Django Unchained

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Django Unchained
Credits
Title:	Django Unchained
Genres:	Western
Directed by:	Quentin Tarantino
Written by:	Quentin Tarantino
Produced by:	William Paul Clark; Reginald Hudlin; Shannon McIntosh; Pilar Savone; Michael Shamberg; Stacey Sher; James W. Skotchdopole; Bob Weinstein; Harvey Weinstein
Cinematography:	Robert Richardson
Edited by:	Fred Raskin
Production
Distributed by:	The Weinstein Company Columbia Pictures
Released:	December 25th, 2012
Rating:	R
Running time:	165 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Budget:	$100,000,000
Gross:	$162,805,434 (US) $425,368,238 (Worldwide)
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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.

Cast

Credited cast

Actor	Role

Uncredited cast

Note: The following is taken from the full credits list for this entry on IMDB. As it is a website with user-submitted information, some of the data listed here, including character names may be inaccurate.

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Notes

• Django Unchained (2012) redirects to this page.

• Django Unchained was inspired by the era of "spaghetti westerns" that dominated the latter half of the 1960s, many of which were directed by famed Italian director, Sergio Leone. The name "Django" is taken from the character and 1966 film Django as well as its 1987 sequel, Django Strikes Again.

• Despite the fact that the main character in this film is named Django, Django Unchained is not a sequel or a remake of any other film bearing a similar title or characters.

• Production on Django Unchained began on November 1st, 2011 (pre-production). Principal filming commenced on February 6th, 2012 and completed on July 25th, 2012.

• The movie was shot on-location in a variety of locales including Durango, Mexico, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Santa Clarita, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Django Unchained received moderately positive reviews from critics and holds an 88% "fresh" rating at the review aggregate website, Rotten Tomatoes. This was based on a total of 246 reviews, with 216 critics giving the film a positive rating, with thirty critics giving it a negative review. Another review aggregate site, Metacritic, gave the film a Metascore of 81 based on 42 reviews.

• Django Unchained: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, was produced by Universal Republic/Lorna Vista Recordings and released on December 18th, 2012. The title track song, "Django", was the theme song to the 1966 film, Django and was composed by Luis Bacalov and performed by Rocky Roberts.

• Django Unchained was released on DVD and Blu-ray (DVD, Digital copy and UltraViolet) by Anchor Bay Entertainment on April 16th, 2013. It was also released as a three-disc Steelbook edition Blu-ray on May 20th, 2014.

• This is Quentin Tarantino's eighth feature film as a director (not counting segments and co-directing credits). As a screenwriter, this is his eleventh feature film (again discounting films where he receives only partial credit).

• Director Spike Lee was a harsh critic of the film, once again levying charges of racism against director/writer Quentin Tarantino.

• Actor Christoph Waltz won the Academy Award for the category of Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Doctor King Schultz.

• Quentin Tarantino won the Oscar for the category of Best Writing, Original Screenplay at the 2013 Academy Awards.

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.

Recommendations

Quentin Tarantino films

Django Unchained Hateful Eight, The Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Inglourious Basterds Jackie Brown Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs

Spaghetti Westerns

• Django
• Django Strikes Again

See also

• Django Unchained
• Django Unchained media
• Django Unchained images
• Django Unchained characters
• Django Unchained miscellaneous

External Links

Django Unchained at AMG Django Unchained at IMDB Django Unchained at Wikipedia Django Unchained at Fandango Django Unchained at Starpulse

Django Unchained at Metacritic Django Unchained at Hollywood.com Django Unchained at Themoviedb.org Django Unchained at Rotten Tomatoes Django Unchained at the Django Unchained Wiki

Keywords

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

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