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Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained Trailer Leaks, Despite Best Whac-a-Mole Efforts by The Weinstein Company

By Alex Pappademas at

The first trailer for Django Unchained doesn't officially premiere until tonight at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, but it popped up online this morning, and it keeps popping up, despite the best efforts of the Weinstein Company. So let's jump to conclusions: It looks like Tarantino's finally made the pure blaxploitation film that Jackie Brown suggested he might have in him. Specifically, Django — starring Jamie Foxx as a freed slave on what the movie advertisements refer to as a roaring rampage of revenge, Christoph Waltz as his bounty-hunting ally, and Leonardo DiCaprio as, I don't know, Arliss Loveless from Wild Wild West, maybe? — looks like a Quentified take on '70s blaxploitation Westerns, and specifically the sub-sub-subcategory of slave-revolt revenge flicks like The Legend of N***er Charley, and maybe a little bit like Richard Fleischer's insane 1975 plantation drama Mandingo, which Tarantino has raved about as the last "full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie" released by a major studio until Showgirls.

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