How Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ Is Inspired By Wagner’s ‘Siegfried’

In fact, Tarantino is said to have been inspired, in part, by a visit to the opera alongside actor Christoph Waltz. The work they saw? “Siegfried.” The opera itself makes an appearance at one point with Waltz’s character Dr. Schultz relating the myth to the protagonist Django. Django is ultimately Siegfried’s surrogate in the opera, growing from a speechless slave, much like the inexperienced and brutish Siegfried of the opera, into a polished hero that slays his own dragon and saves the love of his life. (via)]]>