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Django is a 1966 Italian film that was directed by Sergio Corbucci and starred Franco Nero in the title role. It became very popular in Europe and is considered a cult film in the USA. It is considered by many as one of the best examples of the Spaghetti Western with a stirring musical score, gunfights and a quiet anti-hero which followed Franco Nero around with every other Western film he produced. Django is famous for dragging around a coffin which holds a gatling gun, trailing a belt of ammunition behind him.

Plot

Django (Franco Nero) appears, dressed in a dirty Union coat and dragging a coffin behind him, he quickly makes enemies with a fallen Confederate Major and rescues a tied up young woman in peril. Staying near a saloon/brothel in town, Django finds himself in the middle of a war between the Major's faction of vigilantes and a band of Mexican revolutionaries, who have become more than a little curious about what Django's hiding in his coffin.

Sequels

Django was a sensation the moment it premiered in Italy which saw countless filmmakers and actors who tried to make a penny off the popular film. There have been rumored to be over 100 unofficial sequels produced and over 30 different filmmakers that have the name "Django" somewhere in the title of their film. Some of these films try to continue the story of "Django" while others have the name and have little or nothing to do with the original Corbucci film. Even though some of these films actually have a character named "Django", these aren't considered true to the original.

In 1987, Sergio Corbucci allowed Ted Archer to produce the only official sequel to his most famous film which was titled Django 2 or Django Strikes Back! (Italian title: Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno). The film sees Franco Nero return to the role as an older Django who is now a monk, as he tries to rescue his daughter from some evil people. Donald Pleasence also stars.

Influence

The infamous "ear cutting scene" in the Quentin Tarantino
film, Reservoir Dogs
, was inspired by this film which shows a Mexican soldier cut the ear off of one of Major Jackson's men.
Lee Perry's second album is titled Return of Django, and he has released tracks called 'Django (Ol' Man River)' and 'Django shoots first'.
An episode of Cowboy Bebop features a character dragging a coffin.

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Movies - Django

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