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Django Unchained - Reimagining The Spaghetti Western : A Making Of Documentary

A making-of documentary tracing how Tarantino and his crew built Django Unchained as a direct homage to and subversion of classic spaghetti westerns.

Movies by e · 23 min · Intermediate · DIR · Directing · 2018

What you take away

See how genre homage can be executed through concrete choices in casting, score and framing, not just references.

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