12 - Django Unchained

This is one of the 4 films for an Oscar Best Picture that didn't get a nomination for Best Director for its director. Then you ask, why. Maybe one of the answers would be Quentin Tarantino. Aside from him playing a cameo among notable actors doing so like Jonah Hill but credited in the end, this would be the subtlest Tarantino flick. I say that because its not as confusing a script and has a brilliant story told in a fluently fluid way one can sit back and get entertained with an amazing script written by the director. Tarantino is a one in ten thousand story teller.

The story, a highly moving narrative of revenge and tale of western adventure is not as pain staking as watching another season of Revenge on TV to have it culminate. The story unfolds on an adventure and eventually of love lost and vengeance brought on the bad guys amid the unexpected turns how the story will go. Which made it a hundred percent exciting. It started off on the right foot then turns into saving the wife and suddenly turns a page in a single shot of a scene into the signature gore, blood and splatter. Maybe the academy would vouche this as significantly brilliant trademark that is Taratino style. Maybe they would like Tarantino to direct a Jane Austen film next then they would hand him the Oscar gold. Well this is wonderful Tarantino style and brand. The best and most enjoyable to date, amongst his similarly token films. But this is a success how this director uses a certain age, period and era into a great agent to deliver his story.

It starts off with great charisma from Christophe Waltz. I would say a role would make up an Osacr win and I am putting my bet on this one for Waltz. Then we are introduced to Django in a low key super hero main event star of the film. A slave, beaten by abuse and lost his wife bound to find her, but a natural and exactly the person to aid the bounty hunting dentist. Then an adventure begins with a blue suit and a bow like a 19th century super hero. Then we have Di Caprio plantation owner character. Just saying leonardo Di Caprio's name is enough to entail curiosity on the role. He does just wear one costume like a main bad villain, well written for his part. But how many Di Caprio charactres do you say lives to the end of the movie and doesn't die - The Beach, Reservation Road and Inception?

Then they take on the winter scenes, the white and the landscapes of the west both sweeping and enigmatic. This part is good. As to parts making the film brilliant in making and production. The costumes for the coats and the club prostitutes were beautiful. The sets or production design of the Candie land plantation house and the Cleopatra Club were detailed and captivating.

In the end the story both gripping and entertaining takes you to how the story unfolds, the dialogs, the subtitles and the different characters unexpected to turn up. It a well made and well written Tarantiono film that didn't fail to amuse. Bravo - a word that would resound with a silent D - Django!