Django: Unchained

[Dasquian Belargic]

Tarantino does spaghetti western...

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[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

It looks like plain old fashioned fun in that most delightful of flavors, Tarantino :D

[Emelie Shadowstar]

<3 I gotta admit... the trailer was more than enough to make me pretty happy.

[Halajiin Rabeak]

I honestly don't care much for any of Tarantino's movies up until Inglorious Basterds, but as this one seems to have the same sort of feel, I might be up for it. Still on the fence.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'll be there. After all, a Tarantino movie brought me together with my husband (Kill Bill). That's not why I want to see it, though. I think it looks good. :D

[Tevit Ramastan]

So, I haven't seen it yet, but I want to. And this makes me want to see it even more:

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</td></tr></tbody></table>There, got the embed to work, at last!


Anyone here seen the real thing? Thoughts?

[Morgan Evanar]

There you go.

[Dasquian the Elf]

Saw this today. It was a looong film, but enjoyable. DiCaprio plays such a loathsome twat.

[CMJ]

Like all of Tarantino's films, it has some really good stuff but doesn't quite work for me completely. Waltz and DiCaprio were great though. The cinemtography was also particularly noteworthy IMHO.

Was not a fan of the last 20-25 minutes or so. And someone needs to reign in QT's self indulgence -- it's getting worse.

[Crusader]

I really enjoyed this movie but in my eyes Tarantino has just unintentionally voluntered to adapt the Nibelungen Saga as a movie. Why? Because he says that every child in Germany knows it and then he starts to tell the story of Wagner's opera but that came out in 1853 and is an adaptation of the Nibelungen Lied and Norse Mytholegie.
Since the movie is set only 5 years later Schulz would have known the Nibelungen Lied and not the Opera and therefore calling Django a Siegfried would have been awkward... if you know the first half of the Nibelungen Lied you will know what I mean.

Sorry for the rant here.

This movie is awesome and certainly one of the best Tarantino movies.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I did wonder if the German mythology that was discussed was accurate or not. To someone who is ignorant of those stories, it all seemed very credible!

[Crusader]

It is not wrong the only problem is that it is not German mythology but from Iceland and Sweden:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lsunga_saga

Both mythologies use the same original lore but the Völsunga Saga was first written down in the late 13th century but in Sweden.

The Nibelungenlied on the other hand was released in Middle High German at the end of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem that was forced on childrens ever since the 18th century and so Schulz would have more likely known this version of the saga (see excerpt below):

<table class="toccolours" rules="cols" cellpadding="7"><tbody><tr><th>Middle High German original</th> <th>Shumway translation</th> </tr> <tr> <td> Uns ist in alten mæren wunders vil geseit
von helden lobebæren, von grôzer arebeit,
von freuden, hôchgezîten, von weinen und von klagen,
von küener recken strîten muget ir nu wunder hœren sagen
</td> <td> Full many a wonder is told us in stories old,
of heroes worthy of praise, of hardships dire,
of joy and feasting, of weeping and of wailing;
of the fighting of bold warriors, now ye may hear wonders told.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied

Wagner unfortunately combined elements from both for the "Ring" cycle and Tarantino did not know that since he most likely only watched wagner and read the Wikiarticle on Brynhildr or Broomhilde if you want to write it like Samuel L Jackson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brynhildr

This is all really unfortunate since if Tarantino had read the Nibelungenlied he would have called her Krimhild (way more badass name) and therefore he would have had an instant backdoor for a sequel about vengeance that is taken too far.