Django Unchained
AI Woke Score
Faint messaging, mostly cosmetic.
confidence: high
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The Verdict
A Tarantino revenge Western that depicts the horrors of American slavery in a violent, pulpy package. Its villains are slaveholders and its hero a freed slave, but this serves a genre story rather than pushing identity-messaging or preachy activism. Essentially clean across the woke axes — its heavy subject matter is historically rooted, not ideological.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
5Original characters in an original story; no established characters swapped.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
5Male-driven revenge story; no male-demotion messaging.
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
0No LGBTQ+ content present.
DEI Casting
10Diverse cast fits the antebellum South setting naturally; no anachronistic quota casting.
- Black freed slave protagonist in a pre-Civil War Mississippi setting
Preachiness
35Brutally depicts slavery and racism but folds its themes into a pulpy revenge narrative rather than sermonizing.
- Graphic depictions of slavery's cruelty serve the story rather than lecturing
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
30Depicts the brutality of slavery and white plantation owners as villains, but as historically grounded antagonists in a revenge tale, not as a broad ideological message.
- Calvin Candie and the plantation system as villains
- Django's vengeance against white slavers
Source Betrayal
0Original screenplay with no source material to betray.
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Cast & Crew
Jamie Foxx
Django Freeman
Christoph Waltz
Dr. King Schultz
Leonardo DiCaprio
Calvin J. Candie
Kerry Washington
Broomhilda von Shaft
Samuel L. Jackson
Stephen
Walton Goggins
Billy Crash
Dennis Christopher
Leonide Moguy
James Remar
Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
David Steen
Mr. Stonesipher
Dana Gourrier
Cora
Bob Weinstein (Executive Producer) · Harvey Weinstein (Executive Producer) · James W. Skotchdopole (Executive Producer) · Quentin Tarantino (Writer)
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