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FIRST REACTIONS FOR DJANGO UNCHAINEDSo a bunch of people at the Cannes Film Festival got a special sneak peak at Quentin Tarantino’s latest “slave western”. Responses have been hitting the Twittersphere and the early glimpses have definitely been getting some love. Here are some samples of reactions from the 7 minutes of screened footage:Drew McWheeny, Hitfix: “OMFG, ‘Django Unchained’ looks so good. SO GOOD. #Cannes”Raffi Asdourian, The Film Stage: “‘Django Unchained’ looks f’n badass… 7 minute trailer ending with Jamie Foxx shooting his pistol to James Brown ‘Payback’ ‘The D is Silent’”Twitch: “‘Django’ gets the most whoops. Plenty of blood, plenty of laughs. Looks like it will be the Cristophe Waltz show. ‘The D is silent.’ #Cannes”And a few more that go into detail:Vulture:“The big surprise? How funny this potentially controversial Western has turned out to be. In particular, Leonardo DiCaprio seems to be having the time of his life dropping N-bombs and smiling rotted teeth as plantation owner Calvin Candie… You’ll get a periwinkle-suited Foxx shooting lumpy blood chunks out of racist hicks (and an innocent snowman in one scene), and you’ll laugh! You’ll get Don Johnson dressed as Colonel Sanders!”Ain’t It Cool News:“Much like Inglourious Basterds before it, I painted a different picture in my mind, in this case a sweaty southern gothic story. But once Christoph Waltz shows up in his carriage with a giant tooth bouncing back and forth from the roof trying to negotiate a deal with a slave driver I began to get the tone… All the location work makes the film look huge, Foxx is at the top of his game it appears, Waltz is loveable, funny and dangerous all at once and it just feels like everybody is having a blast.”Anne Thompson:“What the footage reveals is that for the moment, while Tarantino has described the film as a “southern,” Weinstein Co. is selling this as a bang-up western, packed with physical comedy and bloody action and hell-bent revenge. And yes, it looks like a classic widescreen Sergio Leone western, even if the setting is New Orleans and Mississippi two years before the Civil War. (The music on the trailer ranged from classic Johnny Cash to James Brown. No Ennio Morricone here. As yet.)”Sounds good to me! Tarantino still has a lot more footage to shoot, but the initial reaction has me even more excited than before. With a December 25th release date “Django Unchained” is sounding like the perfect present for the holidays.

“The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later.” - Hunter S Thompson

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“The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later.” - Hunter S Thompson

What did the sponge say to the dolphin?

“Thanks.”

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