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107543, Good reading.
Posted by denny, Tue Feb-19-13 03:41 PM
His blog has a more detailed critique:

http://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/43450542625/me-tarzan-you-jane-me-django-you-chains


I definitely don't agree with all of it....but it's the most thoughtful critical analysis I've seen. Some of it is just nit-picking plotholes and trying to assign a racial significance to them with mixed results.

A couple things....imo, Django's choice of dress was not a joke to show black men being 'childish'. It's one of many ways that Tarantino tries to show some of the cultural ties between these historical characters and modern descendants of slaves...ie black people in 2010. See also when Django struts his horse in circles at the end of the movie. Perhaps these things are based on stereotypes.....black men are more fashionable than other male ethnic groups.....black men drive their cars with style....But the intent was not to show Django as childish imo.

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