I had a pretty good idea of where "Django Unchained" was going from the first credit. It went to the Weinstein Company. The Weinstein Company once fought a legal battle (settled out of court) over the right to distribute "Precious," which is, in my opinion, the worst film ever made about black life. The company's name in the credits for "Django" also meant that the movie was aimed at a mainstream audience.

Though German, the bounty hunter character played by German-Austrian actor Christoph Waltz seemed to speak with a British...