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Django Unchained
- wendy
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Django Unchained
Last night I sat through the entire movie DJANGO UNCHAINED. Am I the only person who doesn't care for Quentin Tarantino's style? The body count was ridiculous, engineered by firepower that wasn't around in the days when it often took several Colt 45 bullets to bring a man down. He does give a graphic portrayal of slavery, but the over-the-top script serves only to trivialize the impact. What am I missing?!!!
Wendy K. Perriman
Fire on Dark Water (Penguin, 2011)
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Fire on Dark Water (Penguin, 2011)
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- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
- DianeL
- Bibliophile
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There are certain directors whose work I just can't get into. Tarantino is DEFINITELY one of them, the sole reason I never even got myself curious about this film. Of those works of his I have seen, I never felt I'd been told a story, not even a lame one - and I am bewildered at the idea of seeing a movie that is story-free.
I can't hack Oliver Stone or Woody Allen either, never could. Oh well.
Pathetic side note - for a sec in my mind, I was thinking of Rango, the Johnny Depp animated western. Which I'd rather see again, than seeing Django ...
I can't hack Oliver Stone or Woody Allen either, never could. Oh well.
Pathetic side note - for a sec in my mind, I was thinking of Rango, the Johnny Depp animated western. Which I'd rather see again, than seeing Django ...
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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- wendy
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Thanks ladies. I guess we just like our historical fiction to be actually historical!
Wendy K. Perriman
Fire on Dark Water (Penguin, 2011)
http://www.wendyperriman.com
http://www.FireOnDarkWater.com
Fire on Dark Water (Penguin, 2011)
http://www.wendyperriman.com
http://www.FireOnDarkWater.com