An Analysis Of Django Unchained From The Perspective Of Deconstruction

In2012, a black slave theme film, Django Unchained, was screened in NorthAmerica. Directed by the very talented director, Quentin Tarantino, this film is a perfectcombination of western hero movie and black slave one. It has won the Best OriginalScreenplay and Best Supporting Role and was nominated for several prizes in the85thOscar Award. This film mainly talks about how a black slave—Django who won hisfreedom meets a German bounty hunter and becomes an excellent bounty hunter. Thenwith the help of this German, Django successfully defeats the evil white landowner andother evil people and wins his beloved wife back.In the theory of deconstruction, Derrida suggests the subversion of metaphysics ofpresence, decenterism, differance, trace and the break of logocentrism in westernphilosophy. Deconstruction is series of theory breaking binary oppositions. This thesisis divided into three chapters. Chapter One talks about Django. How he turned from aslave to a bounty hunter and his change from outside freedom to the inside. ChapterTwo aims at discussing his incompatibility with other slaves who have got used to theiridentity as slaveS and the consequence Django’s new identity has brought to him. Henot only broke the opposition of slave and free man, but also reconstructed himselfwhich differs himself from his species. Chapter Three is about the conflict betweenDjango and white people, the center of the southern world. His appearance caused agreat shock and change to the society.Through analyzing this film, the author intends to prove that the hero Django, aslave who has been granted the status as a freeman but is still chained, is the other in thewhite-dominated southern society before the civil war.