Django - the D is silent **spoilers**

I've been talking a lot recently about how much I love the movie Django but I don't think anyone fully understands how much I mean it.
I don't even know how to describe this film but the best movie I have seen in a while. Everything about it is just so...badass. I usually hate that word but it is perfectly fitting; the cinematography, Jamie Foxx, the soundtrack, Christoph Waltz and of course that fucking shoot out scene; never have I gotten so excited over a three minute chunk of a film. I originally downloaded it because I was so eager to see it and being just a poor boy from a poor family I had no money to see it in the cinema right away, but as soon as I did, I went on a movie date with Sammy and oh...my...God. In my opinion, there are very few films actually worth seeing at the cinema and this is definitely one of them. And I am so unbelievably happy I got to experience it because being 17, I was worried I wouldn't be allowed to get in. Plus, you know, its Quentin Tarantino.
Let's start with the context. Slavery. It happened ok, so there's no point getting offending by the movies theme or the fact the word "nigger" is said at least 150 times because that's just how it was in those days. It is such an ugly part of both races history - the black community having suffered through it and the white community causing it - and for many years it has been a taboo, especially in America.  People have to come to the terms that this is history and even though the whole scenario and the characters are fiction, it doesn't stop it from being any less real. Tarantino said in the famous "I'm shutting your butt down" interview at how happy he was with the controversy it has caused since it's "creating a nice debate" which I have to agree. Something which I was surprised with though was how people responded to the violence in the film. First of all, I'm sorry but it's a Tarantino film what do you fucking expect? Secondly, am I the only one who noticed two very different types of violence? The first type I like to call "Typical Tarantino Turbulence". This is your badass, shoot every motherfucker in sight just because you can. Now let me get this straight, in real life I am completely opposed to gun violence in every way but when it comes to a cinematic performance it's difficult not to get a small amount of glee watching the good guys shoot the bad guys in such a drastic non-realistic way, especially when it's set to music which you would wish to play in real life if you were ever in the same position. And what I think makes this violence much more powerful than usual is the fact that Django is not only standing up for himself and saving the love of his life, but standing up for an entire race. The second type I witnessed, which honestly made me feel a little sick, was the realistic violence, for example the "Madingo" fight. But the fact it made me feel ill only adds to the cinematic experience; this kind of thing happened people. This is fact. It's hard hitting, and the non-racist white folk may want to ignore it but this is what our ancestors put them through.
It's the little things like this which I think make Tarantino one of the greatest directors in history. His cinematography skills never fail to impress me. The soundtrack is unbelievable too. The song played during the opening credits - which is called "Django" surprisingly - gives the feeling of just another western, but when you get into the film, the always fantastic Rick Ross, James Brown and 2Pac make an apperance. Now this has been criticised - one blogger describing it "hippety-hop yo yo yo yo yo" music (yes, i know) - but is in fact a very clever way of interpreting modern black culture into a movie about their ancestry. 
And as always, the dialogue is phenomenal. My favourite being in the infamous Klu Klux Klan scene. Yes, I know it's considered one of the more offensive scenes in the movie but really look at the situation. They are about to go savagely murder two men simply because one of them is black and the other is a "nigger lover" yet they're bickering over their hoods because they "can't see fucking shit".
The reason Tarantino put pen to paper was "to give black American males a Western hero". And he definitely did. Jamie Foxx's performance is, in my opinion, absolutely brilliant. And it's completely unexpected; if I was the one to write this, I never would have thought to cast Jamie Foxx and it just would not have been the same. And it's not just him who adds so much the film. Of course I am on about Christoph Waltz, the adorable, lovable German, with a face which looks like it's been carved by the little bean toes of kittens. He's just incredible. I really liked his performance in Inglorious Bastards; he was the villain you couldn't help but like because he's so cool and adorable. And I after watching Django Unchained, I realised it was because Christoph Waltz was cast. Leonardo DiCaprio was just Leonardo DiCaprio. Perfect as always. (WHY HASN'T HE WON AN OSCAR?!). Again the villain you can't help but have a soft spot for simply because of the casting. Samuel L. Jackson was a weird one for me. Basically Lydia watched the movie before me and said she didn't recognise him until she looked him up which confused both of us because he's Samuel L. Jackson. So I watched the movie seeing if I could spot him; it took me 45 minutes since his first appearance on screen to finally identify him. How I didn't recognise one of the most famous actors of our time, I do not know. But when you watch it, notice how different he looks! 

So the next time I say I love Django Unchained, now you know I fucking mean it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrsJDy8VjZk << "I'm shutting your butt down" interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowLQ5cC1eg << The best scene omfg