7. Django Freeman - Django Unchained
I'm sure I'm going to get some flack for this one, but here goes nothing: I love
Django Unchained, despite its flaws, and think it was an intelligent and throughly entertaining vehicle for its central protagonist, as played by Christopher Waltz. I mean Jamie Foxx.
Jamie Foxx. Uh. See where I'm going with this hilarious bit of self-indulgent banter?
Django Unchained was Dr. King Schultz's movie far more than it was Django's. It was almost as if Tarantino didn't really know what to do with his slave's personality once he'd, uh, unchained him. That's to say, although Foxx was fine as Django and the rest of the movie was great, Django - our main character, remember - is probably the most boring of all. The trailers billed him as an ultra-cool badass - so much so that it was near-impossible not to have built-in observations about this character. But as the movie unravelled, it felt like its writer/director had far more fun writing literally every other role than that of his protagonist. Django was cool enough, but for a Tarantino character, he's a little on the forgettable side.