2012-12-08 17:07:58 Dec 8, 2012  Django’s Journey:
Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino takes audiences on a wild
Spaghetti Western ride during slavery days in ‘Django Unchained’
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by: Hudson  Django Unchained's journey to the big screen began
over 10 years ago, when writer-director Quentin Tarantino first
thought of the film's main character, Django. "The initial germ
of the whole idea was a slave who becomes a bounty hunter and
then goes after overseers that are hiding out on plantations,"
Tarantino recalls. "I just started writing, and Django presented
himself to me. At the beginning he just was who he was – the
sixth slave from the seventh on a chain gang line. But he just
kept revealing himself to me more and more as I wrote." Although
Django Unchained takes place in the Antebellum South, Tarantino
found that Django's story might best be represented as a
Western. "I've always wanted to do a Western. I like all kinds
of Westerns, but since Spaghett