20 Things You Somehow Missed In Django Unchained

16. Schultz Whistles The Original Django Theme

Django Unchained
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At the start of the scene where members of the proto-Ku Klux Klan prepare for their raid against Django and Schultz, we briefly see Schultz sticking a hunk of dynamite inside the novelty tooth on top of his wagon cart.

While doing so, he whistles a tune, and though this might seem totally inconsequential, it's actually composer Luis Bacalov's theme tune from the original 1966 spaghetti Western Django.

This wasn't the first time that Tarantino used a whistle to nod to an iconic piece of film music - in Kill Bill Volume 1, he had Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) whistle the title track from Bernard Herrmann's score for Twisted Nerve as she tries (in vain) to kill The Bride (Uma Thurman).

 
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