Why are the LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. workers Australian?
Call me ignorant to history but after another viewing of Django, it made me question how and why, did these Australians get mixed up in pre-civil war era America?
Just going by the geography itself, its a bit of a far stretch as they would have to land essentially in Mexico or California at the time and then traveled across the south to Mississippi to start their company (assuming, of course, it is in Mississippi as that is where the last bit of the movie occurs).
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According to this article Tarantino is a big fan of Australian exploitation cinema and wanted to work with actors from 70s Australian cinema because he thought it would be "cool." The characters were written as indentured servants - the mining company payed their way over from Australia years before and they are working for the mining company to "pay off" their passage. You can find more about how the scene worked before being edited out here.
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Where was the LeQuint Dickey mining company?
operates somewhere in the American South, and is presumed to be located somewhere near Candyland as it was recognized by Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly. According to her, it is notorious for using slaves that would mine there until they die of exhaustion.Is quentin Tarantino Australian in Django?
Tarantino, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a lover of Australian film and, in only his madcap way, decided it would be "cool" to slot in a couple of Aussie characters in Django Unchained, set in America's south in 1859 - two years before the start of the US Civil War.Who was the Australian in Django Unchained?
John Jarratt (born April 4, 1951) is an Australian actor who played one of the LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employees alongside Quentin Tarantino and Michael Parks in Django Unchained.Django Unchained - Road to LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. [1080p]
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