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= = = Objections to specific elements of the film = = =
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= = = = Portrayal and descriptions of African @-@ Americans and slavery = = = =
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Some commentators have felt that the film 's heavy usage of the word " nigger " is inappropriate , affecting them to an even greater extent than the depicted violence against the slaves . Other reviewers have defended the usage of the language in the historic context of race and slavery in the United States .
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Filmmaker Spike Lee , in an interview with Vibe , said he would not see the film , explaining " All I 'm going to say is that it 's disrespectful to my ancestors . That 's just me .... I 'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else . " Lee later wrote , " American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western . It was... |
Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe compared Samuel L. Jackson 's Stephen character to black Republicans like Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain . Samuel L. Jackson said that he believed his character to have " the same moral compass as Clarence Thomas does . " Jackson defended heavy use of the word " nigger " : " Saying Ta... |
Marc Lamont Hill , a professor at Columbia University , compared the fugitive ex – Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner to a real @-@ life Django , saying " It 's almost like watching ' Django Unchained ' in real life . It 's kind of exciting . " Writing in the Los Angeles Times , journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan... |
While hosting NBC 's Saturday Night Live , Jamie Foxx joked about being excited " to kill all the white people in the movie " . Columnist Jeff Kuhner wrote a reaction to the SNL skit for The Washington Times , saying : " Anti @-@ white bigotry has become embedded in our postmodern culture . Take Django Unchained . The... |
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Some reviews criticized the film for being too violent . The originally planned premiere of Django was postponed following the Sandy Hook school shooting on December 14 , 2012 . Thomas Frank criticized the film 's use of violence as follows :
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Not surprisingly , Quentin Tarantino has lately become the focus for this sort of criticism ( about the relationship between the movies and acts of violence ) . The fact that Django Unchained arrived in theaters right around the time of the Sandy Hook massacre didn 't help . Yet he has refused to give an inch in discu... |
The Independent said the movie was part of " the new sadism in cinema " and added , " There is something disconcerting about sitting in a crowded cinema as an audience guffaws at the latest garroting or falls about in hysterics as someone is beheaded or has a limb lopped off " .
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Adam Serwer from Mother Jones provided a more nuanced view , saying that " Django , like many Tarantino films , also has been criticized as cartoonishly violent , but it is only so when Django is killing slave owners and overseers . The violence against slaves is always appropriately terrifying . This , if nothing els... |
= = = = Historical inaccuracies = = = =
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Tarantino has said about Mandingo fighting , " I was always aware those things existed " , there is no definitive historical evidence that slave owners ever staged gladiator @-@ like fights to the death between male slaves like the fight depicted in the movie . Historian Edna Greene Medford notes that there are only u... |
The non @-@ historical term " Mandingo " for a fine fighting or breeding slave comes not from Tarantino , but the earlier film Mandingo .
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Writing in The New Yorker , William Jelani Cobb observed that Tarantino 's occasional historical elasticity sometimes worked to the film 's advantage . " There are moments , " Cobb wrote , " where this convex history works brilliantly , like when Tarantino depicts the Ku Klux Klan a decade prior to its actual formatio... |
On the matter of historical accuracy , Christopher Caldwell wrote in the Financial Times : " Of course , we must not mistake a feature film for a public television documentary " , pointing out that the film should be treated as entertainment , not as a historical account of the time period it is set in . " Django uses... |
= = = Accolades = = =
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Django Unchained garnered several awards and nominations . The American Film Institute named it one of their Top Ten Movies of the Year in December 2012 . The film received five Golden Globe Award nominations , including Best Picture , and Best Director and Best Screenplay for Tarantino . Tarantino won an Academy Awar... |
= = Potential future projects = =
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= = = Miniseries = = =
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Tarantino has said in an interview that he has 90 minutes of material of the film on the cutting room floor and considered re @-@ editing Django Unchained into a four @-@ hour , four @-@ night cable miniseries . Tarantino said that breaking the story into four parts would be more satisfying to audiences than a four @-... |
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The story which became the director 's follow @-@ up film The Hateful Eight was first attempted as a paperback novel sequel to Django Unchained titled Django in White Hell . Tarantino decided , however , that the character 's established morals did not fit the tone of the developing story so he began re @-@ writing it... |
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Sony is planning on a Django / Zorro crossover movie , which currently exists in the form of a comic book by Dynamite Entertainment .
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In the 2014 film A Million Ways to Die in the West , Django is seen shooting the proprietor of a racially charged shooting game , saying ' people die at the fair ' .
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= = Alleged copyright infringement = =
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In December 2015 , a $ 100 million lawsuit was filed against Tarantino by filmmakers Oscar Colvin Jr. and Torrance J. Colvin , who claimed that the script for Django Unchained bears extensive similarities to their film , titled Freedom . The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Washington , DC .
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= Battle of Cape St. Vincent ( 1780 ) =
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The Battle of Cape St. Vincent was a naval battle took place off the southern coast of Portugal on 16 January 1780 during the Anglo @-@ Spanish War . A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeated a Spanish squadron under Don Juan de Lángara . The battle is sometimes referred to as the Moonlight Battle becau... |
Admiral Rodney was escorting a fleet of supply ships to relieve the Spanish siege of Gibraltar with a fleet of about twenty ships of the line when he encountered Lángara 's squadron south of Cape St. Vincent . When Lángara saw the size of the British fleet , he attempted to make for the safety of Cádiz , but the coppe... |
After the battle Rodney successfully resupplied Gibraltar and Minorca before continuing on to the West Indies station . Lángara was released on parole , and was promoted to lieutenant general by King Carlos III .
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= = Background = =
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One of Spain 's principal goals upon its entry into the American War of Independence in 1779 was the recovery of Gibraltar , which had been lost to England in 1704 . The Spanish planned to retake Gibraltar by blockading and starving out its garrison , which included troops from Britain and the Electorate of Hanover . ... |
A supply convoy was organized , and in late December 1779 a large fleet sailed from England under the command of Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney . Although Rodney 's ultimate orders were to command the West Indies fleet , he had secret instructions to first resupply Gibraltar and Minorca . On 4 January 1780 the flee... |
On 8 January 1780 ships from Rodney 's fleet spotted a group of sails . Giving chase with their faster copper @-@ clad ships , the British determined these to be a Spanish supply convoy that was protected by a single ship of the line and several frigates . The entire convoy was captured , with the lone ship of the lin... |
The Spanish had learnt of the British relief effort . From the blockading squadron a fleet comprising 11 ships of the line under Admiral Juan de Lángara was dispatched to intercept Rodney 's convoy , and the Atlantic fleet of Admiral Luis de Córdova at Cadiz was also alerted to try to catch him . Córdova learnt of the... |
= = Battle = =
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Rodney was ill , and spent the entire action in his bunk . His flag captain , Walter Young , urged Rodney to give orders to engage when the Spanish fleet was first spotted , but Rodney only gave orders to form a line abreast . Lángara started to establish a line of battle , but when he realised the size of Rodney 's f... |
The chase lasted for about two hours , and the battle finally began around 4 : 00 pm . The Santo Domingo , trailing in the Spanish fleet , received broadsides from HMS Edgar , HMS Marlborough , and HMS Ajax before blowing up around 4 : 40 , with the loss of all but one of her crew . Marlborough and Ajax then passed Pr... |
The chase continued into the dark and squally night , leading it to later become known as the " Moonlight Battle " , since it was uncommon at the time for naval battles to continue after sunset . At 7 : 30 pm , HMS Defence came upon Lángara 's flagship Fenix , engaging her in a battle lasting over an hour . She was br... |
At 9 : 15 the Montagu engaged the Diligente , which struck after her maintopmast was shot away . Around 11 : 00 pm San Eugenio surrendered after having all of her masts shot away by HMS Cumberland , but the difficult seas made it impossible to board a prize crew until morning . That duel was passed by HMS Culloden and... |
The British took six ships . Four Spanish ships of the line and the fleet 's two frigates escaped , although sources are unclear if two of the Spanish ships were even present with the fleet at the time of the battle . Lángara 's report states that San Justo and San Genaro were not in his line of battle ( although they... |
= = Aftermath = =
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With the arrival of daylight , it was clear that the British fleet and their prize ships were dangerously close to a lee shore with an onshore breeze . One of the prizes , San Julián , was recorded by Rodney as too badly damaged to save , and was driven ashore . The fate of another prize , San Eugenio , is unclear . S... |
The British reported their casualties in the battle as 32 killed and 102 wounded . The supply convoy sailed into Gibraltar on 19 January , driving the smaller blockading fleet to retreat to the safety of Algeciras . Rodney arrived several days later , after first stopping in Tangier . The wounded Spanish prisoners , w... |
Admiral Lángara and other Spanish officers were eventually released on parole , the admiral receiving a promotion to lieutenant general . He continued his distinguished career , becoming Spanish marine minister in the French Revolutionary Wars .
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Admiral Rodney was lauded for his victory , the first major victory of the war by the Royal Navy over its European opponents . He distinguished himself for the remainder of the war , notably winning the 1782 Battle of the Saintes in which he captured the French Admiral Comte de Grasse . He was , however , criticised b... |
= = Order of battle = =
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None of the listed sources give an accurate accounting of the ships in Rodney 's fleet at the time of the action . Robert Beatson lists the composition of the fleet at its departure from England , and notes which ships separated to go to the West Indies , as well as those detached to return the prizes captured on 8 Ja... |
There are some discrepancies between the English and Spanish sources listing the Spanish fleet , principally in the number of guns most of the vessels are claimed to mount . The table below lists the Spanish records describing Lángara 's fleet . Beatson lists all of the Spanish ships of the line at 70 guns , except Fe... |
= There Goes My Baby ( Usher song ) =
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" There Goes My Baby " is a song by American recording artist Usher . It was written by James Scheffer , Frank Romano , Danny Morris and Rico Love , with the latter producing the song with Jim Jonsin . The song was first released as the second promo single for his sixth studio album , Raymond v. Raymond ( 2010 ) on Fe... |
Critics received the song positively , complimenting Usher 's falsetto . While reaching a peak of twenty @-@ five on the Billboard Hot 100 , it topped the Hot R & B / Hip @-@ Hop Songs chart . The charting gave Usher his eleventh number @-@ one on the chart , tying Ray Charles and R. Kelly for the fifth @-@ most numbe... |
= = Composition and critical reception = =
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" There Goes My Baby " is a , " slinky " down @-@ tempo R & B ballad , with infused hints of neo soul . It is composed in a " moderate groove " of eighty beats per minute , and is set in common time . It is written the key of A minor and Usher 's vocals span from the low note of E4 to high note of C6 . It follows the ... |
Andy Kellman of Allmusic noted the track as a standout from Raymond v. Raymond . Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that the sweetness of Usher 's falsetto balanced out the album 's " boilerplate swagger . " Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music thought that the song recalled Usher 's past slow jams , coining it , " a sumptu... |
= = Chart performance = =
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As a promo single , the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number seventy @-@ one solely from digital downloads . It fell off the next week , but upon its release as a single it re @-@ entered at number 100 , and eventually reached number twenty @-@ five . It topped the US R & B / Hip @-@ Hop chart for fou... |
= = Music video = =
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