16 Facts About Django Unchained That'll Keep You Entertained

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Mar 11, 2018 7:00 PM EDT

Easily one of Quentin Tarantino's best movies. 

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    Horse - Django takes ona mythical form while on Big Daddy's plantation confronting the Brittle Brothers. The Gothic nature of this scene is clearly represented when Big John Brittle is about to whip Little Jody for breaking eggs. Django is dressed in his "Blue Boy" attire, but when Little Jody looks at his image in the mirror next to the tree where she is tied, Django's head and hands are invisible in the reflection, elevating his mythic stature to that of an enchanted figure. In Gothic lore, sp
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    Movie - In a January 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, Costume Designer Sharen Davis said much of the film's wardrobe was inspired by spaghetti westerns and otherworks of art. For Django's wardrobe, Davis and Quentin Tarantino watched Bonanza (1959) and referred to it frequently. The pair even hired the hatmaker who designed the hat worn by Little Joe.
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    Gentleman - When Leonardo DiCaprio's character Calvin Candie smashes his hand on the dinner table, he accidentally crushed a small stemmed glass with his palm and really began to bleed. DiCaprio ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene. Tarantino was so impressed, that he used this take in the final print, and when he called cut, the room erupted in a standing ovation
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    In perhaps the most horrifying scene in the film, the monstrous Calvin Candie delivers a monologue about skulls. The speech was DiCaprio's idea and came from ideas espoused in an antiquarian book on phrenology aracist pseudo-science used to justify slavery, DiCaprio gave Tarantino the book and the two fleshed out the character into the maniac you see lin the film.
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    Horse - Jamie Foxx used his own horse, Cheetah, in the movie. He got it four years prior as a birthday present,
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    Horse - After an accident in training, where Christoph Waltz thrown off his horse and broke his pelvis! Jamie Foxx gave him agift to make him feel better about riding a horses asaddle with a seat belt
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    Facial hair - Having formed a very successful and Oscar winning partnership in 2009's Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino wrote the part of Dr. King Schultz specifically for Christopher Waltz. In an interview Waltz said "I sat at his kitchen table literally at his kitchen table with pages in front of me that were still warm from the printer... so yes, I'm proud to say and I hope it's not being presumptuous he did write it for me."
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    Moustache - Quentin Tarantino has said that Calvin J. Candie is the only character he has ever created whom he truly despises.
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    Photo caption - Quentin Tarantino revealed at Comic-Con that Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington's characters are meant to be the great-great-great-grandparents of the character John Shaft from the Shaft 1971) films. An overt reference to this connection can be found in Washington's character's tull names Broomhilda Von Shaft.
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    Hat - During the filming of one of the dinner scenes, Leonardo DiCaprio had to stop the scene because he was having "a difficult time using so many racial slurs. Samuel L Jackson then pulled him aside telling him, "Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us.
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    Gentleman - In the scene when Django is at the bar and, in a room full of blood thirsty racists, he tells a man that the D in his name is silent. The man he says this to is none other than Frank Nero, who played the eponymous character in the original 1966 Italian film Django.
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    Movie - The final showdown with Django and the hillbilly trackers was written to be entirely different. Mr. Stonesipher the head of the trackers, was originally to be astronger and more threatening villain to Django. There was a scene written in the final draft of the script with Django killing the trackers with an ax. He then faces Mr Stonesipher,and the two engage in hand-to-hand combat, with Stonesipher nearly defeating Django, but eventually losing.
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    Organism - There was talk of splitting the film into two parts, like Kill Bill, but Quentin Tarantino eventually rejected the ideaand cut a whole lot of the planned film. Among what wascut out includes an entire backstory for Zoe Bell's character, which explains that she wearsa bandanna over her face to hide a gruesome injury, Tarantino does plan on releasing an extended cut later down the line, restoring some scenes that were left on the cutting room floor.
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    Photo caption - For the montage sequence of Django and King beginning their partnership as bounty hunters Quentin Tarantino played the background music live on the set while filming
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    Photo caption - The white men playing poker towards the end of the film, are using severed ears from slaves as their currency.
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    Text - The quilt that is on the bed, into which Broomhilda is thrown, is an Underground Railroad style. Myth has it, that slaves would use quilts to communicate, and the Underground Railroad style was saying to "pack up and go"
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