Django Unchained

[ChrisMC]

Django Unchained - Trailer / Bande-Annonce [VO|HD]

New Tarantino. Christoph Waltz. Western. Johny Cash music in the trailer...I'm so there. Can't wait.

[Rico]

Great trailer.  Love Tarantino stuff.  I'm so there too!   :biggrin

[Jobydrone]

There's supposedly been a lot of turmoil on the set of this film, with three well known actors dropping out or even walking off the set.  Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, and Sascha Baron Cohen were all attached at one time or another and there are rumors that some or all of them quit due to the highly racially charged elements of the script.  This rings true to me, especially with Costner but not as much with Russell and Cohen who are neither strangers to controversy or taboo subjects. Anyway I'll definitely be there, never seen a Tarantino film I didn't love.

[Poodyglitz]

I am so there! Thanks for sharing, Chris.

[Meds]

I'm in, looks great.

[Meds]

Saw this on the MTV site. Five secrets of the trailer.

What's In A Name?
Tarantino has always filled his movies with some subtle (and not so subtle) references to the movies he admires. The title character in "Django Unchained" owes his name to the rich legacy of other Djangos in film. The original Django appeared in an Italian-made Western from 1966 by director Sergio Corbucci. In the original "Django," the character is a mysterious drifter who drags a coffin around with him wherever he goes. Naturally, the coffin contains a machine gun. Dozens of other films ripped off the film, trying to repeat the original by featuring a character with the same name, but Corbucci and star Franco Nero only made one other Django movie, a 1987 sequel called "Django 2: il grande ritorno."

The Hidden Gun
This tricky little pistol shows up twice during the trailer, but expect to see a lot more of it in the actual film. A contraption used by Dr. King Schultz, the hidden gun retracts up into the wearer's sleeve and pops out when needed for a surprising blast. The device shows up pretty regularly in Westerns, and it even makes an appearance in one of Tarantino's favorite movies of all time, Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver."

The Leo Zoom-In
The first time we see Leonardo DiCaprio, Tarantino does a jarring zoom-in on his smug, smiling face. The move comes straight out of the spaghetti Westerns that the style of "Django Unchained" pulls inspiration from. The most notable director of the genre, Sergio Leone, directed four of its most famous films: "Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," and "Once Upon a Time in the West." Tarantino has borrowed from Leone and the spaghetti Western aesthetic on other occasions, including nods in "Kill Bill" and "Inglourious Basterds."

Django Unchained
Don Johnson
The lucky journalists at Cannes who got a sneak preview of "Django Unchained" left the theater raving about the performance of '80s TV star Don Johnson. He actually appears in the trailer, right around the two-minute mark, as the Colonel Sanders-esque gentleman on a horse. Johnson has found himself in a series of intriguing roles in recent years, appearing in "Machete" and "Eastbound and Down." It's safe to say that "Django Unchained" will continue that trajectory.

Franco Nero
Right at the end of the trailer, Tarantino throws in one last Easter egg for hard-core film fans. That man next to Jamie Foxx when he speaks the "D is silent" line? That's Franco Nero, the original Django.

[Bryancd]

That does look good. Those first few scenes at the start of the trailer looks like my backyard! The scenery, not the slave gang...

[Poodyglitz]

That does look good. Those first few scenes at the start of the trailer looks like my backyard! The scenery, not the slave gang...

[Heaves huge sigh of relief] Whew! :)

[Bryancd]

That does look good. Those first few scenes at the start of the trailer looks like my backyard! The scenery, not the slave gang...

[Heaves huge sigh of relief] Whew! :)

ROTFLMAO!!

[Poodyglitz]

ROTFLMAO!!

I'm happy that my image of you as a cool guy has not been disturbed. :)

Seriously though; I actually went to an employment agency while vacationing in Tucson and was strenuously discouraged from looking for work. Part of the pretense was that Tucson was primarily a PC (Windows) town and I was a Mac guy. It was a really weird encounter. I walked away with the impression that it wasn't going to be easy for a Black professional in that town.

This was back in the mid-90's when the economy was doing well.

New Mexico is still on the list of possibilities after my daughter graduates college.

[ChrisMC]

Django Unchained Official Trailer #2 (2012) - Quentin Tarantino Movie HD

New trailer. Looks SO DAMN GOOD. This is my most anticipated movie, other than The Hobbit, for the winter. Tarantino rules!

[Rico]

Looks awesome!

[Meds]

I'm in, I am so in.

[Rico]

International Poster.

[Rico]

So, I finally got chance to see this movie.  Really cool movie and very Tarantino.  Enjoyed it a lot.

[spoiler]Movie is not for the squeamish.  Lots of violence obviously and language.  But nobody does movies like Tarantino.  The whole cast was great.  Jamie Foxx can sure handle a gun and a horse.  I read he rode his own horse for the film - which definitely showed.  Worth seeing this if you enjoy a violent western.[/spoiler]