Django Unchained

This is the original movie - poster above. IMDb writes, "A  coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits. That man is Django, and he is caught up in a struggle against both parties."

This is Franco Nero - the original actor. Tarantino hired him for a part in his movie, Django Unchained. Django is black in Tarantino's movie.

This movie came out two years later, in Germany. IMDb writes, " mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before."

This is part two to the original Django - poster above. IMDb writes, "Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practise a little liberation theology."

This is Tarantino's movie - which has a scene in Tennessee (like most of his movies there is some reference to his hometown). Foxx (Ray) plays Django, Waltz (Inglorious Bastards) plays his mentor - who is German, DiCaprio (Inception) plays the slave owner, Jackson (Pulp Fiction) plays the house slave at Candyland (the name of the plantation), Washington (Ray) plays the wife, Remar (Dexter) plays two characters (one with a beard and one without), and Goggins (Justified) plays what else but a redneck southerner. Washington's character is Broomhilda who is the name found in Norse myth. Part of the story, "she must then face the wrath of her father who is determined to make her mortal and put her into an enchanted sleep to be claimed by any man who happens across her. Brünnhilde argues that what she did was in obeyance of the god's true will and does not deserve such a fate. He is eventually persuaded to protect her sleep with magical fire, sentencing her to await awakening by a hero who does not know fear." NOW mix all the above information and put it all into one movie and BANG! you have Tarantino's vision. Problem to get enough out of the movie - you have to know ALL this. Otherwise, it's just a western with a LOT of blood thanks to Savini. All in all, I say: SKIP IT - unless you put in the time to research like I did. It is NOT one of my favorite movies of his - I will NOT be buying it.