This is a convenience making QT's story telling much easier. Why does he do this? Because he likes Django and hates slavery. He also becomes the friend and partner of Django, gives him his freedom, and after a winter spent in using Django as his partner in bounty hunting, joins with him in trying to win back possession of Broomhilda ( Kerry Washington), Django's wife. His knowledge allows Tarantino to set up perfectly entertaining scenes in which it appears Schultz digs himself into holes and then escapes from them. He produces the Wanted posters from his bottomless wallet. He shoots a sheriff and calmly explains why. Schulz not only knows who and where Django is, but he knows where certain wanted men can be found, living under aliases. Schultz, who we never see pulling any teeth, is a bounty hunter, searching for men who are wanted-"dead or alive." Here is a plot that requires a lot of information, and doesn't have any time to lose in introducing it or searching for it. Schultz into "Django Unchained" and using him as a wonderfully useful device to guide the plot wherever it must go. He refers to the conventions of Greek tragedy, where a crane (mekhane) was used to lower actors playing gods onto the stage." Imagine Tarantino, his feet braced on clouds, lowering Dr. I quote Wikipedia: "The Latin phrase deus ex machina comes to English usage from Horace's Ars Poetica, where he instructs poets that they must never resort to a god from the machine to solve their plots. A "deus," for those few who may not, is a person or device in a story that appears from out of the blue and has a solution to offer. I apologize to my many readers who already know it. Although there is a great deal of the realistic in "Django Unchained," including brutal violence, King Schultz is not real in the same way as the rest. He is a wizard from a fairy tale, a man capable of knowing about people's lives, steering their fates, seducing them into situations in which they receive the destinies they deserve. Schultz engaging in one of his several financial transactions during the film, fueled by a generous supply of cash. King Schultz, in all of the vastness of the South, should have been driving his wagon through just that very deep, dark forest where Django was being led? How could he have even known about that? How odd that the path of the wagon and the slaves, which should have sailed past one another like two ships in the night, should meet head to head? Maybe it's just as well.īut now I must ask, before the plot hurtles ahead: Does it strike you as strange that Dr. The film offers one sensational sequence after another, all set around these two intriguing characters who seem opposites but share pragmatic, financial and personal issues. He enters into negotiations to purchase Django, who he has reason to believe may help him in finding the Brittle brothers, for reasons involving the doctor's late wife.Īnd already Tarantino has us, and it's off to the races.
This is the slave named Django ( Jamie Foxx). He has reason to believe one of the slaves might be of interest to him. Schultz explains himself with the elaborate formality he will use all through the film. Yes, had I not been prevented from seeing it sooner because of an injury, this would have been on my year's best films list, For the record: My star rating would be: Four stars. 1/8/13: I added material involving Stephen, played by Samuel L.
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