Django: Unchained Entertainment of the Wild West – Editorial

Premise

Django Unchained: The Masterpiece. Nineteenth century, West of the USA… One of the most captured, exaggerated, played down era Hollywood adapted to the silver screen. The US government was just starting to realize how vast the country is and how abundant the resources of the godless country are.

People died on a daily basis fighting among themselves, Indians (known as red Indians to the true, east Indians), gold rushes, outlaws, bounty hunters, rattlesnakes, cholera, smallpox, etc… And one of the worst examples of human treatment in the history of humankind. Slavery with an uppercase S.

In this period of time, what happens when a slave rises through the white folk and becomes a bounty hunter who kills bad white guys to earn bounties in pursuit of rescuing his bae from the heart of the slave-trade capital, Mississippi? Well, that’s the gist of the movie Django Unchained.

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Argument

Hollywood’s love with the wild old west isn’t something new. Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name and the whistling soundtrack of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are THE iconic things that come to mind when we think of the wild west movies. Or they were until the bloodthirsty, gory galore loving director Quentin Tarantino showed the natural and beautifully cruel depiction of the nineteenth century west.

The way he built the characters in Django Unchained is nothing less than a work of a master artist who knows what he wants and gets it no matter the whims of some snowflake audience. The movie was highly criticized for the heavy usage of the N-word. But, any movie lover would agree that not one N-word in the movie seems out of place.

And of course, the entertainment part. Django shows that given the right score, dialogue and premise, anything can be entertaining. Few kills in the movie are certified Hall of Fame kills to have ever watched on the silver screen. Be it the death of the Big Daddy or Calvin Candy or even the relatively cruel death of the outlaw Smitty Bacall in front of his own son.

The music used in the movie is spot on. It never feels out of the context. Let it be Tupac singing about death or Jim Croce showing off his guitar. The visuals are great too! The way a bullet stroke creates a pink and red mist in the air like a puff of smoke, the blood splatters across the halls of Candyland… This might seem cruel, but, we have to come to terms with the fact that it looks refreshing when compared to the unrealistic deaths that happen in other movies. The dialogue is aggressively stunning and ranks among one of the best works of the director till date.

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Conclusion

So, how does Django Unchained rate on the entertainment scale? What would you call when King Schultz kills the Sheriff of the town like a dog on the street and somehow convinces the Army Marshall to pay him $200? UNCHAINED…

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Suhel Abdulla

Another Engineer this world wanted but never needed. I was surrounded my whole life by the three most successful religions in the whole world. I was born a Muslim, grew up around Hindus and my School Teachers were Christians. I won’t assume, I won’t blame and I won’t shame. I listen, I understand and I write. I don’t have any complaints, just concerns. I'm curious enough to learn from the past, care for the present and hope for the future. I love Freedom of speech and writing keeps me free.

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