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-UENTIN TARANTINO knows the.secret of yuletide
gift giving: Get them something they wouldn't get
thf ~selves. After all, who but Tarantino, the man who
achine-gunned Hitler's face off in his WWII remix
(jfiourious Basterds, would think of laying a hyper-

violent all-star slave-revenge-Western fairy tale like
Django Unchained (rated R) under the tree on Dec. 25?
Like so,many other presents, Django was wrapped just
in time. After seven months of production, additional

reshoots, weather complications, a revolving-door cast
list, a sudden death, and a sprint to the finish in the editing
room, Tarantino has managed to deliver the film for its
festive release date. With that long, dusty trail now behind
, him, the filmmaker slumps beneath a foreign-language
. ' \Pulp Fiction poster in a corner of Do Hwa, the Korean
' l ' l , ~staurant he co-owns in Manhattan's West Village, and
◄ , 1 av mits he's tired. "It's been a long journey, man."
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