Django Unchained: Cameron Haber

Django Unchained, another Quentin Tarantino master piece. Staring Jamie Foxx as the notorious Django, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife with the help of a German Bounty hunter from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Without  knowing who the director was of the movie,you could tell it was a Tarantino film. Tarantino's style of filming really popped out at me in this particular movie. All of his best known techniques, his style of angled shots, his use of violence, and his use of a creative soundtrack were used to the best of his ability. But what I found most interesting about the way he filmed Django Unchained, was his twist of giving the movie a modern day Spaghetti Western type feeling. Even though Tarantino kept the movie to a very 21st century perspective, he was able to also give it that early Clint Eastwood western feeling with his use of a creative soundtrack and use of color in the background. If he wanted to make the scene feel like more of a Western he would use more desert sandy colors, if he wanted it to feel more modern he would use a variety of colors. He did the same excact thing with the soundtrack. If Tarantino wanted a scene to have that Spaghetti Western feeling he would play a song that would sound like somthing  Ennio Morricone would have wrote. If he wanted a scene to feel more modern he would use something more 21st century for example rap music. Of course rap music defiantly does not fit the Western atmosphere but neither do sunglases in the 1800's which were worn by Django during the same scene the movie played the rap. Besides the cool modern day vs Old time Western effect the rest of the movie was very stereotypical Quentin Tarantino. As a master of the camera he shot his characters with low angle shots or hight angle shots depending on the individuals circumstance. For example when Steven, played by Samuel L. Jackson, was deciding Django fate the camera would shoot up at him and down on Django. When the circumstances were the other way around it did the opposite. This technique is often something Tarantino has done in his other movies. Of course this would not be a Tarantino movie without some Tarantino violence. His crazed amount of violence consisted of the most bloody gun shoot outs, to the biggest of explosions.  Violence is also a specialty of Tarantino's in all of his movies. The last thing to touch on in this film was it's dark humor. One particular example that sticks out to me was the scene where the KKK go hunting for Django and his German partner Dr. King Shultz, played by Christopher Waltz. They get to the wagon where Django and Shultz are supposed to be sleeping and they conference about the quality of their white masks. They take about five minutes out of the film to discuss and vote on whether they should wear their masks or not. Even though the KKK are a seriously evil and racist organization the movie takes time to make fun of them in a cold situation with light humor. Overall I thought the movie was great the story line was fantastic and the movie was shot extremely well. Also the suaveness of the main characters was something to take into consideration as well. Django Unchained is truly a cinematograph work of art. Great work by Tarantino and his entire crew.