Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-Winning Epic Is Finally Dominating Hulu’s Movie Charts
Quentin Tarantino loves cinema and all of its beautiful and bizarre subgenres. His filmography reflects just that as his movies are always love letters to the films of yore. In his 2012 revenge epic Django Unchained, Tarantino is tackling blaxploitation and the Western with a violent story about a Black man fighting his way through the South to save his wife. And that epic is climbing the charts on Hulu as one of the streamer’s most-watched films.
In Django Unchained, “A former slave joins forces with the German bounty hunter who freed him and helps hunt down the South’s most-wanted criminals, all in the hope of finding his long-lost wife.”
Django Unchained boasts an incredible ensemble cast, including Jamie Foxx as the titular Django, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins, Zoe Bell, James Remar, and Don Johnson.
Even the biggest fan of Quentin Tarantino can admit that he has a strange relationship with race, to say the least. He’s a white guy who loves including racial slurs in his scripts, and he really went for it with Django Unchained. While ultimately a tale about a Black man getting revenge, there is definitely a discussion to be had about whether Tarantino is the right person to tell such a story.
He addressed that in a 2013 interview with NPR, telling Fresh Air’s Terry Gross,
“What happened during slavery times is a thousand times worse than [what] I show. So if I were to show it a thousand times worse, to me, that wouldn’t be exploitative, that would just be how it is. If you can’t take it, you can’t take it. Now, I wasn’t trying to do a Schindler’s List you-are-there-under-the-barbed-wire-of-Auschwitz. I wanted the film to be more entertaining than that. … But there are two types of violence in this film: There’s the brutal reality that slaves lived under for … 245 years, and then there’s the violence of Django’s retribution. And that’s movie violence, and that’s fun and that’s cool, and that’s really enjoyable and kind of what you’re waiting for.”
Regardless, the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture. It ultimately won two, for Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz) and Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino).
Over a decade after its release, people are still talking about the film, whether they love it, hate it, or think it remains politically relevant.
See what people are saying about Django Unchained below:
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