10 Classic Movies Referenced In Django Unchained
10 Classic Movies Referenced In Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti western Django Unchained is one of his most ambitious cocktails of cinematic influences, with many classic references.
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Quentin Tarantino’s unique filmmaking style is defined by his influences. Tarantino takes a bunch of elements from movies he loves – shots, scenes, characters, pieces of music – then throws them in a blender, mixes them up, and turns them into something new. His ‘90s classic Pulp Fiction is one of the quintessential works of postmodernism.
In 2012, Tarantino boldly tackled the challenging subject matter of American slavery through the lens of a blood-soaked spaghetti western. With references to countless existing classics, Django Unchained is one of the writer-director’s most ambitious cinematic patchworks.
10 Django (1966)
The most overt movie reference in Django Unchained is the use of the name Django from Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 spaghetti western masterpiece Django. Corbucci’s movie has nothing to do with slavery, but it is about a bounty hunter and it does have brutal violence. Plus, Tarantino pilfered some of Luis Bacalov’s Django score.
Franco Nero, who played the title role in the Corbucci original, even cameos in Django Unchained. Jamie Foxx’s Django spells out his name for him and adds, “The D is silent,” to which Nero hilariously replies, “I know.”
9 The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Since Django and Dr. Schultz are bounty hunters, there are a bunch of wanted posters throughout the movie. Naturally, Tarantino used these wanted posters as opportunities to cram in a few more Easter eggs.
One of them is a reference to Edwin Porter’s 1903 silent western The Great Train Robbery, one of the first ever narrative films. In one of Django Unchained’s wanted posters, Edwin Porter is wanted for train robbery.
8 Taxi Driver (1976)
Throughout Django Unchained, Dr. Schultz uses a little handgun that pops out of his sleeve on a rail, allowing him to catch his dueling opponents by surprise. He uses this gun to kill the corrupt sheriff near the beginning of the movie and Calvin Candie himself near the end of it.
This sleeve gun is a nod to Martin Scorsese’s 1976 neo-noir masterpiece Taxi Driver, in which Robert De Niro’s disturbed vigilante Travis Bickle engineers one to take along on his vengeful crusade across New York’s criminal underbelly.
7 The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966)
At the end of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Tuco tells the Man with No Name, “Hey, Blondie, you know what you are? Just a dirty son of a…” before getting cut off by Ennio Morricone’s iconic score blaring onto the soundtrack.
Stephen’s final line in Django Unchained mirrors this moment. Django lights the fuse on the dynamite to blow up Candyland as Stephen yells, “Django, you uppity son of a…” before being cut off by the explosion.
6 Gone With The Wind (1939)
When Django and Dr. Schultz arrive in Mississippi, the word “MISSISSIPPI” scrolling across the screen in all caps is a reference to the opening titles of Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind.
While Gone with the Wind was both a critical and commercial hit, its depiction of happy slaves has been accused of historical negationism. Rather than whitewash the era like Gone with the Wind, Tarantino’s film set out to expose its true horror.
5 Mandingo (1975)
One of the most brutal scenes in Django Unchained sees Calvin Candie and a fellow slaver forcing their slaves to fight to the death. This is a reference to Richard Fleischer’s 1975 revisionist thriller Mandingo, which depicts white slavers pitting their slaves against each other in bareknuckle boxing matches.
In the 1998 book Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Tarantino is quoted as saying Mandingo and Showgirls are the two times “a major studio made a full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie.”
4 A Fistful Of Dollars (1964)
After talking the LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. into letting him go, Django promptly shoots them all dead. The last guy, played by a cameoing Quentin Tarantino, is holding a big bundle of dynamite at the time, so he blows up in a huge burst of smoke.
The shot of Django’s silhouette amid the cloud of smoke is a reference to a similar shot of Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars.
3 Shaft (1971)
Broomhilda’s surname, Von Shaft, is a reference to the 1971 blaxploitation actioner Shaft, starring Richard Roundtree as the titular private eye. While Tarantino often makes little familial connections between his own characters, this Easter egg implies that Broomhilda is a direct ancestor of John Shaft.
Samuel L. Jackson, who played house slave Stephen in Django Unchained, played the role of John Shaft in the 2000 Shaft remake and its 2019 sequel/reboot, also called Shaft.
2 Son Of A Gunfighter (1965)
This one’s a real deep cut. Amber Tamblyn’s minor role in Django Unchained is credited as “Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter” in reference to the fact that her real-life father, old-school movie star Russ Tamblyn, played the title character in the film Son of a Gunfighter.
The older Tamblyn also appears in Django, and he’s credited as “Son of a Gunfighter.” Son of a Gunfighter is notable for being the final MGM movie to be shot in CinemaScope.
1 The Great Silence (1968)
Django Unchained takes half of its title from 1966’s Django, but its snowbound middle act – in which Dr. Schultz takes Django out into the snowy wilderness to teach him how to shoot – is influenced by a different Corbucci western: his unforgiving 1968 masterpiece The Great Silence.
Tarantino wrote in The New York Times, “[The Great Silence] takes place in the snow — I liked the action in the snow so much, Django Unchained has a big snow section in the middle of the movie.”
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