“Django Unchained” opens with a pitiful sight: our hero Django (Jamie Foxx), with haunted eyes and his feet in shackles, is marched across a barren landscape by a pair of brutal slave traders.
The desperation and cruelty of his plight is laid out in bloody lash marks across his bare back.
In typical Quentin Tarantino fashion, these images are juxtaposed by the theme song, a melodramatic ballad that sounds almost like a parody of western theme songs:Django!Django, have you always been alone?Django!Django, have you never loved again?As he has so often proved during his career, Tarantino is the master of matching an…The post The Controversial Spaghetti Western That Inspired Tarantino’s Django Unchained appeared first on /Film.
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