Django Unchained By Quentin Tarantino: Film Analysis

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Quentin Tarantino is a highly acclaimed director who has created many award-winning film in his career. Some of his characteristics of his directorial style is the ability create entertaining film while exploring serious themes and ideas. Tarantino does this by creating compelling and well thought out characters in combination purposeful cinematic techniques that enable viewers understand the films on much deeper level. I have chosen Quentin Tarantino 's 2008’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and 2012’s “Django Unchained’.Both films highly-acclaimed receiving uwmaris awards. Each of the films includes scene that feature compelling characters and cinematic techniques that allow and encourage his films to be thought about on a much more intellectual …show more content…
King Schulz as they seek to rescue django 's beloved wife Broomhilda. In attempt to escape with broomhilda from her master Mr Candie thing take a turn for the worse when plan outed house slave Stephen. As a resulted both Dr. King Schultz and Mr Candie are killed and Django and Broomhilda are captured. Django makes a cunning escape which also allow him to free Broomhilda and in the final scene of the movie called ‘big house scene’ the Django gets revenge on numerous workers and family members of Mr Candie’s as well as the house slave Stephen.
Quentin Tarantino uses dialogue and numerous cinematic techniques in the scenes ‘The theater’ and ‘big house’ to not only to move .story forward, but are used as tools in order to create interesting characters. Characters that Tarantino not only are used to portray a theme of betrayal but are characters that are crafted purposely and precisely to enable the audience to abstract a deeper meaning and apply it to something outside of the
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In the early moments of scene we see a two shot of the antagonist Stephen with another slave. In the shot Stephen uses a piece of dialogue in which he order the slave to go make some coffees. A two shot is use in order to establish the relation between Stephen and the slave. But relationship established is one not between a slave and a slave but one that more closely resembles relationship between a master to slave. This supported through the use of dialogue when Stephen stays“ Lashiba you help her” Here Stephen is telling another slave what to rather that one of the Leshiba real

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