i love the first 20 mins, esp the opening scene where he is dragging the coffin but after that i just cant be bothered with that dubbing... ruins it.
you can guess whats gonna happen as well, unlike like the great silence
just disappointed after all the hype about it
I also loved the opening.. so grunge
shareIt's incredibly realistic though.
shareI thought it was pretty good
shareI feel the same. The opening image, the part where he enters the bordello initially. Those parts were good.
The part where he unleashes the weapon in the coffin was the last good scene. Everything after was weak
Well the ending is great visually and thematically as well. I will explain why, in the story Django is dragging a coffin which is his hidden Trump card where he hides his machine gun. It is later revealed that Django was married to a Latino woman who died, I think killed. The coffin represents her ghost haunting him wherever he goes. Django goes up against white supremacists who shoot Mexicans therefore I believe it is a revenge story hidden behind a story of Django trying to steal some gold. The lyrics of the opening song Django go like this: Django, will you ever love again? The final showdown is at the graveyard where Django hides behind a grave with a name Maria on it. I believe that is the grave of his wife. He can't use his hand because it is injured so he uses the cross on the grave to aim his gun. He finally kills the bad guys and leaves the gun hanging on the cross with his own blood dripping from it. That is the final shot of the movie.
shareNot only that, but he kills the villains while they recite a prayer.
He gave them final rites.
The movie was working on a lot of different layers here, thematically and visually and I love it.
I'm also of the opposite mind of these other posters, I almost gave up during the first half of the film because it was so predictable. The second half took me for a loop because I didn't know what to expect.
One thing to keep in mind is that lots of these spaghetti westerns, especially their action sequences, play out like a comic book.
Indeed the English dubbing is poor and I’m convinced watching this in Italian with subs is best. Not only do you hear Franco Nero’s actual voice but the dialogue is much more meaningful in Italian. Anyone who has seen this dubbed in English needs to give it a rewatch because it’s like a different film.
Example: During the end scene in the Italian version Major Jackson tells Dango since his hands are ruined he will make the sign of the cross for him. He fires his rifle at the cross three times saying in the name of the father, son and the holy ghost. I can’t remember how the English dub went but it was nothing like that. That’s a pretty critical moment in the story to change up like that and it’s glaringly bad like that throughout the film, if not watched in Italian.
There are two replies above that do a good job at outlining the build up, and what happens in the phenomenal ending. I will also add that after the shooting stops Django climbs the hill, looks at the dead men who killed his wife, looks at her grave and then walks away. He is now moving on and will not “spend his life regretting,” as the song points out.
Amazing film 10/10