Django Unchained (2012)
Django Unchained was the link movie connecting Titanic and Cars 3.
Linked through Leonardo DiCaprio and Kerry Washington.
Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kerry Washington appeared in Django Unchained.
About Django Unchained
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of vengeance."
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Written by Quentin Tarantino
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The film received five nominations at the 85th Academy Awards including Best Picture, winning Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz) and Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino). It also earned five nominations—with two wins—at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and the 66th BAFTAs, and was named a top-ten film by the AFI and the National Board of Review.
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Development began in 2007 when Quentin Tarantino was writing a book on Sergio Corbucci; he described the project as a new type of film he called 'a Southern'—a spaghetti-Western approach to America's history of slavery.
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Django Unchained is a highly stylized, revisionist tribute to spaghetti Westerns; its title alludes to Corbucci's 1966 Django and Tarantino incorporated snow scenes as an homage to The Great Silence.
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Tarantino finished the script on April 26, 2011, and handed the final draft to the Weinstein Company.
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Several actors were considered for the title role—Michael K. Williams, Will Smith, and Idris Elba—before Jamie Foxx was cast; Will Smith later said he turned the role down because it wasn't the lead and not for him.
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Tarantino and RZA intended a crossover with RZA's The Man with the Iron Fists that would have featured a younger version of the blacksmith as a slave in an auction, but scheduling conflicts prevented RZA's participation.
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Costume designer Sharen Davis drew from spaghetti Westerns and Bonanza, hiring Bonanza's hatmaker for Django's hat, using Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy as a reference for the valet outfit, and basing Django's sunglasses on Charles Bronson's in The White Buffalo.
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