{"id":18314,"date":"2012-12-26T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18314"},"modified":"2012-12-26T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:04:41","slug":"quentin-tarantino-finally-comes-of-age-as-a-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/quentin-tarantino-finally-comes-of-age-as-a-filmmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"“Quentin Tarantino finally comes of age as a filmmaker”"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I doubt I’ll catch this in the theatre, Kurt Loder<\/a> makes this sound like an interesting film:<\/p>\n

With Django Unchained<\/em>, Quentin Tarantino finally comes of age as a filmmaker. Tarantino\u2019s brilliance as a writer and craftsman have always been clear. But even his last picture, the Holocaust revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds<\/em>, was overwhelmed by his geeky obsession with vintage genres (in that case, old war movies). When he showed us a group of Jews huddled in a basement being shot through the floorboards above, but declined to go below and show them actually dying (it might have clouded the film\u2019s comedy), he shortchanged the movie\u2019s putative subject.<\/p>\n

With Django<\/em>, the director has brought off a perfect marriage of style and history. He has appropriated the universe of another beloved genre, the spaghetti western (in particular Sergio Corbucci\u2019s brutal 1966 cult film, Django<\/em>), and set within it an unsparing tale of American slavery. The movie is outrageously funny, but it\u2019s also unflinchingly committed to a full exploration of the horrors of its subject. Where many movies about black bondage are diluted by liberal hankie-wringing, this one feels fueled by a black rage that still simmers today. It might be the most savage cinematic depiction of slavery ever made.<\/p>\n

Some early reviewers have expressed dismay about the movie\u2019s extensive deployment of the word \u201cnigger.\u201d (\u201cIt\u2019s a nigger on a horse,\u201d says one marveling cretin as a black man rides by on his mount.) It\u2019s hard to know what to say about such a reaction, except to point out that, hey, it\u2019s a movie about slavery<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I doubt I’ll catch this in the theatre, Kurt Loder makes this sound like an interesting film: With Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino finally comes of age as a filmmaker. Tarantino\u2019s brilliance as a writer and craftsman have always been clear. But even his last picture, the Holocaust revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds, was overwhelmed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,13],"tags":[122,605],"class_list":["post-18314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-usa","tag-movies","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Lo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18315,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions\/18315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}