Three by Three
My big sit two weeks ago really can't compare to seeing Django Unchained, Les Miz and Zero Dark Thirty back-to-back-to-back. The good news, I guess, is that I saw all three in different theatres so I got some fresh air in-between. Django Unchained was kind of frustrating to me. The writer/director Quentin Tarantino is an auteur, a student of cinema, a craftsman. He does films that won't be confused with anyone else's. This one is, as many of his often are, a bit wacko in the descriptions. A German bounty hunter in the pre-Civil War south decides to buy a slave, teach him to assist in his job, the slave proves to be a natural with a gun, and then agrees to go to buy the slave's wife. The slave is played by Jamie Foxx, the German by Christoph Waltz who was a deserving Oscar winner for Supporting Actor in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the plantation owner who has Foxx's wife by Leonardo DiCaprio. Quite a cast. Kerry Washington is the wife...