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.
