Margarita Ramirez
Dr. Jeff Bohn
English 103
November 3, 2015

The wild wild west holds its name of being so “wild” by being the focal point in which the beginning of american social issues and history occurred. Having been of a time of rapid industrialization and civilization growth, issues that were seen during the decades of western times and films were the strong influence wealth took on, relations with the law and those who enforced it, and divisions of power within american cultures. It is within the roots of western stories that character positions such as the outlaw hero and the official hero were born. In the film Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino (2012), issues of slavery, race, and the differences of power between social classes were the main topics of the motion picture. The setting of the film occurs during the year 1858, a time in where western issues were quickly evolving. Django takes on the role of the protagonist who goes against the social norms of what is expected from a negro man. He joins a german bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz who takes Django under his wing and joins him in efforts of securing the whereabouts of Django's wife, Broomhilda. His biggest obstacle is going against a house slave named Stephen. Stephen consistently tries to get in the the way of Django’s main objective of retrieving his wife, whom was sold as property to Stephen’s owner Calvin Candie. Throughout the film, issues witnessed are battles of what is right and wrong but also who is the last man standing. Although there is a declining interest in films that focus and are stylized with Western themes, there is still plenty to learn from films such as these; that though the prior events occurred in the past their ideals are still alive and well in today's culture. Such as Django’s nature to take on aspects of an outlaw hero, and the conflicting ethics of