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Walton Goggins can currently be seen navigating the wasteland as The Ghoul in Fallout Season 2, but he’s also known for his portrayal of Billy Crash in Django Unchained. Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 follow-up to Inglourious Basterds is now available to stream on Hulu after it joined the platform on February 1st. The star-packed revisionist Western is set two years before the Civil War and centers around the titular Django, a slave an enslaved man who teams up with an unorthodox German bounty hunter with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation.
Django Unchained Controversy, Explained
Django Unchained brought home a big box office haul of $449 million, earned Tarantino his fourth-highest-rated movie in terms of audience reception with a 92% Popcornmeter score on Rotten Tomatoes, but it didn’t get there without some controversy. Critics, notably Spike Lee, argued that the film was disrespectful and exploitative, and arguments were made that Django Unchained turned brutal historical atrocities into a comedic and hyper-violent entertainment spectacle and trivialized historical trauma. There were also issues over the excessive, repeated use of the N-word, which was used more than 100 times throughout the film. Foxx later defended the excessive use of racial slurs, stating that he “understood the text — that’s the way it was back in that time.”
