I'm really enjoying these historical breakdowns of relatively ahistoric movies.

QT has said many times, that Sergio Leone was his favorite director. And we all know that he loves 70’s genre films. So here is just the amalgamation of the two, an exploitation spaghetti western. Also, being from TN myself, shout out to Gatlinburg TN.

As a hardcore 2a person who is also a history nerd, I'm so glad you included The Second by Carol Anderson. Since it's such a hotly contested cultural issue, people really do not have an understanding of just how deep and systemically racist gun control narratives are in the US. While I might not agree with everything she says, there's a valid argument that she makes about how black Americans have been denied access to firearms for generations as a means of power removal.

I do appreciate the regular Saturday afternoon (UK time) release time. It's one of the reasons I look forward to the weekend...

Well, naturally we now _REQUIRE_ a follow up video covering "Inglourious Basterds", please and thank you.

Steven and Django might have more in common than first seen. One might say “We’re not so different, you and I.”

I have a bunch of colt revolvers and some Winchester rifles. Probably one of my favorite times in history to learn about.

Heck yeah! This is better than Saturday morning cartoons

I noticed a pretty cool little detail in Django Unchained the other night. - Dr Schultz who is a dentist in the movie, makes it his mission to go kill everybody at the plantation named CANDYland and is owned by Calvin Candy. and like real dentists, they have an assistant. so he hires Django and he calls him his assistant. - He even arrives at the plantation Candyland in his dentist Wagon. At one point, Candie offers Dr. Schultz some cake and he responds "I don't go in for sweets, thank you" I'm not sure if this is some small easter egg kinda thing that Quentin Tarantino purposely put into the movie with the name games. But nonetheless, such a cool little detail. Do you think this was purposely done as some kinda metaphor of the Dentist being the good guy trying to eliminate all the candy around the world?

I'm glad that Tarantino and I have yet another thing in common. I always viewed this film as a "buddy flick."

Re Dr Schultz, I think this take somewhat overlook the historic background - the German one, that is. Dr Schultz, with English being a second language to him, has certainly studied at a German university, thus will almost certainly have taken part in the 1848/49 democratic revolution fighting the reactionary regimes installed by the Vienna Congress after Napoleon's defeat. Democracy lost, the princes won, and many revolutionaries were being forced to emigrate to avoid being shot or imprisoned. Marx and Engels to the UK, Dr. Schultz and thousands of other German revolutionaries to the US. Many became disillusioned with their new home allowing slavery, but they felt as mere guests at first, and did not want to try to overthrow the system a second time and lose again. That changed with the US civil war, were those (militarily experienced) revolutionary fighters often were first to volunteer to the Union colors, but we are years before that, and Schultz has no real outlet for his inner feelings beyond hunting the worst of humanity. So Schultz submits to his fate for a while, gets on with the bounty hunter job and ignores the ideals of his youth. Until Candy finally puts Schultz into a position where all the hate for the (fake) aristocratic slave holders breaks free again, finally. Tough luck for Django, but you can't have a revolution without breaking some eggs...

Just found your channel and I never watch movie reviews but I watch a lot of historical stuff. This was a great video keep it up!

I think what they meant by: "it starts in 1858" and plays 2 years before the start of the civil war is the fact that there is about a year where Django hangs around with Schulz. So technically the second half of the film plays in 1859 so in fact two years before the civil war in 1861. Thats how I see it at least.

As the story itself was complete fiction, this episode was quite interesting to see the historical details (accurate or not) around that story. I would also like to make a humble suggesstion for a future episode: Mississippi Burning from 1988

Ok, with the line delivery that opens the video, you have won yourself a new subscriber.😄

The Henry gun that big daddy has could be a volcanic carbine. (I know it’s not it is a Henry 1860 but to be generous some of firearms could have a pass as imitation however most revolvers that they use were not made by 1858/9 Edit: again as for the sharps that could be trying to imitate an earlier percussion cap paper billet sharps instead of the 1873 metallic cartridge version.

I loved the Trinity movies as a kid, and I loved that Taratino had the Trinity theme play at the end of the movie.

Good morning buddy I've been looking forward to this.

This honestly made my day

Started watching your videos with the Band of Brothers Break downs. You make great videos and i cannot wait to see which movies/shows you review next. Keep up the great work!

How about Black Hawk Down next? Great video as always, keep up the good work!

16:00 this also might be a reference to the posse scene from Blazing Saddles where hijinks ensue due to the rediculousness of it.

Jared and Andrew - I just wanted to say thanks for being willing to critically examine (and tie in relevant reading to boot!) films and topics which broach or, in the cases of Django Unchained and Jared's talk on Black Troops in Civil War Cinema, directly and clearly confront issues which have unfortunately become politically fraught topics in America's seemingly never-ending culture war. In the current climate of educational censorship, "cancel culture", the clear embrace of the Lost Cause myth and Great Replacement "Theory" by significant political blocs, and the ever present and shallow use of "freedom" as an argument ending billy club, it takes real guts to put yourselves out there the way that you guys have done here in this video, and you should be commended for doing so. I don't mean to imply that you should be congratulated for taking a political stance since, in my opinion, the views of American history vis-a-vis chattel slavery and its threads in contemporary American society that Jared voices ought not be seen as political perspectives. Rather, they should be presented and digested as some of the foundational facts upon which the American Experience and the story of everybody who has ever or will ever call themselves an American are and will be built. They simply should not be taken as controversial statements or as mud to be flung over the internet against a political opponent. Anyway, I have been digressing here. Again, I just wanted to thank you both for being brave enough to stick your (and your channel's) necks out there a bit and reiterate the importance of shining the historical light on not just the stories we tell about our collective good times, but *especially* the ones we tell about our worst times.

After enjoying several QT films from Pulp Fiction onwards, I was put off from seeing Inglourious by the ahistorical premise, but I wouldn't be averse to seeing a break down on it in the future. So I enjoyed this break down, because I learned a lot about American history without being misled by watching the whole movie. Sincerely, thanks!

A series that really deserves one of these breakdowns is The Knick about the Knickerbocker hospital at the turn of the twentieth century. Super interesting when in comes to a period in US history that is less well known but very relevant to today since it was also a major period of transition and innovation.

Steampunk!!!! Never dawned on me but makes sense in 2022. I was born in 65 and I was born an engineer. Artemus Gordon was a hero of mine growing up. Great Wild Wild West shout-out.

I’m surprised you haven’t broken down the greatest war movie of all time, Waterloo

Like your Titanic videos, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this video. I am beginning to think that other than BoB, I really don’t enjoy war movies very much. However, I love history and always learn so much from you. Thanks!

The Henry Yellowboy was introduced in 1860.

Awesome video, I had no idea Harrison was in this, great actor

1:53 That's always been my head canon.

Excellent, thank you!

Russ! He was also in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! Wow, cool to see him again!!

Indeed, in terms of gold: price then was $20/ounce, now about $2000, makes $12,000 into $1.2 million today.

5:00 - He was also Dr. Jacoby on Twin Peaks...

Great video essay on Django Unchained. Tarantino audiences expected another hipster meditation on film culture filled with cool hyper-violent action. Django delivers all this, but is also more ambitious. I appreciate that this video essay shows how Tarantino elegantly deconstructs movie Westerns and the Lost Cause Myth. It is not an attempt to be historically accurate, but it is well grounded in history in key places. I have seen the movie a number of times, but until now did not catch how the scrolling "Mississippi" title references Gone With the Wind and other Hollywood movies. I also applaud Tarantino's visual imagination in depicting the horror of slavery. Almost all the terrible devices in the film used to control or brutalize slaves were based on actual devices. I don't think that these devices had ever been shown before in an American film about slavery.

"Outlaw Josie Wales" and "The Longriders" please! "Wicked Spring" is worth a watch, too.

My answer for when can you laugh at violence, is when death is presented in a comical fashion. The women being yanked back by a rope when shes shot is intended for comical effect. The endless shots coming from 2 pistols that aren't reloaded into an unending wave of bodies. Would I laugh at Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's list, no they aren't meant to be funny.

Quentin Tarantino Loves to twist history as seen in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I just came up into your videos love how you take the talks about true event in movies could you analyze the Sharon Tate history in that timeline with Charles Manson. I don’t like westerns that much but Django unchained was one of the better ones for me in that genre of film

Tarantino was 100% aware of the inaccuracies that he put into Django, and I would expect them to be intentional. As you said at ~8:25 he's shows himself capable of getting the details of things like clothing correct...so why didn't he, especially with Django in particular? I don't really know the answer, but I can say that Django was a bad ass the whole movie.

Excellent observations. When is it okay to laugh at violence? My answer is, "When it is Tarantino or Monty Python." Russ Tamblyn was a great dancer and I think also choreographer. The Henry Repeating Rifle was designed in 1860 while the Colt 45 was designed 1872 and neither would have been available for purchase without a time machine. I saw a time machine that was real in another movie so maybe possible? Nah. Those weapons do look cool and stylish though. And Tarantino is all about cool and style. Yup. No "dyn-o-mite!!!" J.J. Walker hadn't been born yet. Doh! You were talking "Dynamite the Explosive." The hoods worn are more accurate for KKK and Tarantino is making fun of that organization. The hoods are actually more accurate for the KKK than the white hoods and sheets. Hollywood established the white cloak uniform we know today to be associated with the KKK which was founded after the Civil War. Phrenology was definitely used by the NAZIS. The stereo viewer was the process of Stereoscopy and later became the View-Master. Digital Photography has also used the process to create digital 3D images using the side by side camera lenses. I had a phone with this feature ages ago. There are some people, mostly from families that were abolitionist, who have said The Civil War started in the Territory of Kansas in 1856. The Civil War actually started when Representative Thaddeus Stevens spilled hot tea on Senator Jefferson Davis' lap. That must have been some hot tea! Well. Enough of that bullocks. On with the show. It is very true that German immigrants were abolitionists. My Great Grandmother's father's last name was Heninger. The family dated back to Lower Saxony Germany arriving in the US about 1790-1800 before settling in what would become Union County TN establishing a farm. They would pay black laborers the same wage as white laborers and were highly respected in the area. I also have relatives from Tazewell, Claiborne County, TN. The two families merged with my 2nd GGM and 2nd GGF. Both counties voted overwhelmingly for Lincoln. Both counties were majority abolitionist. Which brings me to a point about Tennessee. People talk about the border states in the North that were slave states. Tennessee was split between slavery and abolitionist so much that the army commanded by Grant was the Army of the Tennessee. My family from Claiborne County fought on the side of the North and ironically had slavery in the family tree, but the slaves were manumitted sometime around 1810. The Heninger's were conscripted to fight for the CSA. Records show they were Company B, 11th Cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry corps.

Why did that opening line sound EXTRA racist coming out of Jared’s mouth??😂😂

Uncle Remus wasn't even a slave so how could he be a loyal slave? Song of the South takes place after emancipation

This movie took place in real time obviously before 1864 but at heart and soul it was in the late 19th century. It's a mash up of slavery era and spaghetti western. All liberties should be forgiven for firearms and apparel.

29:00 there is a whole line of thought based on humanity actually not truly desiring equality. Equality is only wanted by those on the loosing end of the balance. Do you think the rich and powerful want to loose there wealth and power to the poor and powerless. Such is the case of Steven. As long as there is a structure where one can have at least the possibility of attaining wealth and power does society stabilize. Slavery itself is not the issue in this case, look at Roman slavery; it wasn't racially based but rather a class on the bottom, but there was opportunity to rise out of it. Many of the wealthiest members of the knight class were descended from manumitted slaves. This was not so much the case in the US, where manumission was rare, and even then the freed were heavily stigmatized.

Could this movie be made today?

Will you do Fury next!!

I know my personality. In the future I can see myself being critical and over analyzing things you post. Please never take it as me being insulting.. If I am analyzing and being critical...it is because I respect your work. So much so.....I like to point out where it isn't perfect. But make no mistake....nobody is perfect and it isn't like I posted the vid. I just love history as much as you and enjoy discussing it

I agree it isnt a white savior film. Dr King Schulz and Djanjo work as a team just Calvin Candie and Stephen work together as a team. Schulz offs Candie but Django and Stephen have their fight and he allows Django to burn down the plantation and ride off with his woman. I also see it as a buddy western. It does not have the feeling of Schulz fighting battles to demand Djamgo's freedom. He finds Django for selfish reasons and they become friends. It is also ok for this to have a damsel in distress. This not a social justice project after all. It is a tale that was woven and told. It is not responsible for artificially inserting different types of representation just cuz. GREAT VIDEO!

Strange Film. Nice to see a Henry Rifle in this film (I own three of them) was not available to public until early 1862) and 1860 Army Colt Revolvers (again, not available until Spring 1861). Minor. Also, not sure what are the slave abuse laws were in 1858. Could you beat a slave to death? Have a fight to death? I Rome, around the Imperial time, if a slave misbehaved, you took them down to the City Administrator to have them them put down or added to the Games. … like a pet today, you can’t beat a dog to death. I really do not know the Slave Laws.

He could of been thinking of the Indian war and i thought dr schultz was loosely based off of john brown

If booker t Washington would come back from me grave you'd argue with him about slavery

You really are like an ultimate universe amalgamation of alchemation of James Rolfe angry video game nerd and the guy with the glasses

If you wanna see the most fucked up historical film ever made, check out Goodbye Uncle Tom. I cant exactly recommend it except to say its the most brutal film ever made about slavery. Its pure exploitation filmmaking. I cant say i enjoyed watching it but it absolutely scarred my psyche.

old video so I hope you see this do inglorious bastards

I'm still looking forward to the sequel- " Django Rechained".

why are you assuming QT's film are the same universe as our own?

I found the original movie very difficult to watch, but forced myself to over several sessions. This breakdown was interesting to me because some of the movie seemed ridiculous to me even as it was horrific. The breakdown I also had to watch over several sessions. Slavery is one of mankind's greatest evils and racism is not only alive and well in the US, but once again, we have White Nationalists marching in broad daylight, not found under a rock where they should stay, if at all. White fear mongering on Faux "news" is a staple of their programming and we just had another mass shooting hate crime. Yet, we aren't supposed to teach about any of this in schools? Sigh.....

And there is nothing wrong with the fantaysy. THe issue is people thinking the problem of racial inequality is solved. It is not.

How about just plain entertainment? It's a REVENGE/RESCUE movie!

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This "enslaved person" thing is so contrived.

Isn't the term ''enslaved people'' a pleonasm?

Does it make sense every plantation owner would abuse the slaves this way? Why would a farmer torture his livestock? Your blowing the situation way out of proportion

Was there also “blood on the hands” of the American Northern factories that bought and processed the cotton and other raw materials (hemp , lumber, sugar cane, leather etc . . . ) produced in the American South, The Caribbean and South America; into finished goods? Or the Northern fleets that made the voyages to Europe to sell Northern mass produced goods; then to Western Africa to buy African People that had been captured and enslaved by OTHER African People; then to The Americas to trade captured Africans for raw materials to sell to Northern factories to mass produce goods? The Big Atlantic Trade Loop? Tarantino makes interesting films, but his knowledge of History is trite. BTW. Almost EVERY firearm and saddle in the film is anachronistic. He’s trying to retell POPULAR History, NOT ACTUAL HISTORY, for his own political reasons. I submit that in order to LEARN from history, it MUST be ACCURATELY told.

I honesty don't know why you are wasting time on the breakdown of a fictional story to begin with. 6 mins in and I'm pausing and tapping out. I don't see any value in this for me. I've loved your content of historical movies that were based on actual events, but this, it's a waste of my time. I would rather watch Lawn Care Juggernaut than this.

been waiting for this after trying to solve the picture on insta