Django Unchained | film by Tarantino [2012] | Britannica (original) (raw)
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DiCaprio
In Leonardo DiCaprio In Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), DiCaprio chewed the scenery as a slave-driving plantation owner in antebellum Mississippi. He then appeared in another grandiose role—the title character in Luhrmann’s glitzy 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. That role was echoed in his bombastic turn as… Read More
discussed in biography
In Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained (2012), set in the antebellum American South, tells the lively tale of a freed slave attempting to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner. For writing the screenplay of that film, Tarantino won another Academy Award. The post-Civil War western The Hateful… Read More
Foxx
In Jamie Foxx >Django Unchained (2012), a fantasia set in the antebellum American South, Foxx starred as a freed slave attempting to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner. He then played a U.S. president imperiled by a terrorist attack in the action entertainment _White House Down_… Read More
Hill
In Jonah Hill …also appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012). In 2013 Hill played an exaggerated version of himself in the horror comedy This Is the End, about the apocalypse, and portrayed the drug-addicted sidekick of the title character (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Martin Scorsese’s dark comedy The Wolf of Wall Street, for… Read More
history of film
In history of film: United States 2 (2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019). Among the Coen brothers’ works were Miller’s Crossing (1990), Fargo (1995), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Read More
Jackson
In Samuel L. Jackson …slaver’s butler in Tarantino’s blood-drenched Django Unchained (2012). After Jackson allowed Marvel Comics to use his features for the character Nick Fury, he signed (2009) a nine-movie deal that included Iron Man 2 (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Read More
Oscar to Waltz for best supporting actor, 2012
Waltz
In Christoph Waltz Waltz’s second Tarantino collaboration, in Django Unchained (2012), proved just as incendiary as the first. His character—one of the heroes of a revenge fantasy set in the antebellum American South—was complex, troubling, and delightful. Waltz flawlessly inhabited the role of the erudite dentist turned bounty hunter. He again earned best… Read More
Weinstein Company
In Harvey Weinstein: Weinstein Company …Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012), the historical drama The King’s Speech (2010), the silent-film homage The Artist (2011), and The Imitation Game (2014), a biopic about Alan Turing. Read More
