The 5 Best Music Moments In Django Unchained (& 5 In The Hateful Eight)

The 5 Best Music Moments In Django Unchained (& 5 In The Hateful Eight)

Quentin Tarantino elevated the western genre with Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight. Whether score or song, these are the best musical scenes.

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Quentin Tarantino says that if a director really wants to consider themselves a western director, then they need to make at least three westerns. So, by his own count, if he wants to be considered a western director, he’s got one more to go. As it stands, he’s made two great ones: Django Unchained, which uses spaghetti western motifs to tell a story about American slavery, and The Hateful Eight, a self-contained mystery about perfect strangers who don’t trust each other.

In both cases, Tarantino didn’t let the western genre limit the music he could use. There are plenty of Ennio Morricone western tracks to enjoy in these movies, but there’s also Rick Ross, Tupac Shakur, and the White Stripes.

10 Django Unchained: “Django” By Luis Bacalov

Tarantino couldn’t have made a spaghetti western about a character named Django without using Luis Bacalov’s iconic theme song from the 1966 Sergio Corbucci classic that originated the character. Alas, the song plays over the opening credits.

The opening credits of Django Unchained appear over a desert landscape before the camera pulls down to reveal the scarred back of Django being led in a chain gang by a pair of white slavers on horseback.

9 The Hateful Eight: “L’ultima Diligenza Di Red Rock” By Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone is Tarantino’s favorite composer. He reused Morricone tracks from earlier films in almost all of his movies before he managed to tap the legendary musician to pen a wholly original score for The Hateful Eight. Morricone’s creepy, foreboding score creates a tense atmosphere across the whole movie and ended up winning him an Oscar.

Morricone wrote the score more as a horror score than a western score, and it worked beautifully for the claustrophobic feel of the story. The movie’s first music cue, “L’ultima Diligenza Di Red Rock,” sets this tone perfectly.

8 Django Unchained: “I Got A Name” By Jim Croce

Jim Croce’s folk-rock classic “I Got a Name” creates a hopeful, optimistic tone as Django mounts his horse and he and Dr. Schultz begin their search for Broomhilda.

The lyrics fit in nicely with the empowering plot point of a newly liberated Django leaving his shackles behind and giving himself the name Freeman.

7 The Hateful Eight: “Apple Blossom” By The White Stripes

After Major Warren, John Ruth, and Daisy Domergue’s stagecoach adds another passenger in the form of Chris Mannix and O.B. tears through the snow on the way to Minnie’s Haberdashery, the White Stripes’ “Apple Blossom” plays on the soundtrack.

The melancholy of the song fits beautifully against the glorious 70mm shots of horses galloping through knee-high snow.

6 Django Unchained: “La Corsa (2nd Edition)” By Luis Bacalov

Although the two eventually become a partnership, Dr. Schultz initially saves Django so he can help him identify his next bounties: the Brittle brothers.

Luis Bacalov’s breathtaking “La Corsa (2nd Edition)” from the original Django movie plays on the soundtrack as Django confronts the Brittle brothers and gets a glorious spaghetti western revenge moment complete with a sweeping camera movement.

5 The Hateful Eight: “Jim Jones At Botany Bay” By Jennifer Jason Leigh

When Daisy finds a guitar in Minnie’s Haberdashery, her captor John Ruth gives her permission to play it. She plays “Jim Jones at Botany Bay,” which Jennifer Jason Leigh had to learn to play for real, changing the lyrics to suit her current captivity at John’s hands.

At the end of the song, John says, “Music time’s over,” and grabs the guitar and smashes it against a wall. This was an actual antique guitar. It was lent out by a museum who let Leigh play the antique with the condition that it was switched out for a prop before Kurt Russell smashed it to pieces — but no one told Russell and he destroyed the antique.

4 Django Unchained: “100 Black Coffins” By Rick Ross

Rick Ross created “100 Black Coffins” specifically for Django Unchained. Jamie Foxx wrote the lyrics and produced the song, which was recorded during filming.

The track plays as Django and Dr. Schultz are riding up to the Candyland plantation with Calvin Candie and his posse and Django has to play the unenviable role of a Black slaver.

3 The Hateful Eight: “Now You’re All Alone” By David Hess

David Hess originally recorded “Now You’re All Alone” for Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left, but Tarantino found it to be suitable for The Hateful Eight, too. In both cases, the song is ultimately cut short by a gunshot.

With the unsettling tone and ludicrous amounts of gore, The Hateful Eight is one of the closest things that Tarantino has made to a horror film.

2 Django Unchained: “Unchained (The Payback/Untouchable)” By James Brown & 2Pac

Dr. Schultz messes up the whole plan to spring Broomhilda from Candyland when he refuses to shake Calvin Candie’s hand and shoots him instead. Schultz is promptly killed and Django finds himself surrounded by white slavers with itchy trigger fingers.

What follows is the most operatic, ultraviolent shootout in Tarantino’s filmography. A mashup of James Brown’s “The Payback” and 2Pac’s “Untouchable” gives the gunfight an awesome musical backdrop.

1 The Hateful Eight: “There Won’t Be Many Coming Home” By Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison’s “There Won’t Be Many Coming Home” creates a somber tone in the final moments of The Hateful Eight leading into the end credits. Orbison’s song is about how the ultimate tragedy of the war is the loss of soldiers’ lives: “If they all came back but one / he was still some mother’s son.”

While The Hateful Eight isn’t a war movie, the Civil War heavily influenced the social climate around which the film takes place and there are veterans from opposing sides stuck in the haberdashery.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/quentin-tarantino-best-music-score-song-scenes-django-unchained-hateful-eight/

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