I chose one of my favorite movies, Django Unchained, to write my blog over. Django unchained is considered to be a Drama/Blaxploitation. This film that was made in 2012 is a American Revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Taratino. Django Unchained was a remake to Sergio Corbucci’s 1996 film, which is actually the second remake of an Italian film.
Django stars a Southern slave (Jamie Foxx), who tries to escape a rough plantation with the love of his life/wife (Kerry Washington). Of course they get caught, they were labeled as runaways and then were sold in different states.This is a very significant part in the movie because from this point forward everything that Django does is to find his wife again.
Throughout this film taratino is giving us some extremely bloody gunfights, he gives us a comedic Klu Klux Klan scene, as well as some of the hardest-hitting revenge ever. I really enjoy this movie, because Taratino makes sure he touches on historical truths. He displays slavery in the movie like people had never seen before. He gives us moments where the violence exits the entertainment stage and actually becomes serious violence.
The main themes that I believe Taratino wanted to get across was slavery, ability, race, power and sexuality. These different themes are all showed multiple times throughout the film and are not hard to see. Slavery is shown from the beginning of the movie to the very end. Django begins this movie as a slave and very early into the movie becomes a free man. In some areas, Django still received treatment like he was a slave, and this is when race comes into play because the Whites believe they can treat him anyway they want, not knowing that he’s a free man. Django and other blacks were classified as “Niggers” quite a bit throughout the film.
Power and Sexuality was displayed when the film shows what goes on at the slave plantations. The owners do whatever they want and pick and choose who they want to treat with respect. Most women slaves got lucky and were mainly house slaves. Men were outside slaves who actually had to do physical work in order to maintain the plantation. There was a black male who was privileged to be an inside slave, due to the power the plantation owner had. The setting of this film really helped bring out a true raw picture of what slaves really had to go through. The characters were primary black and of course the characters that were white always came with some type of conflict towards the blacks. I think it is interesting how the black slaves out number the slave owners but are still outpowered. By some facial expressions of the slaves you can tell that they are obviously nervous/scared or highly pissed off about the situation they are in. This personally is one of the best drama movies I have watched. The ending of this film can make you cry and appreciate how blessed we are to be free and not have to experience being a slave.
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