Quentin Tarantino, whose film plots are often fueled by a mania for vengeance, has struck again with the Oscar-winning ¡°Django Unchained.¡± The 165-minute movie is an overwhelming spectacle of violence, lust and excess that features unforgettable characters and performances.
Tarantino¡¯s previous film, the revisionist ¡°Inglourious Basterds,¡± presented Jewish and other victims of the Nazis taking mighty, ahistorical revenge. ¡°Django Unchained¡± (released in Japan as ¡°Django Tsunagarezarumono¡°) is cut from the same cloth. It features a former slave on a mission to cut down, often literally, white plantation owners across the Deep South.
¡°I know the extremism of my role is something you¡¯ve rarely seen and ... not likely to see me ever repeating,¡± says Samuel L. Jackson. He plays a 76-year-old antebellum slave who is excessively subservient and therefor ¡°doesn¡¯t even start to define what ¡®Uncle Tom¡¯ means.¡±
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