Django Unchained - Full Soundtrack
While an embargo stops me from telling you anything about Quentin Tarantino's new opus Django Unchained (hypothetically, if I could, I would maybe say it contains all the hallmarks of a Tarantino classic and is a clever twist on the Spaghetti Westerns he has been building towards for a decade), it doesn't mean we can't enjoy the soundtrack score which accompanies the film.
Next to ultra-violence, nothing cements itself as a Tarantino calling card than the music that underlines the action. Since Reservoir Dogs, the music and song choices have played just as important a character within his films as anything else on screen.
The soundtrack to Django Unchained is no different, and luckily for you, you can listen to the entire thing right now!
To give you a bit of a background of the film, it's set in the South two years before the Civil War and stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face to face with German born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz)
The two team up to find the murderous Brittle brothers (only Django can lead them to their bounty), an adventure that leads them to Calvin Candie (a surprisingly evil Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of an infamous plantation, who happens to house Django's estranged wife.
It's a classic revenge flick in the same vein as Inglorious Basterds and Kill Bill and you can sense the mood simply by listening to the soundtrack.
Meanwhile, if you want to know more about the background to the flick, be sure to listen to this EXCELLENT hour long interview with Quentin Tarantino and Howard Stern in which it is revealed that Will Smith was originally going to play Django before Jamie Foxx ended up with the role.
Showbiz, huh?
