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Such a brilliant concept terribly used

posted 16 years ago by declan-murphy
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I really enjoyed Django, it's one of the most entertaining spaghetti westerns I've ever seen but one thing did annoy me about it. I've never heard an idea so quint essentially spaghetti western as a lone rider constantly pulling around his own coffin.

But I really felt that sergio didn't exploit or go anywhere with his brilliant idea. Even something simple like him falling backwards into his coffin bullet ridden as he kills off the final villain and then dieing. That may sound pretty weak considering it was just off the top of my head but I really feel a great opportunity was missed. What's everyone else's thoughts.

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[–] livehorror101 16 years ago

Funny, I was about to make a similar post like this.

I just finished watching it for the first time, and I enjoyed it, but not as much as I had hoped. I thought the premise sounded AMAZING, but the way it was executed, just didn't show the capabilities of the story.

One thing was that the movie kind of felt like a big run-on scene, it didn't get very diverse.

And him dieing and falling into his own coffin would be bad-ass, seriously

[–] declan-murphy 16 years ago

Thanks. Yeah it just sounded like it was going to be amazing when my teacher described it to me and although I still enjoyed I think it let itself down.

Still immensely enjoyable though. I loved how you would hear about two gun shots and five people would fall to the floor dead with out any bullet holes.

'looks like... looks like we're shy one horse'

'No you brought two too many'

[–] livehorror101 16 years ago

That was pretty funny! And you would hear no shots at all for a second, and people continue to fall in numbers.

And you know, this film was made on a small budget, and the makers discuss their problems budget-wise. So mabye they weren't really capable of taking the movie to heights because of this

[–] declan-murphy 16 years ago

Interesting. See it's films like these that make the absolute perfect candidate for a remake. They have a bad reputation of late and with good reason. It just seems like they've all forgotten what a good remake is. If your going to take a film that actually did get it right the first time then you at least resin it in some way. A good example is Brian De Palmer's 'Blow Out'. Where in the original the protagonist believes he has caught a murder in a photograph the protagonist thinks he may have recorded one while collecting sound effects.

I'm sure however there are many thousands of lovers of this film who will want to crucify me for even mentioning it.

'looks like... looks like we're shy one horse'

'No you brought two too many'

[–] Steamboy 15 years ago

I agree with the remake idea. The problem of Django (beside the truly horrible English dubbing) is that Sergio Corbucci wasn't a very good director and that shows. There are a few good shots but most of them fail to wow the audience with memorable epic images. It's slow too, some scenes drag on uselessly while others could have benefit from some development.

When he goes to steal the gold for instance, the tension should be pretty high but it isn't because the director chooses to show his every move and effort with the coffin instead of trying to build that tension with cross-cutting and close-ups. Corbucci was a B-movie director, he directed a lot of films but he never rose to fame like Leone did with only a fistful of movies. ;)

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[–] chrisasiama 14 years ago

^ Well Said. Django is full of interesting ideas and a gritty remake would be great.

[–] beauedson 13 years ago

the gold-stealing scene was good and an example of using the coffin prop - he lowered it from a building with ropes, extracted the gun in the gold room, filled the coffin with gold, then after exiting the gold room used the coffin as a bridge between two different landings on the side of a building during his escape

nothing wrong with a remake but they got some decent mileage out of the coffin in this movie

the OP's suggestion of a better ending is terrible, and the shootout scene at the end of this one was solid (though it didnt invovle the coffin)

[–] Silverbutton 12 years ago

This movie was way ahead of its time. It could use a remake with decent budget and the make up effects it deserves but I don't think its bad directed at all. The ear scene, the guy pulling a gatling out of a coffin that he has been dragging around for half the movie, the destruction of Djangos hands or the morals of Django... all these concepts have clearly inspired Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and many others. Great film.

[–] Brokenail22 11 years ago

Nero wasn't very good in the beggining of the movie. He gets better, surprisingly.

[–] MetalWorks 11 years ago

Agreed, Corbucci is the problem in this movie, his directing is completely lackluster. Something that I find strange since I do love The Great Silence.

[–] movie_nazi 11 years ago

Agreed, Corbucci is the problem in this movie, his directing is completely lackluster. Something that I find strange since I do love The Great Silence.

The Great Silence (1968) is a better film IMO.

[–] PillowRock 10 years ago

The problem of Django (beside the truly horrible English dubbing)

That's not a problem with the actual movie. The people who actually make movies rarely have *anything* to do with any foreign market re-dubbing.

Just watch it in Italian with subtitles.

[–] dldhistory 9 years ago

My idea for this film would be: for almost the entire movie he drags the coffin around without us knowing what is in it.. in the finale with odds stacked against him he opens the coffin and takes out the Maxim Gun and wins the day...

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