This year for the Hollmann Awards, we're counting down my Top Ten of
the Year -- one entry per day, coupled with two categories -- leading
up the naming of Best Picture of the Year.
#4. Django Unchained
dir: Quentin Tarantino
wr: Quentin Tarantino
cin: Robert Richardson
Django Unchained caught a lot of controversy since before its release. It's Quentin Tarantino giving the spaghetti western treatment to slavery in pre-Civil War America, sooooo yeah. Things were going to get testy. There's the constant use of THAT WORD, the near-silence of Django's apparently exceptional wife, the appearance of the white guys getting more to say and do than the supposed hero*. And there have been some good arguments made against the movie, but...well, obviously, I disagree.
