Epic moment in film, new Django and old Django are meeting
Django is a 1966 Italian Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the eponymous role.
The film earned a reputation as being one of the most violent
films ever made up to that point and was subsequently refused a certificate in
Britain until 1993, when it was eventually issued an e18 certificate. Subsequent to this
the film was downgraded to a 15 certificate in 2004.
Django (Franco Nero)
is a Drifter who drags around a closed coffin. He
rescues a young woman, María (Loredana Nusciak), from being murdered by bandits
led by Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo), a man on whom Django is seeking revenge
for the murder of his wife.
After killing most of Jackson's men, Django makes a deal with a Mexican bandit general, Hugo Rodriguez (Jose Bodalo),
who is in conflict with Jackson, and the two steal a large quantity of gold
from a Mexican Army fort (where Jackson is doing business with a government
general). When Rodriguez drags his feet in giving Django his share, he and Maria
steal the gold. Unfortunately, the gold falls into quicksand. When Rodriguez catches up
to them, María is shot (though she survives) and Django's hands are crushed by
Rodriguez's men as punishment for being a thief. Rodríguez and his men are
massacred by Jackson and the Mexican Army when the bandits return to Mexico.
Jackson then goes looking for Django in a cemetery after killing Nathaniel.
However, Django, who has bitten the trigger-guard off his pistol, kills Jackson
and his five surviving men by pressing the trigger against a cross (on the
grave of a female acquaintance of Django earlier killed by Jackson) and
repeatedly dropping the hammer.
Django
Unchained ( 2012 ) Set
in the antebellum era of the Deep South and Old West,
the film follows a freed slave (Foxx) who treks across the United States with a bonty hunter (Waltz) on
a mission to rescue his wife (Washington) from a cruel and charismatic
plantation owner (DiCaprio).
Time 165
minutes
Written and Directed by
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
The film received
critical acclaim and was nominated for five Academy Awards including
Best Picture, Best Supporting actor (Waltz) and Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino). At the 70th Golden Globe Awards, Christoph Waltz won the Golden Globe Award
for Best Supporting actor and Quentin Tarantino won the Golden Globe Award
for Best Original Screenplay
In 1858, several male slaves are chained and being transported
after being purchased by the Speck Brothers. Among the slaves is Django (Jamie
Foxx), who has been sold away from his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). The
Speck brothers encounter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German immigrant
dentist from Dusseldorf and, unbeknownst
to them, a bounty hunter. Schultz kills one of the Speck brothers after he
points a rifle at Schultz, and shoots the other's horse, crushing the remaining
Speck brother's leg under it. Schultz then buys Django by force, and advises
the slaves to either take the surviving Speck brother to the nearest town, or
kill him and bury him and his brother and escape north. Schultz and Django then
depart, leaving the fate of the other Speck brother to the remaining slaves.
Schultz reveals that he sought out Django to aid him in identifying the Brittle
brothers, a trio of ruthless killers working for a plantation owner. The two
come to an agreement: in exchange for helping locate and identify the Brittle
brothers, Schultz will free Django from slavery and give him $75 and a horse.
After they hunt down and kill the Brittle brothers, Schultz partners with Django
in bounty hunting until spring, at which time he will assist Django in tracking
down and rescuing Broomhilda. Over the winter, Schultz trains Django in bounty
hunting and mastering a sidearm.
After collecting a number of bounties over the winter, Schultz and
Django confirm that Broomhilda's current owner is Calvin Candie (Leonardo
DiCaprio), a charming but brutal plantation owner. At Candie's plantation,
Candyland, some of his male slaves are trained to fight to the death (called
"Mandingo fighting"). Schultz and Django devise a plan to reach
Broomhilda by posing as potential purchasers of a Mandingo fighter. Schultz
introduces Django as a free man and an expert on Mandingo fighting, which
causes hostility at Candyland among slaves and Candie's armed henchmen. Schultz
and Django are shocked to witness Candie murder one of his Mandingo fighters by
having attack dogs tear him apart after he is caught running off and unwilling
to fight anymore. Candie and Schultz come to an agreement that the latter
purchase a Mandingo fighter for the high price of $12,000, which gets Candie's
attention and secures an invitation to his plantation. After traveling to
Candie's mansion in Mississippi, Schultz
also offers to purchase Broomhilda, claiming that she would help alleviate his
nostalgia for his mother tongue because she speaks German. Schultz's plan is
that he and Django leave with Broomhilda immediately under the pretense that
they will finalize the sale of the more expensive Mandingo fighter later.
Django raises the suspicions of Candie's staunchly loyal house slave, Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), who
correctly deduces that Django and Broomhilda know each other, and that the sale
of the Mandingo fighter is a ruse, and informs Candie in private. This enrages
Candie, who, armed with this information, demands the $12,000 for Broomhilda,
or he will kill her. Schultz agrees to buy her at this price in order to save
her life. Schultz is prepared to leave with Broomhilda and Django, but Candie
demands to shake hands with him to finalize the deal, as a confirmation of
victory against Schultz, or Broomhilda will be shot, even though the money has
already been paid and the paperwork has been completed. Schultz, in disgust,
shoots Candie point-blank with a concealed Derringer gun. Schultz is killed and
a gun fight erupts. Django shoots many of Candie's henchmen, but surrenders
when Stephen threatens to kill Broomhilda. As punishment, Stephen suggests
Django be sent to a coal mine and worked to death, and Candie's sister Lara
agrees. Broomhilda, instead of being given her freedom, is locked in a cabin to
be used as a comfort girl. En route
to the mine, Django convinces the slave drivers that he is a bounty hunter,
showing them the handbill from his first kill as proof, and falsely informs
them that there is a high-end bounty on some outlaws who have taken refuge back
at Candie's plantation. He persuades them to let him go so he can ride with
them and help them kill the outlaws. Once they free him, he kills the slave
drivers, takes their dynamite, and rides back to Candyland.
Returning to the plantation, Django discovers Schultz's body. He
takes the certificate of freedom that Candie signed for Broomhilda and reunites
with her after freeing her from where she was being held. When Candie's
mourners return to the Candyland mansion from his funeral, Django reveals
himself. He frees the remaining slaves and kills everyone inside except
Stephen, whom he shoots in the knees. Having set the dynamite inside the house,
he lights the fuse and leaves. Django and Broomhilda watch from a distance as
the house explodes, killing Stephen, and ride away.
