Tarantino: ‘I wanted to give African American Males a western hero’

January 11th, 2013

Tarantino: ‘I wanted to give African American Males a western hero’

By The TV Collective

Tarantino’s latest offering, the Oscar nominated film ‘Django’ starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, gets it’s UK release next Friday 18th.

With the hot debate still raging on about the use of the ‘N’ word, levels of violence and its slavery backdrop – will you be going to see it?

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