Django Unchained: A Classic Drama and Blaxploitation Film

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Film: Django Unchained
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Year of release: 2012
Genre: Historical Drama/Blaxploitation
Introduction:
Django Unchained is an American film that was released on 2012, written and
directed by Quentin Tarantino and stars famous Hollywood actors such as Jamie Foxx,
Christopher Waltz, Leonardo De Caprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L Jackson. The film
is set in the old west as well as the Antebellum South of the United States. The film is seen as
a tribute to classic spaghetti western film such as Django. The film retells the story of a group
of black slaves, one among who is Django who has been separated from his family and sold
off. The group of slaves along with their owners were apprehended by a bounty hunter, who
killers the slave owners and frees the slave. The bounty hunter then partners with Django,
seeing his raw power, and training him to use guns and free his wife from slavery (Charania,
p 58-60; Coetzee p 62-72, Fagan).
Discussion:
-3 criteria used to evaluate the film of this genre
The films are a classic historical drama showing exploitation of the African American
people as slaves in America and their struggle to gain freedom (Keyser p 143-153). The film
can be evaluated using three important aspects which show the film belongs to the selected
genre: