Django Unchained Ending, Explained

The power of archetypes cannot be overstated. Framing a character as a new version of a storytelling trope everyone understands inherently conveys more than a million lines of dialogue ever could. Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker who prefers to work with all of film history as his palette. In his first feature-length western, Django Unchained, he uses the language of spaghetti Westerns to reintroduce the element of history they’d most like to avoid.