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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Buttmunker
Refresh my memory on this.

Also, I could have enjoyed Inglorious Basterds if QT hadn't "changed history." I enjoyed Brad Pitt's performance, I enjoyed the comic relief he presented. I just didn't like Hitler and the rest being burned alive in a movie theater. That was just dumb. Ruined it for me, and I liked 2/3'rds of the film.
Don't think Hitler was burned alive. He was swiss cheesed by machine gun fire first.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Buttmunker
Refresh my memory on this.
The famous ear slicing scene was a reference to a similar ear slicing scene in Django. This is probably the best example of how the references in his films changed. As he took something from a Spaghetti Western and transformed it while still borrowing as opposed to his later films where there is far less, if any, transformation of genre or mood.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by wm lopez
His movies haven't exactly been packing them in lately.
He's done three films this decade:

J. Edgar - $79 million
Inception - $825 million
Shutter Island - $294 million

I guess you could categorize J. Edgar as a bit of a flop, but he otherwise seems to be doing well.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Buttmunker
Refresh my memory on this.

Also, I could have enjoyed Inglorious Basterds if QT hadn't "changed history." I enjoyed Brad Pitt's performance, I enjoyed the comic relief he presented. I just didn't like Hitler and the rest being burned alive in a movie theater. That was just dumb. Ruined it for me, and I liked 2/3'rds of the film.
Did you go in thinking history wasn't going to be changed in some way w/ this film? The mere idea of putting a fictional story in a WW2 set film changes history in general. Many films have done it. Though I can't say that many of them literally went out and killed Hitler.

The film starts off with:



Pretty much setting up that this was going to be different. At least for me. Add in that QT films always have a sense of being pretty unreal.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
Did you go in thinking history wasn't going to be changed in some way w/ this film? The mere idea of putting a fictional story in a WW2 set film changes history in general. Many films have done it. Though I can't say that many of them literally went out and killed Hitler.

The film starts off with:



Pretty much setting up that this was going to be different. At least for me. Add in that QT films always have a sense of being pretty unreal.
Yep, everybody knows that the Nazis didn't occupy France until Chapter 7.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Buttmunker
Refresh my memory on this.

Also, I could have enjoyed Inglorious Basterds if QT hadn't "changed history." I enjoyed Brad Pitt's performance, I enjoyed the comic relief he presented. I just didn't like Hitler and the rest being burned alive in a movie theater. That was just dumb. Ruined it for me, and I liked 2/3'rds of the film.
Killing Hitler provides that "Fuck Yeah!" Moment. I knew there was going some liberties taken but I thought they would stay true to Hitler's fate. It took me by surprise seeing Hitler mowed down like that. It was the one of the best moments for me as a movie goer because it provides that cathartic release. Plus I like seeing mother fuckers get mowed down.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

He's really going to hate Lincoln. The part where Abe commits suicide in the bunker is a little out of left field but very sentimental in typical Spielberg fashion.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Sean O'Hara
He's done three films this decade:

J. Edgar - $79 million
Inception - $825 million
Shutter Island - $294 million

I guess you could categorize J. Edgar as a bit of a flop, but he otherwise seems to be doing well.
What sold SHUTTER ISLAND was the director .
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by wm lopez
What sold SHUTTER ISLAND was the director .

The mainstream never goes out of their way to see a Martin Scorsese film simply because it's Marty.

Never have. Never will.

JoeMainstream6Pack doesn't give two shits about who is directing or writing what.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by wm lopez
What sold SHUTTER ISLAND was the director .
Classic sign of a wingnut. Any evidence to that contradicts your theory doesn't really count because -- hey look over there.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
I disagree with the guy, but that's actually the same problem I have with Diablo Cody. All of her characters sound like they're 40 years old in the bodies of teenagers. It doesn't work. Young Adult rocked, though.

QT is awesome.
In his praise of Jackie Brown in this video clip, Mark Kermode seems to completely miss that it was an adaptation of a novel (the book "Rum Punch" by Elmore Leonard) and NOT an original screenplay, which (IMO) is the primary reason why it is so different from Tarantino's other films (all of which are based on original screenplays written, or co-written, by him).
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

QT interview w/ Playboy

here's a nice bit about the casting though:

I met six different actors and had extensive meetings with all of them, and I went in-depth on all of their work,” Tarantino tells Playboy (in the issue that will be on stands Nov. 20). “Idris Elba, Chris Tucker, Terrence Howard, M.K. Williams [from HBO's Boardwalk Empire], Tyrese. They all appreciated the material, and I was going to put them through the paces, make them go off against one another and kind of put up an obstacle course. And then I met Jamie and realized I didn’t need to do that.” So what was it about Foxx that led Tarantino to cast him? “He was the cowboy… Forget the fact that he has his own horse — and that is actually his horse in the movie. He’s from Texas; he understands. …He understood what it’s like to be thought of as an ‘other.’”
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

^ fucking Tyrese?
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

What about it? I'm pretty sure a lot of black actors wanted a chance at that. Not unreal that Gibson would want a chance at it.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
What about it? I'm pretty sure a lot of black actors wanted a chance at that. Not unreal that Gibson would want a chance at it.
it's unreal that tarantino considered him not that tyrese wanted the job
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Also there's Chris Tucker...who from what I hear is actually a good actor from Silver Linings Playbook.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Tucker could be a great actor, if he ever acted. I can't say he's picky, either, since he's only made "Rush Hour" movies since 1997.

That QT Playboy interview is great.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

It is. I really like QT's thoughts of when he should end.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

The movie's length has been confirmed at 2 hours and 45 minutes. Wow.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

That's trimmed down 15+ mins.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

What do you mean it's trimmed down 15 + mins?
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
What do you mean it's trimmed down 15 + mins?
He means they added an hour.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
What do you mean it's trimmed down 15 + mins?
The cut I saw was around 3:10.
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Have you mentioned that here? That you saw it?
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Re: Django Unchained -- D: Quentin Tarantino S: Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz -- 12/25/12

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
Have you mentioned that here? That you saw it?
Back on page 14 of this thread. Start here... http://forum.dvdtalk.com/11456251-post333.html

Quentin sat behind me and in his intro for the film, did say that is was 3 hours.

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