultz was talking about the German Broomhilda´s legend to Django and he comparised him with a brave hero. That link with literature was very interesting and emotional for me, because it was the first time that Djanjo felt valious and important, and that comparison was decisive to Shultz and the movie in general. 

As final words, I want to say that is a mistake to make a judgue about a director like Tarantino only bassed in the violence or the languague uses, but we have to see the philosophical message there is behind that violence. 

I hope you like this post!

Extra material: This is the movie I talked our last classs. It´s about a black free man that was taken as a slave for twelve years under a trick. It´s called "12 years a slave" and it´s very shocking, because it shows how black slavers were treated in the cotton fields. This is the official trailer and I hope you like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pou85VFf2zQ