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Tarantino should have seen this....

posted 11 years ago by Ceephax
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Before making Django: Unchained.

It wouldn't have been a topic to have made a kick ass, cool exploitation movie out of then, would it?

But it's ok, Jaime Foxx breaks free and seeks vengeance on the whites, so all is okay.

The more I think about QT's motives for writing a script, the more out of touch of reality he seems.

Maybe he has seen it. Either case, just this once, I'm ashamed to admit that I'm actually with agreement with Spike Lee, whose statement was:

'Black slavery wasn't some spaghetti western, it was a holocaust'.

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[–] jakodah91 11 years ago

Niceguy: agreed, especially the head cages and masks the slaves wear in Django Unchained, when i saw that I immediately thought of Addio Zio Tom.

[–] The_Magical_Negro 11 years ago

Tarantino was definitely inspired by this film. One of the three slaves that was in the LeQuint Mining Co. transport scene, has a bunch of missing teeth, much like crazy, caged savage that rapes the poor little slave girl in Goodbye, Uncle Tom..

If people never started wearing shoes, ingrown toenails would not exist. Think about it.

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[–] bluenotejazz 11 years ago

Of course Tarantino has seen this!

How else do you expect him to copy everyone elses ideas unless hes actually seen them?

[–] GrigoryGirl 11 years ago

LOL.

[–] luvhishands 11 years ago

That's what I thought after I saw QT's movie, too!

Yet, imo "Goodbye Uncle Tom' definitely is a more provocative movie, I saw it years ago at BFI in London at a special screening, there was a Q&A afterwards and the whole audience was supersensitive, it felt like they were ready to take revenge of hundred years of British colonisation and slavery once they leave the cinema, the rage was so visible in the room, one of the guest speakers commented : "That explains why they censored this movie in 70s"!

I don't know if anybody felt that way after watching "Django: Unchained" but it seems that Tarantino somehow toned down the violent scenes in "Uncle Tom" by transforming it to a spagetti western and adding some absolutely silly and out-of-place yet funny scenes like the KKK night time attack scene...

"Lust is good, lust is the way to go..."

[–] thatguy_78757 10 years ago

Django: Unchained takes a lot from DRUM and MANDINGO and I highly suspect he did see this

[–] beobnoxious 9 years ago

Yeah was hoping somebody would mention that