Django Unchained

***Django Unchained*** is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, with Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson in supporting roles. Set in the Old West and Antebellum South, it is a highly-stylized, heavily-revisionist tribute to Spaghetti Westerns, in particular the 1966 Italian film *Django* by Sergio Corbucci, whose star Franco Nero has a cameo appearance. *Django Unchained* premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 11, 2012, and was theatrically released on December 25, 2012, in the United States.

## Plot

Two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers. Their mission successful, Schultz frees Django, and together they hunt the South's most-wanted criminals. Their travels take them to the infamous plantation of shady Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), where Django's long-lost wife (Kerry Washington) is still a slave.

## Why It Rocks

1. Perfect direction of Quentin Tarantino. This is way he did avoid product placement.
2. Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio give great performances as Django, Dr. King Schultz and Calvin Candie respectively.
3. Even though the soundtrack don't composed any of them, it is very great and does fit on each scenes for all.
4. Its the perfectly modern western films with a type of Spaghetti Western set in the United States' pre-Civil War Deep South called this type of film "Southern".
5. The creative twist of 1936-1976's Columbia Pictures logo is very well-made, like other Quentin Tarantino films
6. This movie is known for being filled who holds the all-time record for most uses of the "n" word (or some variation) in a movie, with 116 uses. While it drew controversy, it is actually well-executed.
7. The ending is great. Django meets his wife, who waits for him with two horses outside the estate. The two are finally reunited, and ride off into the night to face whatever destiny awaits them. Django is destined to become a legend, just as Siegfried before him did. And after the end credits, we cut to the slaves Django freed from the mining company transporters. They remain seated where Django left them, still in awe of what they witnessed. Then, one asks what the name of that black man was (suggesting Django may not yet become a legend).
8. The movie has a great amount of blood and violence. While some reviews criticized the film for being too violent, it is quite disturbing and doesn't over-used them.
9. Franco Nero's cameo made an appearance and it is a nice reference to his most iconic role.

## Reception

*Django Unchained* was universal acclaim by critics and moviegoers, mainly for Waltz' performance and Tarantino's direction and screenplay, though the film's racist language and depiction of violence drew controversy. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 282 reviews, and an average rating of 8.02/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.". Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, gives the film a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale