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particularly in how the business of slavery worked, and what exactly was
the social breakdown inside a plantation: the white families that owned the
houses, the black servants who worked inside the house, the black servants
that were in the fields, and the white overseers and workers that were hired
to work there."
Describing his film as "a big-budget, big-screen, quasi-epic …
spaghetti western", Tarantino also mentioned he would be keen to make
more films in the same vein: "I'd like to do a couple more, dealing with the
same issue: but different story, different characters." He also let slip the
film was rooted in his long-term critical interest in the Italian-produced
variant on the western genre: he said the story "came to him" while he was
working on a book chapter about film director Sergio Corbucci, director of
the 1966 film Django that inspired the film's title. (Franco Nero, the star of
Django, makes a cameo appearance in Tarantino's film.)
But some things don't change. When asked if he had considered using
digital effects to replace the copious bloodletting customary on spaghetti
westerns, Tarantino shot back: "Not at all; no fucking way. What's the
point of that?"
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