I liked it. It was a popcorn movie, not some deep thoughtful thing. An action flick, set to the background of slavery. It did involve a LOT of dead white people, but he was killing people who were pro-slavery, and wouldn't you know it, when you've got race-based-slavery, most (not all, funny enough!) people in favor of slavery were of the race that OWNED the slaves, not of the race that WERE the slaves.
That said, Jaimie Foxx or however you spell his name, when it came out and he announced to the Saturday Night Live crowd that "Django broke free (that's good,) and killed ALL the White People (Uh oh,)" I decided that he can go fuck himself with an iron stick.
All big production movies are deep, thoughtful things. People are assigned exacting roles from script to camera angle to set color. Each is a professional with a purpose, and that purpose is not to entertain you, but to make you pay money to be influenced, in a subtle way, in the time you're most vulnerable - the time when you've voluntarily suspended all of your attachment to reality, all of your critical thinking, and immersed yourself, open-minded, into a story they've crafted. When you say it's a 'popcorn movie', you admit that they were precisely successful; that you have no idea what they did. And they changed you, just a little bit; nothing noticeable; the long game; death by a thousand cuts. Slowly, subtly, they sculpt culture through entertainment.
The Weinsteins wanted you to see Django Unchained. Hollywood wanted you to see Django Unchained. China wanted you to see Django Unchained. And Django Unchained isn't alone. Awareness is the only antidote.
I liked it. It was a popcorn movie, not some deep thoughtful thing. An action flick, set to the background of slavery. It did involve a LOT of dead white people, but he was killing people who were pro-slavery, and wouldn't you know it, when you've got race-based-slavery, most (not all, funny enough!) people in favor of slavery were of the race that OWNED the slaves, not of the race that WERE the slaves.
That said, Jaimie Foxx or however you spell his name, when it came out and he announced to the Saturday Night Live crowd that "Django broke free (that's good,) and killed ALL the White People (Uh oh,)" I decided that he can go fuck himself with an iron stick.
All big production movies are deep, thoughtful things. People are assigned exacting roles from script to camera angle to set color. Each is a professional with a purpose, and that purpose is not to entertain you, but to make you pay money to be influenced, in a subtle way, in the time you're most vulnerable - the time when you've voluntarily suspended all of your attachment to reality, all of your critical thinking, and immersed yourself, open-minded, into a story they've crafted. When you say it's a 'popcorn movie', you admit that they were precisely successful; that you have no idea what they did. And they changed you, just a little bit; nothing noticeable; the long game; death by a thousand cuts. Slowly, subtly, they sculpt culture through entertainment.
The Weinsteins wanted you to see Django Unchained. Hollywood wanted you to see Django Unchained. China wanted you to see Django Unchained. And Django Unchained isn't alone. Awareness is the only antidote.