Strange music for a Western
"rolling me down the highway..."
share"Highway"...
I actually love that music choice for that scene, but what I don't get is why they stopped the track one line short of making it perfect: ... "and I'm gonna go there free"...
I don't know why they stopped short of that last line which would have been perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C64ulH6lTAw
It may have had something to do with the scene which would have accompanied that line or been directly after it, with Django about to shoot a man who had never wronged him/crossed him, he’s hesitant to do so and is feeling conflicted about it, “He’s with his son.”
That line line carries a great deal of optimism/hope and I don’t think it would have meshed well with said scene.
I don't disagree, but as long as they used that track, they could have used the very best line that would befit a freed slave. I would have used that line in the travel montage that preceded the assassination scene - all they needed to do was just extend the lake scene with his wife for five more seconds. I just feel it was a big opportunity missed.
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Right you are, it surely was, and it does seem awfully strange Tarantino missed such an opportunity. If he ever releases the Director's Cut, please oh please oh please, maybe we’ll see it. It’s possible he picked that song for that very line but left it on the editing chopping block with the hour or two or three… (I hear it’s a lot), of extra footage.
shareGetting away from the topic, but at least these days the deleted scenes and other footage are kept. In the old days, film that wasn't in the final cut was literally scrapped (it was physical film after all).
I heard that as long as Gone With the Wind was, there was at least another 45 minutes of cut footage - gone forever.
At least if we get a DC of Django, we might get some restored stuff.
Isn’t that the truth, such a shame too, all that priceless film, forever gone.
Django is one of my favorite QT movies I would LOVE a DC of the film. And I could be wrong but like A Thin Red Line, there were many a famous actor who were cut from the film entirely. Not to mention the infamous scene in which Django is tortured by Stephen in which Stephen takes great pleasure (according to Samuel L) in burning off Django’s nipples. I’m not making this up, there are interviews with Samuel in which he voices his displeasure of having his torture scene scrapped as he put a great deal of work into it.