Django unchained (2012)
“With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets
out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner”.
This is an American western film and themes that ran
throughout this film were racism, discrimination, conflict, etc. Quentin
Tarantino directed this, produced by Stacey Sher and cinematography by Robert
Richardson. Company production is the Weinstein Company and Columbia pictures
and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The location of this film was set in the
United States. The budget of the film was $100 million and the box office was
$425.4 million. This film won five academy awards, BAFTA award, etc.
Already in the opening scene, it displays a wide shot of a hot
deserted island, already setting the location. This element is mis-en-scene making
the audience feel set in the location with them. Through the scene, black men
with scars on their back are walking in line shows already that this film has
got to do with the historical context of black slavery in America. The microelement
of performance, close up shots of their expressions show that they’re miserable
and depressed about their treatment, already making the audience piece together
what this film is going to be about. This all changes grandually when Django
gains class each time. Performance and his
are mis-en-scene show the audience how he has developed over time from being a
slave to becoming a hunter. This film had a cyclical structure for ‘what comes
around, goes around’.
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