 Marc Lamont Hill , a professor at Columbia University , compared the fugitive ex – Los Angeles police officer Christopher <unk> to a real @-@ life Django , saying " It 's almost like watching ' Django Unchained ' in real life . It 's kind of exciting . " Writing in the Los Angeles Times , journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan noted the difference between Tarantino 's Jackie Brown and Django Unchained : " It is an institution whose horrors need no exaggerating , yet Django does exactly that , either to enlighten or entertain . A white director slinging around the n @-@ word in a homage to ' 70s blaxploitation à la Jackie Brown is one thing , but the same director turning the savageness of slavery into pulp fiction is quite another . " 
