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Top cast Edit. Jamie Foxx Django as Django. Christoph Waltz Dr. King Schultz as Dr. King Schultz. Samuel L. Jackson Stephen as Stephen. David Steen Mr. Stonesipher as Mr. Dana Gourrier Cora as Cora. Nichole Galicia Sheba as Sheba. Sammi Rotibi Rodney as Rodney.

Miriam F. Glover Betina as Betina. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In , a bounty-hunter named King Schultz seeks out a slave named Django and buys him because he needs him to find some men he is looking for.

After finding them, Django wants to find his wife, Broomhilda, who along with him were sold separately by his former owner for trying to escape. Schultz offers to help him if he chooses to stay with him and be his partner. Eventually they learn that she was sold to a plantation in Mississippi. Knowing they can't just go in and say they want her, they come up with a plan so that the owner will welcome them into his home and they can find a way.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of vengeance. Rated R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language and some nudity. Did you know Edit. Trivia When Calvin Candie Leonardo DiCaprio smashes his hand on the dinner-table, DiCaprio did accidentally crush a small stemmed glass with his palm and did really begin to bleed.

He ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene. Quentin Tarantino was so impressed that he used this take in the final print, and when he called cut, the room erupted in a standing ovation. DiCaprio's hand was bandaged, and he suggested the idea of smearing blood onto the face of Kerry Washington. Tarantino and Washington both liked this, so Tarantino got some fake blood together. Goofs Dynamite was not invented until by the Swede Alfred Nobel , while this film features it on several occasions and is set in Quotes Dr.

Django : Yeah. Django : Yes. The vicious comic cynicism of the first half gives way to vicious unbelievable sentiment in the second half. The murderous bounty hunter has a heart of gold. In Mississippi, Schultz finds his rhetorical equal in Calvin Candie Leonardo DiCaprio , an elegant plantation grandee who wears his hair long and his beard finely clipped, and who speaks in even lengthier sentences than Schultz.

DiCaprio plays this burlesque version of power-mad dominance with overwhelming relish, stroking his locks and beard like a Victorian stage villain; he even delivers a detailed lecture on phrenology a pseudo-science beloved by racists in the nineteenth century with thundering passion. The word is all over hip-hop and street talk, of course, but the taboo against it is the most powerful of all taboos in journalism and public discourse.

But freedom to do what? He tosses the word around again and again. Whites say it, blacks say it. They use it functionally, as a descriptive term, and contemptuously, in order to degrade. Samuel L. Jackson, as the unctuous and tyrannical Stephen, uses the word with especial vigor as a way of keeping down all the other blacks and ensuring his own predominance. Well, sure it is, but how much of that talk does Tarantino need to make his point? How much of this n-wording is faithful reporting of the way people talked in , or necessary dramatic emphasis, and how much of it is there to titillate and razz the audience?

By the end of the movie, the n-word loses its didactic value as a sign of racism. Schooled in the lively swamps of a California video store, Tarantino has always delighted people with his encyclopedic knowledge of B-movies, his delving into disreputable genres and trolling through the bottom drawers of schlock.

The long vistas alternating with super-tight closeups and snap zoom shots render homage to the visual tropes of the Spaghetti Westerns. But what is there to say about any of this referencing except that nodding to old movies is no particular virtue in itself?

What matters is what you do with the movie past. Django turns into a strutting modern dispenser of violence—a Fred Williamson who delivers frolicsome quips before dispensing each victim. Panache above all. The comic hyping of each speech, each emotion, each act becomes wearisome for me at least. The basic mechanism of exploitation is this: some bad person commits repeated atrocities against the innocent. Blueberry takes place during the American old west, where the main character starts out as a racist, but after he is saved by an African-American, he becomes a gunman who fights against all kinds of discrimination.

Franco Nero , making his cameo in the film, is seen wearing white gloves. This may be a reference to his wounds in Django However, this should not be seen as him being the same character in both movies, as Django took place in the s, and this movie took place in the s. King Schulz insists on saying good-bye in English to M. Candy because in English, the word has a certain finality to is, while in German, auf Wiedersehen actually means "until I see you again. Adieu is used when you never expect to see someone again.

For someone you do expect to meet again, you would say au revoir. Franco Nero was considered for the role of Calvin Candie, but instead was given a cameo appearance as a minor character. Nero suggested that he play a mysterious horseman who haunts Django in visions and is revealed in an ending flashback to be Django's father.

Quentin Tarantino opted not to use the idea. Leonardo DiCaprio does not appear until one hour and three minutes in. Takes place in Calvin Candie's speech about phrenology concerning the skulls of slaves is a pseudoscience, and had been disproven by the s, which furthers Mr.

Candie as being ignorant. These are the names of the horses of, respectively, silent Western stars William S. The final showdown with Django and the hillbilly trackers was written to be entirely different.

Stonesipher, the head of the trackers, was originally to be a stronger, and more threatening villain to Django. There was a scene written in the final draft of the script with Django killing the trackers with an axe. He then faces Mr. Stonesipher, and the two engage in hand-to-hand combat, with Stonesipher nearly defeating Django, but eventually losing. Russ Tamblyn , whose character in this movie is named "Son of a Gunfighter", starred in Son of a Gunfighter Also, Tamblyn's real-life daughter Amber played the character named "Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter".

Despite Quentin Tarantino writing the role of Django specifically for Will Smith , he ultimately decided to pass on the film, due to him seeing the character as not being the lead. He told Entertainment Weekly, "Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead. I was like, 'No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy. Just not for me. Sid Haig was a strong contender for the role of "Mr. Stonesipher", so much so that casting director Victoria Thomas informed Haig's agent, "It's a lock".

Quentin Tarantino scheduled, and later cancelled at the last minute, two auditions for Haig. Two months later, the role quietly went to David Steen instead. Tarantino, being known for his extremely dry humor, this "prank" is presumably rooted in Haig turning down the role of Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction Jackson does not appear until one hour and twenty-six minutes into the film. Tarantino used this effect in Reservoir Dogs and Death Proof Jackson and Walton Goggins.

Coincidentally, The Hateful Eight is set in the same universe as this movie, but is not a sequel. Jackson and Walton Goggins play different characters in both movies. This movie, along with True Grit , repeated a rare pattern, where twenty years earlier, two westerns the other being Dances with Wolves were nominated for Best Picture two years apart. After the actors left the project, the minor roles that were going to be played by Michael Kenneth Williams , Sacha Baron Cohen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were removed from the film.

In a January interview with Vanity Fair, costume designer Sharen Davis said much of the film's wardrobe was inspired by spaghetti westerns and other works of art. For Django's wardrobe, Davis and Quentin Tarantino watched Bonanza , and referred to it frequently. The pair even hired the hatmaker who designed the hat worn by Little Joe.

Davis described Django's look as a "rock-n-roll take on the character". In the final scene, Broomhilda wears a dress similar to that of Evelyn Stewart 's character in Blood for a Silver Dollar Davis said the idea of Calvin Candie's costume came partly from Rhett Butler, and that Don Johnson 's signature Miami Vice look inspired Big Daddy's cream-colored linen suit in the film. King Schultz's fake chinchilla coat was inspired by Telly Savalas in Kojak In one of the scenes at the beginning, Tarantino used an arrangement of the main music theme from Two Mules for Sister Sara , directed by Don Siegel , and original score written by Ennio Morricone.

Production designer J. Michael Riva died on June 7, , long before the Christmas Day release. This movie is his final credit. Quentin Tarantino 's first movie not edited by Sally Menke , who died in He is a Francophile, and it is a tradition among the French to greet each other by kissing on the cheeks.

The screenplay for this film was featured in the Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year. King Schultz's hat was made especially for the movie. It's a combination of a derby and a traditional cowboy hat. Christoph Waltz kept it as a souvenir. Quentin Tarantino included scenes in the snow as an homage to The Great Silence I liked the action in the snow so much, Django Unchained has a big snow section in the middle", Tarantino said in an interview.

Django is dressed in his "Blue Boy" attire, but when Little Jody looks at his image in the mirror next to the tree where she is tied, Django's head and hands are invisible in the reflection, elevating his mythic stature to that of an enchanted figure. In Gothic lore, specters and ghosts are unable to see their own reflections. This is technically not the first western Django movie on which Quentin Tarantino has worked.

He played a minor role in Sukiyaki Western Django The rifle used by Dr. King Schultz is a Sharps Buffalo, which appeared twenty years later than what the movie would suggest.

Gainey and Lil Raj Brittle Cooper Huckabee is from Django , when the main antagonist in the latter movie is using Mexican civilians as target practice. King Schultz's wife. On the gravestone, it states that Paula Schultz died in This film takes place in to , and Dr. King Shultz may have been married at some point in his life.

The scene with the Australian slave traders was originally written a little differently. Instead of two Aussies and the Southern hillbilly man played by Michael Parks , according to the final draft of the script, there were supposed to be three Australians, and the characters had more dialogue. Early in the film, Christoph Waltz kills a town Sheriff, and is about to be arrested by the local U.

Marshal, until he pulls out an arrest warrant for the man he has just killed. In the first draft of the script, Dr. King Schultz was written to be more vulgar.

David Steen plays Mr. Stonesipher, Candie's dog handler. The last time Steen worked with Quentin Tarantino , he played a dog-handling cop in Reservoir Dogs A decade earlier, Samuel L.

George Lucas named the character after the protagonist of Django , which was Quentin Tarantino 's inspiration behind this movie. In this movie, Jamie Foxx 's Django is a slave-turned-bounty-hunter. Marshall Gill Tatum has a curious name.

In the credits his title is spelled Marshall which is incorrect. It should only have one L. So it seems that the character was named after three Texas towns. This is the second Quentin Tarantino movie where Samuel L. Jackson plays a role where he scolds his boss in private, but behaves as their subordinate in public.

This was first seen in Pulp Fiction , where he scolds Marsellus Wallace about needing his help to resolve an issue involving a corpse and a blood soaked car. In Django Unchained , he scolds Calvin Candie for not seeing that he was being duped during his negotiations.

Quentin Tarantino wrote a role for Michael Kenneth Williams , but Williams had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with Boardwalk Empire The contraption that protrudes beneath from the Doctor's sleeve near the end of the film is a nod to the device Travis Bickle creates for himself in Taxi Driver, one of Tarantino's favorite films.

In Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle uses the device to rescue a prostitute from an abusive pimp - in Django, the Doctor uses the contraption to kill Calvin which indirectly facilitates the rescue of Django's enslaved wife. It has been suggested that Michael Parks ' character in this film is Earl McGraw's a role played numerous times by Parks ancestor, although neither Quentin Tarantino nor Parks have confirmed this.

Jamie Foxx's first western. Kerry Washington , who played Broomhilda, sought to bring authenticity to her performance in several ways. The actor playing her overseer used a fake whip, but Washington insisted the lashings really hit her back. And to dramatize her punishment inside an underground, coffin-size metal container, she and Tarantino agreed she would spend time barely clothed in the "hot box" before the filming began so the feeling of confinement would be as realistic as possible.

Christoph Waltz played a similar role in Alita: Battle Angel In that film, Dr. Four characters use the "n" word at least ten times: Calvin Candie twenty-nine times , Stephen twenty-seven , Django fourteen , and Big Daddy eleven.

The fifteenth biggest grossing film of Firearms used in the film: James Remar who plays two characters wields the same weapon as both, a muzzle-loading, double-barreled, sawed-off gauge shotgun; Lil' Raj Brittle carries a. Schultz wields a. Jackson walks from the kitchen to the dining room, then it switches off to Dr. King Schultz Christoph Waltz. Calvin J.

For these films, he was usually credited as "Calvin J. Quentin Tarantino has listed the Padget-Gemma trilogy among his favorite Spaghetti Westerns, and used the first film's theme for the soundtrack of Inglourious Basterds Kevin Costner was cast as Ace Woody, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.

This is the first stand-alone film not counting Grindhouse or Death Proof directed by Quentin Tarantino which was not produced by Lawrence Bender. Donald Trump posted a review of the film on Twitter where he said, "Django Unchained is the most racist movie I have ever seen, it sucked! The final draft of the script is dated April 26, Russell and Costner appeared in Miles to Graceland , and have played lawman Wyatt Earp , in Tombstone and Wyatt Earp , respectively.

Tarantino wrote the roles of Dr. Jackson in mind. Being a big fan of the show, Goggins accepted and appeared in six episodes. This is one of two films written and directed by Quentin Tarantino that featured Samuel L.