Given what she said about little Hushpuppy being eroticized in Beasts Of The Southern Wild (an argument I couldn't disagree more with), I can't wait to read what bell hooks will say about Kerry Washington's Brunhilde von Shaft in Quentin Tarantino's blaxploitation send-up Django Unchained - especially if this character poster tells us anything.
Character posters of Jamie Foxx as Django, and Samuel L. Jackson as resident house negro, are below as well.
The film is out on Xmas day.
4 Comments
Xi | October 20, 2012 9:49 AM
I'm extremely uneasy about seeing 'Sammel' as a house negro. Will he be 'Sammel' or will he be made to wither? :-/
AccidentalVisitor | October 19, 2012 12:54 PM
I've been wonderin if this site would pick up on Jamie Foxx's comments this weeks that "Django" will provide the "truest depiction of slavery" ever seen on screen. Isn't that more than just a little outrageous? Granted there isn't much to compare it to considering the dearth of slave movies, but still..really? With a slave that goes around the South killing white men freely with a gun (Jamie) , a house slave/manipulator who instructs his white master on how to keep oppressing unruly slaves (Samuel) and a slave as a female-in-distress who appers to have spent most of her days being dolled up in a modern day beauty salon (Kerry), I remain highly skeptical.
No | October 19, 2012 12:25 PM
I stopped reading anything of bell hooks years ago, and even then she just regurgitated all the standard, postmodern, retread cultural politics academic jargon, much like Cornel West. That she found the child actress in "Beasts of the Southern Wild" eroticized is standard play for her.