Eurweb's reporter Kam Williams sat down with D'Jango Unchained and he got to describe what it was like to screen the film to a black audience.
Let’s put it like this: We screened it for heavily-black
audiences quite a few times, where the audience was between 40 and 60
percent black. That’s pretty black. We also screened it for a 100
percent black audience, and you would’ve thought it was 1973 and they
were watching the end of Coffy [A blaxploitation era flick starring Pam
Grier]. It’s funny because I was sitting next to [executive producer]
Harvey Weinstein and he turns to me and says, “I guess we know who we
made this movie for.” [LOL] But the film really has a lot of ups and
downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was
balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you
to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the
end. So, as rough as some of the things I show in the movie are, they
couldn’t be so rough that you’re too traumatized to enjoy the movie any
longer.
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