This week on the QT Question, we welcome Jesse (better known on the boards as Mangy) to the show to chat about Tarantino’s revisionist western, Django Unchained! Right off the bat, Al stuns me by declaring this the worst Tarantino film to date, and even goes so far as to offer a reasonable argument for this. We three have it out here, examining the film’s overstuffed structure and pondering whether it’s too long, too short, or both at once. We also talk about the film’s loaded imagery, the character of Django as it would fit the star originally offered the role (Will Smith), the reading that posits Dr. King Schulz as a stand-in for clueless white liberals, and the general excellence of Samuel L Jackson’s villainous Stephen, one of the most interesting characters in Tarantino’s filmography. I know, how could this be his worst film?
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