Django
Unchained
Came
out; 2012
Time;
2 hour 45 Minutes
Watched:
Amazon
Rated:
R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language
and some nudity
IMDB
Rating; 8.5/10
Rotten
Tomatoes:
Tomato
Meter 87%
Popcorn
Meter 92%
Caution;
Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Jamie
Fox as Django
Christoph
Waltz as Dr King Schultz
Leonardo
DiCaprio as Calvin Candie
Kerry
Washington as Broomhilda Von Shaft
Samuel
L Jackson as Stephen
Walton
Goggins as Billy Crash
Story
Line;
In
1858, a bounty-hunter named King Schultz seeks out a slave named
Django and buys him because he needs him to find some men he is
looking for. After finding them, Django wants to find his wife,
Broomhilda, who along with him were sold separately by his former
owner for trying to escape. Schultz offers to help him if he chooses
to stay with him and be his partner. Eventually they learn that she
was sold to a plantation in Mississippi. Knowing they can't just go
in and say they want her, they come up with a plan so that the owner
will welcome them into his home and they can find a way
Thoughts:
We
had never watched this uncut. Only ever caught bits and pieces when
it was on TV. We all know these types of movies aren't meant for cut
TV.
With
it being so long we just never circled back to it until now.
Very
glad we did. It's such a great movie. I was honestly pretty shocked
at the ending part. It's not honestly what I expected at all but
should have being that it's a Tarantino movie.
CAUTION;
Spoiler Alert
In
1858, several male slaves are chained and being transported after
being purchased by the Speck Brothers, Ace (James Remar) and Dicky
(James Russo). Among the slaves is Django (Jamie Foxx), who has been
sold away from his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). Somewhere in
Texas, the Speck brothers encounter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph
Waltz), a German dentist and, unbeknownst to them, a bounty hunter.
Schultz halts the procession & asks the group is there is anyone
who worked at the Carrucan plantation that was overseen by the 3
Brittle brothers (Big John Brittle ( M. C. Gainey), Roger "Lil
Raj" Brittle (Cooper Huckabee), and Ellis Brittle (Doc Duhame)).
Django replies in the affirmative. The Brittle brothers were
overseers at the plantation of Django's previous owner and Schultz
has a warrant for their arrests.
The Speck brothers refuse to
sell their slaves to Schultz. Schultz kills Ace after he points a
shotgun at Schultz, and shoots Dicky's horse, crushing his leg under
it. Schultz then asks Django if he knows the Brittle Brothers and
when he finds out that he does and can identify them, Schultz offers
Django his freedom and $75 in exchange for helping him track them
down. They leave Dicky to be executed by the slaves as they
depart.
Django and Schultz arrive in the small town of
Daughtrey near El Paso. The two then walk into a saloon despite the
fact that Django is forbidden from doing so. When Schultz insists on
being served, the barkeep runs out of the saloon to fetch the
Sherrif. The sheriff enters the saloon, shotgun in hand, and tells
Schultz and Django to leave. The two comply, and exit out the
swinging doors. Schultz is silent, then steps forward. A
spring-mounted Derringer pops up in his right hand, and he shoots the
sheriff in the stomach. The townspeople are stunned as the sheriff
stumbles to the ground, moaning in pain. Schultz walks around the
wounded sheriff, aims his Derringer, and shoots him in the head,
killing him. The bartender now runs again to fetch the town
Marshal.
The town marshal and most of the town arrive and
train rifles on the front door of the saloon. Schultz hears that he
has 100 rifles aimed at his head. Schultz then exits, hands raised
over his head, and a paper in his hand. He explains that the dead man
who went by the name of 'Bill Sharpe', is a wanted cattle rustler
named Willard Peck, with a $200 bounty on his head. Schultz says that
the paper in his hand is an official document from a judge that
charges King with finding and bringing Peck back to the proper
jurisdiction dead or alive. Schultz then suggests that the marshal
pay him the $200 fee.
Django and Schultz look for the Brittle
brothers at Spencer "Big Daddy" Bennett's (Don Johnson)
Tennessee plantation. Schultz states he is looking to buy one of
Bennett's slave girls for an exorbitant price. As he and Bennett talk
business, Django is given free range to look around the estate.
Django finds that 3 brothers did arrive at the estate in the last
year under a different name. Django looks through his telescope and
sees that it is Ellis. Django learns that Big John and Little Raj are
on a different part of the plantation, about to whip a young slave
girl for breaking eggs. Before the brothers can whip the girl, Django
attacks and kills Big John and Little Raj. Ellis rides away on his
horse and Scultz shoots him with his sniper rifle. Though Bennett is
incensed when he arrives, he is forced to let them go once Schultz
explains they are legally authorized to kill and collect these men.
Schultz and Django pack up quickly and leave.
Bennett pursues
them with an armed posse which consists of all the fellow white men
of the plantation. The posse surrounds Schultz's cart at night, but
Schultz and Django had already anticipated this and were hiding in a
nearby tree. Schultz ambushes the posse with explosives in his cart
which kills most of them, and Django kills Bennett with a sniper
rifle. Schultz realizes that Django is a natural with
firearms.
Schultz partners with Django in bounty hunting until
spring, at which time he will assist Django in tracking down and
rescuing Broomhilda. Over the winter, Schultz trains Django in bounty
hunting and mastering a sidearm.
Django tells Schultz how the
Brittle brothers were minding the slaves at the Curracan plantation
where he and Broomhilda worked. Curracan (Bruce Dern) wanted to make
Broomhilda a comfort girl & hence Django and she tried to run
away. They were caught, brought back, branded with hot irons (the
mark of a runaway, a small "R" on their right cheeks) &
sold at an auction separately, even when the owner knew that Django &
Broomhilda were married.
Django collects his first bounty, a
member of a man named Smitty Bacall, and keeps the handbill. Django
and King perch themselves on a hill overlooking a small farm where
Django hesitates to kill a man who is now peacefully working on the
farm and has a son. King explains that before the man owned this farm
and started a family, he murdered several people while robbing
stagecoaches, and that he has a $7,000 bounty on his head. Hearing
this, Django shoots and kills the man in front of his son.
After
collecting a number of bounties over the winter, Schultz and Django
confirm that Broomhilda's current owner is Calvin Candie (Leonardo
DiCaprio), the charming but brutal owner of the Candyland plantation
in Mississippi, who forces his slaves to fight to the death in
"Mandingo fights" (slaves fighting each other bare knuckled
till death).
Schultz expects that Candie will demand an
exorbitant price for Broomhilda if they are forthright with their
intentions, so they devise a ruse whereby they will pretend to seek
the purchase of one of Candie's prize fighters for a hefty sum,
meanwhile purchase Broomhilda on-the-side for a more reasonable sum,
then disappear before they finalize the bogus deal. Schultz and
Django meet Candie at a club in Greenville and offer to buy one of
his fighters for $12,000. His greed tickled; Candie invites them to
his plantation. On the road, Schultz and Django witness Candie murder
one of his Mandingo fighters, who fled due to not wanting to fight
any more. Candie's slave trackers had cornered D'Artagnan (Ato
Essandoh), an escaped Mandingo fighter. Django is forced to intervene
when Schultz attempts to buy D'Artagnan to save him. Candie has the
trackers' guard dogs maul D'Artagnan to death, visibly upsetting
Schultz.
At the plantation, Schultz secretly informs
Broomhilda of the plot. At dinner, Schultz expresses an incidental
interest in Broomhilda because she speaks German and offers $300 for
her.
Django raises the suspicions of Candie's staunchly loyal
senior house slave, Stephen (Samuel L Jackson), who correctly deduces
that Django and Broomhilda know each other, and that the sale of the
Mandingo fighter is a ruse and informs Candie in private. This
enrages Candie, who, armed with this information, demands the $12,000
for Broomhilda instead, or he will kill her. Schultz agrees to buy
her at this price in order to save her life. After the money is paid
and the paperwork signed, Candie demands to shake hands with Schultz
to finalize the deal, or Broomhilda will be shot. Schultz, in
disgust, shoots and kills Candie point-blank with a concealed
Derringer gun. Schultz is shot dead too, and a gun fight erupts.
Butch Pooch (James Remar), Candie's bodyguard, kills Schultz, and
Django kills Pooch, Candie's lawyer Leonide Moguy (Dennis
Christopher), and many of Candie's henchmen in a prolonged gunfight.
He is forced to surrender when Broomhilda is taken hostage.
The
next morning, the chained Django is tortured and about to be
castrated by overseer Billy Crash (Walton Goggins) when Stephen
arrives. As punishment, Stephen and Candie's sister Lara (Laura
Cayouette) agree to send Django to a mine to be worked to death.
Broomhilda, instead of being given her freedom, is locked in a cabin.
En route to the mine, Django convinces the slave drivers that he is a
bounty hunter, shows them the handbill from his first kill as
evidence, and falsely informs them that there is a high-end bounty on
some outlaws who have taken refuge back at Candie's plantation. He
offers them a cut of the bounty if they free him and ride with him.
The moment they free him, he kills the slave drivers, takes their
dynamite, and rides back to Candyland.
Returning to the
plantation, Django discovers Schultz's body. He takes the certificate
of freedom that Candie signed for Broomhilda and reunites with her
after freeing her from where she was being held. When Candie's
mourners return to the Candyland mansion from his funeral, Django
reveals himself. He sends off the remaining slaves and in a final
shoot-out kills everyone inside except Stephen, whom he shoots in the
knees. Having set the dynamite inside the house, he lights the fuse
and leaves. Django and Broomhilda watch from a distance as the house
explode, killing Stephen, and ride away.
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