Sentences with phrase «slave revenge story»
Gruttadaro: Let's just say that giving awards to Quentin Tarantino (especially for a slave revenge story) hasn't, um, aged well.
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Based on the original novel Ben - Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the epic adventure set in the first century tells the story of a Jewish slave who becomes a charioteer while seeking revenge on behalf of his family.
Also among the 9 Oscar nominees for best picture Thursday: the old - age love story «Amour»; the Iran hostage thriller «Argo»; the independent hit «Beasts of the Southern Wild»; the slave - revenge narrative «Django Unchained»; the musical «Les Miserables»; the shipwreck story «Life of Pi»; the lost - souls romance «Silver Linings Playbook»; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle «Zero Dark Thirty.»
It may seem strange that Tarantino manages to get away with telling such potentially provocative stories, but the fact of the matter is that slave owners and Nazis are easy targets for a revenge movie — the audience will have a hatred of them before the film has even started, so the filmmaker's job of encouraging us to revel in their killing is that much easier.
The film follows the story of a nobleman falsely accused and imprisoned for years as a slave before he gets a chance to take revenge on the man who betrayed him.