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IO- DJANGO UNCHAINED - Coggle Diagram
IO- DJANGO UNCHAINED
VIOLENCE
Usage of violence, to portray the violence and terrorism of slavery. The gory details that disturb the viewers are done to build a connection in a way to sympathize and understand the pain slaves went through, and how the protagonist was not demonic or evil to be so ruthless.
The movie follows many violent scenes which allow a confrontation with the harsh reality of what took place in 1850's
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Film starts with slaves walking in scorching heat, chained to each other with whip scars on their back. 5 minutes into the movie viewers already feel remorse and sympathize for the victims of slavery due to the brilliant portrayal of torture in a minimalistic set.
Example: Slaves chained together walking in heat during the day behind horses, then at night walking in chilling cold (completely bare body) in the freezing forest. One of the slaves walking falls due to the plummeting temperature, making viewers feel dejected at the mere scene.
TECHNIQUES
IRONY
The movie uses irony to create humorous situations. For example, when Dr. King Schultz (played by Christoph Waltz) pretends to be a traveling dentist to free Django (played by Jamie Foxx) from slavery, he uses the absurdity of the situation to make the audience laugh.
The irony of the situation comes when Dr. King a white man is responsible for killing the slave owners, moreover he allows the trapped slaves to kill the remaining owner to death.
SATIRE
Satire: The movie uses satire to make fun of the absurdity of slavery and the attitudes of slave owners. For example, the character of Calvin Candie (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is portrayed as an absurd and ridiculous villain, which creates a humorous contrast to the seriousness of the subject matter.
In a serious context like slavery, Tarantino's usage of satire allows viewers to feel relief from the usual sorrowful films based on history in the past. Rather, the film allows viewers to feel comedic relief with many encounters of guilt and resentment towards white supremacists.
HUMOUR
Humour is also met with historical relevance. Tarantino highlights the slurs used against slaves, which is a cringey tinge to those who know it is wrong. The n slur was used more than 100 times throughout the movie, this was done to depict how the mannerism of language was towards slaves in the actual 1950s.
Example: Django on a horse walking through a city, the doctor and a sick patient stop their activity to stare, which is followed with a "that's a 'n slur' on a horse. The scene contains ironic and comedic relief due to the feeling of power portrayed and belittlement of the white supremacists who thought slaves/ black men can't merely sit a horse
THEMES
slavery
While the film portrays some inaccurate details, the overall depiction of slavery is fairly accurate to history. Django Unchained depicted the notion of women slaves being sexually abused and the true power the white slave-owners presented within the plantation system as being fairly accurate to history. This infinite power showed to have a control over the lives of their slaves, seen in the way the slaves are put ruthlessly to work and the way the slaves fear their masters. The scars on Django’s back and other multiple whippings throughout the film are a clear mark of the hold slaveowners had over their slaves’ lives. Through Django’s complete turn from chained slave to freed man, the film brings about the story of slave resistance and politics that helped to bring forth the abolitionist movement.
revenge
The film is in two parts: the first half is a mock Western; the second is a mock-revenge melodrama about slavery.
justice
The movie progresses to become increasingly gruesome and often in gratuitous ways, but Tarantino offers the theme of freedom/ justice from the moral complexity of murder for revenge by ensuring that those who died really, really deserve it (over-exaggerated characters of white supremacists.
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