Re Dr Schultz, I think this take somewhat overlook the historic background - the German one, that is. Dr Schultz, with English being a second language to him, has certainly studied at a German university, thus will almost certainly have taken part in the 1848/49 democratic revolution fighting the reactionary regimes installed by the Vienna Congress after Napoleon's defeat. Democracy lost, the princes won, and many revolutionaries were being forced to emigrate to avoid being shot or imprisoned. Marx and Engels to the UK, Dr. Schultz and thousands of other German revolutionaries to the US. Many became disillusioned with their new home allowing slavery, but they felt as mere guests at first, and did not want to try to overthrow the system a second time and lose again. That changed with the US civil war, were those (militarily experienced) revolutionary fighters often were first to volunteer to the Union colors, but we are years before that, and Schultz has no real outlet for his inner feelings beyond hunting the worst of humanity. So Schultz submits to his fate for a while, gets on with the bounty hunter job and ignores the ideals of his youth. Until Candy finally puts Schultz into a position where all the hate for the (fake) aristocratic slave holders breaks free again, finally. Tough luck for Django, but you can't have a revolution without breaking some eggs...
QT has said many times, that Sergio Leone was his favorite director. And we all know that he loves 70’s genre films. So here is just the amalgamation of the two, an exploitation spaghetti western. Also, being from TN myself, shout out to Gatlinburg TN.
So I know what you mean when you say there are some weapons in the film that are inaccurate to the time period. But there are also weapons that are accurate to the time, I’ll give you a few examples. So first off the double Barrel shotguns that’s used in the movie for 3 scenes. Is actually a muzzleloading percussion shotgun that was used in the times before and even during the civil war. Another example is all the revolvers in the film are before civil war, most notably the colt navy 1851 and the Remington 1858. There is also a Remington 1858 revolver rifle shown during the scene Django heads back to candy land. Finally during the scene where big daddy meets Django and the doctor after killing the brittle brothers. One of the people behind him is holding a Enfield 1853 carbine, which is a muzzle loader. So there’s my two cents, also I love your videos keep up the good work.
As a hardcore 2a person who is also a history nerd, I'm so glad you included The Second by Carol Anderson. Since it's such a hotly contested cultural issue, people really do not have an understanding of just how deep and systemically racist gun control narratives are in the US. While I might not agree with everything she says, there's a valid argument that she makes about how black Americans have been denied access to firearms for generations as a means of power removal.
@@andrewwebb3248 would genuinely like to hear his knowledge on the topic of German occupied France and the topic of espionage and resistance movements during the time. Also hearing him talk of nazi films and propaganda during the war. Genuinely surprised he hasn’t touched the movie yet
Jared and Andrew - I just wanted to say thanks for being willing to critically examine (and tie in relevant reading to boot!) films and topics which broach or, in the cases of Django Unchained and Jared's talk on Black Troops in Civil War Cinema, directly and clearly confront issues which have unfortunately become politically fraught topics in America's seemingly never-ending culture war. In the current climate of educational censorship, "cancel culture", the clear embrace of the Lost Cause myth and Great Replacement "Theory" by significant political blocs, and the ever present and shallow use of "freedom" as an argument ending billy club, it takes real guts to put yourselves out there the way that you guys have done here in this video, and you should be commended for doing so. I don't mean to imply that you should be congratulated for taking a political stance since, in my opinion, the views of American history vis-a-vis chattel slavery and its threads in contemporary American society that Jared voices ought not be seen as political perspectives. Rather, they should be presented and digested as some of the foundational facts upon which the American Experience and the story of everybody who has ever or will ever call themselves an American are and will be built. They simply should not be taken as controversial statements or as mud to be flung over the internet against a political opponent. Anyway, I have been digressing here. Again, I just wanted to thank you both for being brave enough to stick your (and your channel's) necks out there a bit and reiterate the importance of shining the historical light on not just the stories we tell about our collective good times, but *especially* the ones we tell about our worst times.
I noticed a pretty cool little detail in Django Unchained the other night. - Dr Schultz who is a dentist in the movie, makes it his mission to go kill everybody at the plantation named CANDYland and is owned by Calvin Candy. and like real dentists, they have an assistant. so he hires Django and he calls him his assistant. - He even arrives at the plantation Candyland in his dentist Wagon. At one point, Candie offers Dr. Schultz some cake and he responds "I don't go in for sweets, thank you" I'm not sure if this is some small easter egg kinda thing that Quentin Tarantino purposely put into the movie with the name games. But nonetheless, such a cool little detail. Do you think this was purposely done as some kinda metaphor of the Dentist being the good guy trying to eliminate all the candy around the world?
Started watching your videos with the Band of Brothers Break downs. You make great videos and i cannot wait to see which movies/shows you review next. Keep up the great work!
@@ReelHistory It's funny too because i watched Band of Brothers when i was in High School and when i joined the Army i was almost done with my radio operator school when i got my orders to BE IN the 101st Airborne in 4th Brigade(Curahee). It honestly felt kinda surreal that I would get put into the same brigade as the unit from my favorite WW2 series.
As the story itself was complete fiction, this episode was quite interesting to see the historical details (accurate or not) around that story. I would also like to make a humble suggesstion for a future episode: Mississippi Burning from 1988
After enjoying several QT films from Pulp Fiction onwards, I was put off from seeing Inglourious by the ahistorical premise, but I wouldn't be averse to seeing a break down on it in the future. So I enjoyed this break down, because I learned a lot about American history without being misled by watching the whole movie. Sincerely, thanks!
I think what they meant by: "it starts in 1858" and plays 2 years before the start of the civil war is the fact that there is about a year where Django hangs around with Schulz. So technically the second half of the film plays in 1859 so in fact two years before the civil war in 1861. Thats how I see it at least.
Lol the screen literally says "1858, two years before the Civil war" how can you interpret that to mean, 1868 + random amount of months = 2 years before the Civil war?😂😂
The Henry gun that big daddy has could be a volcanic carbine. (I know it’s not it is a Henry 1860 but to be generous some of firearms could have a pass as imitation however most revolvers that they use were not made by 1858/9 Edit: again as for the sharps that could be trying to imitate an earlier percussion cap paper billet sharps instead of the 1873 metallic cartridge version.
A series that really deserves one of these breakdowns is The Knick about the Knickerbocker hospital at the turn of the twentieth century. Super interesting when in comes to a period in US history that is less well known but very relevant to today since it was also a major period of transition and innovation.
Steampunk!!!! Never dawned on me but makes sense in 2022. I was born in 65 and I was born an engineer. Artemus Gordon was a hero of mine growing up. Great Wild Wild West shout-out.
Hello Professor Frederick, I hope you’re having a good day today. I want to address a comment that you made about the time period; Two years before the civil war. The story begins in 1858, then they montage through a winter before they journey to the south, therefore making it 1859 when the majority of the action takes place. So the time of two years before the civil war is actually accurate. I rarely catch things like this so I just couldn’t help bringing it to your attention. Thank you for taking the time to read my observation. Hoping you have a great rest of your day, Lucy
Great video essay on Django Unchained. Tarantino audiences expected another hipster meditation on film culture filled with cool hyper-violent action. Django delivers all this, but is also more ambitious. I appreciate that this video essay shows how Tarantino elegantly deconstructs movie Westerns and the Lost Cause Myth. It is not an attempt to be historically accurate, but it is well grounded in history in key places. I have seen the movie a number of times, but until now did not catch how the scrolling "Mississippi" title references Gone With the Wind and other Hollywood movies. I also applaud Tarantino's visual imagination in depicting the horror of slavery. Almost all the terrible devices in the film used to control or brutalize slaves were based on actual devices. I don't think that these devices had ever been shown before in an American film about slavery.
Like your Titanic videos, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this video. I am beginning to think that other than BoB, I really don’t enjoy war movies very much. However, I love history and always learn so much from you. Thanks!
My answer for when can you laugh at violence, is when death is presented in a comical fashion. The women being yanked back by a rope when shes shot is intended for comical effect. The endless shots coming from 2 pistols that aren't reloaded into an unending wave of bodies. Would I laugh at Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's list, no they aren't meant to be funny.
This movie is so disturbing and makes viewers super uncomfortable but it’s so important to watch every second of every frame! History needs to be shown unfiltered and not sugar coated!
Quentin Tarantino Loves to twist history as seen in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I just came up into your videos love how you take the talks about true event in movies could you analyze the Sharon Tate history in that timeline with Charles Manson. I don’t like westerns that much but Django unchained was one of the better ones for me in that genre of film
I know my personality. In the future I can see myself being critical and over analyzing things you post. Please never take it as me being insulting.. If I am analyzing and being critical...it is because I respect your work. So much so.....I like to point out where it isn't perfect. But make no mistake....nobody is perfect and it isn't like I posted the vid. I just love history as much as you and enjoy discussing it
Do a reaction to the film “come and see” it’s about ww2 in Belarus told from the Soviet perspective. It’s considered by many to be the most accurate depiction of the war in the east ever put to film. It was written and directed by two soviet men who actually survived the war years so they witnessed it first hand and used that as a reference point to make sure it accurately reflected their experiences, Roman Polanski did the same in The Pianist, being that as a young boy he survived the holocaust in Poland and was just old enough to remember it clearly. Both are excellent examples of historic authenticity in film but they are also very difficult to watch
Excellent observations. When is it okay to laugh at violence? My answer is, "When it is Tarantino or Monty Python." Russ Tamblyn was a great dancer and I think also choreographer. The Henry Repeating Rifle was designed in 1860 while the Colt 45 was designed 1872 and neither would have been available for purchase without a time machine. I saw a time machine that was real in another movie so maybe possible? Nah. Those weapons do look cool and stylish though. And Tarantino is all about cool and style. Yup. No "dyn-o-mite!!!" J.J. Walker hadn't been born yet. Doh! You were talking "Dynamite the Explosive." The hoods worn are more accurate for KKK and Tarantino is making fun of that organization. The hoods are actually more accurate for the KKK than the white hoods and sheets. Hollywood established the white cloak uniform we know today to be associated with the KKK which was founded after the Civil War. Phrenology was definitely used by the NAZIS. The stereo viewer was the process of Stereoscopy and later became the View-Master. Digital Photography has also used the process to create digital 3D images using the side by side camera lenses. I had a phone with this feature ages ago. There are some people, mostly from families that were abolitionist, who have said The Civil War started in the Territory of Kansas in 1856. The Civil War actually started when Representative Thaddeus Stevens spilled hot tea on Senator Jefferson Davis' lap. That must have been some hot tea! Well. Enough of that bullocks. On with the show. It is very true that German immigrants were abolitionists. My Great Grandmother's father's last name was Heninger. The family dated back to Lower Saxony Germany arriving in the US about 1790-1800 before settling in what would become Union County TN establishing a farm. They would pay black laborers the same wage as white laborers and were highly respected in the area. I also have relatives from Tazewell, Claiborne County, TN. The two families merged with my 2nd GGM and 2nd GGF. Both counties voted overwhelmingly for Lincoln. Both counties were majority abolitionist. Which brings me to a point about Tennessee. People talk about the border states in the North that were slave states. Tennessee was split between slavery and abolitionist so much that the army commanded by Grant was the Army of the Tennessee. My family from Claiborne County fought on the side of the North and ironically had slavery in the family tree, but the slaves were manumitted sometime around 1810. The Heninger's were conscripted to fight for the CSA. Records show they were Company B, 11th Cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry corps.
Tarantino was 100% aware of the inaccuracies that he put into Django, and I would expect them to be intentional. As you said at ~8:25 he's shows himself capable of getting the details of things like clothing correct...so why didn't he, especially with Django in particular? I don't really know the answer, but I can say that Django was a bad ass the whole movie.
I agree it isnt a white savior film. Dr King Schulz and Djanjo work as a team just Calvin Candie and Stephen work together as a team. Schulz offs Candie but Django and Stephen have their fight and he allows Django to burn down the plantation and ride off with his woman. I also see it as a buddy western. It does not have the feeling of Schulz fighting battles to demand Djamgo's freedom. He finds Django for selfish reasons and they become friends. It is also ok for this to have a damsel in distress. This not a social justice project after all. It is a tale that was woven and told. It is not responsible for artificially inserting different types of representation just cuz. GREAT VIDEO!
This movie took place in real time obviously before 1864 but at heart and soul it was in the late 19th century. It's a mash up of slavery era and spaghetti western. All liberties should be forgiven for firearms and apparel.
29:00 there is a whole line of thought based on humanity actually not truly desiring equality. Equality is only wanted by those on the loosing end of the balance. Do you think the rich and powerful want to loose there wealth and power to the poor and powerless. Such is the case of Steven. As long as there is a structure where one can have at least the possibility of attaining wealth and power does society stabilize. Slavery itself is not the issue in this case, look at Roman slavery; it wasn't racially based but rather a class on the bottom, but there was opportunity to rise out of it. Many of the wealthiest members of the knight class were descended from manumitted slaves. This was not so much the case in the US, where manumission was rare, and even then the freed were heavily stigmatized.
Strange Film. Nice to see a Henry Rifle in this film (I own three of them) was not available to public until early 1862) and 1860 Army Colt Revolvers (again, not available until Spring 1861). Minor. Also, not sure what are the slave abuse laws were in 1858. Could you beat a slave to death? Have a fight to death? I Rome, around the Imperial time, if a slave misbehaved, you took them down to the City Administrator to have them them put down or added to the Games. … like a pet today, you can’t beat a dog to death. I really do not know the Slave Laws.
It was illegal and enforced in the 1700s and it was illegal and often enforced in the 1840s. However, as you get into the 1850s and enforcement became infrequent and there are recorded famous cases of slave owners murdering slaves and not even being charged such as Eliza Rowand. The original 1774 law in one state was 12 months prison for the first such murder and execution for the second.
I think Tarrantino uses history as more of a prop than a real thing. I think his films are very much about film itself than anything else. Django: Unchained and Inglorious Basterds are best viewed as revenge fantasy movies rather than attempts to portray history.
I found the original movie very difficult to watch, but forced myself to over several sessions. This breakdown was interesting to me because some of the movie seemed ridiculous to me even as it was horrific. The breakdown I also had to watch over several sessions. Slavery is one of mankind's greatest evils and racism is not only alive and well in the US, but once again, we have White Nationalists marching in broad daylight, not found under a rock where they should stay, if at all. White fear mongering on Faux "news" is a staple of their programming and we just had another mass shooting hate crime. Yet, we aren't supposed to teach about any of this in schools? Sigh.....
If you wanna see the most fucked up historical film ever made, check out Goodbye Uncle Tom. I cant exactly recommend it except to say its the most brutal film ever made about slavery. Its pure exploitation filmmaking. I cant say i enjoyed watching it but it absolutely scarred my psyche.
I don’t think this guy thinks justice has occurred. He used modern logos from store shelves as examples of racism. Someone who thinks racism is dead would not use such examples. And most people don’t think racism is dead anymore either. I don’t think they have in 10 years or more. The 90’s and 2000’s were really when the idea that racism is dead was really at it’s peak.
@@CF-3300 True. And oh boy were 'we' wrong. I admit I vastly underestimated the extent it was an issue at the time, as well. I mean, bloody hell....it's like...Trump got elected and every closet Racist came out and was like.....THE SOUTH RISES AGAIN!!! Like...>WTF?!?!
Does it make sense every plantation owner would abuse the slaves this way? Why would a farmer torture his livestock? Your blowing the situation way out of proportion
I say "enslaved people" to evoke the humanity of the enslaved. We must reinforce the truth that they were people even though their masters thought them solely property.
Was there also “blood on the hands” of the American Northern factories that bought and processed the cotton and other raw materials (hemp , lumber, sugar cane, leather etc . . . ) produced in the American South, The Caribbean and South America; into finished goods? Or the Northern fleets that made the voyages to Europe to sell Northern mass produced goods; then to Western Africa to buy African People that had been captured and enslaved by OTHER African People; then to The Americas to trade captured Africans for raw materials to sell to Northern factories to mass produce goods? The Big Atlantic Trade Loop? Tarantino makes interesting films, but his knowledge of History is trite. BTW. Almost EVERY firearm and saddle in the film is anachronistic. He’s trying to retell POPULAR History, NOT ACTUAL HISTORY, for his own political reasons. I submit that in order to LEARN from history, it MUST be ACCURATELY told.
I honesty don't know why you are wasting time on the breakdown of a fictional story to begin with. 6 mins in and I'm pausing and tapping out. I don't see any value in this for me. I've loved your content of historical movies that were based on actual events, but this, it's a waste of my time. I would rather watch Lawn Care Juggernaut than this.
I have found in my life that about 5% of people will love or hate things on an arbitrary basis. Some people love Planet 9 from Outer space. Some people would object if I was handing out free $20 bills.
I'm really enjoying these historical breakdowns of relatively ahistoric movies.
Glad to hear it!
Re Dr Schultz, I think this take somewhat overlook the historic background - the German one, that is.
Dr Schultz, with English being a second language to him, has certainly studied at a German university, thus will almost certainly have taken part in the 1848/49 democratic revolution fighting the reactionary regimes installed by the Vienna Congress after Napoleon's defeat.
Democracy lost, the princes won, and many revolutionaries were being forced to emigrate to avoid being shot or imprisoned.
Marx and Engels to the UK, Dr. Schultz and thousands of other German revolutionaries to the US. Many became disillusioned with their new home allowing slavery, but they felt as mere guests at first, and did not want to try to overthrow the system a second time and lose again.
That changed with the US civil war, were those (militarily experienced) revolutionary fighters often were first to volunteer to the Union colors, but we are years before that, and Schultz has no real outlet for his inner feelings beyond hunting the worst of humanity.
So Schultz submits to his fate for a while, gets on with the bounty hunter job and ignores the ideals of his youth.
Until Candy finally puts Schultz into a position where all the hate for the (fake) aristocratic slave holders breaks free again, finally.
Tough luck for Django, but you can't have a revolution without breaking some eggs...
QT has said many times, that Sergio Leone was his favorite director. And we all know that he loves 70’s genre films. So here is just the amalgamation of the two, an exploitation spaghetti western. Also, being from TN myself, shout out to Gatlinburg TN.
Hahaha except that Gatlinburg is the last place you could ever put a big plantation in one of the least slave-holding parts of the state.
I do appreciate the regular Saturday afternoon (UK time) release time. It's one of the reasons I look forward to the weekend...
Excellent! Look forward to this coming Monday afternoon as well.
@@ReelHistory - and now I have a good reason to look forward to Monday!
So I know what you mean when you say there are some weapons in the film that are inaccurate to the time period. But there are also weapons that are accurate to the time, I’ll give you a few examples. So first off the double Barrel shotguns that’s used in the movie for 3 scenes. Is actually a muzzleloading percussion shotgun that was used in the times before and even during the civil war. Another example is all the revolvers in the film are before civil war, most notably the colt navy 1851 and the Remington 1858. There is also a Remington 1858 revolver rifle shown during the scene Django heads back to candy land. Finally during the scene where big daddy meets Django and the doctor after killing the brittle brothers. One of the people behind him is holding a Enfield 1853 carbine, which is a muzzle loader. So there’s my two cents, also I love your videos keep up the good work.
As a hardcore 2a person who is also a history nerd, I'm so glad you included The Second by Carol Anderson. Since it's such a hotly contested cultural issue, people really do not have an understanding of just how deep and systemically racist gun control narratives are in the US. While I might not agree with everything she says, there's a valid argument that she makes about how black Americans have been denied access to firearms for generations as a means of power removal.
I dont care what your skin color is you deserve the ability to wield the same arms that I do.
Well, naturally we now _REQUIRE_ a follow up video covering "Inglourious Basterds", please and thank you.
When I first saw Inglourious Bastards I knew it wasn't "real" history but thought it was still keeping to the timeline.
@@andrewwebb3248 would genuinely like to hear his knowledge on the topic of German occupied France and the topic of espionage and resistance movements during the time. Also hearing him talk of nazi films and propaganda during the war. Genuinely surprised he hasn’t touched the movie yet
I have a bunch of colt revolvers and some Winchester rifles. Probably one of my favorite times in history to learn about.
Just found your channel and I never watch movie reviews but I watch a lot of historical stuff. This was a great video keep it up!
Thanks! Make sure to check out our backlog of videos, we've been at this for over a year now.....how time flies.
@@ReelHistory I most definitely will!
Jared and Andrew - I just wanted to say thanks for being willing to critically examine (and tie in relevant reading to boot!) films and topics which broach or, in the cases of Django Unchained and Jared's talk on Black Troops in Civil War Cinema, directly and clearly confront issues which have unfortunately become politically fraught topics in America's seemingly never-ending culture war. In the current climate of educational censorship, "cancel culture", the clear embrace of the Lost Cause myth and Great Replacement "Theory" by significant political blocs, and the ever present and shallow use of "freedom" as an argument ending billy club, it takes real guts to put yourselves out there the way that you guys have done here in this video, and you should be commended for doing so.
I don't mean to imply that you should be congratulated for taking a political stance since, in my opinion, the views of American history vis-a-vis chattel slavery and its threads in contemporary American society that Jared voices ought not be seen as political perspectives. Rather, they should be presented and digested as some of the foundational facts upon which the American Experience and the story of everybody who has ever or will ever call themselves an American are and will be built. They simply should not be taken as controversial statements or as mud to be flung over the internet against a political opponent. Anyway, I have been digressing here.
Again, I just wanted to thank you both for being brave enough to stick your (and your channel's) necks out there a bit and reiterate the importance of shining the historical light on not just the stories we tell about our collective good times, but *especially* the ones we tell about our worst times.
I noticed a pretty cool little detail in Django Unchained the other night.
- Dr Schultz who is a dentist in the movie, makes it his mission to go kill everybody at the plantation named CANDYland and is owned by Calvin Candy.
and like real dentists, they have an assistant.
so he hires Django and he calls him his assistant.
- He even arrives at the plantation Candyland in his dentist Wagon.
At one point, Candie offers Dr. Schultz some cake and he responds "I don't go in for sweets, thank you"
I'm not sure if this is some small easter egg kinda thing that Quentin Tarantino purposely put into the movie with the name games.
But nonetheless, such a cool little detail.
Do you think this was purposely done as some kinda metaphor of the Dentist being the good guy trying to eliminate all the candy around the world?
Heck yeah! This is better than Saturday morning cartoons
Probably what Tarantino had in mind!
Good morning buddy I've been looking forward to this.
I'm glad that Tarantino and I have yet another thing in common. I always viewed this film as a "buddy flick."
Started watching your videos with the Band of Brothers Break downs. You make great videos and i cannot wait to see which movies/shows you review next. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
@@ReelHistory It's funny too because i watched Band of Brothers when i was in High School and when i joined the Army i was almost done with my radio operator school when i got my orders to BE IN the 101st Airborne in 4th Brigade(Curahee). It honestly felt kinda surreal that I would get put into the same brigade as the unit from my favorite WW2 series.
This honestly made my day
Ok, with the line delivery that opens the video, you have won yourself a new subscriber.😄
YASSSSS same tho my friend my finger had a mind of its own
Steven and Django might have more in common than first seen. One might say “We’re not so different, you and I.”
As the story itself was complete fiction, this episode was quite interesting to see the historical details (accurate or not) around that story.
I would also like to make a humble suggesstion for a future episode: Mississippi Burning from 1988
How about Black Hawk Down next?
Great video as always, keep up the good work!
After enjoying several QT films from Pulp Fiction onwards, I was put off from seeing Inglourious by the ahistorical premise, but I wouldn't be averse to seeing a break down on it in the future. So I enjoyed this break down, because I learned a lot about American history without being misled by watching the whole movie. Sincerely, thanks!
I loved the Trinity movies as a kid, and I loved that Taratino had the Trinity theme play at the end of the movie.
Nobody made better westerns.
I think what they meant by: "it starts in 1858" and plays 2 years before the start of the civil war is the fact that there is about a year where Django hangs around with Schulz. So technically the second half of the film plays in 1859 so in fact two years before the civil war in 1861. Thats how I see it at least.
Same, here. Django and Schultz do their bounty hunting together for several months, at least, before heading to find Broomhilda.
Lol the screen literally says "1858, two years before the Civil war" how can you interpret that to mean, 1868 + random amount of months = 2 years before the Civil war?😂😂
The Henry gun that big daddy has could be a volcanic carbine. (I know it’s not it is a Henry 1860 but to be generous some of firearms could have a pass as imitation however most revolvers that they use were not made by 1858/9
Edit: again as for the sharps that could be trying to imitate an earlier percussion cap paper billet sharps instead of the 1873 metallic cartridge version.
A series that really deserves one of these breakdowns is The Knick about the Knickerbocker hospital at the turn of the twentieth century. Super interesting when in comes to a period in US history that is less well known but very relevant to today since it was also a major period of transition and innovation.
I really enjoyed that series!
@@TR00P Really caught the zeitgeist of the time brilliantly. Best US period drama of the last decade in my opinion.
16:00 this also might be a reference to the posse scene from Blazing Saddles where hijinks ensue due to the rediculousness of it.
Steampunk!!!! Never dawned on me but makes sense in 2022. I was born in 65 and I was born an engineer. Artemus Gordon was a hero of mine growing up. Great Wild Wild West shout-out.
Hello Professor Frederick, I hope you’re having a good day today. I want to address a comment that you made about the time period; Two years before the civil war. The story begins in 1858, then they montage through a winter before they journey to the south, therefore making it 1859 when the majority of the action takes place. So the time of two years before the civil war is actually accurate.
I rarely catch things like this so I just couldn’t help bringing it to your attention. Thank you for taking the time to read my observation. Hoping you have a great rest of your day,
Lucy
Great video essay on Django Unchained. Tarantino audiences expected another hipster meditation on film culture filled with cool hyper-violent action. Django delivers all this, but is also more ambitious. I appreciate that this video essay shows how Tarantino elegantly deconstructs movie Westerns and the Lost Cause Myth. It is not an attempt to be historically accurate, but it is well grounded in history in key places. I have seen the movie a number of times, but until now did not catch how the scrolling "Mississippi" title references Gone With the Wind and other Hollywood movies. I also applaud Tarantino's visual imagination in depicting the horror of slavery. Almost all the terrible devices in the film used to control or brutalize slaves were based on actual devices. I don't think that these devices had ever been shown before in an American film about slavery.
Good input. Thanks.
Those devices were not used at all its bs for blaxploitation it's not about lost causers u dont know film.
Like your Titanic videos, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this video. I am beginning to think that other than BoB, I really don’t enjoy war movies very much. However, I love history and always learn so much from you. Thanks!
Thank you!
Russ! He was also in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! Wow, cool to see him again!!
The Henry Yellowboy was introduced in 1860.
My answer for when can you laugh at violence, is when death is presented in a comical fashion. The women being yanked back by a rope when shes shot is intended for comical effect. The endless shots coming from 2 pistols that aren't reloaded into an unending wave of bodies. Would I laugh at Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's list, no they aren't meant to be funny.
Not to mention the ridiculous blood spouting after being shot. You would think everyone is on serious blood thinners..
I’m surprised you haven’t broken down the greatest war movie of all time, Waterloo
We have to spread the truly great ones out over time
I can’t find it anywhere. The dvds are so expensive.
@@gman7774 it’s on UA-cam, full movie high quality
ua-cam.com/video/3DcWJrzK0wU/v-deo.html
This movie is so disturbing and makes viewers super uncomfortable but it’s so important to watch every second of every frame! History needs to be shown unfiltered and not sugar coated!
Indeed, in terms of gold: price then was $20/ounce, now about $2000, makes $12,000 into $1.2 million today.
Quentin Tarantino Loves to twist history as seen in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I just came up into your videos love how you take the talks about true event in movies could you analyze the Sharon Tate history in that timeline with Charles Manson. I don’t like westerns that much but Django unchained was one of the better ones for me in that genre of film
Thanks! We will be analyzing that movie before the end of the year so stick around.
1:53 That's always been my head canon.
I know my personality. In the future I can see myself being critical and over analyzing things you post. Please never take it as me being insulting.. If I am analyzing and being critical...it is because I respect your work. So much so.....I like to point out where it isn't perfect. But make no mistake....nobody is perfect and it isn't like I posted the vid. I just love history as much as you and enjoy discussing it
Do a reaction to the film “come and see” it’s about ww2 in Belarus told from the Soviet perspective. It’s considered by many to be the most accurate depiction of the war in the east ever put to film. It was written and directed by two soviet men who actually survived the war years so they witnessed it first hand and used that as a reference point to make sure it accurately reflected their experiences, Roman Polanski did the same in The Pianist, being that as a young boy he survived the holocaust in Poland and was just old enough to remember it clearly. Both are excellent examples of historic authenticity in film but they are also very difficult to watch
Awesome video, I had no idea Harrison was in this, great actor
Excellent observations. When is it okay to laugh at violence? My answer is, "When it is Tarantino or Monty Python."
Russ Tamblyn was a great dancer and I think also choreographer.
The Henry Repeating Rifle was designed in 1860 while the Colt 45 was designed 1872 and neither would have been available for purchase without a time machine. I saw a time machine that was real in another movie so maybe possible? Nah. Those weapons do look cool and stylish though. And Tarantino is all about cool and style.
Yup. No "dyn-o-mite!!!" J.J. Walker hadn't been born yet. Doh! You were talking "Dynamite the Explosive."
The hoods worn are more accurate for KKK and Tarantino is making fun of that organization. The hoods are actually more accurate for the KKK than the white hoods and sheets. Hollywood established the white cloak uniform we know today to be associated with the KKK which was founded after the Civil War.
Phrenology was definitely used by the NAZIS.
The stereo viewer was the process of Stereoscopy and later became the View-Master. Digital Photography has also used the process to create digital 3D images using the side by side camera lenses. I had a phone with this feature ages ago.
There are some people, mostly from families that were abolitionist, who have said The Civil War started in the Territory of Kansas in 1856.
The Civil War actually started when Representative Thaddeus Stevens spilled hot tea on Senator Jefferson Davis' lap. That must have been some hot tea!
Well. Enough of that bullocks. On with the show.
It is very true that German immigrants were abolitionists. My Great Grandmother's father's last name was Heninger. The family dated back to Lower Saxony Germany arriving in the US about 1790-1800 before settling in what would become Union County TN establishing a farm. They would pay black laborers the same wage as white laborers and were highly respected in the area. I also have relatives from Tazewell, Claiborne County, TN. The two families merged with my 2nd GGM and 2nd GGF.
Both counties voted overwhelmingly for Lincoln. Both counties were majority abolitionist. Which brings me to a point about Tennessee. People talk about the border states in the North that were slave states. Tennessee was split between slavery and abolitionist so much that the army commanded by Grant was the Army of the Tennessee. My family from Claiborne County fought on the side of the North and ironically had slavery in the family tree, but the slaves were manumitted sometime around 1810. The Heninger's were conscripted to fight for the CSA. Records show they were Company B, 11th Cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry corps.
"Outlaw Josie Wales" and "The Longriders" please! "Wicked Spring" is worth a watch, too.
5:00 - He was also Dr. Jacoby on Twin Peaks...
Tarantino was 100% aware of the inaccuracies that he put into Django, and I would expect them to be intentional. As you said at ~8:25 he's shows himself capable of getting the details of things like clothing correct...so why didn't he, especially with Django in particular?
I don't really know the answer, but I can say that Django was a bad ass the whole movie.
He sure is!
Excellent, thank you!
You are welcome!
I agree it isnt a white savior film. Dr King Schulz and Djanjo work as a team just Calvin Candie and Stephen work together as a team. Schulz offs Candie but Django and Stephen have their fight and he allows Django to burn down the plantation and ride off with his woman. I also see it as a buddy western. It does not have the feeling of Schulz fighting battles to demand Djamgo's freedom. He finds Django for selfish reasons and they become friends.
It is also ok for this to have a damsel in distress. This not a social justice project after all. It is a tale that was woven and told. It is not responsible for artificially inserting different types of representation just cuz. GREAT VIDEO!
Thanks for tuning in.
This movie took place in real time obviously before 1864 but at heart and soul it was in the late 19th century. It's a mash up of slavery era and spaghetti western. All liberties should be forgiven for firearms and apparel.
29:00 there is a whole line of thought based on humanity actually not truly desiring equality. Equality is only wanted by those on the loosing end of the balance. Do you think the rich and powerful want to loose there wealth and power to the poor and powerless. Such is the case of Steven. As long as there is a structure where one can have at least the possibility of attaining wealth and power does society stabilize. Slavery itself is not the issue in this case, look at Roman slavery; it wasn't racially based but rather a class on the bottom, but there was opportunity to rise out of it. Many of the wealthiest members of the knight class were descended from manumitted slaves. This was not so much the case in the US, where manumission was rare, and even then the freed were heavily stigmatized.
Strange Film. Nice to see a Henry Rifle in this film (I own three of them) was not available to public until early 1862) and 1860 Army Colt Revolvers (again, not available until Spring 1861). Minor. Also, not sure what are the slave abuse laws were in 1858. Could you beat a slave to death? Have a fight to death? I Rome, around the Imperial time, if a slave misbehaved, you took them down to the City Administrator to have them them put down or added to the Games. … like a pet today, you can’t beat a dog to death. I really do not know the Slave Laws.
It was illegal and enforced in the 1700s and it was illegal and often enforced in the 1840s. However, as you get into the 1850s and enforcement became infrequent and there are recorded famous cases of slave owners murdering slaves and not even being charged such as Eliza Rowand.
The original 1774 law in one state was 12 months prison for the first such murder and execution for the second.
I think Tarrantino uses history as more of a prop than a real thing. I think his films are very much about film itself than anything else. Django: Unchained and Inglorious Basterds are best viewed as revenge fantasy movies rather than attempts to portray history.
Why did that opening line sound EXTRA racist coming out of Jared’s mouth??😂😂
Uncle Remus wasn't even a slave so how could he be a loyal slave? Song of the South takes place after emancipation
He could of been thinking of the Indian war and i thought dr schultz was loosely based off of john brown
Will you do Fury next!!
Don't tell anyone but we are literally filming that in 3 days. I can't explain how excited I am for that one.
@@ReelHistory Yes! Can't wait! Any general time frame on Generation Kill? Can't wait to see Chuck back!
probably late summer if i had to guess. he has his own channel as of today "recon jack" so we may do something interesting.
You really are like an ultimate universe amalgamation of alchemation of James Rolfe angry video game nerd and the guy with the glasses
Could this movie be made today?
I found the original movie very difficult to watch, but forced myself to over several sessions. This breakdown was interesting to me because some of the movie seemed ridiculous to me even as it was horrific. The breakdown I also had to watch over several sessions. Slavery is one of mankind's greatest evils and racism is not only alive and well in the US, but once again, we have White Nationalists marching in broad daylight, not found under a rock where they should stay, if at all. White fear mongering on Faux "news" is a staple of their programming and we just had another mass shooting hate crime. Yet, we aren't supposed to teach about any of this in schools? Sigh.....
Ur insane
Stay out of ur a women get married if u arent already you're not supposed to mess with nature
If you wanna see the most fucked up historical film ever made, check out Goodbye Uncle Tom. I cant exactly recommend it except to say its the most brutal film ever made about slavery. Its pure exploitation filmmaking. I cant say i enjoyed watching it but it absolutely scarred my psyche.
If booker t Washington would come back from me grave you'd argue with him about slavery
Damn…… one month and…. No replies…. Wassat say bout ur comment b?
old video so I hope you see this do inglorious bastards
arrivederci!
And there is nothing wrong with the fantaysy. THe issue is people thinking the problem of racial inequality is solved. It is not.
I don’t think this guy thinks justice has occurred. He used modern logos from store shelves as examples of racism. Someone who thinks racism is dead would not use such examples. And most people don’t think racism is dead anymore either. I don’t think they have in 10 years or more. The 90’s and 2000’s were really when the idea that racism is dead was really at it’s peak.
@@CF-3300 True. And oh boy were 'we' wrong. I admit I vastly underestimated the extent it was an issue at the time, as well. I mean, bloody hell....it's like...Trump got elected and every closet Racist came out and was like.....THE SOUTH RISES AGAIN!!! Like...>WTF?!?!
How about just plain entertainment? It's a REVENGE/RESCUE movie!
Fair enough!
This "enslaved person" thing is so contrived.
Why so?
why are you assuming QT's film are the same universe as our own?
We aren't, but many people might--hence this video.
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Does it make sense every plantation owner would abuse the slaves this way? Why would a farmer torture his livestock? Your blowing the situation way out of proportion
I don’t think Candie is like every, or any other slave owner. I think he, like the Dr says in the movie, is bored. People are demented.
Isn't the term ''enslaved people'' a pleonasm?
I say "enslaved people" to evoke the humanity of the enslaved. We must reinforce the truth that they were people even though their masters thought them solely property.
I'm still looking forward to the sequel- " Django Rechained".
Was there also “blood on the hands” of the American Northern factories that bought and processed the cotton and other raw materials (hemp , lumber, sugar cane, leather etc . . . ) produced in the American South, The Caribbean and South America; into finished goods?
Or the Northern fleets that made the voyages to Europe to sell Northern mass produced goods; then to Western Africa to buy African People that had been captured and enslaved by OTHER African People; then to The Americas to trade captured Africans for raw materials to sell to Northern factories to mass produce goods? The Big Atlantic Trade Loop?
Tarantino makes interesting films, but his knowledge of History is trite.
BTW. Almost EVERY firearm and saddle in the film is anachronistic.
He’s trying to retell POPULAR History, NOT ACTUAL HISTORY, for his own political reasons.
I submit that in order to LEARN from history, it MUST be ACCURATELY told.
I honesty don't know why you are wasting time on the breakdown of a fictional story to begin with. 6 mins in and I'm pausing and tapping out. I don't see any value in this for me. I've loved your content of historical movies that were based on actual events, but this, it's a waste of my time. I would rather watch Lawn Care Juggernaut than this.
That seems a bit harsh. This video places the film both cinematic and historical context. But thank you for your comment and boosting the algorithm.
@@ReelHistory ... You're welcome. I'm sure you will be onto something I will enjoy soon.
Damn dude if you don’t like it back out my boy
@@buddystewart2020ur welcome 💀 girl…
I have found in my life that about 5% of people will love or hate things on an arbitrary basis.
Some people love Planet 9 from Outer space. Some people would object if I was handing out free $20 bills.
been waiting for this after trying to solve the picture on insta
Who doesn't love a good mystery?
@@ReelHistory kept me in my feet