![]() Moreover, there's not even the merest glimpse of gyrating slave torsos. Jamie Foxx seems to be playing the title role of a slave turned bounty hunter pretty straight, leaving most of the flamboyance to Christoph Waltz as his German mentor and Leonardo DiCaprio as cackling villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie. A leaked screenplay last year hinted at worrying depictions of slavery and the exploitation of African American women in the pre civil war deep south, so should we be expecting a film that makes Inglourious Basterds look like The Pianist? On the contrary, the debut trailer suggests a western with a classic feel to it, despite the obligatory 70s funk soundtrack and a torrent of laser-guided one-liners. Now comes Django Unchained, in which the maverick film-maker dares to tackle the roots of American racial turbulence. A silly, cringeworthy but strangely enthralling film, then, and one which also turned out to be Tarantino's biggest ever box-office hit. Dialogue so smooth it might have been dipped in honey was undercut by a facile storyline about a squad of Jewish American troopers taking out comedy Nazis and performances straight out of the Carry On guide to acting from the likes of Brad Pitt and Eli Roth.
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