Django Unchained and the Iliad

It has been six years since Tarantino's film Django Unchained was released. I have watched it many times since then but – and I am ashamed to say – I focused so much on the internal story and its spectacular gore that I kept losing sight of wider issues, such as intertextuality (the internal analogy between Broomhilda and the Nibelungenlied is trivial).…