It talks directly about the 2012 Tarantino film 'Django: Unchained', a film about a black slave, who is freed by a bounty hunter, he helps him hunt a bounty, then they embark on a quest together to find Django's wife, Broomhilda.
The essay analyses the character types in the film, and poses the question for a fantasy film; who lives and who dies? The answer they give, is that normally, white men survive, anyone else is trampled on in the process. They also go on to talk about Propp's character types, and that of the 'helper' character or the mentor, and says "The Bagger Vances, the Chewbaccas, the Mister Myagis." And in this case, Dr King Schultz.
It sets out to answer the following questions:
- Why a Western?
- What is the importance of the character types?
- What is the relevance of the narrative?
Although the article is solely about Django, it hints at Tarantino's film style, which considers him as an Auteur. An Auteur is A film director who influences their films so much that they rank as their author. And Tarantino does this in multiple ways. The most obvious being his iconic foot shots.. He also uses a shot called the 'trunk shot' which has the camera placed in the trunk of a car to show a low angle shot of the person opening the car. This video explains why he is considered an Auteur with examples from just two films.
The article goes into great detail about the character Dr King Schultz. Who they describe as someone only there to aid the protagonist, Django and die when he is no longer needed, and also "King Schultz is likely intended as a parody of those (frequently non-white) mentor characters that drift into and eventually out of the narratives of white folk, who offer them advice and encouragement, only to then die when no longer necessary."
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/DaubBronfenDjango/
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/DaubBronfenDjango/2.html
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