A scene from Django Unchained deemed too violent, even for Tarantino
Django Unchained is known for its gritty and uncompromising exploration of slavery in the 19th-century American South, mixing violence, racial tension and revenge in typical Quentin Tarantino style. The film caused many discussionsparticularly regarding the excessive use of racist terms and stylized scenes of violence. However, even for a director as bold as Tarantino there are limits. Samuel L. Jackson recently revealed in a video interview with GQ that a scene cut from the film had been deemed “too extreme” by the director himself.
In the 2013 film, Samuel L. Jackson plays Stephen Warren, the slave loyal to the cruel plantation owner Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Stephen is one of the film’s most hateful characters, a man who betrays his own people to gain the favor of his master. However, it appears that Tarantino initially planned a scene that went even further into horror and violence, but ultimately decided not to include it.
Protect Samuel L. Jackson
In the interview given to GQSamuel L. Jackson revealed a violent scene that was not included in the final version of Django Unchained. In this scene, Stephen had to torture Django (played by Jamie Foxx) using a heated poker, while delivering a heartbreaking monologue about his past and his role on the plantation. “I had to start burning different parts of his body with the poker,” Jackson said. This was part of the sequence where Stephen gets the better of Django in the barn.
Jackson clarified that Tarantino decided to cut this scene, believing it would make Stephen’s character too monstrous, to the point of causing negative reactions against Samuel L. Jackson himself. “Quentin told me, ‘If we keep this in the movie, people will hate you and I’ll be responsible for it,’” Jackson recalls. Tarantino, despite being a fan of violent and controversial scenes, therefore chose not to include this sequence for fear of the consequences for his actor and friend.
However, Samuel L. Jackson was willing to go all the way. “I told him, ‘This is your story and you want to back off now? I’m willing to do that,'” Jackson added. But Tarantino decided it was best not to go that far. “He thought people would really hate me from then on,” he concluded.
Source: Cine Serie
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