{"id":990,"date":"2013-01-02T02:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-01-20T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:39:10","slug":"django-unchained-is-navajo-joe-just-like-inglourious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Django Unchained Is Navajo Joe; Just Like Inglourious&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I did a compare and contrast between\u00c2\u00a0Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Inglourious Basterds&#8221; and one of his favorite Spaghetti Westerns ever,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Navajo Joe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Title:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=591\" target=\"_blank\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInglourious Basterds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNavajo Joe??\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well here I&#8217;ll do the same, essentially some raw notes after seeing &#8216;Django&#8217; (the d is silent) twice and then sitting myself down and watching Navajo Joe again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Navajo Joe callbacks to\/from Django Unchained<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Frucht<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tarantinodjoe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-994\" title=\"tarantinodjoe\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tarantinodjoe-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>7:47 Tips over a horse with rider falling to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>of course scalping, letter R on cheek for runaway slave<\/p>\n<p>10:18 \u00c2\u00a0Wanted posters. Bounties. Scalps. Corpses<\/p>\n<p>13:11 \u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;no sale.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Arresting you for murder.<\/p>\n<p>15:10 \u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;you won&#8217;t have to run around chasing stinking indians just for a few dollars&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>17:21 the music is very very similar, thank you Ennio Morricone<\/p>\n<p>A lot more hand to hand combat in Navajo Joe than Django, but shooting and shooting into dynomite is similar.<\/p>\n<p>21:35 \u00c2\u00a0Posse horseriding up over the crest of the hill has the same feel as the klan riders before they start their argument.<\/p>\n<p>24:06 \u00c2\u00a0shoot em ups are much looser in Navajo Joe than anything Tarantino does. Everything seems more calculated and direct in Django Unchained<\/p>\n<p>26:17 \u00c2\u00a0rosepetals in the wind. Note the blood spatterings on the cotton in the fields early in Django<\/p>\n<p>Burt Reynolds is a one man vengeance machine killing everyone on his way to doing his nemesis Duncan in; whereas Django is helping a bounty hunter go after a new person each scene. \u00c2\u00a0Although there is the focus on freeing Broomhilda for the entire back 2\/3&#8217;s of Unchained.<\/p>\n<p>29:30 whistling for the horse to follow a command. Kind of parallel to the victory dance at the end when all of Candyland was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>31:00 Estella interrupting something important. I&#8217;ve forgotten where there were interruptions of conversations throughout Django but I&#8217;m pretty sure there are some parallels there too. The womens&#8217; characters are better developed in Navajo Joe than in Django I think. Tarantino kind of makes everyone besides Uma Thurman kind of &#8220;flat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>34:55 I don&#8217;t think Navajo Joe has said a word yet, just killed and killed.<\/p>\n<p>35:19 &#8220;I brought you a train.&#8221; He speaks simple words, but never in an accent making fun of NDNs perhaps because Burt Reynolds is part Cherokee and fought against that.<\/p>\n<p>38:26 &#8220;plus the reward that&#8217;s posted for Duncan&#8221; there&#8217;s the bounty hunter.<\/p>\n<p>44:57 \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;and one more thing. I&#8217;ll need some dynomite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>49:50 &#8220;and his father before him, and his father before him&#8230; now which one&#8217;s American&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>55:07 No tricks Duncan. Don&#8217;t worry you&#8217;ll get your half. Safes. Remember the tooth at the top of the Dentist wagon?<\/p>\n<p>56:12 \u00c2\u00a0Chester, the NDN has it all. He tricked you.<\/p>\n<p>Dynomite thrown.<\/p>\n<p>Empty rolls to look like sleeping people under the dental wagon?<\/p>\n<p>57:16 \u00c2\u00a0 Hostage. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna kill this woman.&#8221; &#8216;Hilda? &#8220;she&#8217;s an NDN just like you<\/p>\n<p>58:01 torturing Joe&#8230; parallel to the castration scene maybe. (close to the end of Django so I don&#8217;t want to give away too much there)<\/p>\n<p>59:10 Spurrs on boots. again at 59:30 on Navajo Joe&#8217;s neck. I think in Django they were 5 pointed stars or something, and looked more for show than poking horses&#8217; bodies.<\/p>\n<p>59:47 \u00c2\u00a0horsewhip and something resembling eaglebone whistle sounds. very high pitched, maybe piccolo.<\/p>\n<p>1:00:47 \u00c2\u00a0String him up by his feet.<\/p>\n<p>1:05:22 gets out of the &#8220;string.&#8221; I don&#8217;t remember how Django gets out of his mask and shackles.<\/p>\n<p>1:14:09 &#8220;my revenge&#8221; &#8212; Duncan.<\/p>\n<p>1L17:05 \u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;navajo joe&#8221; on the horse. foiled. it&#8217;s Jeffrey symbol carved in his forehead with a longknife.<\/p>\n<p>1:18:10 \u00c2\u00a0Dynamite in the saddlebags.<\/p>\n<p>1:25:29 &#8220;you won&#8217;t escape now, redskin&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; reminds me of &#8220;I count 6 shots, nigguh; I count two guns nigguh&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1:27:32 \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;I know you&#8217;re a bounty killer, you want to have my bounty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>this belonged to my woman. do you remember her?<\/p>\n<p>OK, the tomahawk flying through the air into someone&#8217;s head has a similar feel to someone flying from one room to the next being shot. I&#8217;m avoiding two spoilers there, or I&#8217;d say more.<\/p>\n<p>The horse delivering the town their money all by his\/her self. Humanizing horses shows up in lots of westerns, not least of which is Django.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll end this essay with a question that&#8217;s not rhetorical. I&#8217;d love an answer some day. Is Quentin Tarantino a guitarist? I know his stepdad played guitar and piano. But it doesn&#8217;t say he plays anywhere. But not only does he have writer credits in many of the songs to the Django soundtrack but I&#8217;m noticing that the whole soundtrack is very very guitar driven. Lots of Dm, Gm and Am pieces. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I did a compare and contrast between\u00c2\u00a0Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Inglourious Basterds&#8221; and one of his favorite Spaghetti Westerns ever,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Navajo Joe.&#8221; Title:\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInglourious Basterds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNavajo Joe??\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Well here I&#8217;ll do the same, essentially some raw notes after seeing &#8216;Django&#8217; (the d is silent) twice and then sitting myself down and watching Navajo Joe again. 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