Kanye West has received a lot of media attention lately for his various controversies, with the rapper receiving a lot of backlash for his anti-Semitic comments, as well as being at the center of a $ 250 million lawsuit after making false statements. . about George Floyd. Also, West said earlier this week that he had the idea for Django Unchainedand Quentin Tarantino, the director behind the 2012 film, responded to these claims.
While speaking with Piers Morgan, Kanye West claimed to have pitched a similar premise to what ultimately was Django Unchained while reflecting on the music video for his 2005 song “Gold Digger,” which featured Jamie Foxx, the lead actor in the Tarantino-directed film (who was hired after Will Smith turned down the role). When he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!Tarantino made it clear that he drew himself Django Unchained before meeting West, who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021. As Tarantino explained:
I had the idea for Django for a while before I met Kanye. He wanted to do a giant screen version of College Dropout. The way he made the album. So I wanted the great directors to do several tracks on the album and release it as this giant movie. Nothing raw like videos, they would have been movies. Movies based on each of the different tracks.
Then Kanye West met Quentin Tarantino over a decade and a half ago to see if he was interested in directing a film adaptation of the song “Gold Digger” from his 2004 album. university dropout. However, as Tarantino made clear, it’s not like these two will meet, West has launched the Django Unchained-as an idea from Tarantino, then Tarantino decided to steal the idea for himself. Although the writer / director did not complete the Django Unchained script until 2011, the idea had been floating in his head for a long time, even before West entered his sphere.
Quentin Tarantino then told Jimmy Kimmel what Kanye West had specifically told him about his viewing of the “movie” version of “Gold Digger” when they met, saying:
Kanye and I used it as an excuse to get to know each other. So we met and had a great time. And he had an idea for a video, and I think it was for the “Gold Digger” video, that he would be a slave. And that was the whole slave story, where he’s a slave and he sings “Gold Digger” and it was a lot of fun. It was a very, very fun idea. It had to be ironic. A great musical, like no expense spared with him in this handyman slave costume. […] However, this is what it refers to.
Eventually, Hype Williams, one of Kanye West’s frequent collaborators, not only directed the “Gold Digger” music video, but ended up following a different path. Instead of using slave narrative, the video showed West and Jamie Foxx singing together as several pin-ups appeared, with musical artists Consequence and John Legend also making appearances. The music video was released in the summer of 2005 (followed by its YouTube debut in June 2009), then on December 25, 2012 Django Unchained went public, with main character Jamie Foxx chasing bounties with Christoph Waltz’s Dr. King Schultz and trying to reunite with his wife Hildi, played by Kerry Washington.
Django Unchained proved to be a critical and commercial success, acclaimed in the first category, including winning two Oscars, and was once expected to make a Django/Fox cross film. Quentin Tarantino’s latest film dates back to 2019 once upon a time in hollywood, and while he’s yet to announce what his tenth and final film will be, he’s vowed it won’t be about his own life. As for Kanye West, he recently returned to Instagram with jokes after being kicked out of the Skechers offices.
Source: Cinemablend
