History Film / Django

A SpaghettiWestern from 1966 directed by Sergio Corbucci starring Franco Nero as Django (the D is silent), an [[TheWildWest Old West]] gunfighter who drags a coffin behind him wherever he goes. Pretty standard set-up: mysterious, badass stranger comes to town, shoots a lot of bad guys, and plays two groups of outlaws against each other, all in search of revenge and/or money. It had a reputation at the time for being one of the most violent movies ever, though by modern standards it's nowhere close.

-->"''Django, have you always been alone? Django, have you never loved again? Love will live on, oh-oh, life must go on, oh-oh, for you cannot spend your life regretting. Django, you must face another day. Django, now your love has gone away. Once you loved her, oh-oh, now you've lost her, oh-oh, but you lost her, forever Django. ''"

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It inspired a number of other {{Spaghetti Western}}s that also used the word "Django" in their titles, Italian copyright law being pretty lax on stuff like that. It had one proper sequel, ''Django Strikes Again'', starring Nero and directed by Corbucci. Another, ''Django Lives!'' directed by John Sayles, is rumoured to be in production. And much later, it inspired both ''Film/SukiyakiWesternDjango'' and Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', which featured [[RemakeCameo a Franco Nero cameo.]]

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It inspired a number of other {{Spaghetti Western}}s that also used the word "Django" in their titles, Italian copyright law being pretty lax on stuff like that. And later, it inspired both ''Film/SukiyakiWesternDjango'' and Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', which featured [[RemakeCameo a Franco Nero cameo.]]

* FollowTheLeader: ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' was so successful translating ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' into a WildWest setting that the makers of ''Film/{{Django}}'' decided to do the same thing. And, sure enough, a bunch of later movies then copied ''Django''.

* BadAss: Django. He's a SpaghettiWestern protagonist, what did you expect?

A SpaghettiWestern from 1966 directed by Sergio Corbucci starring Franco Nero as Django (the D is silent), an [[TheWildWest Old West]] gunfighter who drags a coffin behind him wherever he goes. Pretty standard set-up: mysterious, BadAss stranger comes to town, shoots a lot of bad guys, and plays two groups of outlaws against each other, all in search of revenge and/or money. It had a reputation at the time for being one of the most violent movies ever, though by modern standards it's nowhere close.

* AdvertisingByAssociation: Hilariously, the DVD cases of ''Film/{{Django}}'' - the original from [[SpaghettiWestern the 1960s]] - have the director's name in tiny font, but say "The film that inspired Creator/QuentinTarantino" - for unrelated ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' - in massive letters, given how successful he and that film are now.

* AdvertisingByAssociation: The film is advertised as "From the makers of the original ''Film/{{Airplane}}''", followed by a footnote stating "(Not the Wright Brothers)".

* {{Fanservice}}: Three words: hooker mud wrestling. Also, that one prostitute doing a striptease.

* CharacterTitle: Django, the lone gunslinger who drags a coffin around behind him wherever he goes.

* {{Gorn}}: When some outlaws cut off a man's ear and make him eat it. That scene got the movie (which is otherwise no more violent than the average SpaghettiWestern) banned in several countries. It's probably the most sadistic scene in the entire Western genre. Several villains in Creator/SergioLeone's films has cruel acts, but this goes too far!

* DistractedByTheSexy: Django has a prostitute take off her clothes in front of a window. This distracts the bandits guarding the stable where they're keeping the stolen gold and Django sneaks in there with his coffin.

A SpaghettiWestern from 1966 directed by Creator/SergioCorbucci starring Franco Nero as Django (the D is silent), an [[TheWildWest Old West]] gunfighter who drags a coffin behind him wherever he goes. Pretty standard set-up: mysterious, BadAss stranger comes to town, shoots a lot of bad guys, and plays two groups of outlaws against each other, all in search of revenge and/or money. Had a reputation at the time for being one of the most violent movies ever, though by modern standards it's nowhere close.

Inspired a number of other {{Spaghetti Western}}s that also used the word "Django" in their titles, Italian copyright law being pretty lax on stuff like that.

And later, inspired ''Film/SukiyakiWesternDjango'' and Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/DjangoUnchained''.

* BloodlessCarnage: Except for a couple of isolated gore shots (including the infamous ear slicing scene), there's almost no blood in the movie. Literally ''dozens'' of people get gunned down.