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Unchained star
at last.
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at the Internet Movie Script Database.
The Weinstein Company releases «Django
Unchained» on Christmas Day where it will directly compete with «Les Misérables»
at the box office.
At this moment, a stand - up - and - cheer sequence, we're seeing Tarantino
Unchained.
At times more in line with «Blazing Saddles» than the grimly bawdy qualities that define many bonafide oaters, «Django
Unchained» erupts with a conceptual brilliance from the outset that never fully meshes with its clumsy storyline.
Which brings us to his latest, the Antebellum spaghetti western / slave vengeance picture «Django
Unchained,» which has the unstructured, long winded architecture and pace of a novel — or
at least a novel that doesn't have to concern itself with the format demands of a visual medium that lends itself to around a two hour experience.
«Django
Unchained» just feels overly bloated
at 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Such is the problem with «Django
Unchained,» a bloated, complacent narrative that saunters along
at a delicate pace with scene after scene that, when everything is tallied all up, reveals that many of them simply don't need to be there.
Despite running
at two - and - three - quarter hours, I could have easily watched another couple of hours of Django
Unchained.
Clocking in
at just less than 3 hours, «Django
Unchained» is about 40 minutes longer than a B - movie - Western - comedy has any right to be.
Despite these flaws, Django
Unchained is required viewing, countless images and inspirations molded together in Tarantino's mind with a smirking but heartfelt bent
at an ugly time in American history.
«It's better than «Lincoln,»» my teenage daughter said, as the end credits rolled
at a screening of Quentin Tarantino's «Django
Unchained.»
So the boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django
Unchained is
at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood's decades of saintly Negroes and sass - talking sidekicks and its relentless whitewashing of history, from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to The Help.
With her untimely death last year, Django
Unchained represents Tarantino
at his purest and most personal, however raggedly imperfect that may be.
Much like «Inglourious Basterds» in that it's another revenge tale based somewhat in historical fact (although there are no real - life figures this time around), «Django
Unchained» also reveals itself to be somewhat of a buddy comedy,
at least in the first hour when Django and Dr. Schultz travel around the country collecting bounties.
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 known for.
Even though Arnold Schwarzenegger took a crack
at the role in 1969's low - budget «Hercules In New York,» the most famous portrayal of Hercules remains the one delivered by former bodybuilder Steve Reeves in the 1958 hit «Hercules» and its 1959 sequel «Hercules
Unchained.»
Well, Kevin Costner may be out of «Django
Unchained», but
at least Quentin Tarantino is moving forward with the casting.
But last year Harvey Weinstein started awards season buzz
at Cannes for «The Master,» «Silver Linings Playbook» and «Django
Unchained» with a sizzle reel presentation, and we could very well
at least see footage pop up in that context.
Quentin Tarantino's first crack
at making a Western may have resulted in the slightly disappointing «Django
Unchained,» but his second attempt is a much - improved genre piece that represents his most accomplished work behind the camera to date.
Django
Unchained is bloody, over-the-top and ridiculous
at times but because of Quentin Tarantino's direction and great performances from the cast, especially Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Is Django
Unchained another fantastic example of the Tarantino style of story telling or is it just a poor attempt
at a Spaghetti Western?
Sandwiched between Paul Thomas Anderson «s «The Master» and Quentin Tarantino «s «Django
Unchained, «David O. Russell's «Silver Linings Playbook» was the oddball of The Weinstein Company presentation this evening
at the Cannes Film Festival.
While his naughties» output occasionally hinted
at an old genius, most particularly with Inglourious Basterds, it has taken a film like Django
Unchained to collate his messy strands of filmmaking back into an entertaining movie.
Either way, the winner still has to beat back Quentin Tarantino for Django
Unchained and Michael Haneke for Amour
at the Oscars.
Comedic looks
at westerns have been done before, from the all - out humour of Mel Brooks» Blazing Saddles to Quentin Tarantino's darkly satirical Django
Unchained, efforts A Million Ways to Die in the West tries, in its own farcical way, to emulate.
Another big question mark is Quentin Tarantino's Django
Unchained, though Tarantino has yet to make a bad film so odds are pretty good that Django will
at least land a Best Picture nomination.
Weinstein's «Django
Unchained» took in $ 919,000 Friday and will finish the weekend
at around $ 2.7 million after dropping 230 theaters.
Though some would cry category fraud
at this maneuver, arguable co-leads who have campaigned in the Supporting category have a strong track record of success, with recent winners for such roles including Christian Bale in The Fighter, Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, and Christoph Waltz's two wins for Inglourious Basterds and Django
Unchained.
Revisiting and reworking the Western genre for a second time, after 2012's Django
Unchained, Tarantino's latest communiqué from the American frontier ensues in the years following the Civil War where race relations run reprehensible as eight rogues diverge together
at Minnie's Haberdashery — a stagecoach chalet in the Wyoming mountains — just as a blizzard touches down.
A juicy exclusive by Kris Tapley over
at In Contention pointing out this year's WGA drop - offs - Beasts of the Southern Wild, Middle of Nowhere, Amour, Django
Unchained, Les Miserables, Rust and Bone and more.
SURPRISE: Christoph Waltz has cleaned up
at the Golden Globes before, winning Best Supporting for «Inglourious Basterds» and «Django
Unchained.»
His two previous films, Inglourious Basterds and Django
Unchained, have not only earned high praise from critics and been nominated for Best Picture
at the Oscars, but have also performed extremely well
at the box office.
In Contention production designer J Michael Riva (Django
Unchained, The Color Purple) has passed away
at 63.
Les Miserables and Django
Unchained were looming on the horizon, though it was difficult
at the time to believe that either film had the chance to take home the big prize.
Another Year (2010) Buried (2010) Flipped (2010) Griff the Invisible (2010) Kick - Ass (2010) Knight and Day (2010) Secretariat (2010) Submarine (2010) Super (2010) Undisputed 3: Redemption (2010) Another Earth (2011) Bridesmaids (2011) The Cabin in the Woods (2011) Colombiana (2011) Damsels in Distress (2011) Friends with Kids (2011) Hugo (2011) The Intouchables (2011) Midnight in Paris (2011) Sleep Tight (2011) Disconnect (2012) Django
Unchained (2012) Extracted (2012) Hitchcock (2012) The Hunger Games (2012) Pieta (2012) Ruby Sparks (2012) Seven Psychopaths (2012) About Time (2013) Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013) In a World... (2013) Locke (2013) Nebraska (2013) Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Red 2 (2013) Rush (2013) Starred Up (2013) This is the End (2013) The Way, Way Back (2013) Wolf Creek 2 (2013) Birdman (2014) Force Majeure (2014) Frank (2014) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) The Guest (2014) I Origins (2014)(2014) Nightcrawler (2014) The Trip to Italy (2014) What We Do in the Shadows (2014) X+Y (2014) Chappie (2015) The Final Girls (2015) Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (2015) Mr. Holmes (2015) Suburra (2015) Tale of Tales (2015) Trumbo (2015) Youth (2015)
At the End of the Tunnel (2016) Sing Street (2016)
Just a mere three weeks after the console launch of the Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel
Unchained, Paul Sage leaves the project to become Creative Director for an unknown project
at Gearbox Software.
The Deep Blue Sea Another year, another mad rush to rank, award, and translate critical consensus into,
at turns, Oscar prognostications or thought pieces about race (Django
Unchained, Lincoln) or torture (Zero Dark Thirty), or the death of film (Holy Motors).
After dabbling in just about every genre
at this point in his career, it was only natural that he would eventually try his hand
at making a Western, even if «Django
Unchained» is more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, complete with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes.
Like «Django
Unchained,» which entered the race late last year and surprised some by the strength it showed
at the Oscars, «Wolf» still has time to make its mark.
The four that have earned more — Django
Unchained, The King's Speech, Silver Linings Playbook, and Inglourious Basterds — all were nominated for Best Picture and won
at least one major Oscar.
The list is compiled by UK release dates, so with several of 2012's big hitters yet to arrive on these shores there was no chance for the likes of Cloud Atlas, Django
Unchained, Hitchcock, Les Miserables, Lincoln, Wreck It - Ralph and Zero Dark Thirty to make the cut (this year,
at least), while Ang Lee's Life of Pi probably arrived just a little too late to make a real splash.
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?»
Davis (The Help, Django
Unchained) strikes right
at the heart of character personification.
The hyper - colour, hyper - kinetic animation is designed with the youngest viewers in mind, as is the film's evident slightness and simplicity; many of the gags, particularly those stemming from the voice work of Samuel L. Jackson (Django
Unchained), Snoop Dogg (Scary Movie 5), Maya Rudolph (The Way, Way Back) and Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation) as fellow snails, are firmly aimed
at their adult chaperones.
Other Stuff We Watched Seven Psychopaths Django
Unchained The Watch Midnight Run Punch - Drunk Love Les Miserables The House I Live In John Dies
at the End West of Memphis The Perks of Being a Wallflower Crime Story Miami Connection Looper The Campaign No Crossover Skyfall Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style The Looking Glass War Raw Deal
If you had trouble stomaching the final half - hour of Django
Unchained, it may be wise for you to leave
at the Intermission or perhaps not show up
at all (you could rationalize buying a ticket in that you get more movie before intermission than many new films in full).