Counterproductive Scenes and Audience Response in Django Unchained Anonymous College

While film adaptations of life as a slave are important reminders of our historical disgraces, Tarantinio's Django Unchained is a cruel parody of what was a horrifying history of slavery. It’s obvious that this film has triggered tremendous controversy over insensitive adaptations of America’s past for those who are still healing from such wounds. Because it ridicules the brutality African Americans faced by using humor to conceal decades of abuse, the film’s comedic nature illustrates the complete opposite of what slavery was. It serves as a counterproductive message for the progression of the black race in present day society, and negates what films are doing that mission justice, such as Black Panther. It is ill placed of the director, Quentin Tarantino, a white male, to construct such a film with insensitive underlying messages.

By perpetuating negative stereotypes that can be traced to slavery and even exaggerating them, Tarantino’s film is a counterproductive work that does more harm than good. The racism in a film set during the Antebellum South is present, no doubt, in lines such as these (to name a few): “Sold! To the man with the exceptional beard and his unexceptional nigga!” (Calvin Candie), “ Broomhilda is my...