The men of Django Unchained, Samuel L. Jackson, director Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, and Christoph Waltz made the GQ 2012 list as the ‘Emancipators of the year.’ why?
According to Jamie Foxx—and despite what you may have heard so far—Quentin Tarantino’s latest genre mash-up, the spaghetti-Western- slash-blaxploitation-saga Django Unchained, is a love story, not a revenge fantasy. Foxx, who plays a freed slave on a violent odyssey through the antebellum South to find his unemancipated wife, lowers his voice to a guttural whisper to imitate Tarantino’s constant reminders of his motivation: “You want your woman!” His partner in the journey is Inglourious Basterds Oscar winner Christoph Waltz—the duo head up a loaded cast that also includes Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Don Johnson as vintage QT villains—and just as he did in Basterds, Waltz brings to the movie a kind of silky Continental braininess. But he may have missed the memo on the love-story bit. “Quentin’s movies are grand cinematic opera,” says Waltz. “Slavery in this case would be the great dilemma, and the great dilemma of the hero is: To avenge or not to avenge?” This is a Tarantino flick, so take a wild guess.
Django Unchained hits theater on December 25.
On Jackson: blazer by John Varvatos, shirt by Dolce & Gabbana, tie by Topman
On Foxx: vest by Vivienne Westwood, shirt by Gucci
On Waltz: suit and vest by Prada, bow tie by Ben Sherman
On Foxx: vest by Vivienne Westwood, shirt by Gucci
On Waltz: suit and vest by Prada, bow tie by Ben Sherman
Credit: GQ.com, Gregory Harris
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