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Django Unchained Analysis

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Quentin Tarantino, one of the most well-known directors in modern cinematography for his way of portraying dark and gritty environments and situations with a certain dark humor that just takes it all away. Famous for works through time like the Kill Bill series and Pulp Fiction, Tarantino in 2012 releases Django Unchained, a film set right before and in the American civil war emphasizing greatly the topics of slavery, racism, and the injustice that was how society treated black individuals in those times. The movie tells the fictional tale of Django, a recently freed slave who has become a bounty hunter and his quest to free his wife from the treacherous life under a white master, there is no doubt that these events are not part of any actual events in the real American civil war when it comes to the characters and the story, but the atmosphere and environments depicted in it are inspired in the real event and even though there is …show more content…

The best example to compare Django to is Tarantino 's 6th film Inglorious Bastards, the violent-filled heroic tale of a group of Jewish men who try to face off against the German reign. In both films the oppressed side of the event has a hero who is fighting against injustice with an immense amount of violence, Django the slave and the group of men, and this is in my opinion a way in which Tarantino is portraying his opinions as how violence is sometimes the action people have to resort to if any change is wanted in the future. It could be said that when it comes to the violence in Django, it could be a well-deserved backlash at how slaves were treated and now they are getting what they disperse in a dark but still humorous

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Douglass uses paradox to demonstrate that slavery degragrates the slaverholder. When Douglass under Mr. Sever’s care he described that: “He was less cruel, less profane… He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. ”(Douglass 24). Most slaveholders are characterized to be cruel and inhuman because of the whipping and the way they treated the slaves.

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Throughout the narrative, the author includes his personal stories about experiencing the violence of slavery first-hand. For example, on page 20, he writes about the first time he witnessed a slave, his own aunt, getting the whip. “The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest…I remember the first time I ever witnessed this horrible exhibition… It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery…” The author including his experience of his aunts whipping, in detail, appeals to the emotions of the reader.

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In conclusion, both 13th and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass focus on the systematic oppression of black people in America. Douglass’s description of Aunt Hester’s whipping influenced DuVernay’s use of the montage of police brutality because both represented the physical and mental restraints that white authority had placed on black people. DuVernay’s documentary draws influence from Douglass’s narrative through similar scenes and emotions of horror for the conditions of black

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But sometimes he likes to take the whip and this time he whipped her until her back was all ripped and bleeding. We had to watch”(43-44). This represents pathos to create the subject of freedom by way of showing simply come cruel they may be treated. Mothers are used for breeding but, don't even get to keep their children in the end. It’s even worst to think that Sarny as a child doesn’t realize what she has lost and thinks it not only normal but okay from children to be taken away from their parent and passed on for someone to take come on till they themselves are old enough to work and to create the theme of freedom by showing how old hearted the ‘master’ is that it is clear he enjoys the pain he causes and that he makes the other slaves watch in a way of a silent threat or promise that this could and will happen to them if they too step out of line.

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He utilizes exceptionally aggressive reactions that seem way over the top to show how ridiculous the typical responses to these very questions are. Douglass follows up a simple question of unhappy facial expressions with, “It is said, he has the devil in him, and it must be whipped out” (Douglass 67). In the same sense, he follows up a slave making an honest mistake by breaking a tool with a common response of, “It is owing to his carelessness, and for it a slave must always be whipped” (Douglass 68). Douglass is making a mockery of these ludicrous responses while still drawing awareness to their intense reactions to normal actions and sentiments. He is again utilizing this over-the-top, though incredibly typical, reaction to engage the audience.

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However, Douglass, who knows the true culprit, refutes this idea saying instead that slaves would join together in song to tell of their hatred and sorrow. Another way that Douglass rebukes this friendly image is with the gory horrific reality. For instance, when a savage overseer kills a slave named Demby, Douglass recalls “his mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood”(22). Douglass isn’t painting this life in a positive way because he wants others to grasp the alarming reality that was life as a slave. Although those involved in the enslavement of African Americans might’ve liked to believe it, there was nothing reasonable or justifiable about

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Douglass stated, “What am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow-men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters?” He successfully expresses his pain and anger in this quote by providing images of his and his people’s suffering. He tapped into the emotions of his audience, such as mothers, workers, and those who have felt physically pain by exposing them to the amplified struggles he and others had to face. Nonetheless, he continually reminded the audience, both explicitly and subliminally, that his group of people are too human, and that the only difference they share is the color of their skin. He is pleading his cases and hoping that it gets across to his audience in hope they will do the right

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As a child, punishment is a way we are introduced to good and bad. In slavery, it’s used to make slaves submit to a “master,” but in reality it’s used to create fear in those who are viewing this punishment as a warning of what could happen if they decide to get out of line. Douglass uses vivid description of his childhood to show that children are not hit if they learn very fast to fear overseers and

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DJANGO starts out the screenplay in shackles, chained up with 4 other men after being sold in the Greenville Slave Auction to two brothers. DR.SCHULTZ approaches the two brothers in search of a slave who came from the Carrucan Plantation. Django responds to him and Dr.Schultz attempts to buy him out of slavery. The brothers become stubborn and refuse to sell Django for a reasonable price, so Dr.Schultz shoots one of them and then shoots the others horse and it lands on top of his leg. The living brother, who is now complaining about how he may have to amputate his foot, accepts the offer for $80 as Dr.Schultz buys Django, and later gives him his freedom.

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