5 Reasons Django Unchained Is Tarantinos Best Film (& 5 Why Its Inglourious Basterds)

5 Reasons Django Unchained Is Tarantino’s Best Film (& 5 Why It’s Inglourious Basterds)

Two of Quentin Tarantino’s most highly acclaimed films share many similar threads with one another: Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds.

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Two of Quentin Tarantino’s most highly acclaimed films share many similar threads with one another. Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds are top-notch films with a lot to offer their audiences in terms of messaging, humor, drama, and entertainment.

While Tarantino has never made a bad film, it’s all the more impressive that among his incredible filmography, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained have both enjoyed the infusion into pop culture as Pulp Fiction did. But which of the two modern masterpieces is the better film?

10 Inglorious Basterds: Tackles The Horrors Of Nazism

Inglorious Basterds critiques fascism by tackling the most well-known example of it: Nazism. And of course, being a cinephile, Tarantino’s cheeky way of having his characters kill off Hitler and his supporters by burning down a theater is a not-so-subtle hint as to the power of media and resistance. Look at the profound effect cinema has on people, especially in the United States; but Tarantino’s message in this piece is plainly stated regarding Nazis, as according to Lt. Aldo Raine: “They need to be dee-stroyed.”

9 Django Unchained: Tackles The Horrors Of Slavery

Almost all Westerns from the golden era of the genre completely ignored or bounced around the topic of slavery, making for a notable absence of a major piece of US History in the “All-American” Western genre. That lack of slaver in cinema is what compelled Tarantino to tackle it in Django Unchained, and not shy away from revealing the plight of the enslaved people and the effect on the freed, the inhumanity of the slavers, and the callousness from people who wave it off.

8 Inglorious Basterds: A Tribute To Macaroni Combat Films

Like all Tarantino films, many elements, scenes, and a lot of the style are an homage to worldwide cinema, and in the case of Inglorious Basterds, it’s based on the 1960/70s war epics made mostly by European (predominantly Italian) production companies. The film’s title even takes its name from the identically-named 1978 film Inglorious Basterds (though it is not a remake).

Macaroni Combat films are also known as “Spaghetti Combat” films because they resemble the famous Spaghetti Western genre.

7 Django Unchained: A Tribute To Spaghetti Western Films

Speaking of Spaghetti Westerns, Django Unchained, like Basterds, is a tribute to the mostly-Italian produced Westerns of the 1960s/70s. Once again, the film is not a remake of the 1966 Django, but it takes a piece of the title as a nod to the style of filmmaking. Django Unchained might do its job a little too well with its approach because it is not just one of the best Spaghetti Westerns out there, but one of the best Westerns, period. The soundtrack, cinematography, costumes, and characters are all wholly identifiable and memorable, yet they fall perfectly in line with what audiences have seen before.

6 Inglorious Basterds: Lt. Aldo Raine

Brad Pitt is a top-tier actor, and his performance in Inglorious Basterds as the stereotypical “All-American” Aldo Raine is among his best. The hoaky and over-the-top Appalachian accent he dons for the film is amazingly ridiculous. Aldo Raine might sound like a sort of simple-minded “guns blazing” sort of man, but he’s actually quite cunning, and his ability to bounce back from failure and avoid death make him one of the film’s best and most charming characters. It also helps that he can play his larger than life personality off of the more meek and subtle “Little Man” Utivish (B.J. Novak).

5 Django Unchained: Calvin Candie

Leonardo DiCaprio is yet another top-tier actor, and frankly, he should have won his long-awaited Oscar for Django Unchained. His performance as the incredibly “polite,” charismatic, and seemingly well-spoken but vapid Calvin Candie is one of cinema’s best villainous portrayals. In particular, the fact that DiCaprio broke a glass on his hand and stayed in character with his bloody wounded hand is borderline legendary. And just like with Aldo, being able to play off of the subservient (and clearly smarter) Stephen (Samuel Jackson) makes the scenes with Candie all the more engaging to watch.

4 Inglorious Basterds: Has More Characters, But All Remain Memorable

Inglorious Basterds has a really big supporting cast; listing all of them would probably make this entry incredibly monotonous to sift through. Long story short, every person is put to good use in the film, and in particular, the performances from Mélanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, and August Diel stand out; in particular, the latter three really knocked it out of the park with the tense bar scenes. Michael Myers’ return to the spotlight for a cameo appearance should not be forgotten either.

3 Django Unchained: Django Is One Of Tarantino’s Best Protagonists

Django Freeman (Jaime Foxx) is a fantastic hero that Tarantino hosts in his filmography. Django’s willingness and desire to learn, his unbelievable courage, his loyalty, and his love for his wife as a straightforward motivation, disregarding his own safety, make him a great man. It’s impossible not to root for him. Watching Django take back the whips from the slavers and beat them down, seeing him and Dr. Schultz blow up the pre-KKK group, and cheering for him riding off in the horizon makes for a satisfying revenge story akin (if not, greater) than the one in Kill Bill.

2 Inglorious Basterds: Hans Landa

Christoph Waltz might be one of the best actors on the planet, and the only person that seems to know how to utilize him properly is Quentin Tarantino. His charismatic and intoxicating performance in Inglorious Basterds won him an Oscar, among several other awards, and rightfully so. Hans Landa is the cunning SS officer nicknamed “The Jew Hunter,” a perfectionist at his job with a pretty big ego to match his skill. The slimy opportunist represents exactly how fascists slip and slide through power, and seduce/hunt their enemies so successfully.

Landa may not think of himself as a Nazi, but the end of the film certainly solidifies the flaw in his thinking. Tarantino said Landa might be the best character he’s ever written, and it’s a solid stance.

1 Django Unchained: Dr. King Schultz

Once again, Christoph Waltz won an Oscar for his role in his subsequent Tarantino film. It’s a complete 180 from his role as Hans Landa, but this time around, he uses his plentiful charisma for good. Dr. Schultz is a pensive, warm, cultured, and crafty person who serves as a mentor to Django, but becomes very good friends with him as the film goes by. His unexpected fate might be the saddest moment in Tarantino’s filmography, but at the same time, his journey to that moment was a good ride, and for a brief second, totally awesome.

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