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Django Unchained Analysis
Django Unchained: Communication and Culture

The film set in the deep South in 1858, about a slave who gains his freedom with the help of Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter, and sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner is an intriguing story with very graphic action scenes. The plot of the story begins as Dr. Shultz buys Django (Jamie Foxx), a black slave, from some traveling slave owners. He buys Django because he is chasing a pair of outlaws known as the Brittle Brothers and Django is the only person who knows what they look like. As the plot develops, Dr. Schultz and Django become allies and work together to achieve each other’s personal goals; Dr. Schultz wants to track down and kill outlaws in the south so he can get the financial reward while Django want to find and free his long-lost wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from whom he was separated after trying to escape from his old master. As the story moves forward, the tension and action increases dramatically.

Lasting about 165 minutes, the spaghetti-style western film titled Django Unchained was both written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Django Unchained was release in Theaters on the 25th of December of last year and on April 16 of this year on DVD in the United States. The main stars in the film are Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCario, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, all according to google.com, downloaded May 20.

Furthermore, there are some interesting components in the film that make the story significant. Those include Darwin’s and Freud’s theory of human nature, the white and slave culture, and the communication style of the film. These components are a central part of the film, especially Darwin’s and Freud’s theory and the different cultures of that time since, according to T.A Wardrope, downloaded May 22, “Tarantino films are a sort of alternate history, history as expressed through his memory of genre.” So

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