Essays on Django Unchained

The movie Django Unchained, was released on December 25, 2012 in North America. The film takes place in the Old West in America’s pre civil war South. It was directed by Quentin Tarantino and produced by Stacey Sher alongside Reginald Hudlin. The film stars in this piece are Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Di Caprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie runs for a total of two hours and forty five minutes.
Django (Jammie Foxx), is the protagonist in this story. A freed slave who was bought by a German dentist, Dr. King Schultz. Dr. Schultz Continue reading...

- What concerns are present through the recent cinematic output of Quentin Tarantino?
Quentin Tarantino is a movie director and the latest movies he has produced include Django Unchained in 2012 and Inglorious bustards in 2009. The concerns present in these movies include tyrannous forms of leadership. In Django Unchained we are introduced into forced slavery where the black person is forced to endure hardship while toiling for the white man. The black man is not considered to be an equal of the white man hence the reason why they are subjected to slavery. The slaves are considered like Continue reading...

“12 years a slave” by Steve McQueen and “Django unchained” by Quentin Tarantino are the great movies telling us about the slavery. Both of them are well written and have famous actors staring in those movies. However I would like to draw attention to the main points of the movie production in general and to compare the cinematography, sound and special effects, montage in these movies.
Starting with “12 years a slave”, this movie was written after the memoire by Solomon Northup in 1855, and was based on a true story. After watching this movie I can tell for Continue reading...

The portrayal of civil rights and the black experience in cinema has been a multifaceted and fascinating one. From early depictions of blacks as sexual predators and threats in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation to Tarantino’s blaxploitation ex-slave savior in Django Unchained, the black experience in America has been charted through cinematic journeys that reflect the time the films were created just as much as the eras in which they are set. In this paper, the films Birth of a Nation, Do the Right Thing, 2011’s The Help and 2012’s Django Unchained will be Continue reading...