Django Unchained
Last, and certainly not least we have Django Unchained, and in case you didn’t know… “The D is silent hillbilly… *BANG* “. In all seriousness though Django is definitely one of if not my favorite Tarantino movies. Taking place right before the Civil War it does an excellent job making you feel the tension between north and south and especially black and white within the South. The film creates such a lovable character in Dr King Schultz, a French immigrant who is a bounty hunter who buys Django solely for the purpose of acquiring information he may have on someone Schultz has a bounty for. He makes a deal to free Django after they find and kill the men, as well as giving him some of the bounty with his freedom. After they track down the poor soul they were looking for, Django realized he had a bit of a knack for bounty hunting, and when it came to his feelings on getting revenge on the people that have murdered and raped his people, Django has nothing better to say to King Schultz “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What’s not to like?” After training throughout the winter months they set off on their main mission: to find Django’s wife and free her. Though this is not nearly as simple as it may sound. Dr. Schultz explains it as such: (through paraphrasing) “if you show up to a farm and ask to buy a horse, the farmer will say it’s not for sale. but if you ask to buy the farm, then he’d have to hear you out.” The two disguise themselves as “Mandingo owners”, a type of slave owner who purchases slaves (Mandingo fighters) in order to have them brutally fight each other for sport. Django has to bury himself into his undercover character and has to treat other black people like they are lesser than in order to fit in. They meet one of the greatest Tarantino villains, Calvin Candy who is the owner of Candyland, one of the largest plantations in the south, and have to outwit him in order to free Djangos wife. Things certainly don’t go as planned in the ending but thats what makes it such a spectacular film. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions every time you watch it through and through, and I always finish it satisfied.