Django (character)
| Django | |
|---|---|
 Franco Nero as Django | |
| Created by | Sergio Corbucci |
| Portrayed by |
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| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation |
Dismissed Union Army soldier (1966 film) Former slave/Bounty hunter (2012 film) |
| Spouse(s) |
Mercedes Zaro (1966 film) Broomhilda Von Shaft (2012 film) |
| Significant other(s) | Maria (1966 film) |
Django is a character who appears in a number of spaghetti western films.[1][2] He has appeared in 31 films.[3] Especially outside of the genre's home country Italy, mainly Germany, countless releases have been retitled in the wake of the 1966 Django's enormous success.[4]
Character biography
Django
Django is a 1966 Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Corbucci starring Franco Nero as Django; a dismissed Union soldier who fought in the American Civil War. The film is set four years after the end of the Civil War in 1869. After arriving in a bleak, mud-drenched town in the American Southwest and dragging a coffin behind him, Django gets caught up in a violent race war between a gang of Mexican bandits, led by General Hugo, and a clan of racist militants under the command of the sadistic Major Jackson. Armed with a deadly Mitrailleuse volley gun, Django proceeds to play both sides against each other in the pursuit of money and, ultimately, revenge against Jackson; the Major having murdered his wife years before.
Django Unchained
The 2012 Western film directed by Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx as Django is set in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. Foxx plays "Django Freeman", a freed slave who, along with German bounty hunter Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz), journeys across the American South and American Old West in search of his wife Broomhilda von Shaft. Django spends time as a bounty hunter like Schultz while searching for his wife from whom he had been separated. He eventually discovers that the owner of his wife is Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a prominent Southern slave owner. Django and Schultz head to Candie's plantation, Candyland, to free Broomhilda.
Original Django actor Franco Nero makes a cameo appearance as the original Django. After meeting Django Freeman, the original Django asks Freeman how he spells the name Django. Upon discovering Freeman spells Django the same way the original Django does, the original Django replies: "I know".
Appearances
Official films
Franco Nero films
- Django (1966) – The original film that introduced the character, directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero as the eponymous character.
- Django Strikes Again (1987) – The only official sequel to Django, starring Franco Nero as the eponymous character
Future
In May 2016, it was reported that Franco Nero will reprise his role in his third outing as the titular character, entitled Django Lives!, with the film taking place 50 years after the events of the original installment, set to be directed by John Sayles.[5]
Jamie Foxx films
- Django Unchained (2012) – Although not an official prequel to Django, Franco Nero does have a bit role as the original Django. The movie's title character is "Django Freeman", played by Jamie Foxx.
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) – Cameo appearance
Unofficial films
- Few Dollars for Django (1966)
- Django, A Bullet for You (1966)
- Django Shoots First (1966)
- Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote (1966)
- Two Sons of Ringo (1966)
- God Forgives... I Don't! (1967)
- The Last Killer (1967)
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
- Don't Wait, Django! Shoot! (1967)
- Son of Django (1967)
- 10,000 Dollars for a Massacre (1967)
- Any Gun Can Play (1967)
- Two Faces of the Dollar (1967)
- Man, Pride, Revenge (1967)
- If You Want to Live... Shoot! (1968)
- Django Kills Slowly (1968)
- Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
- Django Does Not Forgive (1969)
- Hanging for Django (1969)
- Gallows Rope for Django (1969)
- False Django (1969)
- Django the Bastard (1969)
- One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana! (1969)
- Django Against Sartana (1970)
- Django Meets Sartana (1970)
- Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End (1970)
- Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1970)
- Django Defies Sartana (1971)
- Django Is Always No. 2 (1971)
- W Django (1971)
- Django's Cut Price Corpses (1971)
- A Ballad of Django (1971)
- A Pistol for Django (1971)
- A Man Called Django (1971)
- Gunman of One Hundred Crosses (1971)
- Shoot, Django! Shoot First! (1971)
- Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
- Death Is Sweet from the Soldier of God (1972)
- Down with Your Hands... You Scum! (1972)
- Django... Adios! (1972)
- Long Live Django! (1972)
- Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
See also
- Man With No Name, another spaghetti western character
- Sartana, another spaghetti western character
Further reading
- Peter E. Bondanella "Italian cinema: from neorealism to the present". Published by: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001 - 546 p. ISBN 0-8264-1247-5, ISBN 978-0-8264-1247-8 (P.254,267)
- David Carter "The Western". Published by: Kamera Books, 2008 - 192 p. ISBN 978-1-84243-217-4, ISBN 1-84243-217-6 (P.190)
- Peter Cowie, Derek Elley "World Filmography: 1967". Published by: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1977 - 688 p. ISBN 0-498-01565-3, ISBN 978-0-498-01565-6 (P.303,306,310,331)
- Christopher Frayling "Spaghetti westerns: cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone". Published by: I.B. Tauris; 2006 - 304 p. ISBN 1-84511-207-5, ISBN 978-1-84511-207-3 (P.4,11,14,17,19,26,51,52,62,79-89,92,94,95,136,157,169,232,256,257,261,263,264,267,281,282,284,293,301,303,304)
- Bert Fridlund "The spaghetti Western: a thematic analysis". Published by: McFarland & Co., 2006 - 296 p. ISBN 0-7864-2507-5, ISBN 978-0-7864-2507-5 (P.93,98)
- Phil Hardy "The Western, vol.1". Published by: W. Morrow, 1983 - 395 p. ISBN 0-688-00946-8, ISBN 978-0-688-00946-5 (P.295,300,302)
- Harris M. Lentz "Western and frontier film television credits: 1903-1995". Published by: McFarland, 1996 - 1517 p. ISBN 0-7864-0218-0, ISBN 978-0-7864-0218-2 (P.741)
- David Lusted "The western". Published by: Pearson Education, 2003 - 324 p. ISBN 0-582-43736-9, ISBN 978-0-582-43736-4 (P.188,307)
- (German)Jasper P. Morgan "Spaghetti Heroes: Ringo, Django und Sartana. Die Helden Des Italo-Western/Heroes of The Spaghetti Western". Published by: Mpw Medien Publikations, 2008 - 256 p. ISBN 3-931608-86-7, ISBN 978-3-931608-86-6
- Jürgen Müller "Movies of the 60s". Published by: Taschen, 2004 - 640 p. ISBN 3-8228-2799-1, ISBN 978-3-8228-2799-4
- (Italian)Luca M. Palmerini, Gaetano Mistretta "Spaghetti nightmares: il cinema italiano della paura e del fantastico visto attraverso gli occhi dei suoi protagonisti". Roma: Palmerini & Mistretta, 1996 - 338 p. ISBN 88-86839-01-4, ISBN 978-88-86839-01-3 (P.108,113,140)
- Stephen Prince "Sam Peckinpah's The wild bunch". Published by: Cambridge University Press, 1999 - 228 p. ISBN 0-521-58606-2, ISBN 978-0-521-58606-1 (P.137,152)
- (German)Georg Seesslen, Claudius Weil "Western-Kino: Geschichte und Mythologie des Western-Films". Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1979 - 252 p. ISBN 3-499-17290-9, ISBN 978-3-499-17290-8 (166,184,189,219)
- (Russian)USSR Union of Writers Detskaya Literatura Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1989
- Thomas Weisser "Spaghetti westerns: the good, the bad, and the violent : a comprehensive". Published by: McFarland, 1992 - 502 p. ISBN 0-89950-688-7, ISBN 978-0-89950-688-3 (P.10,91,129)
- Various. The Spaghetti Western, An Introduction (article in many languages). The Spaghetti Western Database. link
References
- ↑ Rare Spaghetti Western movies on DVD-R and VHS
- ↑ Hughes, Howard (2006). Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns (illustrated ed.). I.B. Tauris. pp. 57–69. ISBN 978-1-85043-896-0.
- ↑ Prince, Stephen (1999). Sam Peckinpah's: The Wild Bunch. Cambridge University Press. pp. 152, 228. ISBN 978-0-521-58606-1
- ↑ "Title Chaos" in: The Spaghetti Western Database http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Title_chaos
- ↑ "John Sayles to Direct Django Lives!". The Action Elite. 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2016-06-17.