Film/TV Jan 7, 2013 at 2:24 pm

Unpacking Django Unchained

Paul Constant
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Thank you for this! I'm looking forward to them too.
gloomy gus on January 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM Report this
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The Western movie genre is maybe the most complicated subject in America? 'Cause that's what Django Unchained is about.
Geocrackr on January 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM Report this
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Actually, it's more like Roots done up as a Western, without all the pretending that the Civil War was about Gentility or that the South wasn't (and/or is) Racist.

Try watching it.
Will in Seattle on January 7, 2013 at 3:08 PM Report this
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Django is a complicated movie about maybe the most complicated subject in America
Women?
Urgutha Forka on January 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM Report this
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@2 Not having seen the movie, yourself, I'm sure your assessment is spot on.

Go watch it and tell me it's just another western.
Pick1 on January 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM Report this
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what it's about is how the western is our great movie meme yet somehow, gee I wonder why, we never showed the westerm meme of justice pardner' played out in the gone with the wind background.

why do we have ten thousand "westerns" and almost no movies about (a) enslaved persons in the south, or (b) mill workers up in boston in 1860, or (c) farmers in ohio in 1860? Our notion of "American" is a created notion. You can't udnerstand today's politics without grokking it. No joe the plumber without westerns, no white resentment without westerns. Django unchained is about ending all that mental enslavement.
on January 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM Report this
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Nothing against Brothers, but (Seattle's own) Jim Emerson does a great job of explaining why it's not as good a movie as it could be (or could have been) on Roger Ebert's website. Read it here: http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2013/…
Cornichon on January 7, 2013 at 3:24 PM Report this
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@5 - I never claimed it is "just another western", nor is that what the article I linked to claims. Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension.
Geocrackr on January 7, 2013 at 3:34 PM Report this
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Sounds like Django the Blazing Saddles of its generation..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK91…

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on January 7, 2013 at 4:32 PM Report this
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As for movie reviews, read Anthony Lane's movie reviews in The New Yorker.

He totally gets it wrong on the first two movies. Not even close.

Somebody tell the idiot he should retire already.
Will in Seattle on January 7, 2013 at 5:33 PM Report this
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"Jimmy" is a racial slur? Where I come from, it's an ice cream topping. Wait, "pony"? So My Little Pony is really about slavery?
jzimbert on January 7, 2013 at 5:34 PM Report this
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@7, I agree with Emerson on his point about the "long, bloody shootout that's nothing but long and bloody because you can't tell and don't care who the swarms of faceless, gore-gushing expendables are."

It was too long and bloody.
Simone on January 7, 2013 at 7:38 PM Report this
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I guess @14 has touched on this, but what is the purpose of all the cartoony but gory violence?
Jude Fawley on January 10, 2013 at 2:09 PM Report this

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