The movie may have been funny but it wasn’t promoted as a comedy, it was supposed to be a revenge/love story where the revenge was played up way more than the love. The bonding moments in the movie were between Djamie and the German bounty hunter. The love story played 3rd fiddle to the German and Leonardo’s character, damn near 4th to Uncle Rukus, so the love story aspect was BS to me.
As for Quentin having the courage to make a movie about slavery, I emphatically say it’s BS. He a made a mockery of slavery, made every Nigger including Djamie into broken tamed individuals. It took a white man to free him, and the way the movie was set up, Djamie wouldn’t have went after Hildy if the German hadn’t of freed him and needed his help. Other than that Djamie would have went on being a slave and never did anything. Why don’t they make a movie about Nat Turner if they want to champion the slave killing whitey, I bet they won’t do that?
Spike Lee would have never been greenlit for a slavery project. Just like they won’t greenlight the movie Hannibal of Carthage, there’s a screenplay ready to go, but a movie about a Black man that defeated Roman generals and is widely considered one of the greatest generals of all time, doesn’t play well with the racist elite. Even a movie about Tousaaint L’Overture won’t even be greenlit here in the states. These people were genuine Black heros, not fictional characters who went on a kill whitey spree.
I haven’t seen Red Hook Summer yet but from the tailers that I’ve seen, it looks like garbage.

The killing of the “evil” slave masters in the movie did not intrigue me. I was intrigued by the love story. We were made to believe that slaves did not have family connections and love relationships. Django was willing to die for love.

The comedic license had to be used, slavery is a tough subject. I don’t like the idea of the Django dolls. I applaud Quentin for having the courage to make a movie about slavery. It is something ugly that we as African Americans and America as a whole have repressed. Spike Lee could have made a movie about slavery BUT he did not. What he did to is partner with Absolut Vodka to sell LIQUOR! I was more offended by Spike’s Red Hookl Summer.