Django Unchained explained: Tarantino’s test
Western analysis carried by Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio in 5 points.
Just over ten years ago (in January 2013 in France), Quentin Tarantino upset the western in the cinema with Django Unchained.
Before seeing or reviewing the particularly violent film of the cult director – Tonight on France 3 – We decrypt the western in sauce Qt.
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The Western Spaghetti
Twenty years since Tarantino was around, stand-off Mexican from Dogs Reservoir At the Ennio Morricone scores placed on almost all of its filmo. Django Unchained is the film of the big jump, the one where he finally confronts the genre, frontally. So, of course, as we are at QT, the characters will spend more time cutting the tip of fat sitting around a table than riding towards the sunset. And it will also be, of course, to blur the bearings, by summoning the legend of the Nibelungen in the snowy plains of Tennessee. Winks to Sergio Corbucci abound, but Django Unchained is actually-almost paradoxically in view of his tribute title-the most relieved Tarantino film of pop references that had ended up devouring his cinema. For an hour (the first, the best), the time of a buddy-movie straddling between Christoph Waltz And Jamie Foxxit “breathes” as it had not been the case with him for a long time: the characters have existed beyond their iconic posture, they have a story, a destination, a journey (in this case, the southern states photographed by Robert Richardson). Suddenly, after that, the cameo of Franco Nero is a little annoying non-event.
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BO COOL
The song of Django Original? Check. West Coast rap? Check. Country and western echoes? Check. But the impression remains that, on this level too, Tarantino decided to put it on the backstil. No exhumation, for example, of old bo blaxploitation. And that’s good: no need to understand that Jamie Foxx Play the cotton field shaft here.
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Interminable dialogues
They are there, yes, and in large widths. Not for nothing that the film lasts 2h45. The Verbal Fremits of Tarantino Films has taken an almost mandatory turn since the meeting with Christoph Waltz. Quentin says he himself, he no longer writes a scenarios but “long evolving novels without laws or rules. »The consequence? Always longer films, even endless, soon ready to be cut into the mini-series HBO style episodes. There is a real good movie in the heart of Django Unchainedwith a lot, a lot of fat around. But what does Harvey do “scissorhands” Weinstein?
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The actors happy to be there
The actors are always happy to be in the credits of a Tarantino, because it is for them the promise of being able to add a masterpiece (even self-proclaimed) to their filmo. Waltz, unleashed, redone the colonel Landa (in a nice version), Foxx and Di Caprio are impeccable, Don Johnson replace Kevin Costner as he can, but it is above all Samuel L. Jackson which impresses, in a truly twisted role and politically very loaded with a slave more slave than the whites, where he pushes the potentiometers thoroughly. As he said himself in Empire :: “I wanted to play the most abject negro in the whole history of cinema”. Big perf ‘on arrival.
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Large subjects
We will have to get used to it, and too bad for the nostalgic for the glorious era Dogs Reservoir–Pulp Fiction-Jackie Brown : QT new way now likes to talk about the big story over the revisionist dissertations flowed in the reasons for Revenge Movie. Django Unchained thus works as the logical continuation ofInglourious Basterdswith slavery instead of the Shoah. The good news is that, far from cultural approximations and the grotesque vein of Basterds (remember: embarrassing French dialogues, Hitler escaped from Grandpa makes resistance), Tarantino has a subject here (the birth of black pride in America) that he knows thoroughly, and that he treats without biased or do his smart. Like in the good old days of Jackie Brownwe are waiting for the review of Spike Lee Considered.
Frédéric Foubert
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