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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Django Unchained: Slate's Spoiler Special

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Slate's Dana Stevens and author Tanner Colby discuss Django Unchained. WARNING: This podcast is meant to be heard AFTER you've seen the movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Slate's spoiler specials are brought to you by Audible.com, a leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment.

0:06.9

Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free audiobook when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audiblepodcast.com slash spoiler.

0:17.6

Hi, this is Dana Stevens. Slate's movie critic here with a spoiler special podcast on

0:21.1

Django Unchained, the new Quentin Tarantino film. Joining me in the Slate studio is Tanner Colby. Hi, Tanner.

0:26.9

Hi, Dana. You are a sometime slate contributor. Yes. You are also the author of Some of My Best

0:31.5

Friends Are Black, the Strange History of Racial Integration in America. That's correct. A book about, well, I don't know any black people.

0:40.0

So, of course, I titled it, Some of My Best Friends are Black.

0:43.5

And you were the one who wanted me to take you to Django Unchained.

0:45.3

You were very eager to spoil this movie with me.

0:45.8

I was.

0:46.3

I was. I'm a Tarantino fan. of America's racial history over the last few years researching my book, and I just thought it'd

0:54.5

be a fascinating movie to review of spoil, and it was.

0:59.7

So are you an unambiguous Tarantino fan, or are you, like me, a kind of divided and queasy

1:05.2

Tarantino fan?

1:07.0

I'm, I'm, like, 70-30.

1:08.7

I'm, like, definitely a huge fan, specifically Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs. It's kind of a Wes Anderson effect where I fell in love with Rushmore and then each successive movies tapered off a little bit. I have the same thing with both filmmakers.

1:20.6

And with the exception of fantastic Mr. Fox for Anderson that that up again.

1:24.8

There you go. There you go. Because he didn't have to deal with humans uh and

1:28.7

it was sort of the same thing here like you know every every tarentino movie i like a little less

1:33.3

than the last one there's things i loved about this one and then certain things that i didn't like

1:37.3

about it namely that i felt like it was and correct me if i'm wrong it was in glorious

1:42.6

bastards part two, you know,

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