Does 'Django Unchained' Go Too Far With Its Language?

Although “Django Unchained” beat out even heavy-hitting “Les Miserables” at the box office this weekend, not everyone is a fan.

Director Spike Lee has been vocal about expressing his dissatisfaction about the flick, which uses the controversial “n-word” over 100 times.

"American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western.It Was A Holocaust.My Ancestors Are Slaves.Stolen From Africa.I Will Honor Them,” Lee tweeted. He also called the flick "disrespectful to [his] ancestors."

Many stars have come to director Quentin Tarantino’s defense, however. “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua announced, “If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don’t do it publicly…. I don’t think Quentin Tarantino has a racist bone in his body. Besides, I'm good friends with Jamie Foxx and he wouldn't have anything to do with a film that had anything racist to it."

Tarantino hasn’t had much to say in his defense, aside from the pointed, "Well, you know if you're going to make a movie about slavery and are taking a 21st-century viewer and putting them in that time period, you're going to hear some things that are going to be ugly, and you're going see some things that are going be ugly. That's just part and parcel of dealing truthfully with this story, with this environment, with this land."

Star Kerry Washington, who plays the beloved wife of Django in the film, did not seem to think that the liberal use of the slur detracted from the importance of what she took away from it.

 “We were shooting at an actual slave plantation…where my character is whipped. You’re doing it in this alley of trees where you know hundreds of years ago that very same sound was echoing through that alley of oak trees, is tremendously heartbreaking.”

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