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Django (1966)

Western | 91 minutes / 87 minutes (gecensureerd, Spanje)
3,43 435 votes

Genre: Western / Drama

Duration: 91 minuten / 87 minuten (gecensureerd, Spanje)

Country: Italy / Spain

Directed by: Sergio Corbucci

Stars: Franco Nero, José Bódalo and Loredana Nusciak

IMDb score: 7,2 (33.643)

Releasedate: 6 April 1966

Django plot

"The movie that spawned a genre."

A ghost town on the Mexican border, where only the owner of the saloon and his girls has remained, is visited alternately by the Ku Klux Klan and Mexican bandits. But then the stranger Django arrives in the town. He does not take sides with any of the opposing groups, but fights his own battle. Django is alone, but in the coffin he carries, he has all the help he needs.

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Roger Thornhill

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Revisited after five years, but I don't understand the high rating for this film. The plot borrows from Kurosawa and Leone, I can hardly empathize with the "hero", the stylistic features are dangerously close to the parodic (the way the camera regularly lets Django look "mysteriously" from under his hat in the beginning ), the mass massacres are portrayed completely unimaginatively, and the location seems unrealistic, which makes this film lack a "grounding" in reality – I kept wondering where Nathaniel gets his drink from, from which greengrocer he gets the ingredients for the meal and who comes to tune his piano, because apart from the two fighting parties and the handful of residents of the saloon, there is nothing or no one in sight. No, this film lacks impact for and on me.

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Filmkriebel

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Pure spaghetti western that became famous again when Tarantino got involved. Django is brutal and does not waste time with palaver, but invests in a lot of action and a high body count. The opening shot shows a man carrying a coffin. He saves a beauty from the hands of misogynistic Mexicans, and goes to a ghost town. And as is usually the case in a ghost town, the saloon is the only place where human life can still be seen (the saloon owner and some whores). These villagers are terrorized by Major Jackson, a notorious Ku Klux Klan leader who shoots Mexicans in his spare time.

While it's certainly a good western, everything looks basic, populated with caricatured characters, but often nicely staged.

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Lovelyboy

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Django, the inspiration that led to QT's Django Unchained, or so you might say, until I put the film in and the first images appeared on the screen accompanied by Rocky Roberts. Yes, this is clear, the only question was whether these Django are anything like Franco Nero.

Both funny and unconscious, the choice is to watch this film the day after Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. A circle that comes round in a funny way between this Django, Quentin Tarantino and Once Upon. Rick Dalton goes to work for Corbucci at one point and makes similar spaghetti westerns, bold, filthy, grimacing and dubbed. Exactly the image told in Once Upon, and exactly the image shown in Django.

Django, silent and inscrutable, the streets filthy and desolate, enemies numerous, a score to be settled, a mournful atmosphere and a great deal of bloodshed. And that with atmospheric music in a nice gritty and especially smooth jacket that doesn't take too long to bring up that fantastic dilapidated set and houses again. Downsides? Yes, the dubbing is an eternal shame just to have to miss that heavy raw voice of Nero, something that would have made the album even more complete for me. The acting tends towards schmieren and the unbuying is of course very strong, but this is more part of the genre than it detracts from. Very bad is the special machine gun, whose ammunition belt does not move, the weapon does not produce empty cases and the weapon does not even appear to have a trigger.

All in all, Django is an extremely entertaining film and as I understand it a hit in European cinemas and Corbucci's breakthrough. Nice, really nice for once.

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