Quentin Tarantino typically draws inspiration from an array of sources for his films, and "
Django Unchained" is no exception. The title character gets his name from the 1966 spaghetti Western "Django," about a coffin-dragging gunslinger played by Franco Nero,
who has a cameo in last year's film. Tarantino also may have drawn inspiration from another Italian film, 1959's "Hercules Unchained." And depending on how deep you want to go, there's a ...
more Quentin Tarantino typically draws inspiration from an array of sources for his films, and "
Django Unchained" is no exception. The title character gets his name from the 1966 spaghetti Western "Django," about a coffin-dragging gunslinger played by Franco Nero,
who has a cameo in last year's film. Tarantino also may have drawn inspiration from another Italian film, 1959's "Hercules Unchained." And depending on how deep you want to go, there's a theory that Foxx's blue suit and the title are a
combined tribute to the inventor of an early 20th-century camera technique.
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