{"id":3727,"date":"2013-12-16T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2013-12-16T21:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:25:53","slug":"django-a-contemporary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/django-a-contemporary-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Django &#8211; a contemporary review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(this review is taken and translated from the Italian newspaper Unita)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3739\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Django2.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3739 \" alt=\"Franco Nero in Django\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Django2.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Django2.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Django2-144x88.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franco Nero in Django<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An Italo-Spanish western, as according to custom, Sergio Corbucci&#8217;s <strong>Django<\/strong> rebuilds &#8211; with some major adjustments &#8211; a familiar story.\u00a0 The protagonist is a lonely gunman out for revenge, sullen and taciturn, a stranger to barbers and to soap: what&#8217;s new is that he drags a coffin behind him, in which resides not a corpse but a machine gun which is used at opportune moments with immediate dexterity, so much so that, at times, you can&#8217;t even count the dead.<\/p>\n<p>And that, essentially, is the heart of the story.\u00a0 The way his enemies come to be killed by him, and the exceptional number of them that there are makes the film, in its very seriousness, truly bloodcurdling.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a level of atrocity that is dismayingly justified in the emotions of the audience.\u00a0 But this repetition of excessive cruelty, in it&#8217;s sheer extent and verisimilitude, transfers the film from a realistic plane to the grotesque, with the result that here and there it is possible to find, among the emotions, a certain healthy amount of humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of Django, taken and translated from the Italian newspaper Unita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[814,618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}