Django (film)

Django is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the eponymous role. Intended to capitalize on the success of Sergio Leones A Fistful of Dollars, Corbuccis film is, like Leones, considered to be a loose, unofficial adaptation of Akira Kurosawas Yojimbo.

Django is a drifter who drags a closed coffin around with him. He rescues a young woman, Mara, who is about to be murdered by bandits led by Major Jackson Eduardo Fajardo, the man whom Django is seeking and wants to kill as revenge for killing his wife. After killing most of Jacksons men, Django makes a deal with a Mexican bandit general, Hugo Rodriguez, who is in conflict with Jackson, and the two steal a large quantity of gold from a Mexican Army fort where Jackson is doing business with a government general. When Rodriguez refuses to give Django his share of the haul, Django and Maria steal the gold. Unfortunately, the gold falls into quicksand. When Rodriguez catches up to them, Mara is shot though she survives and Djangos hands are crushed by Rodriguezs men as punishment for being a thief. When the bandits return to Mexico, Rodrguez and his men are massacred by Jackson and the Mexican Army. After killing Nathaniel, Jackson goes looking for Django in a cemetery. However, Django, who has bitten off the triggerguard of his pistol, kills Jackson and his five surviving men by pressing the trigger of his gun against the cross of the grave of a female acquaintance of Djangos whom Jackson had killed and repeatedly dropping the hammer.Sergio Corbucci had originally wanted to cast Mark Damon in the lead role, but Damon experienced a conflict in his scheduling and had to withdraw. Corbucci then turned to a reluctant Franco Nero, who eventually accepted the role. Filming began in December 1965 at the Tor Caldara nature reserve, near Lavinio in Italy, where a specialist set had been constructed for use in Western movies. Despite the winter conditions leaving the set in extremely muddy conditions, Corbucci rejected set designer Giancarlo Simis proposal to clean up the set, as he felt it added to the atmosphere of the film. With no real script in place for filming, Corbucci turned to his brother Bruno to draft out a story over the Christmas period, Bruno Corbucci wro

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