20 Things You Didn't Know About Django Unchained

It's hard to make a period piece about the antebellum South without acknowledging how wildly racist it was. Django Unchained obviously focuses on slavery and, being a revenge fantasy flick, involves targeted angry slavers using language that is highly offensive. This is reasonably unavoidable. Perhaps this is the reason that Tarantino didn't take any half-measures with how liberally the N-word was used throughout the movie. It is used so often that it set the all-time record for utterances in a movie with 116 of some variation throughout.

Tarantino had previous when it comes to putting the N-Word in his movies. Jackie Brown, in particular, attracted controversy because of the 38 times the word is said throughout the movie. There is also the uncomfortable scene in Pulp Fiction where Tarantino himself, playing the character Jimmie, goes on a rant about how there isn't a sign at the front of his house that says 'dead n****r storage' to Samuel L. Jackson's character Jules.