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The violence is opera.

I was doing the press on In Glorious

Bastards and been going around the world

and one of the last areas we opened up

uh theatrically commercially was Japan

>> where after yet another press conference

he wandered into a local music store

>> that just specialized in nothing but

soundtracks. That's my kind of store.

>> While perusing the endless shelves, he

stumbled upon a compilation of spaghetti

western soundtracks. It's alive [music]

with his.

[music]

>> He just happened to be working on a book

at the time devoted to the reviews and

directing of Sergio Corbuchi who rose to

fame thanks to the spaghetti westerns

like Jeno,

[singing]

>> you know, say Christmas in July. So, so

happy. I get a little record player.

Wow. I'm just listening to the

soundtracks. I'm just playing all these

great composers. And then the first

scene, literally what's in the movie,

the first scene comes to me.

WHO'S THAT STUMBLING AROUND IN THE DARK?

STATE YOUR BUSINESS OR PREPARED TO GET

WAYNE.

>> HE SPENT the next two years working on

Django Unchained. The final version was

ready in May of 2011, and by November,

they had begun casting.

>> [music]

>> It started off with Kristoff Waltz

rejecting the role written just for him.

Dr. King Schultz, the similarity of the

character to the actor himself deterred

him, but Quinton insisted and said he

just wouldn't take no for an answer.

Kristoff gave in, but on one condition,

his character wouldn't do anything bad

on screen. Quinton agreed by sending

Walts a handwritten note which read, "Of

course, mine."

>> [screaming]

[groaning]

>> I had the same problem with Sam for

about a decade. It's hard not to write

for these guys. Like like it's like they

sing my dialogue. They don't say it,

they sing it.

>> Yeah.

>> Please forgive me. It is a second

language.

>> I've been wanting to do this story for a

long time. There never was some German

dentist bounty hunter in the story. All

right. But next thing I know, I sat down

and wrote that opening scene and he just

flew right out of the pen like a

lieutenant of God. Boom. No doubt.

>> From the beginning stages of the script,

Tarantino had planned to invite Will

Smith to play Django. He was the only

candidate, but Smith declined. Later, he

explained that he hadn't felt that the

character was the lead role. He was more

of a sidekick for Dr. Schultz, otherwise

it would have been Django pulling the

trigger. In the final scene,

Tarantino countered that in that case,

the murder would have been nothing but

revenge. Whereas a white man killing a

white man was foreshadowing the coming

civil war and end to slavery.

And though Smith called the script

brilliant and not once he never

regretted his decision.

>> I had said yes to Django but with that

story I felt the the only way I could

make that movie is it had to be a love

story not a vengeance story. I don't

believe in violence as the reaction

[music] to violence.

>> For me, I just couldn't connect to

violence being the answer. Love had to

be the answer.

>> Wow.

>> After that, Terrence Howard, Idris Elba,

Chris Tucker, Tyrese Gibson, and Michael

K. Williams all tried out.

>> First of all, I heard about Django. I

didn't even get the script to be honest

with you. I saw it on the on the

internet where Will Smith was playing

and I was like, "Damn, another project

that I didn't hear about, you know,

>> and uh actually I had a management

change.

[laughter] Uh

>> then next thing you know, I got a chance

to, you know, jockey for position."

>> Well, it's it seems obvious now. And but

frankly, to tell you the truth, when he

walked through the door, it became

obvious, even though before I met him,

it wasn't quite obvious.

>> No, he's from Texas. He's from the

South. He's not an LA boy or or a New

York boy, you know. He's from uh he's

from Texas.

>> I said, "I know the dude needs to be

able to ride his horse. I got my own

horse at the crib. [music] It'll be

cool." Not only did he allow me to take

on the character, but I got a chance to

ride my own horse in the He was going to

let me pick up my own clothes.

D [music] J A N G O.

The D is silent. Calvin Candy was also

written with another actor in mind.

Tarantino didn't name names, but he

didn't hire that actor because he

realized he was just too old for the

role.

>> But me being me, I I forget that the

last time I saw them was in 1991, and it

actually has been 20 years since then.

>> But according to rumor,

>> I love rumors.

>> The role was most likely reserved for

John Travolta. Though we're certain that

no one was upset with Tarantino's final

choice. Well,

>> then we got nothing more to talk about.

Whenever I finish a script, Leo gets a

copy of it. I don't send it to him. I

think he just procures it. He can do

things like that.

>> There was a sort of buzz about this

script around for a while and and people

were talking about the next Tarantino

movie that was about to come out. It was

the talk of the town and how daring it

was and how audacious and how hardcore

it was.

>> And so he had read the script and all of

a sudden I got the word that he would be

interested in talking to me about uh

playing the character Mr. Calvin Kande.

AND A LOT OF LIES SET AROUND THIS DINNER

TABLE HERE TONIGHT, BUT THAT YOU CAN'T

BELIEVE.

>> In 2011, Fate brought Leo and Quinton

together, although that's not quite

true. 3 years earlier, Tarantino had

planned on inviting DiCaprio to play

Hans L's role in In Glorious Bastards.

>> Why don't you try to tell us what the

[ __ ] happened?

>> And though Leonardo's German isn't bad,

>> the director later decided that he

wanted an actor whose native tongue was

German. [laughter]

But the desire to work together didn't

pass. That's why in 2011, Leo joined the

ensemble of Django Unchained. Once

again, Quinton saw the villain in the

actor. Calvin Candy was

>> one of the most narcissistic, racist,

horrible characters I've ever read in my

entire life. [snorts] And and

I I had to do it.

>> The only person there were no problems

with was

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Hell on my ass.

>> So, I did The Mountaintop right before I

did Django. So I went from playing

Martin Luther King to Steven. [laughter]

>> Well, you got a problem with that?

>> Oh, no. I ain't got no problem with it.

>> So 15 years ago, I could have played

Jango. Now I can't. But now you want me

to play like the most hated in cinematic

history. So

>> we were both kind of like laughed

together and said, "Yeah, yeah." So are

you ready for what this is going to be?

And he was like, "Whatever you bring,

you bring it." So I brought it.

Low and behold, I told Quinton Steven

was going to have his fans.

Steven could read, write, count, do all

those things. And inside the confines of

Candyland, he was king. Even when Calvin

was home, [music] he was king.

>> Stephen, what the hell are you talking

about?

>> It also gave me an opportunity to uh do

really nasty [ __ ] to the person that got

the role that I thought I should have

had.

>> Let's whip him today. Throw him to the

man. Dingo. Feed him sto. [music]

>> After that, the project was joined by

Carrie Washington, Jonah Hill, Bruce D,

Walton Gogggins.

>> I know the company that I'm sitting in.

I'm afraid to close my eyes for fear

that this isn't really happening.

>> And many of Quinton's old friends.

[singing]

And of course, Quinton's cameo.

>> So, how about no bags this time, but

next time we do the bags, right? And

then we go B regalia.

>> And his other cameo a little dam.

>> If I put myself in there and I have to

cut it down to nothing, I have no

problems with that. All right. If I have

Sam Worththing in waiting around for 6

months, I'm going to feel bad if I cut a

scene down to nothing. The [ __ ] are you

talking about, man? Another interesting

cameo was Franco Nos who played the lead

role in the original Django.

>> What's your name?

>> Jango. No one will hurt you anymore as

long as you're with me.

>> Actually, I have the two Django right

next to each other in the same frame. It

was one of those movie moments. We were

kind of pinching ourselves when we were

shooting. Frank is one of my favorite

western icons that there is.

>> I know.

>> Also, we can't forget a typical

Tarantino film moment.

Boo.

>> In the beginning, James Remar's

character dies at the hands of Dr.

Schultz. In the end, James Remar's other

character kills Dr. Schultz.

>> What was that?

>> While preparing for the role during a

riding session, Kristoff Waltz

dislocated his pelvic bone.

>> Well, you know, the the the riding the

horse wasn't that much of a challenge.

The falling off was. Quinton was afraid

that he would have to delay shooting,

but after rereading the script realized

that he only had to change a few lines

to move Schultz from the back of a horse

to a carriage bench. In the end, it only

added to the film.

>> Calm yourselves, gentlemen. I mean you

no harm.

I'm simply a fellow where a traveler.

>> The picture received a record-breaking

budget for Quinton, $100 million. And on

the 25th of January 2012, they started

>> shooting.

It's going to make me cry. Oh Lord.

Oh Lord

[music]

temperature.

On the very first day, the director had

to have an enlightening conversation

with Jamie Fox.

>> I'm reading my lines like, "Yeah."

And he said, "Cut. Can I talk to you for

a second? Close the door."

>> Uhoh.

>> Uh, what the [ __ ] is that?

>> I said, "What [laughter] you mean?"

Listen, all of this [ __ ] you have to be

a [ __ ] slave. You come in with your

[ __ ] Louis bag and your [ __ ] Range

Rover

and your [ __ ] Jess. I'm so [ __ ]

You're not Jim Brown.

He's a [ __ ] slave. And then and then

he becomes the hero. But lose that [ __ ]

Door swings open. He walks out. And so

the next day I left all that at [music]

the crib and sunk into that. That type

of person who was strong on the inside

but afraid to allow it to come out

because you would be murdered. What's

your name?

>> Tango.

>> And for Leonardo, it was a real

challenge to depict pure evil on the

screen. It

>> was really my first attempt in and and

like [music] I said, playing a character

that I had this much disdain and and

this much hatred for

>> once. He couldn't even finish a scene

because of the overwhelming amount of

racist comments in it. Almost as though

he was punishing himself for the role.

>> And I said, "What's the deal?" He said,

"It's tough." I said, "You know what?

You're human. It's supposed to be

tough." Samuel Jackson quickly said,

"Hey, MF, get over there. It's just

another Tuesday for us and let's get

going."

>> It's all right. It's all right.

>> I think it was Sam and Jamie that both

said, "Look, man, if you if you

sugarcoat this, people are going to

resent the hell out of you by holding

the character back, you know, you're

going to do an injustice to the film and

people are going to feel like you're not

telling the truth." And that from that,

honestly, that was the thing that sort

of ignited me into the going the way I

did with the character.

>> Yes, it did.

Leonardo was always getting hurt. While

rehearsing the scene with the hammer, it

broke and hit him on the forehead. And

probably one of the most famous stories

was about how DiCaprio cut his hand

banging ON THE TABLE. [screaming]

>> LAY YOUR PALM FLAT ON THAT TABLETOP

>> AND CONTINUED the take as though nothing

had happened.

>> So, the choice was, I suppose, to either

go on

and finish my my uh speech or not. And I

open my hand and then blood starts

pouring everywhere. And I saw Jamie go,

>> "Yeah, this." And [laughter] Quinton

Quinton like had his go.

>> I think they thought that maybe I had

some sort of blood rig.

>> Where were we?

>> When the take was over, the whole film

crew gave him a standing ovation. After

bandaging his hand, Leo suggested that

Calvin use that hand to cup Carrie

Washington's face. The actress and

director both thought it was a good

idea. So Tarantino quickly found some

fake blood. Don't ask where. It's

Tarantino. He always has a little fake

blood handy.

[music]

>> [singing]

>> and they shot the scene.

>> Quinton wasn't sure if he wanted to

[music] use the take with the blood or

not. So, every moment after we shot

twice, we would shoot completely bloody

with him touching my face and then we

had to take everything off and shoot it

again totally clean.

>> Why?

>> Because we love making movies.

>> Shooting lasted for over 5 months and

the amount of footage filmed was

mindblowing. When the film's producer,

Harvey Weinstein, first saw how much

Tarantino had shot, he wanted him to

take the proven route and split the

movie in two, but Quinton preferred to

shorten the film almost by half. Scenes

that didn't make the cut included the

backstory of Dartanian's hunters, and

some scenes with Zo Bell. Also, the

dialogue between Steven and Django when

they arrived at Candyland was before the

scene where Schultz meets Broomhilda.

This scene was Jamie Fox's favorite one,

which didn't make the final cut.

>> And he slaps me. He slaps me down.

That's the setup between me and him that

they didn't use in the movie. So, by the

time we get to the point where he's

hanging upside down in that barn and I

start using that hot poker to burn parts

of his body. I always thought he was

going to put a director's cut [music]

out. He can keep it cuz we did shoot it.

What's so special about that? But the

biggest loss was a whole plot line where

Carrie Washington's character was sold

by a slave owner played by Jonah Hill.

>> But nobody can see.

>> So So it would be nice to see.

>> The actor had around 15 minutes of

screen time, but Quinton wasn't pleased

with the outcome. So he gave Hill a

small role in the Ku Klux Clan and

invited Sasha Baron Cohen to replace

him. But the re-shot episode was cut

anyways.

>> Sasha Baron Cohen, he's a great guy and

I'd love to work with him. It was simply

the fact that I ended up dropping that

sequence. [music]

It was a scene I just know this will

never make the movie. I just I don't

have the days and the time and the money

to spend on something that I know is

going to get dropped from the editing

room.

>> Goddamn time wasting sons of [ __ ]

>> The editing dragged on for 4 months,

mostly because Tarantino couldn't work

as well as when he had Sally Meny by his

side. I've been really melancholy these

last few days because this is usually

the time where she would kind of be

running the show this last little bit.

So, I'm particularly missing her now. I

have to be more responsible for my own

movie. Menkey's place was taken by Fred

Rasky, who had previously worked as

Sally's assistant on Kill Bill and was

the film editor for the first The Fast

and the Furious. During the first stage

of writing the music for the picture,

Quinton had a serious argument with Eno

Moricone, who was upset with how the

director had used his compositions in

the film

[music]

and vowed never to work with Tarantino

again. However, three years later, he

broke his vow and for the first time in

his career at the age of 86, won an

Oscar.

This is the first Oscar and sixth

nomination for Eno Moricone.

>> The premiere of Django Unchain was in

New York on the 11th of December 2012.

Critics say director Quinton Tarantino

who is no stranger to violence and shock

value may have gone too far.

>> Say it'd be disrespectful to my

ancestor. The

>> film has already sparked controversy

over its repeated use of the n-word. And

now director Spike Lee says he won't go

to see it.

>> I have intelligent things to say about

this show. [laughter]

Some people tend to take themselves

really seriously because they're making

a film.

>> You take 12 Years of Slave, which is

supposedly made by an art and it's all

dark and it's a really gritty look at

the realities of slavery. It's like,

well [ __ ] so is this.

>> People start using, oh, I was offended

by this. I was offended by that. [ __ ]

being offended. What are you talking

about? It's a movie. You like it, you

don't like it. You don't want to watch

it, you you want to watch it because I

believe in what I'm doing wholeheartedly

and passionately. and it's my job to

just GET ON WITH IT. [screaming]

>> The events that followed can only be

compared to the success of Pulp Fiction.

The picture earned more than $424

million and became the most profitable

of Quinton's career. It also attracted

many accolades. Kristoff Waltz for his

role as Dr. Schultz received a Golden

Globe, a BAFTA, and the affforementioned

Oscar. You little dickens. You

[laughter]

>> Waltz set a record by the way. His

character has 1 hour 6 minutes and 17

seconds of screen time. This is the

longest of any actor who received an

Oscar for best supporting actor.

[laughter] Astonishing. Quinton was also

not forgotten for the screenplay of

Django. He received a Golden Globe, a

BAFTA, a Caesar award. In 18 years after

Pulp Fiction, he took the Dolby Theater

stage once again to receive his prize.

>> Thank you very much. I love this. I love

the competition. [applause] You guys are

all wonderful. Peace out.