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| Year of first release: 2012 | |
| Director: Quentin Tarantino | |
| Actors: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Western | |
| Conditions of visioning: 16.01.2013, Schauburg | |
| Synopsis: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. | |
| Review: A bit as in Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino torns the history on a crazy, funny and politically positive way. Christoph Waltz takes a role, where his dialogues will become legendary because of the text and his huge theatrical competence. Leonardo DiCaprio surprises in his brutal role. As often with Tarantino, the music and some scenes enhances greatly the story. The way Americans handle slaves is shown extremely brutally, but truely too. | |
Rating: 8 /10
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Django unchained (2012)
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Grrr I missed it in cinemas, must way for the Blu-ray...
ReplyDeleteAs I missed it in the Cinema, I watched this movie in Blu-ray as soon as it was available (26.05.2013). Your review is fair, but Tarantino doesn't torn the history nearly as much as in Inglorious Basterds. Here he rather tells a fictional story that could very probably have occured in the real world. Nice touch (that I learned fro the IMDB trivia page): the family name of the main actress (Shaft) suggests that she is the great-great-great-grandmother of the eponymous hero of the 70's movie Shaft (played by Samuel Jackson in the 2000 remake).
ReplyDeleteI love the way the movie starts with loud western music while we follow the groups of slaves. I find this is always efficient and puts you immediately in the right mood for the movie, and Tarantino knows how to do it. Music is always nice in his movies, but I have read that Ennio Morricone doesn't want to work with him anymore because he thinks the director has no logic in where to put the right music in the film.
The whole movie is full of scenes that I like, great dialogs and the characters are all great and well played: Di Caprio, Walz, Jackson (getting a full role in a Tarantino movie for the first time since Jackie Brown) and Foxx who is the perfect choice for this role. I read it was written for Will Smith but I am sure he wouldn't have done as good. By the way he refused the role because he felt he was not the main character in the movie...
My main criticism about the movie is that I think it should have been made to last less than 2 hours instead of 2h45. I am pretty sure it would't have hurt its quality, on the contrary.
My rating: 8/10