And there to help the director achieve peak bloodshed was special effects coordinator John MacLeod. Realizing he needed a way to transition from the charismatic dentist to the soft-spoken gunfighter, Tarantino decided to do what Tarantino does best: write a bloody action scene. The movie is taking a hit by losing them both in the same instance." "You're losing the most dynamic character in the movie-Schultz-and Candie is a close second. "But that created a problem," Raskin told Slant Magazine. According to editor Fred Raskin, Schultz was supposed to kill Candie, and then Django would immediately surrender. But what seems like an obvious scene was actually absent from the original shooting script.
What follows has got to be one of the greatest (and goriest) revenge sequences of all time, with an armed slave going toe-to-toe with a gang of racists. But the Taxi Driver director eventually found a workaround that made everyone happy: he'd simply desaturate the color of the blood, giving it a slightly more watered-down look. "Verging on tears, but leaning toward rage." Things got so intense that Spielberg supposedly had to hold Scorsese's arms in an attempt to calm him down. "I had never seen Marty so upset," explained Steven Spielberg. Needless to say, this didn't sit well with the young director. Just don't put it in your mouth, as it's incredibly poisonous.) And evidently, Smith did his job a little too well on Taxi Driver, as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) threatened to slap the film with an X rating.Īs a result, the studio heads at Columbia allegedly told Scorsese to cut out the final gunfight. (If you're interested in learning Smith's recipe for homemade movie blood, you can actually find it online. All that gore was the handiwork of makeup legend Dick Smith, the same guy who worked his macabre magic on films like The Godfather and The Exorcist. It's a pretty intense scene, made all the more horrifying by the gut-churning blood effects.
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