Christine Gledhill looked at how melodrama works not just as a singular genre, but as a recognizable element that compliment various genres. While movies with singular genres aim to bring out certain emotions from the audience, Quentin Tarantino films aim to do so by implementing different elements into one. Similar to Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds, the 2012 film Django Unchained (dir. Quentin Tarantino) incorporates a variety of genre elements that create a deeper insight to the melodrama, without overshadowing it. Tapping into different emotions from genres such as comedy, suspense, action, and melodrama helps generate a more complex and three-dimensional viewpoint of the characters in Django Unchained. In order to rack up the tension, …show more content…
It is one of the trademarks that Tarantino incorporates into his films, and Django Unchained contains scenes and sequences of the exaggerated violence, to the point that this movie can be considered an action film. The shootout scene at Candyland is one of the action scenes in this film, which shows Django shooting and killing the guards of Candyland, after Schultz’s death. The graphic violence is emphasized by elaborate deaths and heavy blood splatters, and this represents Django’s anger, which has been built ever since Broomhilda was taken away from him. Although Django does not have a lot of dialogue, he displays his emotions through his expressions and actions. In couple instances, Django would discreetly pull back the hammer of his pistol under the table whenever anyone tries to harm Broomhilda, leading up to the Candyland shootout. It is his expression of avenging ones who have experienced brutalities, and grieving Schultz, who has been a mentor and partner to …show more content…
While romantic melodramas typically present the growing relationships between couples through their interactions, there are only a handful of scenes where Django and Broomhilda interact with one another, only sharing a few words. Their long distance away from each other seems to represent their love being taken away from them, but this only strengthens their relationship even more, as Django’s love for Broomhilda is what keeps Django’s reason to survive. Throughout the whole film, Django never finds his “space of innocence,” because it was taken away from him by the oppressors, especially within the context of slavery in America, a couple of years before the start of Civil War. The closest space would come from his relationship with Schultz, and eventually his reunion with