Almost 100 years after the release of " Birth of Nation, comes along a one man pre Buffalo soldier on a black horse Django to unchain us from the cognitive shackles of generational victim hood. As myths archetypes, literature, film , music and other neo cave paintings have attempted to do, Tarantino refutes the acclaimed western film director John Ford who appeared in Birth of Nation who was a crazed racial mental product of his time, ( as we ALL are crazed mental products of our current times).
Tarantino offers up his hoped for rebirth of a nation, almost 100 years later to remind us that hero depiction and rescues of the damsels ( note the white women native american capture literary best sellers drumming along the mohawk trail captivity narratives) myths of what men will do spurred by the female energy, Joan of Arc, Helen of Troy, and the direct reference in UNCHAINED to Brynhildr (sometimes spelled Brunhild, Brünnhilde, Brynhild) completes the eternal arc and orbit of thought-freedom and perception
Does opera, the hit series Scandal, Charles Dickens, and Aesops fables who by the way was a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables remind us that beyond life being a stage, the set design is where the creativity is manifest and the lighting is always important for people to see !
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