The conjunction of genres

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2016)

This, unbelievable, is the first film director Quentin Tarantino westerns. Despite the great influence that gender has exercised in his other films, this is where it is most clearly intended to make a Western. The concept of gender is a somewhat complex to understand point and as artistic styles, is divided into historical periods.
First, they have a beginning, in which gender is defining and shaping a set of rules to follow. Then there is the fullness, where the most own style movies and then a "pseudo" genre, also called mannerism or late style, where the rules preset in the first period are breaking to create new forms and becoming in other creations.
Django, is mainly westerns, tells a dramatic story, which is intrinsic to western. There are certain traits that are evident in Django as conversations, showing its position as the hero of the film, as a hard man, are mercilessly with his enemies, with hardly feeling safe only when they talk about Broomhilda, which is its weakness and he does not care to do anything just to get to be with her.
The plane of the meeting, after being all the killing in Candyland mansion is a clear example. In this picture looks like the shadow of Django, after opening the door, it is projected onto the wall. Remember to certain planes of films like The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, both of John Ford. In them, the hero, appears inside a door and light, behind him, makes trimmed in chiaroscuro. It is a plan that lasts barely a second, but that has much explanatory power of the film.
It is also curious, remember that the story that Dr. Schultz Django on Broomhilda, the princess who is locked, guarded by a dragon and waiting for the prince, is the same way Django finds (eliminating all mythological factors , obviously). And the western genre is that, a story with a happy ending, in which a hero must overcome many trials to achieve its goal, which at first appears to be impossible, and it is finally achieved. The other genre that I consider key in the movie is the comedy. It's a genre that has not been mixed with the western, as the stories they tell are dramas. And, from the beginning, the comedy is present, which manages to do that we do not take the story seriously. The presentation by Dr. Schultz, a man who appears to be a dentist, takes on his car a dock with a tooth. This is the first sign of absurd humor, but there is more of the same style as when Django is free to wear a suit and saturated blue color becomes unfit for the time and causes automatically laughter in the audience.
But there is more. two comic moments of almost identical repetition are also produced: one when they kill the Marshall Gill Tatum, the town, and both come out with their hands up, and the other after killing the Brittle twins, which again act the the same way. In these two moments, mainly shown as Dr. Schultz has always controlled the situation, and Django is his apprentice.
There are also other moments of constant verbal humor as it occurs in the form of talk that has Django and other black characters. The discussion on the word "sharp". Word that Django did not know and with whom a funny pun is created.
But the funniest film of all, time is one that makes parody of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization of US extreme right on that date did not exist, but would be created several years later. Here Tarantino, parody how it could have been created that organization, and openly laughs at his clothing. These comic moments are mixed with memories of Django to produce the film in the dramatic situation that is happening the protagonist, and get us to stop laughing from the previous situation. good memories, others worse, in those who torture them are mixed.
In the action scenes more typical of western, completely loses realism introduces tens of liters of blood, million bullets, gunpowder and explosions. To this must be added the sudden camera movements that we have used the director. Rarely seen in western zooms; and here not only abused, but also uses slow motions, turns 180 °, overhead shots, rap music, classical ... in short, knows he can do whatever he wants with his films, and it's what he does. And it goes well.
All this comedy with scenes of bizarre action, makes seeing the film for the first time, we get out a little of the history and context, as it talks about slavery in America nineteenth century, but we mix with constant jokes and modern music, which encourages us to dance that has put us melancholy. Moreover, at the end dance, albeit on a horse. But I must admit that scene, it seems a little ridiculous, and I think it is another proof that the film takes you out of the historical context.
Tarantino, who lives in the XXI century, known as is our pace of life, accelerated, without breaks and with little time to get to talking to people. And he, in his movies give us what we want: frenetic rhythms, many lights, and very long and witty conversations, which contradict somewhat the frantic pace. Some consider tedious and long, but others we were gawking every time we hear them.
In short, it is a western film, but not the western of 50-60 years we were used to, but the nineteenth century. It has evolved and adapted to the world in which we live. We can not make a film that shows us exactly its historical context, but as a great movie entertainment that breaks many schemes we preset what is the western genre.