Django Unchained

Django Unchained is an American feature film of the western and action genres. It was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and produced by The Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures. It was released theatrically on Christimas Day, December 25th, 2012. The movie stars Jamie Foxx as Django - a slave who is rescued by a bounty hunter named Doctor King Schultz, played by Christoph Waltz. Together, the two venture forth from Texas to Mississippi, looking to capture wanted fugitives as well as to find Django's missing wife, Broomhild von Shaft (played by Kerry Washington). Other stars in the film include Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen, James Remar as Butch Pooch, Walton Goggins as Billy Crash and Don Johnson as Big Daddy.

Fun Facts

 * The tagline for this film is "Life, liberty and the pursuit of vengeance".


 * Director/writer Quentin Tarantino makes a cameo appearance in the film as one of the "bag head" clan members at Big Daddy's posse gathering.


 * Actor Jonah Hill makes a cameo appearance in this film as one of the "bag head" clan members at Big Daddy's posse gathering.


 * Actor Franco Nero, best known for playing the original Django makes a cameo appearance in this film as Dicky Speck.


 * Django's name is pronounced Jang-Go. As the character himself states, "The D is silent". This is also one of the promotional taglines for the film, "The 'D' is silent. Payback won't be".


 * A non-canonical version of Django makes a cameo guest appearance in the post-credit sequence of the 2014 comedy film, A Million Ways to Die in the West. In the scene, Django shoots and kills the operator of a racist shooting game. Afterward he intones one of the many lessons of the film, which is, "People die at the fair".


 * The "Funny or Die" comedy web series hosted a "Sad-off" competition between actors Samuel L. Jackson and Anne Hathaway to see whose holiday-release feature film was more depressing, Django Unchained or Les Miserables.

Keywords
1858; 19th century; Bounty hunter; Django; Germany; Horses; Mississippi; Racial slur; Slave; Texas