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Meyers’ rating: 4.3|5.0 Starsìììì
Django Unchained—a type of spaghetti western a la Quentin Tarantino flick—delivers blood, blood, and more blood. It’s a rough, rowdy story for the adult audience that relies on an unlikely storyline filled with gore and revenge.
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Storyline
Django
(Jamie Foxx) and Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) team together as bounty
hunters when Dr. Schultz, disguised as a traveling dentist, and asks to buy
Django. When the traders refuse to sell, Dr. King Schultz kills two of the
traders and injures another. The slaves kill the injured trader. Dr. King Schultz
then asks Django what he knows about the Brittle Brothers. Django can identify
the Brittle Brothers. Dr. Schultz has a warrant for their arrest and offers
Django freedom in exchange for help with hunting/identifying the brothers.
After capturing the Brittle Brothers, Django becomes an apprentice to Dr. King
Schultz to learn the bounty hunting trade. Django has talent for the business
and soon earns money. He desires to find his slave wife and buy her freedom.
Dr. King Schultz agrees to help Django find his wife and the real story begins.
Additional Thanks
Thank you to Director Quentin Taratino for directing
efforts. Thank you to Executive Producers Shannon McIntosh, Michael Shamberg,
James W. Skotchdopole, Bob Weinstein, and Harvey Weinstein for making the film
possible. Additional characters/cast include: Broomhilda (Kerry Washington),
Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), Stephen (Samuel Jackson), Billy Crash
(Walton Goggins), Leonide Moguy (Dennis Christopher), Butch Pooch/Ace Speck
(James Remar), Mr. Stonesipher (David Steen), and Cora (Dana Gourrier).
Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?
Yes. All the expected Quentin Tarantino story telling
techniques are present in this flick. It will not disappoint Tarantino fans.
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