Django Unchained

Synopsis: A German dentist buys the freedom of a slave and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of the slave's wife who belongs to a ruthless plantation owner.
Genre: Drama, Western
Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
Production: The Weinstein Co.
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 56 wins & 151 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.4
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
2012
165 min
$162,804,648
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10,134 Views


EXT - COUNTRYSIDE - BROILING HOT DAY

As the film's OPENING CREDIT SEQUENCE plays, complete with its own

SPAGHETTI WESTERN THEME SONG, we see SEVEN shirtless and shoeless

BLACK MALE SLAVES connected together with LEG IRONS, being run,

by TWO:
WHITE MALE HILLBILLIES on HORSEBACK.

The location is somewhere in Texas. The Black Men (ROY, BIG SID,

BENJAMIN, DJANGO, PUDGY RALPH, FRANKLYN, and BLUEBERRY) are slaves just

recently purchased at The Greenville Slave Auction in Greenville

Mississippi. The White Hillbillies are two Slave Traders called,

The SPECK BROTHERS (ACE and DICKY).

One of the seven slaves is our hero DJANGO... . he's fourth in the leg

iron line. We may or may not notice a tiny small "r" burned into his

cheek ("r" for runaway), but we can't help but notice his back which

has been SLASHED TO RIBBONS by Bull Whip Beatings.

As the Operatic Opening Theme Song plays, we see a MONTAGE of misery

and pain, as Django and the Other Men are walked through blistering

sun, pounding rain, and moved along by the end of a whip. Bare feet

step on hard rock, and slosh through mud puddles. Leg Irons take the

skin off ankles.

AS The CREDITS play, DJANGO has a SPAGHETTI WESTERN FLASHBACK.

Now Spaghetti Western Flashbacks are never pretty, it's usually the

time in the film when the lead character thinks back to the most

painful memory inflicted on him or his loved ones from evil characters

from his past. In this instance we see Django in a SLAVE PEN at the

Greenville Auction.

DJANGO:

Amongst many other shoulders and heads, sees through the bars of the

cell door, his wife BROOMHILDA being led to the auction block.

He fights his way to the door, and far off and obscure in the distance,

he can see Broomhilda up on the auction block, and in the distance he

hears the Auctioneer yell; "Sold." Then she's taken away to whereabouts

unknown, never to be seen again.

As the sun continues to beat down on Django's head, he remembers;

DJANGO in the SLAVE PEN

with what seems like a one hundred and fifty Slaves in a cell designed

for forty.

WHITE MEN yank him out. of the cell, shirtless, shoeless, and lead him

down a hallway, into a giant round pen, an audience viewing area

circles the round pen floor on three different stories of the

structure.

The ground floor is covered by the BIG MONEY BUYERS who stand in front

of the auction block.

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DJANGO:

is moved into a line of SLAVES (The Black Men), and their MASTERS

(their White Owners), and their SELLERS (the White Man actually doing

the sales pitch on the auction block), as they wait for their turn on

the block.

A SLAVE (ROBBIE), stand on the auction block in view of the room full

of Buyers, The SELLER sells, and the OWNERS stand off to the side.

DJANGO:

takes in the environment around him. Django has never cared for white

folks, but these white folks are in particularly ugly.

It's DJANGO's turn ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

as the THEME SONG wails its tragic crescendo, Django is brought up on

the auction block. He.looks down at all the WHITE PEOPLE who want to

buy N*ggers, who look up to him.

His heart fills with poison.

BACK TO DJANGO:

walking in Leg Irons with his six Other Companions, walking across the

blistering Texas panhandle... .remembering.. .thinking. - .hating.

THE OPENING CREDIT SEQUENCE

end.

/--" EXT - WOODS -- NIGHT

It's night time and The Speck Brothers, astride HORSES, keep pushing

their black skinned cargo forward.

It's a very pitch black night, with only a few stars in the.sky to

create a little top light. It's so dark, the Slavers use the creek.bed

to keep from getting lost. Both Speck Brothers carry a lantern up on

their horse, as. does Roy, the Slave in lead position on the chain gang.

It's also a bitterly cold night, with the breath of the seven slaves,

two slavers, and two horses creating clouds in the air. In fact the

seven chained together Slaves, with the lead one holding a lantern, and

all of them chugging out smoky breath, and. slightly moving in unison,

resemble a human locomotive.

The Slaves shiver from the cold on their shirtless backs, both Speck

Brothers wear rawhide winter coats with white fur linings, and white

fur collars.

WHEN...

.A SOUND and a SMALL LIGHT appears ahead of them on the road. This

makes the Slave Traders stop their human live stock, and ready their

rifles for possible trouble.

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American director, writer, and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, an aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts consisting of established and lesser-known performers, references to popular culture, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, and features of neo-noir film. He is widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation. more…

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