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Why is Django so popular?

posted 10 years ago by Slaterson420
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So I discovered Quentin Tarantino movies when I was about 11 (I'm 22 as of now), but I didn't really start taking an interest in film until I was 16 years old. It made sense to look into the influences of my favorite filmmakers and how they were applied to their work, so I check out QT's favorite movie, the Good, the Bad & the Ugly, and saw how he applied that style to certain scene in Kill Bill. I really dug that spaghetti style, and after watching the films of Sergio Leone, I decided I wanted to check out more spaghetti westerns. First non-Leone spaghetti western I checked out was the most popular of the ones he didn't direct, Django, and I was very underwhelmed by it. It almost turned me off from the genre, thinking Leone made the only ones worthwhile. Then I discovered more spaghetti westerns, like the Big Gundown (fuggin love that movie), Death Rides a Horse and the Grand Duel. Even the other spaghetti westerns by Corbucci I love way more than Django. And I decided to revisit Django recently, because I had since acquired a taste for grindhouse movies and maybe that would help me appreciate it, but I still don't feel it holds up a lot. Fans of the movie, why do you like it and why do you think it was as popular upon it's initial release?

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[–] The_King_of_Cool 8 years ago

There's really no proper answer. You just weren't into it. It's odd how you liked all those other spaghetti westerns including films by Corbucci but didn't like Django.

I would need to watch it again to go into deep detail. But I personally loved Django. It's in my top 4 spaghetti westerns. If you're wondering the other 3 are in no order For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West & the Great Silence.

I loved the action scenes. The Gatling gun scene was epic. I also really like Franco Nero.

Have you seen the Sartana series?? Like Django there were countless unofficial sequels including some pairings of Django and Sartana.

The official Sartana series would be If You Meet Sartana, Pray for Your Death, Sartana the Gravedigger, Have a Good Funeral, My Friend Sartana Will Pay, Light the Fuse, Sartana Is Coming and I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin.

All star John Garko as the title character except Trade Your Guns for a Coffin, which has George Hilton as Sartana. Some only consider the Garko films as legit, but the director of Trade Your Guns also directed all the other films (except the first film If You Meet Sartana. The director of the first also made Sabata).