Django Unchained Trailer

The Hidden Hints In The Django Unchained Trailer

There’s no movie we’re looking forward to more than Django Unchained. (See this top 10 if you don’t believe us.)

The latest Tarantino movie stars Jamie Foxx as a slave turned bounty hunter who goes on a mission to rescue his wife from Leonardo DiCaprio’s plantation owner. In between we have Christoph Waltz as Django’s mentor, Samuel L. Jackson as an Uncle Tom and Jonah Hill as a KKK redneck.

The new Django Unchained website is launching, and to celebrate, we’re bringing some goodies:

An exclusive gif to whet your appetite:





A look at the blood-splattered new poster:

And a closer look at the official trailer below, with five little nuggets that you may not have previously noticed.

If we were judging by visuals alone, Django Unchained is already shaping up to be Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece. We’re not just talking about breathtaking shots of monumental vistas and cowboys riding off into the sunset. Take a look at this shot of a white-man’s blood staining the cotton, retribution for all those years the slaves spent working those fields. He’s getting pretty crafty, that Tarantino.

Further proof of Tarantino’s visual inventiveness is this shot of Jamie Foxx’s Django riding into town while a noose encircles his neck. Is that where his head belongs? Is it because he’s black?

There’s nothing interesting about two guys enjoying a drink at a pub right? Take a look at those napkins hanging off the bar in the background. They look an awful lot like KKK robes, don’t they?

In one of the most iconic moments from the trailer, Jamie Foxx schools an elderly gentleman on his character’s name. “The D is Silent,” he whispers. The funny thing is that gentleman knows just a little about the name. The actor is Franco Nero, the Italian actor who played the original Django in the Spaghetti Western Tarantino took inspiration from.

Tarantino’s movies always pay homage to the classics he is inspired by. This little nugget from the trailer is especially brilliant. The poster offers a reward for one Edwin Porter. That name refers to Edwin S. Porter, the director of The Great Train Robbery, an early silent film that serves as an ancestor to the Western. What’s Edwin Porter wanted for? Why, train robbery, of course.

Django is Unchained and online right here.