Django Unchained (December 25, 2012)

[Delirium]

saw it, awesome flick

Spoiler: show

and now I know what Jamie Foxx's taint looks like. Unless it was a stunt taint

[Kuya]

Does anyone even know if that scene was a stunt?

[Melena]

Just got back from seeing it. Loved the movie. Hated the fucking shits next to us and behind us giving commentary the entire time.

[vagus]

Typical QT movie. Great dialogue, over the top violence and amazing characters. Spike is pissed off a white man can pull off a slave movie. The fact it's QT probaly makes SPike rage even more. Lol. Katt is just a crack head.

[Kanriel]

I liked that article about Katt Williams and had quotes of Spike Lee saying he's not going to see the film, but it's disrespectful. Uhh, what?

[Seanr]

saw it, awesome flick

Spoiler: show

and now I know what Jamie Foxx's taint looks like. Unless it was a stunt taint

Fuck that noise,

Spoiler: show

now I know what Kerry Washington's tit looks like. Unless it was a stunt tit

Loved the fuckin movie though

[Elona]

Awesome movie as expected. Great dialgoue. Christoph Waltz was absolutely great, again.

QT must have love in his heart for Michael Kenneth Williams, considering him for the role of Django and even wrote another role for him afterwards but he had to turn it down cos of scheduling conflicts with Boardwalk Empire. The guy had like 15mins of screen time this whole season... Maybe next time.

[DrClout]

Saw it last night. I gave my white coworker a 1 night Black Card.

She abused the fuck out of the word nigger. We both had an amazing time.

[DrClout]

.: Double post :.
FUCK IT. IT WAS WORTH IT! GDI QT!!!
Y U SO AWESOME 4?!

[Jefe]

If Christoph Waltz is nominated for best supporting, he'll grab the Oscar. In fact, just give it to him already. He's awesome, a great actor.

Edit: That loud mouth little man talking shit got his ass handed to him this week, all and his 5'4 and 110 lbs. of him.

[Salodin]

This movie changed my life. I...I don't know what to do with myself right now...

[Kuya]

Black people are mad at this movie because:

1- It's a black slave movie made by a white man.

2- It's a black slave movie that's not about how all white men are evil.

3- It making money.

[Salodin]

Why are black people mad? It shows a black man finally getting back at the white man. They should be celebrating, this will never happen in the real world!

[Melena]

Why are black people mad? It shows a black man finally getting back at the white man. They should be celebrating, this will never happen in the real world!

Because how dare a white man make a movie with constant use of the word nigger in it, despite the fact in those days the word was used just as much if not more than in the movie. Now if Spike Lee made the movie, all the people bitching would be singing his praises for scripting a movie where a black man gets saved by a white guy and proceeds to outsmart and kill lots more whiteys.

[Andalusian girls]

to be real the tweets of Spike Lee and Katt Williams don't represent black Americans as a whole. i haven't met anyone of any race in daily interaction that hated it on account of racial sensitivities.

anyways this is the best thing i've read on dissecting the racial undertones of the fact that something like Django exists and how the cultural that spawned it is reacting to it

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollyw...t-race-in-2013

Truth be told, most of this laughter came from me. Somehow, maybe because I had imagined so many people would be using the film as a "get out of jail free" card to laugh at the N-word, hearing Jamie and Samuel drop the "-er" and say it the way I imagined they said it when the cameras stopped rolling almost became a relief. Or a troubling return to normalcy. And this somehow brought me joy? Yes, yes it did. And just like that, in one sitting, I had gone from laughing only in my head to quietly chuckling to becoming uncomfortable by the guffaws coming from certain pockets of the theater to becoming the loudest one in the theater, all in the name of the N-word. What the hell was going on?

Being uncomfortable. False ownership of terms. False ownership of cultures. Troubled histories. Finger-pointing. Segregation in an integrated world (or is it integration in a segregated world?). All of these things contributed to the myriad emotions I felt in that theater. But these were just my emotions. There were hundreds of people in that theater alone, and hundreds of thousands more have already viewed the movie. Everyone's seeing Django. That's what makes it an important work, beyond the quality, because we're all having to deal with it, together.

[kisada]

"I had gone from laughing only in my head to quietly chuckling to becoming uncomfortable by the guffaws coming from certain pockets of the theater to becoming the loudest one in the theater, all in the name of the N-word. "

lol this is exactly what happened in my theater.

[Jaybar]

Have these black people never seen "Blazing Saddles"?

[Cream Soda]

I certainly wasn't mad, I was laughing hysterically at any scene with anyone getting whipped, slave or slave owner

[ronin sparthos]

Black people are mad at this movie because:

1- It's a black slave movie made by a white man.

2- It's a black slave movie that's not about how all white men are evil.

3- It making money.

Spike Lee doesn't speak for anyone other than the Knicks.

My ancestors were quite pleased with both Jamie Foxx and Samuel L Jackson's acting chops as well as seeing a whole bunch of racists get shot to pieces in pretty much every way imaginable. It's so much fun in fact, white people can watch their ancestors get shot to pieces and enjoy every minute of it.

Everyone else can simply project upon the characters presented.

Movie was boss. Demonstrates a love story, a western, the horrors of slavery, comedy, gratuitous violence and everything we've come to expect from a Tarantino flick.

[Melena]

Interview with Samuel L. Jackson gets a little uncomfortable. My guess is he was daring him to say it to show a word really only is offensive if you let it be. I've never thought that Jackson could be a dick, but who knows. That's just my interpretation of it.

No one knows how to make white men squirm quite like Samuel L. Jackson. A post on Reddit last night has unearthed a prime example. Two weeks ago, the "Django Unchained" cast sat down with Jake Hamilton, host of Houston's Emmy-winning film show Jake's Takes, at a press junket.

Things went smoothly enough until Hamilton approached Jackson with a question about the movie's controversial use of the "n-word." Jackson insisted that Hamilton, who is white, say the word out loud; after Hamilton repeatedly refused, they moved on. It was uncomfortable.

"The most awkward moment was just seeing everyone in the room freeze, and waiting to see what my reaction was going to be," Hamilton says today.
The internet reaction has been mixed. Many commenters claim that Hamilton should have simply said the word, while others applaud the reporter for not caving to Jackson's demand. Hamilton says that his decision was in the best interest of the show and the network.

"Whatever the video's doing today, making the rounds, it's not as bad as it would be if I had actually said it," he says. "The last thing that my affiliate needs is one of their reporters going around saying the n-word and broadcasting it everywhere."
While it'd be easy to harbor some resentment for the provocation, Hamilton says that ultimately there's no hard feelings between him and Jackson. "He doesn't suffer any fools, and he's the kind of guy I feel like I have to step up my game as a reporter," he says. "I look forward to interviewing him again."

Watch the video here. Jackson's segment starts at 13:55.