A Movie Analysis of Django Unchained Directed by Quentin Tarantino Essay

Film Review Django Unchained (2012)Django Unchained is a 2012 American movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. In his films, Quentin Tarantino uses the theme of revenge and he also uses history to distrubute deserving justice. Django Unchained and Inglorius Basterds movies can be examples of this statement. Both movies and their historical events are different from the reality and they also blur the line between the real and unreal events. So, this movie tells us the story of a German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz and a freed slave, Django who is on the road to rescue his wife Broomhilda from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner named Calvin Candie. We also see Django and his "unchaining" or breaking from bondage of slavery and achieving his goal in the movie. In my review I will examine the movie by three questions that are How Tarantino reverses discursive practices and culturally powerful agencies of slavery?, How does the popular reception of reality and fiction has become a means for Tarantino to rewrite and rethink about history? and how the main character transgresses mainstream White history of the United States?To begin with, in the Django Unchained movie Tarantino clearly criticises and reverses discursive practices and culturally powerful agencies like institutions, religion and politics. Firstly, slavery is the main practice which is criticised in the movie. Throughout the movie we see how bad the slave-traders and slave-owners treat the dark-skinned people. Slave owners treat these people like their toys or animals and make them whatever they want. Mandingo fighters and comfort girls can be examples for this situations. The white people are superior because of the slavery. Tarantino reverses this superiority situation in some parts of the movie. When they were going to Candyland Django tells Billy Crash that You better listen to your boss, white boy! which shows us that Djangos position is more superior as a black than a white man. Secondly, ...

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