Django Unchained

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Movie
German title Django Unchained
Original title Django Unchained
Django Unchained logo.JPG
Country of production United States
original language English , German
Publishing year 2012
length 165 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Quentin Tarantino
script Quentin Tarantino
production Reginald Hudlin ,
Stacey Sher ,
Pilar Savone
camera Robert Richardson
cut Fred Raskin
occupation
synchronization

Django Unchained [ ˈd͡ʒæŋɡo ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪ̯nd ] is an American western released by Quentin Tarantino in 2012 . The film opened in the United States on December 25, 2012, in Germany on January 17, 2013. In terms of content and music, it is strongly influenced by the spaghetti western and the blaxploitation genre and accordingly contains many allusions and homages to it.

The film was produced for Columbia Pictures by Reginald Hudlin, Stacy Sher and Pilar Savone and is marketed in the United States by the Weinstein Company . The main actors include Jamie Foxx , Christoph Waltz , Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson . Tarantino ( best original script ) and Waltz ( best supporting actor ) received 2013 Django Unchained the Oscar .

action

Django is a slave who lives in the deep south of the United States in 1858 and was separated from his wife Brunhilde. Dr. King Schultz, a German dentist from Düsseldorf who has been working as a bounty hunter for some time , frees him in order to track down and kill the three wanted Brittle Brothers with his help . In return, he promises Django freedom. The three brothers work under assumed names as slave overseers on Big Daddy's plantation . Dr. Schultz and Django find and kill them. Big Daddy is very upset about this. The following night he mobilized other plantation owners and their helpers. Equipped with torches and hoods, they ride to Dr. Schultz's night camp to teach him and Django a lesson. However, they expected that and the car from Dr. Schultz prepared with explosives. From an observer position they explode with a gunshot and Django shoots the fleeing Big Daddy.

In the further course, they change the agreement so that Dr. Schultz will help Django find his wife if he goes on a bounty hunt with him over the winter. This is very successful, the two of them kill numerous wanted criminals together and earn a lot of money. After the end of winter, Schultz learns from a register of sold slaves that Brunhilde has been sold to Calvin Candie and works on his Candyland plantation in Chickasaw County , Mississippi .

Since the sale of a slave with a value of about 300 US dollars would not be very attractive for the rich Candie, Schultz and Django feign interest in a more expensive slave in order to use him for private wrestling matches for life and death. They offer the exaggerated amount of $ 12,000 for this. In the course of the negotiations, Dr. King Schultz also interested in buying Brunhilde. He explained this to Candie by saying that she learned German from her previous owner. The black house servant Stephen, Candie's right-hand man, sees through this strategy and communicates his suspicions to Candie. The latter then demands $ 12,000 for Brunhilde and threatens to kill her otherwise. Schultz acknowledges the amount and receives the deeds, but refuses to finally shake hands with Candie. Since Candie threatens Brunhilde's death again, Dr. Schultz pretends to shake hands, but then shoots Candie with a Deringer hidden in his sleeve . In the following exchange of fire, both Schultz and many of Candie's helpers die. To prevent Brunhilde from being shot too, Django surrenders. On the way to a quarry, in which he is supposed to do the heaviest slave labor until the end of his life, he is able to convince his guardians that a high bounty can be collected on Candyland with his help. Blinded by this, they release him and arm him. Django shoots her, grabs her dynamite and a horse and sets off on his vengeance campaign.

He first kills a group of Candie's white helpers who previously had a slave torn apart by dogs, and then moves on to the Candyland plantation. When Candie's sister returns from his funeral with her entourage, Django shoots all the whites and lets the house slaves escape; he shoots Stephen in the knees and leaves him wounded. Django blows up the entire mansion with a large load of dynamite and rides off into the night with his wife.

background

genre

Jamie Foxx , Christoph Waltz , Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson at the premiere of Django Unchained in Paris in 2013

Even before Django Unchained , Tarantino had dealt with the genre of the Spaghetti Western. His first movie Reservoir Dogs ended with a stallo alla messicana , a typical scene in spaghetti westerns , which also became a trademark of Tarantino. In the soundtrack to Kill Bill - Volume 2 he used several titles by Ennio Morricone , who was best known as the composer of film music for many spaghetti westerns. In 2007 Tarantino worked as a supporting actor in Takashi Miike's Western Sukiyaki Western Django . His last directorial work before Django Unchained was the war film Inglourious Basterds , whose soundtrack also contains numerous pieces of music from Westerns. The title of the first episode is also a reference to the spaghetti westerns. Tarantino himself described Inglourious Basterds as a spaghetti western playing in France. In 2009, he stated that his next film was likely to be a gangster film or a western. In 2015, Tarantino actually released his next western as the eighth film, The Hateful Eight .

Tarantino mixes the spaghetti westerns with the blaxploitation genre in Django Unchained . Tarantino has also dealt with this genre in the past, in particular with the 1997 film Jackie Brown , which is considered a homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. A nod to the Blaxploitation classic Shaft is the name of Django's wife, Broomhilda from Shaft. Tarantino explained that the protagonists of Django Unchained are ancestors of John Shaft. His nephew, in turn, embodied Samuel L. Jackson in the 2000 sequel Shaft - Still Questions?

Django Unchained also contains elements of the action film , the southern epic and the love story .

credentials

The film contains a number of references to films, books or other cultural productions.

  • Several references are made to Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti western Django from 1966, for example in the title of the film, in the opening scene (back view of the protagonist, red name overlay, music by Luis Bacalov ) and in the motif of revenge that guides the plot of both films. The actor Franco Nero , who played the title role in Corbucci's film, has a guest appearance : Django has to spell his name for him of all people.
  • Tarantino alludes to Corbucci's snowy western corpses paving his way from 1968 with the bounty hunt in a wintry landscape and with the cynical practice of consistently shooting people who are wanted “dead or alive”, which is demonstrated by Klaus Kinski's role as well as King Schultz and Django.
  • The fact that Candie is shot through the carnation in the buttonhole is quoted by Corbucci's Feared Two from 1969, where this happens in the showdown.
  • The scenes on the plantation contain references to Richard Fleischer's slave drama Mandingo from 1974: on the one hand the flogging of Django, on the other hand the deadly exhibition fight to which the slaves are forced. In contrast to the other atrocities of the American slave owners, which Tarantino's film describes, there were probably no fights in this form.
Richard Ansdell: The Hunted Slaves (1861)
  • The slave hunt with dogs quotes Richard Ansdell's abolitionist painting The Hunted Slaves from 1861. The couple depicted are recognizably similar to Django and Hildi.
  • Candie's loyal house slave Stephen, who always adopts the racist perspective of whites, is portrayed based on the protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . Like him, Tom wears a wreath of white hair, a white shirt and a black vest. The motif of a pair of lovers escaping from slavery - George and Elisa with Beecher-Stowe, Django and Hildi with Tarantino - also have the novel and the film in common.
  • In Django Unchained , Tarantino also tells a variant of the Siegfried story , but contrary to the statements made in the film and by Tarantino in interviews, not the story from the Nibelungenlied , but the story from Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried , which in turn refers to younger Nordic versions of the Brünhild saga supports. Tarantino compares Siegfried with Django, who is looking for and freeing his Broomhilda. To do this, he has to kill the dragon, symbolized by Stephen in the film, and walk through the hellfire that is holding Brunhilde back (in the film, the bondage of slaves and slavery).
  • The figure of Dr. King Schultz was also influenced by the characters from the novel and film Karl Mays . Tarantino lived in Berlin while filming Inglourious Basterds . There he got to know the Karl May films of the 1960s and was enthusiastic about them.
  • The famous American gunslinger "Doc" Holliday was also a dentist.

production

Filming

Preparations for production began on November 1, 2011. Will Smith was also available for the role of Django, but Jamie Foxx was ultimately hired for the role.

The film was shot in Santa Clarita , the Evergreen Plantation in Louisiana , Jackson Hole , the Second Line Stages in New Orleans , on the Alabama Hills and in the Californian towns of Independence and Lone Pine . Filming began on February 6 and ended on July 25, 2012. Franco Nero , Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell were among the shortlisted or were under discussion for film roles. Of the three, however, only great Django Franco Nero could be seen in a short role.

For the first time, Fred Raskin edited a film for Tarantino instead of Sally Menke, who died in 2010 .

Because of the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School , the production company canceled the premiere for Django Unchained . Instead, the film premiered in a small group.

marketing

The first film trailer was released in July 2012, the second in October.

music

For this soundtrack, Tarantino not only used existing compositions for the first time, the focus of this film being on classic spaghetti western soundtracks, but also had some pieces composed especially for the film, including by Ennio Morricone.

No. title Artist Original film
01 Django (Main Theme) Luis Bacalov , Rocky Roberts Django
02 The braying mule Ennio Morricone A meal for the vultures
03 Rito finals Ennio Morricone Brutal city
04th Lo chiamavano king Luis Bacalov , Edda Dell'Orso Lo chiamavano King
05 Norm con irony Ennio Morricone Brutal city
06th Town of Silence (2nd version) Luis Bacalov Django
07th gavotte Grace Collins -
08th Freedom Anthony Hamilton , Elayna Boynton Original composition for Django Unchained
09 Town of Silence Luis Bacalov Django
10 La corsa (2nd version) Luis Bacalov Django
11 Requiem (Verdi) - Dies irae Masamichi Amano , Giuseppe Verdi -
12 I got a name Jim Croce -
13 I giorni dell'ira Riz Ortolani Death rode on Tuesdays
14th The Big Risk Ennio Morricone The wasp nest
15th Minacciosamente Lontano Ennio Morricone The cruel
16 100 black coffins Rick ross Original composition for Django Unchained
17th Tracker's Chant Ted Neeley , Bruce Landon Yauger -
18th Nicaragua Jerry Goldsmith Under fire
19th Sister Sara's Theme Ennio Morricone A meal for the vultures
20th Ancora qui Elisa Toffoli , Ennio Morricone Original composition for Django Unchained
21st Blue Dark Waltz Luis Bacalov Django
22nd For Elise Ludwig van Beethoven , Ashley Toman -
23 Unchained (The Payback / Untouchable) James Brown , Tupac Shakur -
24 Freedom Richie Havens -
25th Ain't No Grave (Black Opium Remix) Johnny Cash -
26th Who Did That to You? John Legend Original composition for Django Unchained
27 Too Old to Die Young Brother Dege -
28 Un monumento Ennio Morricone The cruel
29 Dopo la Congiura Ennio Morricone The cruel
30th Trinity (titoli) - annibale ei cantori moderni Franco Micalizzi The Devil's Right and Left Hands (1970)
31 Ode to Django (The D Is Silent) Robert Diggs Original composition for Django Unchained

reception

Reviews

The reviews of Django Unchained were generally mixed in Germany.

cinefacts.de criticizes the length of the film, but praises the cast and atmosphere, for example. Tarantino delivers "a coherent, as expected shrill mix of rough western , revenge drama and slavery portrait". epd Film also ties in positively with the cast and highlights Leonardo DiCaprio as the “theatrical discovery of film” in his role as the “cultivated, arrogant, satanic and racist villain” Candie.

filmstars.de describes the film as good, but it is not a “masterpiece” because there is “too much patchwork”. The website classifies the film as a "sometimes unsorted, but fun western with plenty of blood". For the lexicon of international film , this “ballad full of quotations and references about the fight against racism” with alternating “exalted peaks of violence” and “allusive dialogues” repeatedly raises the question of “if and when the use of force and revenge might be legitimate ”.

Zeit Online recognizes a “seemingly stereotypical structure” in the scene set-up, which repeatedly leads to “distancing thrusts”. The “Tarantino brand” is “finally getting down to business”, a “robustly armored mind” is necessary to be able to enjoy the film as a “pure genre piece”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung regards the film as a "rather cumbersome homage" to the spaghetti westerns .

In an international comparison, the film was rated as rather positive. Django Unchained received around 87% positive votes on the Rotten Tomatoes film rating portal .

International newspapers such as The Guardian gave the film five stars out of five. In his article, the film critic Peter Bradshaw classifies the "brilliant and brutal revenge Westerner" as a "bold and terribly funny comic nightmare". Once again the cast is praised, but put in the background by Samuel L. Jackson with his "extraordinary portrayal" as Candie's housekeeper Stephen. Film critic David Denby ends his review in The New Yorker with the verdict that Django Unchained is "not a guilty pleasure" but "a dirty pleasure".

Awards

Even before the premiere of Django Unchained , Quentin Tarantino was honored as the best screenwriter at the Hollywood Film Festival in late October 2012. Supporting actor Leonardo DiCaprio won the National Board of Review Award in early December 2012 . In addition, Christoph Waltz received the Golden Globe Award in the “ Best Supporting Actor ” category and Quentin Tarantino in the “ Best Film Script ” category . Supporting actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tarantino were also nominated in the “ Best Director ” category and the film in the “ Best Film Drama ” category .

At the end of February 2013, Christoph Waltz received for his role as Dr. King Schultz won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor , and Quentin Tarantino was awarded for Best Original Screenplay. In addition, Django Unchained was nominated for an Oscar for best film .

Other Oscar nominations: Best Cinematography - Robert Richardson and Best Sound - Wylie Stateman.

The film was awarded the Golden Screen for more than 3 million German moviegoers .

Visitor numbers

In 2013, 4,498,820 visitors were counted at the German box office nationwide, making the film fourth among the most visited films of the year.

In Austria, Django Unchained was the most successful movie of 2013 with 555,087 visitors.

synchronization

The German dubbing took place at Interopa Film . Christoph Cierpka wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Django Jamie Foxx Charles Rettinghaus
Dr. King Schultz Christoph Waltz Christoph Waltz
Calvin Candie Leonardo DiCaprio Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Stephen Samuel L. Jackson Engelbert von Nordhausen
Broomhilda from Shaft Kerry Washington Sanam Afrashteh
Amerigo Veseppi Franco Nero Rainer Brandt
Randy Jonah Hill Tobias Müller
Big daddy Don Johnson Reent Reins
Butch Pooch / Ace Bacon James Remar Thomas Danneberg
US Marshal Gill Tatum Tom Wopat Ronald Nitschke
Sheriff Bill Sharp Don Stroud Uli Krohm
Leonide Moguy Dennis Christopher Till Hagen
Lara-Lee Candie-Fitzwilly Laura Cayouette Sabine Arnhold
Billy Crash Walton Goggins Patrick Winczewski
Franky Quentin Tarantino Stefan Fredrich
Floyd John Jarratt Peter Groeger
Roy Michael Parks Kaspar Eichel

backgrounds

In the English original, German is spoken in one scene. This is how Dr. Schultz and Broomhilda Deutsch to be safe from eavesdroppers.

Franco Nero , leading actor in the original 1966 film Django , appears in the film. He plays a slave owner who has a short dialogue with Jamie Foxx / Django at a bar. Tarantino himself also makes a brief appearance as the overseer of a slave transport tasked with transferring Django to the deadly mine. In the English original, he speaks with an Australian accent. Michael Parks also briefly appears in the role of a worker. He has already played a small role in several other Tarantino films as Texas Ranger Earl McGraw, who can be compared with the character depicted in Django Unchained in some points, such as facial expressions, gestures and worn clothing (cowboy hat). Russ Tamblyn plays in a short role Johnny Ketchum, the hero of the westerns Son of the Gunslinger from 1965. Tamblyn's daughter, Amber Tamblyn , appears this time as his daughter. The actor James Remar appears in a double role: at the beginning he plays the slave trader Ace Speck, later he reappears as Calvin Candie's bodyguard Butch.

There are several references to other Tarantino films. In Kill Bill - Volume 2, the tombstone under which the main character is buried alive bears the name "Paula Schultz", which in turn is a typical Tarantino allusion to another film in film history, The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968) by George Marshall with Elke Sommer , Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer is. In addition, the name Crazy Craig Koons is on a profile . The same last name appears as Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction .

Jamie Foxx has a cameo as Django in Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West .

Web links

literature

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