4. Cameos
Admittedly, I need to qualify this by saying that in no way do I condone Quentin Tarantino's shameless and shoehorned cameo near the end of the film - as an Australian slave transporter - but thankfully, the rest of the cameos are so good that this element of the film can still make our list. It's great fun watching this film and scanning around the screen during every scene to see who Tarantino has paraded out, either a relic of TV/movie lore or simply one of his old friends that we haven't seen for a while, and boy, are there plenty of them in this film... The first one is Tom Wopat, best known to audiences as Luke Duke in the classic TV show The Dukes of Hazard, who appears during one early scene as U.S. Marshall Gill Tatum; then we get Don Johnson as the racist tycoon Big Daddy; Franco Nero (the original Django, picture above) as a patron of Candie's bar; Walton Goggins as one of Candie's goons; Jonah Hill as a buffoonish KKK member; and Michael Parks and Tom Savini in blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearances. Though these might fly over the heads of more casual viewers, they're great looking out for if you're the least bit steeped in western history or simply watch a lot of TV or movies.