Django Unchained - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Django Unchained or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Django Unchained

[alyssa]

Dr. King Schultz partly mirrors the real-life Doc Holliday, also a dentist turned gunfighter.

[steve]

Firearms used in the film: James Remar (who plays two characters) wields the same weapon as both, a muzzle-loading, double-barreled, sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun; Lil' Raj Brittle carries a .44 caliber Colt Dragoon, with which Django shoots him six times; Django wields a .36 caliber 1851 Colt Navy revolver; Dr. Schultz wields a .44 caliber 1858 New Army revolver; in the final shootout, Django wields both revolvers; Schultz also wields a Cobra Big Bore .38 caliber Derringer on a sleeve slide, and a .45-70 Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine; various characters wield a .44 Rimfire 1860 Henry Rifle; various villains wield 1856 .577 muzzle-loading Enfield Pattern cavalry carbines; Django briefly carries a .44 caliber Remington 1858 Cattleman's Carbine.

[marc]

In the original script, Calvin Candie serves his guests rhubarb pie in the scene that leads to his death at the gun of Dr. King Schultz. In the film, he serves white cake.

[edgar]

The fifteenth biggest grossing film of 2012.

[miriam]

Dr. King Shultz (Christoph Waltz) killed approximately twenty-three people, while Django (Jamie Foxx) killed approximately thirty-eight people in this movie's run. Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) kills nobody, but under his instruction, is responsible for two deaths.

[caroline]

The scene with the Australian slave traders was originally written a little differently. Instead of two Aussies and the Southern hillbilly man (played by Michael Parks), according to the final draft of the script, there were supposed to be three Australians, and the characters had more dialogue.

[addison]

After the initial explosion of the Candyland plantation, the song "Trinity: Titoli" by Franco Micalizzi is heard playing during Django's exodus. An extra smaller explosion was added in post-production while Jamie Foxx is walking away from the building's burning, remains to cover the segment of Franco Micalizzi's song "sleepy tired guy", that was uttered to describe the main character of the song. This segment was an accurate description for the character of "Trinity" from the Spaghetti Western They Call Me Trinity (1970), for which this song was written. This phrase was used due to the character's introduction of sleeping and being towed across the desert in a makeshift bed tied behind his horse. However, this quote did not match the character of Django, who is never seen to rest throughout this movie. Hence the cover-up of this segment of the song, that would have caused some confusion.

[charlie]

Kurt Russell replaced Kevin Costner for the role of Ace Woody, but then had to pull out. Russell and Costner appeared in 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), and have played lawman Wyatt Earp, in Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994), respectively. Ironically, Costner was favored over Russell for the role of Crash Davis in Bull Durham (1988).

[nina]

Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) reminds Monsieur Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) that his slave D'Artagnan (Ato Essandoh) is named for the hero of Alexandre Dumas' novels, and that Dumas was one-quarter Black. Waltz and DiCaprio have appeared in adaptations of those novels: Waltz played Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (2011) and DiCaprio played King Louis XIV and his identical twin brother Phillippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998).

[victoria]

In Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) killed a bounty hunter named "Jango". In this movie, Jackson's character, Stephen, is killed by a bounty hunter named "Django".

[carla]

Quentin Tarantino revealed at Comic-Con that Django (Jamie Foxx) and Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) are meant to be the great-great-great-grandparents of the character John Shaft from the Shaft (1971) films. An overt reference to this connection can be found in Washington's character's full name: Broomhilda Von Shaft.

[darrell]

Early in the film, Christoph Waltz kills a town Sheriff, and is about to be arrested by the local U.S. Marshal, until he pulls out an arrest warrant for the man he has just killed. Later in the movie, he points out Monsieur Candie's fondness for Alexandre Dumas, whose novel "The Three Musketeers" features a similar discussion between D'Artagnan and Cardinal Richelieu, who was played by Waltz in The Three Musketeers (2011).

[ella]

When Django (Jamie Foxx) and Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) are in Daughtrey, Texas, the saloon they are in is called "Minnesota Clay's Saloon". Minnesota Clay (1964) is the name of a Western movie directed by Sergio Corbucci, the same director of Django (1966).

[sara]

The white men playing poker towards the end of the film are using severed ears from slaves as their currency.

[lena]

Calvin J. Candie's given names are a reference to Italian Director Giorgio Ferroni, who directed several Spaghetti Westerns, including a trilogy starring Giuliano Gemma (Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965), For a Few Extra Dollars (1966), and Wanted (1967)). For these films, he was usually credited as "Calvin J. Padget", "Calvin Jackson Padget" or "Calvin Jakson Padget". Quentin Tarantino has listed the Padget-Gemma trilogy among his favorite Spaghetti Westerns, and used the first film's theme for the soundtrack of Inglourious Basterds (2009).

[kylie]

The plantation owned by Calvin Candie is called "Candyland". There is a racing board game called "Candyland" that was published by Milton Bradley in 1949. Calvin Candie died in 1859, ninety years before the board game was invented.

[alyssa]

While filming on-location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Quentin Tarantino rented out a local movie theater to show samurai and Western movies from his own personal collection.

[janice]

DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino (long shot): During the dinner scene in Candyland, there is a long shot where Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) walks from the kitchen to the dining room, then it switches off to Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

[jeffrey]

Samuel L. Jackson and Lewis Smith grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee.