Wednesday, 10 October 2012

western




Django Unchained, Directed by Quentin Tarantino and staring Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio. The plot revolves around  a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner,With the help of his mentor. The fact that it is directed by Quentin Tarantio will naturally bring in people who are fans of his previous films; Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, the same way a people will go and see Steven Spielberg's new film purlely because of his name and reputation for creating big budget Oscar winning films.

The music in this film starts with a well known country artist Jonny Cash with one of his songs that has got alot of publisty considers its age and the fact that Cash is now dead, inspiring the Jonny Cash Project, the solemn mood of the song creates a serous atmospher for the film and coupled with the word of the song "aint no grave can hold my body down" depicting the horrors of slavery  As this is playing in the back ground you can hear the diagectic sounds of chains as rattling as an extrem close up of the chains around black slaves feet creating the sound, again highlights a key theme in the film and also helps set a time period for the viewers  The juxapostion between the solemn music and the jazz music that takes its place creates a sudden change of mood and allows the film to take a different course than the audience was expecting the trailer.

the dialog in the tailor is more than you would expect to see in a typical western film, where stereotypically a minimal marketing techneaque is applied to draw the audiences attention to the action scenes whereas in this trailer there is much more emphasis on the story line beginning explained. one possible reason for this different style could be that in recent years the genera has very much been neglected by the industry with only a handfull of films fitting with the conventions of the western genera being made with the most recent example being "cowboys vs alians" staring danial crage and Harrison ford, despite the big names associated with the the film it was ultimately wasn't considered a comershial success by only just making a profit; suggesting that the audience for westerns just isn't there. on the other hand if anyone can make a film a success it would be one of the most well known directer`s in the industry Quentin Tarantino, this would draw in a large number of people who like his work and also for Tarantion's trademark violence and gore that isnt as much associated this the genera  this gore aspect is highlighted in the dialog close of the end of the tailor "kill white people and get payed for it, sounds good to me".

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