Greatest Historical Movie of ALL TIME

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2019)

Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino, is a story of a free slave transforming to a bounty hunter. Django, played by Jamie Foxx, and bounty hunter friend, Dr. Schultz, played by Christoph Waltz, go on a mission to free his wife, Broomhilda. A mix of comedy, action, and a history lesson make this a great movie which is supported by an all star cast. I believe that with the help of incredible acting, from the likes of Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, and Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained is the most profane, yet informative movies of the century.
The movie Django Unchained is full of profanity, incest, and nudity. The n word alone is said at least once every minute, as everyone uses the n word being that the setting of the movie was a different time. When reaching Candie Land, we figure out that Calvin Candie's wife is actually his sister. This is because of the movies southern incest roots as Candie Land is based in New Orleans. Incest was never right I believe, but the inclusion of this topic was genius by Tarantino as it gives the watchers a basis of the setting. Candie, one of the biggest plantation owners in the Django Unchained universe, is played by Leonardo DiCaprio. There are also multiple instances in this movie where there is nudity. The viewer cannot see any profane body parts, Tarantino directed the actors to cover up in the movie to a certain degree, but the inclusion of nudity portrays how harshly slaves were treated in the south. One scene illustrates what slave owners did to their slaves when they tried to run away; Candie put Broomhilda in a hot metal casket shaped box outside as she laid there naked. The viewer can see the fear in Hildi's eyes as the white men pull her out of her metal box. The movie was not only full profanity, but there were also multiple instances where the violence in this movie may be too much for the faint hearted.
Django Unchained is so violent that from the violence alone, it could be rated R. A scene I want to highlight as violent comes from the beginning of the movie when Dr. King Schultz frees Django. Dr. Schultz was on a mission to find Django and get his help for a hunt on three brothers with a big bounty on their heads. But first, Dr. Schultz encountered a couple of white men who were transporting the slaves including Django. He first encountered them nicely, but when the white men did not want to comply with his terms, he shot and killed one and let the other bleed out. Christoph Waltz portrays the character of Dr. Schultz perfectly at this moment as he is nonchalant about killing these men as if he kills for a living. This sets up the story of Schultz being a bounty hunter and is a perfect transition into the story of Django and Dr. King. Another scene I would like to shine light upon is when Django is at Candie Land. We are introduced to the idea of Mandingo fighting. We see that a Mandingo fighter is trying to run away from Candie Land saying that he can not fight no more. Candie then sends the dogs at him and the dogs tear him into shreds and eat him. Although Mandingo fighters were a fictional idea conjured up for the movie specifically, this scene shows how hard it was for slaves creating a kill or be killed atmosphere for African Americans in the south. The violence in this movie is necessary to show all people of color how far we have come in America.
Although the profanity and violence may be too harsh for viewers, Django Unchained portrays a message about how poorly African American slaves were treated at this time period. I believe that the main message of the movie is to show the adversity that slaves went through and that there were very few white men at this point who believed what they were doing as inhuman. In this movie, Tarantino portrays his message very well. Also, Schultz is like a father figure to Django as he frees him and trains him to be a killer. As the saying goes, "money is power," and being a bounty hunter, killing fugitives was a very good occupation at the time. Schultz is like the police as he justifies the wrong doing of the evil. A second message Tarantino is trying to tell us is that love is a powerful thing. The whole plot of the movie is centered around Django's motivation to do whatever it takes to get his wife Hildi back and freed from slavery.
Overall, Django Unchained was a movie that exposed the viewer to the problems of slaves. To this day, it is sad to think that not much has changed as many African Americans are still being racially profiled and being killed by racists. Django Unchained shows viewers the faults that we had in our America and reminds us to never do this once again to minorities today.