While we continue to gather information about why Quentin Tarantino is retiring, it is not a bad idea to continue immersed in his world, traveling among curiosities from his filming, including those that have given us titles that have been among the best films in the history of cinema.
This is what happened with ‘Django Unchained’ (2012), the biggest box office success of his entire career, an adventure of racism and revenge starring Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz in which we travel to the southern United States shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War. This context is perfect for a black slave and a German bounty hunter to join in a bloody crusade that will end up confronting the landowner Calvin Candie, making this production another essential entry among Leonardo DiCaprio’s best films.
“It has some repetition of the move of ‘Inglourious Basterds’ (2009), with its impulse to rewrite history through pop fiction (Django as the proto-Black Panther) and the magnetic presence of Christoph Waltz, an actor who is something like a Stradivarius in the hands of the virtuoso filmmaker (no one reels off his sinuous dialogues like him, crossing languages and registers with Versailles elegance)”, he commented Jordi Costa in his review of ‘Django Unchained.’ has lent to verbal language: the zooms and reframings of the staging seem to function as a stylistic counterpoint to that obsession with form(s)”.
One of the best-known curiosities of the filming is due to the angry villain and the stupor on Waltz and Foxx’s faces when, in the midst of hate speech, DiCaprio broke a glass with his hand and began to bleed profusely.. He continued in the role of him and Tarantino continued filming everyone’s spontaneous reactions. When the recording was finally cut, the room erupted in a standing ovation. DiCaprio had his hand bandaged with a napkin and suggested the idea of staining Kerry Washington’s face with blood and the director, delighted with the idea, obtained fake blood for continuity and to be able to leave the eventful and realistic moment with the glass.
At 2 hours and 45 minutes, his longest film to date, this It was Tarantino’s first work without his faithful editor Sally Menke, who sadly passed away in 2010., but neither its rhythm nor its cadence of shots is affected at any time. Tarantino delights in the length of the scenes and in maintaining the image until its final consequences, and at the same time it remains one of the best action films by the director from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Ricardo Rosado is a film critic, cultural journalist, expert in North American comedy, horror films of any kind and everything that happens between genres and formats. Raised on Steven Spielberg films, and spoiled since he encountered David Lynch, he has been writing for a decade about the art he consumes.
In FOTOGRAMAS you will read him commenting on the latest theatrical releases, promoting peace between Marvel and DC fans, reviewing all the Star Wars news or diving into the depths of the Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video and Filmin catalogues. He also likes to make galleries and rankings of movies and series, but no one trusts his judgment too much.
After studying Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, he created a film review blog with the hope of attending film festivals and press screenings for free. Now, after seven years writing in FOTOGRAMAS about the latest theatrical releases, current series and any content available on the different streaming channels, she still thinks it was worth it.
Frontman of two embarrassing musical projects, director of various video clips by heavy metal bands from Madrid and author of many short films hidden in the Internet, he is the editor and one of the proud members of the cultural podcast ‘Los de al lado de Pumares’ , a space that has allowed him to participate as a collaborator in other radio formats such as ‘Vamos de cine’ (Castilla-La Mancha Media) and ‘El Faro’ (Cadena SER), in addition to having made him one of the main voices of the videos of FRAMES.
