Tarantino’s homage uses that title like so many spaghetti spinoffs did - as in any western anti-hero movie can be a “Django” movie! He did a similar thing with “Inglorious Basterds” and has said in interviews that in his youth he used to just call team-up adventure movies “Inglorious Bastard” films, inspired by his love of the original.
I thought the Franco Nero cameo was fun and the dialogue gave Nero a nice clever line to punctuate the moment.
“What’s Your Name?”
“Django.”
“Can you spell it?”
“D-j-a-n-g-o. The D is silent.”
“I know.”
Rewatched this one today, right after A Fistful of Dollars, I thought watching them back-to-back would be fitting. Both films are short, and the first success of their respective directors, so it made sense.
I love this film, warts and all. It’s incredibly unique, and its charm makes you enjoy its imperfections. Aesthetically, the town almost feels post apocalyptic. Everything is run-down and derelict, it’s a shithole, but an aesthetically beautiful shithole. The film isn’t flawless, the action sequences are pretty bad, which is very uncommon for Corbucci. But despite that, I keep coming back to this film. The characters, the story, the visual direction, the violence, the cast. Although it’s not a masterpiece, it’s a film I love. The English dub, the action sequences and some of the filming locations are undeniably poor, but they’re so charming that their lack of quality doesn’t really matter. They’re still remarkably enjoyable despite their poor quality. This film’s quality is something you can’t really quantify, you really can’t assign a rating to this film, because its flaws are part of the fun.
As I am trying to complete linking all the featurettes and interviews on Django releases (click here), the benefit of our Cataloging Featurettes Project becomes clear: most extras appear on most editions, the differences in extras are often very minor, and the new German disc is super similar to the UK disc.
Can someone please check if the Arrow blu ray (single disc release) is region free? The cover says ‘region A’, but in my movie collection app it says region free. I like to buy the arrow release, but only if it’s region free.
‘Django’ went on general release in the United States as ‘Jango’ at the Rialto Theatre, Atlanta on September 29 1972: On television, the ads call it “Django.” In newspaper ads and on the marquee of the Rialto, the title is “Jango.” (The Atlanta Journal [Terry Kay], October 3 1972)
Between October '72 - March '73 it played in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana and even Guam - the U.S. island territory in the Western Pacific.
‘Django’ was later screened as part of a spaghetti western retrospective by American Cinematheque at Raleigh Studios, Hollywood in November 1996 - although it wasn’t “making its U.S. premiere 30 years after its initial release,” (below) as there were a few showings in Los Angeles back in 1966.
Sources below: (1) (The Atlanta Constitution, September 28, 1972) (4) (The Charlotte News, January 11, 1973) (5) (LA Weekly, November 1-7, 1996)
So Django was shown in theaters in the US after all, at least in some locations. I’ve always read in various places that it wasn’t exported at all to the US.
So Django was shown in theaters in the US after all, at least in some locations. I’ve always read in various places that it wasn’t exported at all to the US.
Could it be you’re confusing that with the UK situation where it never really got released (until TV in 1993)? In the US efforts to acquire the rights and distribute it initially failed but as posted above it got a wide release later in 1972.
Yeah, it played mostly in the South, albeit with the famous silent D thrown out of the title.
Franco Nero mentions the earlier 1966 screenings in Los Angeles here:
Just a quick question about the soundtrack. I need to check something for my MA thesis, but the Italian dub of the film isn’t available anywhere online for free and I don’t want to spend money buying all the dvds/blurays.
In the Italian dub of Django, is the theme song in Italian in the intro and outro credits or is it the English version? I’d like an answer for both the intro and end credits.
I own a few Spaghs, but none of the ones I’m doing research on. I just thought to ask here in case someone can answer so I don’t have to pay just to check this one detail, even though owning more Spaghs would be nice. I usually watch my Spaghs on YouTube, but majority of the Italian dubs I need haven’t been posted there by anyone
In the Italian language version of the Plaion Pictures Blu-ray (2024) and in the Italian language version of the Deadline Video Blu-ray (2021), the English title song is used in both the opening and closing credits.
I just thought to ask here in case someone can answer so I don’t have to pay just to check this one detail, even though owning more Spaghs would be nice. I usually watch my Spaghs on YouTube, but majority of the Italian dubs I need haven’t been posted there by anyone