By: Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:52:22 +0000

I think you may be missing the dramatic point of making the white character European. That choice more seperates Django’s white partner from the villains in the movie. Any political side effect may be interesting, but I believe that the most important thing to focus on as a writer is story sharpness. Deeper meanings take a backseat to stronger character conflict in the context of the overall story. Imagine if the white was American. That would’ve taken a lot of wind out of the sharply focused “us vs. them” tone of the film throughout. In the end of the film Django’s victory is springboarded, not by the villain country citizen, but, instead by an alien entity (white though he may be). In the end, in “real American history”, it was white Americans who began the ongoing road to recalibrate racial equality in America. But everybody knows that. And so, Tarantino was smart enough not to smother the audience with that story-muddling notion. Tarantino did not take the easy way out by making Django’s white partner an American: because he’s a better writer than that.

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