I remembered Django to be a pretty good movie, but it wasn't exactly as good as I remembered. Actually it's not anywhere near the work of Sergio Leone.
Instead the movie is pretty mediocre with some pretty big flaws. It takes place right after The American Civil War, where Django seems to be a ghost wandering around trying to cope with his past. He's carrying a mystical coffin, but we don't know what's in it.
He visits a town, where two clans are fighting each other just like in Kurosawa's Yojimbo and later Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars. But the story never gets as exciting as in Leone's remake of the Japanese movie. The English dubbing is poor and it affects the intensity of conversations, and there is at least one major historical incorrectness. I might also add that we don't get music anywhere near Ennio Morricone's scores.
That said it's still worth watching. Sergio Corbucci has another approach to the western genre as Leone. Where Leone's westerns take place in the dry desert, Corbucci's world is muddy - and for some reason it's never really night.
Watch it to extend your knowledge of this great Italian genre of the 60's, but don't expect a Leone masterpiece.
Instead the movie is pretty mediocre with some pretty big flaws. It takes place right after The American Civil War, where Django seems to be a ghost wandering around trying to cope with his past. He's carrying a mystical coffin, but we don't know what's in it.
He visits a town, where two clans are fighting each other just like in Kurosawa's Yojimbo and later Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars. But the story never gets as exciting as in Leone's remake of the Japanese movie. The English dubbing is poor and it affects the intensity of conversations, and there is at least one major historical incorrectness. I might also add that we don't get music anywhere near Ennio Morricone's scores.
That said it's still worth watching. Sergio Corbucci has another approach to the western genre as Leone. Where Leone's westerns take place in the dry desert, Corbucci's world is muddy - and for some reason it's never really night.
Watch it to extend your knowledge of this great Italian genre of the 60's, but don't expect a Leone masterpiece.