The Reel Rejects - DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:47 Wow. So good. Wow. Yeah, I'm so glad that they put like no horses were harmed in making this video. Because when he pulls that guy off the horse and the horse, like that is a stunt. the horses can do when they fall over but i'm just always afraid of them being hurt right right i just really hate it so i'm really glad that they put that right away of course of course i can't stand an animal being messed with absolutely i agree with you i love jonah was it like

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Starting point is 00:03:01 Let's see what, yeah. Well, as I mentioned coming into this, Tara and I have not seen a ton of Tarantino films. Having said that I love a good revenge story. And I mean, this man was just put through every type of, you know, insult, type of torturous thing you could throw at him. And the perseverance and the intuitiveness of this character. I just love how right away you just get so invested in his character.

Starting point is 00:03:32 And also to not only Django, but with Dr. Schultz, I immediately just fell so in love. And both these characters just resonated with me. And on top of that, I'm going to get so much more into Django, too. I just want to really quickly jump into Dr. Schultz because I kind of, as I kind of made the prediction, I love this character right away in the first five minutes. I'm so scared that we might get portrayed by this character, which I'm so glad they didn't go that route. Thank God. But I just want to make a point that because in the few Quentin Tarantino films I have seen,

Starting point is 00:04:02 he does a great job of painting a picture that as, you know, there are good people in the world, but there's also awful, scummy, shitty, disgusting human beings. I won't even classify them as human beings, but individuals in the world. And I think, like, he just does a good job of highlighting that in his films. Yeah. But also he does a good job of highlighting that, you know, there are some great people, too. and Dr. Schultz was one of them and I like in a world where it's easier

Starting point is 00:04:29 to be a scummy, awful human being that Dr. Schultz chose to have a moral compass stood above the rest. Yeah, stood above the rest. And I just loved his character so damn much. Obviously, again, you need a wonderful actor and I think, like, again,

Starting point is 00:04:42 the only other Quentin Tarantino film I've seen of Christoph Waltz working with Quentin Tarantino wasn't glorious bastards and everyone knows I'm Jewish. I despise and hate Nazis, but his performance in that movie was mesmerized.

Starting point is 00:04:55 he was one of the best villainous performances in a film ever. He's incredible. And hold on. Hold that thought, guys. Oh, that's all they said. Never mind. Never mind. Love it.

Starting point is 00:05:08 But the point I'm making is good guy, bad guy, the combination of Christoph Waltz, well, any director is good, but Christoph Waltz and Quinn Tarantino, they are so damn good together. Getting back to Django, I just love, like, it doesn't matter what is thrown his way. Like, he just finds a way to work through it. And again, like in a world of awfulness, he just finds a way to rise above the difficult nature of everything. And I just love characters like that.

Starting point is 00:05:35 Like there's a good message there. No matter what you have, what obstacles are in your way, you can rise above. And this is a time where it was very difficult to rise above. Yeah. And I appreciate that I got a lot more to say. It really was. I want to hear some Tara thoughts, though. Oh, I mean, I loved it.

Starting point is 00:05:51 From really setting us up with the, I mean, number one in Tara, Tarantino's films, we're always going to get good cinematography, good lighting. I mean, he always knows how to shoot a shot and make it, like, impact you as an audience member. But I think really in this one, like the writing from the start to the finish to bring us into a character where, you know, he's just been through hell, setting him up with Waltz, who's like, this guy. just like one in a million like why do we have this guy in this world but let's show it to the people how this this probably could be like you were saying there are good people in this world of absolute shit and he gets and to have their camaraderie build where it was really really sweet when you see them on the mountain and he's teaching him to read there's a passage of time in those beautiful

Starting point is 00:06:50 shots of them riding into the mount through the mountains and stuff like that and then eating and Walt is telling him his story, telling him about that, that German story with the dragon. And it's like he's, he's almost treating him like he's a child because he doesn't know a lot that we're putting Walt in this frame of being his teacher, except he's teaching him all the good stuff. And it was such a good direction that while Waltz was telling him that story, what we really get to see from Jamie Fox is he's sitting there like a kid. And he looks kind of like exciting. He's like, well, what happened? Which I thought was just really great direction to bring us into the heart of who like Jamie Foxx, Django was, of his life has been

Starting point is 00:07:36 hell. And now there are highlights with this guy who's teaching him and giving him sort of little bits of joy for him to live in, which was just really sweet to see. And then they're on the mountain. He's teaching him how to read. And then it comes full circle. that at the very end he knows how to say all those words on the wanted bill who is exactly wanted and even towards the end he's like do I sound like a slave to you like because he doesn't and that's thanks to Waltz's character to Schultz and I think that the writing through that in taking its time and showing us that journey is just it was really really sweet which is why I think like when Schultz dies it's uh it sucks except for it make they make up for it in this writing where it's

Starting point is 00:08:31 like we've got a happy ending but we also have what seems to be a really good revenge kill he kills the dickhead that DiCaprio plays like without decapri even seeing it him being stunned at him dying is a great way for waltz to go out waltz could have i don't know if he had another bolt in his gun but he's quick enough to have shot the other guy but he turned around and was like i had to do it or i had no other choice i couldn't resist i think was the line perfect for him on his way to go out with that i just think it's it's brilliant writing from beginning to end yeah you make some incredible points i agree with everything you just said um and i also didn't just he was definitely a teacher i also kind of view him as a surrogate father too jay

Starting point is 00:09:22 for sure. And I love how you were just saying how he educated him through that and then again it came back full circle and I was really again the film really did a good job of saying so suspenseful throughout the film because I mean I'm usually shitty at predicting anyways but that's kind of the fun

Starting point is 00:09:38 of doing these reactions is like because usually when you're in a movie theater just watching at home you kind of just in your head say it but that's part of the charm and fun of doing it usually Tara is correct on those anyways but the point I'm making is there were just so many times I'm like I really have no idea where this is going. And I love that. I love when films just can be so unpredictable in a

Starting point is 00:09:57 satisfying way like this one was. And I love that that's where we were going. Like, that's what they were setting him up for. I mean, just the fact that he just wanted to help educate him because he's a good man with a moral compass. But also the fact that like, no, we were setting it up for the ending too. Like once Django got caught there, I'm like, how's he going to escape right now? And the way they do it, it's such brilliant writing. And again, just getting invested with Schultz and Jango in the beginning too. When they go in and they're sitting in the bar and he's going to get the sheriff from like,

Starting point is 00:10:28 what do we do? Why not get out of there? And then the whole way, how we talk to the marsh, I'm like, it's brilliant writing like Tara said. It's just, I just love the script by Tarantino. And I think that Schultz said when he gave him, he's like, it's good luck to keep your first bounty hunter when he handed him.

Starting point is 00:10:45 I think he said luck. And we definitely see that come into play with like, he pulls it out. And then he gets the gun and he gets to blow him all to pieces, which is great. And as evil and horrible as DiCaprio's character, I love his performance, by the way. He does a good job playing a p. He's phenomenal. He did a good job playing a vile, awful human.

Starting point is 00:11:04 He just did the rest of the cast. But I love a lot of the interactions where Django and Waltz are just playing him. And also, too, that one scene, too, it was an awful scene what happened to D'Artagnan with the dogs. Terrible. But again, I know I keep using this word, but the moral compass of, uh, Dr. Schultz, like, to not want to see an individual get hurt, get mauled to death, like he did and, like, was about to pay the money, the $500. But Django knew, like, hey, this is going to kind of ruin our cover right now.

Starting point is 00:11:35 So being adaptable to the situation, understanding the character, like, hey, this guy is not worth anything to us. We want nothing. And then Dr. Schultz saying, he's right. We got to play characters. I just have to let this go because now DiCaprio would have known. Yeah, something's up with these guys, not that they want to do this. again it's just it's i'm just going off this is brilliant writing it's just it's really incredible and also i got to say this too for a film at two hours and 45 minutes for me personally

Starting point is 00:12:03 terra i'm not sure how you felt i never felt the length of time the pacing was incredible and i will say this too like i've watched films that are an hour and 45 minutes but feel like three hours and three and a half hours and this is a two hour and 45 minute film that feels like an hour and 20 minutes i agree so i think it's a just a really well-paced film the lighting is so well the cinematography you got a lot of 360 oneers you got great tracking shots you got beautiful shots of uh with the mountains in the background on location you got great special effects you got incredible hand-to-hand action sequences you got blood squibs going everywhere you got the shot the blood going on the the horse the blood going on the flowers so such iconic

Starting point is 00:12:44 shots in this movie yeah wonderful performances by all the actors um i just can't praise this film enough for how incredible it is. I would hope that it's gotten, I'm sure, nominations. It's really good, especially for the action sequences. A lot of the stunts were really phenomenal as well. And the amount of blood that we get, which is like kind of a Tarantino thing, right? Right, right. We definitely get that Tarantino amount of blood and people blowing up and heads coming off, which is great.

Starting point is 00:13:17 I have to ask you a question. Yeah. So before we get into trivia, out of 10 on IMD. what would you say the average rating is now anything above like i maybe i'm wrong you guys can correct me in the comments anything above seven is usually really good what would you give what would you think this got an average rating at a 10 this film well people are ass wipes sometimes okay are we saying i want to make like a good guess i'm going to just say eight eight point five out of 10 oh okay such a high rating good i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad

Starting point is 00:13:51 Because I was, I thought you were going to scare me and be like people are jerks and gave it like a low rating. Damn. 8.5 is phenomenal. It's a great film. But Quentin Tarantino, as I'm scrolling down, Quentin Tarantino's got a higher one at this point. Oh, yeah. He makes great. Yes, he does.

Starting point is 00:14:09 All right. Do you have anything else you like that? No, let's do trivia. Okay. When Calvin Candy, Leonardo DiCaprio, smashes his hand on the dinner table, DeCaprio did accidentally crush a small stem glass with his palm and did really begin. begin to bleed. I was wondering if that was real. I had to feel. I was about to say that. He ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene. Quentin Tarantino was so impressed

Starting point is 00:14:30 that he used this take in the final print. And when he called Cut, the room erupted in a standing ovation from all the crew members. DiCaprio's hand was bandaged and he suggested the idea of smearing blood under the face of Kerry Washington. Tarantino and Washington both liked this and agreed to it. So Tarantino got some fake blood together. April. Sorry, I had to get and pretend I was a crew member there. But I was serious. I was really close to saying, is this real? Because how do, where did they, like this feels real like he's really bleeding. I love that. That's damn. I mean, I can't. That's my favorite piece of trivia. Oh my. That's probably one of the

Starting point is 00:15:10 favorite, my favorite that I've ever read out loud or heard. Uh, Franco Niro, the lead actor from Django. It's a 1966 film. Oh. The movie, which inspired this one has a cameo. is the owner of the slave that fights against a slave owned by Calvin Candy. The screenplay gives his character the name Amarigo Vasipi. After being asked to spell his name, Django explains the D is silent. Nero replies, I know. Oh, is that guy. The old guy, the white guy with the blue eyes.

Starting point is 00:15:41 The one I said from Die Hard 2, I was right, Die Hard 2, Esperanza. I called that one. I knew he looked familiar. I was like, I know I've seen this guy. Die Hard 2 is when my brain was firing off. After working on this film, composer Ennio Marcon, I do know that composer, said he would probably never again collaborate with Quentin Tarantino, said he didn't like the way he places music in his films without coherence and never giving enough time.

Starting point is 00:16:08 However, Murakone and Tarantino collaborated again on the film The Hateful Eight in 2015, which earned Marcon, his first Academy Award. Well, I'm glad he chose to work with him again, and I'm glad he won an Academy Award. I do want to see that film with Tara as well as many of the other ones. Has it been a while since you've seen Once Upon Time in America? Or Once Upon Time in Hollywood? It's probably been a couple years, but Leonardo's Cabrero seen in that is, to me, 15 million stars. This is not a spoiler for those who know.

Starting point is 00:16:42 It's in the trailer. 15 million stars. That performance is the best. Well, once we go on our Quinn Tarantino journey, we'll have to. to decide if it's been a little bit since you've seen it. Or we can just be transparent and say, hey, you've seen it. It's been a few years. We'll figure that out when we get there.

Starting point is 00:16:59 In an interview, Quentin Tarantino stated that originally in the mandingo fight scene and the scene with the dogs were longer and more violent. He said he felt like he was going to traumatize the audience, so he cut both scenes down. Thank you. Good. Thanks. Yeah, I did. Because I was already traumatized. No, thanks.

Starting point is 00:17:17 Yeah. After an accident in training where Christoph Wall. was thrown off his horse and broke his pelvis. Jamie Fox gave him a gift to make him feel better about riding a horse, a saddle with a seatbelt. That's funny. Oh, man. I mean, it's not funny that he broke his pelvis, but it's a funny gift.

Starting point is 00:17:37 Yeah. And with good humor. I'll do a couple more. And then really quickly before we end, I just want to see any Academy Awards, any nominations. With a budget of $100 million. This is Quinn Tarantino's most expensive. film to date. Oh, yeah. Christoph Waltz turned down the role when first given the script.

Starting point is 00:17:58 He felt that it was too tailored to his persona. Quentin Tarantino insisted it would not take no for an answer. Waltz did agree under one condition. His character had to be pure and never once act in a negative or evil manner. Tarantino sent him a handwritten letter that simply said, and I quote, of course, Miner Q. Waltz sent a telegram

Starting point is 00:18:23 back. Miner of course CW. Okay, great. Glad they were in agreement. Love it. His performance is incredible. It's probably, I would say, again,

Starting point is 00:18:32 all the performances are mesmerizing. He's probably my favorite performance in the zone, but they're all phenomenal. Quentin Tarantino has said that Calvin J. Candy is the only character he has ever created whom he truly despises. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:47 I despised also Stephen too, but Calvin's, I mean, he's right up there as well. Yeah. The film was shot in 130 days. This was Quentin Tarantino's longest shooting schedule for a single film. You could tell this was an absolute nightmare probably to film. Probably very gratifying in the end, but it was a nightmare, I can imagine. All right, I'll do three more.

Starting point is 00:19:10 Okay. Zoe Bell, a favorite stuntwoman of writer and director Quentin Tarantino, appears as the tracker with the bandana hiding her face. that's why she was highlighted i was wondering yeah they kept on highlighting i like that yeah oh she does stunts in all his movies that appears once upon a time in hollywood all them love that christoph waltz dislocated his pelvic bone which we just read while training for his part he alluded to the injury backstage after winning the golden globe stating and i quote riding a horse wasn't much of a challenge falling off was waltz's injury necessitated that dr king shultz's early scenes of horse on horseback be accommodated by our a horse-drawn wagon instead. Oh, there we have it. I love it.

Starting point is 00:19:53 I love that with the, whoever came up with the tooth on top, like that is so brilliant. It just adds like just personality to the character without even saying anything. Right. Totally.

Starting point is 00:20:06 It's a very conventional character. When Quentin Tarantino first met Franco Niro in Rome, he told Nero that he, that he first saw Django, the 1966 film when he was first working in a video store, right? We all know Quentin worked there.

Starting point is 00:20:20 He then proceeded to recite lines and even sing the songs to Nero from all the movies. Nero was astonished. He knew them all. I love that. That's something I would do. What a nerd. Yeah, like if I met one of my favorite actors, I would so do something like that. Are you going to look up the Oscars?

Starting point is 00:20:35 I'm going to look that up right. I'm just going to read one more. The Jonah Hill one. Oh, okay, yeah. Jonah Hill was supposed to play a bigger role in this film. He was originally cast to portray a character named Scotty Harmony, the son of southern slave buyers who would purchase Brumilda,

Starting point is 00:20:50 Kerry Washington, to become his concubine. The entire segment was cut. Aw. Okay. All right, let's just look up really quickly. So this film was 2012,

Starting point is 00:21:00 so I would imagine 2013 Oscars. Yeah. 2013 Academy Awards. And then just write Django, and it'll tell you. Oh, just Django? Django and Chains. Like, write the...

Starting point is 00:21:12 Yeah. Django Unchanged. I was just going to go to Wickey. and just look up nominations. Jingo and Chained Academy Awards. Best Supporting Actor, winner, Christoph Waltz, best original screenplay, winner, Quentin Tarantino, Best Picture, Nominee,

Starting point is 00:21:26 Best Cinematography, nominee. I mean, I said my favorite performance was Christoph Waltz and who ended up winning. I'm surprised, I got to tell you, I'm a little shocked and surprised. I don't know who the other nominations, I'm sure they were very deserving,

Starting point is 00:21:40 but I'm a little surprised, no DiCaprio or no Jamie Fox, or even Carrie Washington. Right. But I guess you can't. nominate everyone but they were all yeah but the other ones very well deserved but um any final words final thoughts no great film guys this was um it was tough to watch at times but it was also very gratifying at the same time as an incredible film um Quentin Tarantino awesome film I definitely

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The Reel Rejects - DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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