One of the most gruesome scenes in Quentin Tarantino's new blaxploitation western "Django Unchained" involves blackhearted plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) presiding over a Roman-style bare-handed battle to the death between his hulking champion slave Samson (Jordon Michael Corbin) and a much less fortunate slave opponent.
After all the eye gauging and head hammering was through, we wondered if this betting "sport," known within the movie as "Mandingo Fighting," was based on true accounts of pre-Civil War Mississippi or if Tarantino made it up out of whole cloth.
This is, after all, the same Tarantino who let Eli Roth machine gun Hitler in the face for "Inglourious Basterds," so the level of historical accuracy is about on par with what we'd expect from a guy who didn't graduate from high school. That's not meant as a dig on the auteur, of course, as the man has perhaps one...
After all the eye gauging and head hammering was through, we wondered if this betting "sport," known within the movie as "Mandingo Fighting," was based on true accounts of pre-Civil War Mississippi or if Tarantino made it up out of whole cloth.
This is, after all, the same Tarantino who let Eli Roth machine gun Hitler in the face for "Inglourious Basterds," so the level of historical accuracy is about on par with what we'd expect from a guy who didn't graduate from high school. That's not meant as a dig on the auteur, of course, as the man has perhaps one...
- 12/25/2012
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
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