Not exact matches
(The notion of a German bounty hunter in the Old West only makes sense, I think, in relation to the several
spaghetti western roles played by German actor Klaus Kinski; the surname of Django's wife pays homage to blaxploitation hero John Shaft, a rather brilliant means of bridging the gap between the far - reaching genre traditions that
Tarantino loves).
After Menke's tragic death in 2010, Raskin got the call from
Tarantino to take the lead on editing his new
Spaghetti -
Western - meets - blaxploitation flick.
Moviemaking geek Quentin
Tarantino continues his mission to apparently make at least one movie in every major genre with an expansive
Western which can't really pass itself off as a
Spaghetti Western despite having the typically bloated running time of one of Leone's epics.
After Robert Rodriguez made his $ 7,000 first film «El Mariachi» (1992) and his $ 3 million «Desperado» (1995), Quentin
Tarantino told him they were the Mexican equivalent of Sergio Leone's first two
spaghetti Westerns.
«Django Unchained» sees
Tarantino taking his love of
spaghetti westerns and putting it through his post-modern, meat grinder revisionist sensibility.
2» pays homage to a variety of genres —
spaghetti Western, film noir, blaxploitation (after all, this is
Tarantino we're talking about), kung fu — while actually managing to hammer home a pretty solid, heartfelt story.
As for the music park,
Tarantino enlisted the aid of Ennio Morricone, the famed composer of many
Spaghetti Westerns - A real treat!
Reimagining the
Spaghetti Western: The Horse and Stunts of Django Unchained goes for 13 minutes, 46 seconds and provides comments from writer / director Quentin
Tarantino, stunt coordinator Jeff Dashnaw, producers Pilar Savone and Stacey Sher, stunt men Nick Dashaw and Freddie Hice, boss wrangler Rusty Hendrickson, special effects supervisor John McLeod, quick draw expert Thell Reed, and actors Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz.
Quentin
Tarantino made some noise this past week with the announcement that Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair would be playing at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, but even more interesting is a report that he's finishing up the script to his next film, and it will be a
spaghetti western.
Bonus: • «Reimagining the
Spaghetti Western: The Horse and Stunts of Django Unchained» Featurette • «Remembering J. Michael Riva: The Production Design of Django Unchained» Featurette • «The Costume Designs of Sharen Davis» Featurette • «20 Years in the Making: The
Tarantino XX Blu - ray Collection» • Soundtrack Spot • DVD Copy
Seems Franco Nero (CAMELOT, DJANGO, FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE, DIE HARD 2, and he's a voice for the upcoming CARS 2) has apparently revealed to Movieplayer (in Italian) that he's working on some sort «
Spaghetti Western» project with Quentin
Tarantino.
Quentin
Tarantino has dabbled in just about every genre at this point in his career, so it's only natural that he would try his hand at a
Western, although «Django Unchained» is actually more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are kno
Western, although «Django Unchained» is actually more of a genre mash - up between a
spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are kno
western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are known for.
For example, Spike Lee said of Django Unchained that slavery was «not a
Spaghetti Western» and he wouldn't «disrespect his ancestors» by seeing the film; Denzel Washington had a long feud with
Tarantino over what he also felt were the director's racists sensibilities.
Tarantino is a massive film buff and historian and uses the idea of the old
spaghetti westerns as the backdrop of the story.
Only Quentin
Tarantino could have dreamt up a
spaghetti western that deals with the grim theme of slavery.
A glorious companion piece to Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained finds Quentin
Tarantino once again using the vocabulary of exploitation movies, especially
spaghetti Westerns, to tell a tale of revenge and vengeance rooted in a great historical injustice perpetrated against an oppressed minority.
Is Django Unchained another fantastic example of the
Tarantino style of story telling or is it just a poor attempt at a
Spaghetti Western?
Tarantino once again shows his unparalleled love of cinema as he personifies the
spaghetti western genre in the same regards and respect as he accomplished with Death Proof for grindhouse films.
The martial arts plus movie, like the
Spaghetti Western, the neo-noir and the collected works of Martin Scorsese, Quentin
Tarantino and the Coen Brothers exists as not as a genre in itself but as a response to, subversion of or homage to a previously established genre.
During the yesterday's San Diego Comic - Con panel for The Hateful Eight, director Quentin
Tarantino, a huge admirer of classic
Spaghetti Westerns, revealed that legendary composer Ennio Morricone will be providing an original score for the film.
Now playing in theaters everywhere is Quentin
Tarantino's long - awaited «
spaghetti western» Django Unchained, starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as a freed - slave - turned - bounty hunter named Django («the D is silent»).
Foxx will join Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCario and Samuel L. Jackson in a Sergio Leone - style
spaghetti Western that
Tarantino wrote and has set in Mississippi during slavery... Django is a slave who's liberated by a German dentist - turned - bounty hunter [Waltz] and taught the tricks of the trade by his mentor.
Tarantino's favorite record crates to pull from are 1960s - 70s Italian giallo (slasher) films, blaxploitation flicks, American b - movies and
spaghetti Westerns.
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Everything that makes
Tarantino tick, old flicks,
spaghetti westerns and mano - a-mano head bashing, preferably with shotguns is stuffed into the 165 minutes of this near perfect movie.
It's impossible to contest the importance of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, the movie that popularized the
spaghetti Western worldwide, launched the big - screen career of Clint Eastwood, and inspired a wave of future filmmakers like Quentin
Tarantino.
As wonderful a writer as McDonagh is, we can't help notice the influences of Quentin
Tarantino and the
spaghetti westerns — especially The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Continue reading Django Unchained: Quentin
Tarantino's Take on
Spaghetti Westerns Shoots Down Slavery!
It's still a wall - to - wall homage to the»70s
spaghetti Westerns and kung fu movies that inspired the young Quentin
Tarantino, and those who dismiss him for only making movies about movies will have all the ammunition they need.
With his usual mastery of language, musical choices, and non-linear storytelling,
Tarantino creates a heightened drive - in world that blends Shaw Brothers period pieces, Yakuza films, chanbara,
spaghetti Westerns, and even a little anime.
Django Unchained - Writer / director and master storyteller, Quentin
Tarantino pays homage to 70's blaxpoitation and
spaghetti westerns in yet another well crafted, gritty tale of revenge and redemption.
In Django Unchained (2012), Quentin
Tarantino takes on one of his favorite genres: the
spaghetti western, with all its extreme violence, operatic drama, eccentric characters, and brutal portrait of frontier existence.
Strip away all the hip music and
spaghetti -
western set pieces and you're left with True Romance (1993), which Tony Scott directed from a
Tarantino script.
A ruminative study in character and environment, writer - director Jared Moshé's debut feature, Dead Man's Burden, feels closer in spirit to Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff than Quentin
Tarantino's flashy, namedropping
spaghetti -
western pastiche Django Unchained, even when Moshé goes out of his way to frame a doorway shot in overt homage to The Searchers, or include a rendition of John Ford's favorite hymn, «Shall We Gather at the River?»
The latter features brand new music from living legend and 2007 honorary Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, whose iconic
spaghetti western themes
Tarantino has repeatedly licensed.
In fact, the whole film feels like one big stand - off as each of the characters continuously suss one another out before it eventually culminates in true
Tarantino fashion.With the opening landscapes and the poundingly effective score by Ennio Morricone you could be fooled into thinking that Quentin is out to emulate the classic
spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone but this is really where the comparison ends.
Inglourious Basterds Where: Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St., 415-668-3994 When: Dec. 11 - 12 Why: Is Basterds, an audacious
spaghetti western - style World War II fantasy, Quentin
Tarantino's masterpiece, as the movie's final shot not so subtly seems to suggest?
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