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Quentin Tarantino will likely have hundreds if not thousands tips of the cap to films of old in his upcoming Django Unchained. As one person said to me on Facebook when I posted the trailer yesterday, "I hope there's a coffin with a Gatling gun in it somewhere in the movie. Django and The Good the Bad and the Ugly are my favorite westerns." Well, I haven't read the script so I don't know if Franco Nero's Gatling gun will make the film, but for anyone that saw the trailer Nero is in the film getting a grammar lesson from Jamie Foxx at the tail end of this first trailer. Yet, that isn't the only nod thrown in there as a keen Reddit user noticed the above screen capture in the first trailer for the film. For those that don't recognize the name, Edwin S. Porter was the director of The Great Train Robbery,...

One hundred-plus-years ago, a bandit played by Justus D. Barnes pointed his revolver straight at the camera and fired off six shots sending audiences for the silent Western "The Great Train Robbery" into panic. Since those early years, movies have continued to be just as powerful. A woman collapsed recently at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles during the premiere for the new Danny Boyle film "127 Hours." In the drama, James Franco played mountain climber Aron Ralston who's pushed to the limit in order to free his right hand trapped from a boulder. In the film's harrowing climax, when Ralston cut himself free with a knife and pliers for a chance to survive, audiences insisted they felt Ralston's pain. The same was true for the woman at the Los Angeles premiere. She was taken away by ambulance to a nearby hospital and recovered later that night.

One hundred-plus-years ago, a bandit played by Justus D. Barnes pointed his revolver straight at the camera and fired off six shots sending audiences for the silent Western "The Great Train Robbery" into panic. Since those early years, movies have continued to be just as powerful. A woman collapsed recently at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles during the premiere for the new Danny Boyle film "127 Hours." In the drama, James Franco played mountain climber Aron Ralston who's pushed to the limit in order to free his right hand trapped from a boulder. In the film's harrowing climax, when Ralston cut himself free with a knife and pliers for a chance to survive, audiences insisted they felt Ralston's pain. The same was true for the woman at the Los Angeles premiere. She was taken away by ambulance to a nearby hospital and recovered later that night.