The greatness of Django Unchained, however, comes not from its nods to Corbucci and Leone, its prodigious reliance upon Ennio Morricone compositions, its deliciously
evil villains, blood - spattered vengeance or comic
inserts (though an early scene in which the newly freed Django picks an outfit to pose as Dr. King Schultz's valet is endearingly funny).
In order to make this journey more perilous, screenwriter Carlos Kotkin
inserts a new «
villain» presence — an
evil henchman sent by King Herod to track down the couple and kill the unborn child, who Herod sees as a threat to his throne.