Jamie Foxx Looming Large In 'Django Unchained'

[goodlove]

Foxx is a good choice, as good if not better than Elba. I haven't been impressed with anything Elba has done apart from The Wire. Will Smith has typecasted himself into PG-13, non-threatening Negro roles and would therefore not be an ideal choice. My ideal choice is Don Cheadle, but keep in mind that the market and potential box office take are frequently behind casting decisions. Cheadle is a superior talent than Foxx, Elba, or Smith, but not a money maker on opening weekend.

The biggest star in terms of box office potential is Leonardo Caprio, an L.A.-bred pretty boy with a babyface who dates foreign supermodels, rolls a Prius, and regularly advocates for progressive causes. Unless there is heavy makeup involved, I don't envision him as the best choice to play a brutal slave master in the antebellum South.

All that said, I expect the film to an excellent pseudo-historical revenge fantasy along the lines of Inglorious Basterds, because no one does dialogue like QT.

well stated

 

[Iggy]

I read some glowing reviews of the script. A lot of people are really diggin it. It should also be noted that the N word is used a TON. If Spike Lee was pissed at QT for using the N word before...this film might make his head explode

 

[MichaelWenton]

You CAN predict this is going to be bad because tarantino is directing it. If anybody seen a Tarantino film, You can expect these things to happen. Gruesome, Glorification of the bad guy(Which is probably why he chose Leo to play the slavemaster. Trickin ppl into loving the slavemaster.) and EXTREMELY FOUL LANGUAGE!!

The mistreatment and rape of black women WILL be intensified (Remember the rape scene in Pulp Fiction.)

And the language is going OVERBOARD, Im predicting he will outdo his use of the n-word in pulp fiction.

Remember QUENTIN TARANTINO is directing.

 

[axum]

Black women WERE exploited during slavery, maybe not in the way the movie is saying but it certaintly could have happened a similar way. I honestly would like to see this movie yea so it's in a fantasy like setting(whick is rare for movies about slavery) and for all intent and purpose mostly fiction. I understand how some of you may feel about the premise but shoot this is a FAR cry from movies I see nowadays(do you really want to see another Tyler Perry movie) or in the X-MEN FC(were the black guy dies first and is an afterthought)

Nigga gtfoh with that bs, Jew were raped and tortured by Nazis but do you see movies of them being RAPED and tortured ONSCREEN, I don't think so. ANd if u did, then that director would have been banned from Hollywood in a heartbeat, Jews have too much pride to see THEIR women being raped by Nazis onscreen, they would NEVER support a movie that EXPLOITS the Holocaust, like Turitino is doing to slavery. And yet you want to see this movie, man you must be out of your damn mind. YOu are talking about seeing a movie that EXPLOITS the 600 year Holocaust for black people, but you complain of the Xmen were the black man at least "dies" heroically, nigga plz.

 

[axum]

I read some glowing reviews of the script. A lot of people are really diggin it. It should also be noted that the N word is used a TON. If Spike Lee was pissed at QT for using the N word before...this film might make his head explode

How many of them were black??

 

[Soulthinker]

I have a feeling it is going to be like those 'Mandingo' flicks back in the day.

 

[Iggy]

How many of them were black??

No clue but it got good reviews.

ANd you guys realize that the lead character in this(Jamie Foxx) kicks the slave owners' asses in this film right??? Sheesh I swear there are a lot of uptight brothas on here.

And did someone mention hating the recent XMen movie because the black guy died in it??!?!??? Bwhahaha are you kidding me?

 

[DarkSoldier08]

Nigga gtfoh with that bs, Jew were raped and tortured by Nazis but do you see movies of them being RAPED and tortured ONSCREEN, I don't think so. ANd if u did, then that director would have been banned from Hollywood in a heartbeat, Jews have too much pride to see THEIR women being raped by Nazis onscreen, they would NEVER support a movie that EXPLOITS the Holocaust, like Turitino is doing to slavery. And yet you want to see this movie, man you must be out of your damn mind. YOu are talking about seeing a movie that EXPLOITS the 600 year Holocaust for black people, but you complain of the Xmen were the black man at least "dies" heroically, nigga plz.[/QUOTEM]

Man you need to calm down, im sure there have been movies of blacks and jews getting raped and tortured on screen. I said I would like to watch this movie, though I haven't made a clear decision yet until a maybe a trailer comes out. Also use correct spelling and grammar next time.

 

[Soulthinker]

I wonder if Tarantino could do a Inqlourious Bastards type of flick a la Nat Turner with brotherman gets the WW? It remains to be seen.

 

[xoxo]

Tarantino's is still too kitsch/B-movie/exploitation for my taste, at least in the aggregate it ruins his otherwise his brilliant construction of a scene(s). From the title to the script, this sounds like a train wreck, but surely Negros will be entertained as Flaminghetero suggests.

 

[flaminghetero]

Nigga gtfoh with that bs, Jew were raped and tortured by Nazis but do you see movies of them being RAPED and tortured ONSCREEN, I don't think so. ANd if u did, then that director would have been banned from Hollywood in a heartbeat, Jews have too much pride to see THEIR women being raped by Nazis onscreen, they would NEVER support a movie that EXPLOITS the Holocaust, like Turitino is doing to slavery. And yet you want to see this movie, man you must be out of your damn mind. YOu are talking about seeing a movie that EXPLOITS the 600 year Holocaust for black people, but you complain of the Xmen were the black man at least "dies" heroically, nigga plz.[/QUOTEM]

Man you need to calm down, im sure there have been movies of blacks and jews getting raped and tortured on screen. I said I would like to watch this movie, though I haven't made a clear decision yet until a maybe a trailer comes out. Also use correct spelling and grammar next time.