Whatever your take, it’s got people talking – and watching.
Quentin Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained,” filmed in part at the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio in Placerita Canyon, opened Christmas Day and grossed $15 million – said to be the biggest-ever Christmas Day haul for an R-rated film.
It grossed $33 million in its first three days, putting it in the No. 3 position. That’s not shabby, considering No. 1 is “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and No. 2 is “Les Misérables.”
“Django” is rated “R” for Tarantino’s typical, over-the-top violence and language, including an estimated 110 uses of the N-word.
It stars Jamie Foxx as freed slave who is trained as a bounty hunter, then sets out to rescue his wife from a cruel Mississippi plantation owner.
Tarantino immediately drew heat from director Spike Lee, who said on Twitter: “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them” (by steering clear of the film).
Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a house slave to Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, came to Tarantino’s defense, calling it entertainment and describing it as “essentially a spaghetti Western exploitation movie with some Hong Kong overtones.”
Tarantino called Lee’s criticism ridiculous.
“It would be one thing if people are out there saying, ‘You use (the N-word) much more excessively in this movie than it was used in 1858 in Mississippi,'” Tarantino said in a published interview. “Well, nobody’s saying that. And if you’re not saying that, you’re simply saying I should be lying. I should be watering it down. I should be making it more easy to digest. I don’t want it to be easy to digest. I want it to be a big, gigantic boulder, a jagged pill and you have no water.”
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i’m not quite sure what to think of this movie… packed theater on day 3! the cast was great, story line great…it definitely wasn’t easy go digest.. and Jamie Foxx you are amazing in everyway (my G rated comment
I give absolutely no propers to Tarantino himself, but he definitely knows how to choose the perfect actors/actress. That task is to be commended.
Im black and im not supporting this movie. This movie makes it seem like slavery wasn’t bad! It horrible