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ROSE among thorns: Tarantino Django Unchained

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I love the interviews Charlie Rose conducts. Charlie Rose doesn't need a fancy set to ask questions all he needs is an entertaining person to interview and fill the back ground with the deep thoughts most shows don't have time to air. My favorite Charlie Rose show interview subject is Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino is always open and candid with Charlie, and by this point in their careers can talk like old friends. Tarantino espouses some great advice in part 3.

VIDEO GOLD: Unchained

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I love movies. I love westerns. The western is the earliest, most primal form of cinema. Technology is stripped away.  Danger is ratcheted up. Violence can erupt at any moment. The western was one of the most popular and enduring genres of early american popular fiction. Its popularity eventually waned before being reinvigorated by Clint Eastwood and the spaghetti western auteurs. I love me a good spaghetti western. Nothing is more cinematic to me than the spaghetti western music and visual style and Sergio Leone and his collaborators were geniuses. In fact, practically all of my favorite Pirates of the Caribbean moments are homages to the spaghetti western. Eventually its popularity slid once again but perhaps Django  Unchained can once again revive the genre. This is my most anticipated movie of the year, followed closely by the Hobbit.  This new trailer only makes me more excited getting pieces of DiCaprio's villain. This movie looks delicious and like an insta...