It's incendiary, profane, hilarious and ultra-violent in classic Quentin Tarantino fashion, but there's more under the surface. To me, Tarantino's collective body of work now has depicted a real-world Looney Tunes of our modern American culture turned inside-out. And with all the connections between Tarantino's separate projects, I now think of them all as belonging to the same world.
In nerd talk, a Tarantinoverse that plays on the modern American psyche.
And what figures into the modern American psyche like World War II and slavery? Hence we receive Inglorious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012).
Basterds parodied the World War II movie as a meta-commentary on Hollywood's practice of killing Nazis over and over in the movies. Django continues this trend, by using the Western revenge film as a window into slavery. You know, the thing we don't talk about in America.
More than enough people have written extensively with their opinions on the film, from discomfort and disgust to satisfyingly entertained. I'm not gonna get into that.
But this blerd would be remiss not to discuss the many, many thoughts Django has unearthed in my head.
So how about we just run through them, shall we?
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