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Edition screened: Blue Underground Blu-ray, released 2010. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Edition screened: Blue Underground Blu-ray, released 2010. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Summary: Depicted disregard for the safety of horses.
Details:
1) Several times in the film we see large gun fights with men on horseback as targets, and both man and horse tumble to the ground amid a swirl of other riders. This could be interpreted as a depiction of a horse being shot. However, most of the physical ground in Django is covered in thick slippery mud, and the actual circumstance probably is that the horse is thrown off balance and slips in the mud when the rider lunges to the side pretending to be shot. The depiction, then, could be interpreted either as the horse slipping in the mud, or as both horse and rider being shot in crossfire.
2) Similarly, a scene begins at 1:10:05 in which a gatling gun aimed at a door shoots all who enter. At 1:10:50 a horse runs in front of the gun and falls as though shot. The gun certainly is shooting blanks at the rush of men, and so again, the horse probably slipped in the mud and fell in such a way that a bonus violent suggestion was created coincidentally.
None of these incidents shows any injury to a horse. But the possible interpretation of the horses being shot could cause viewer alarm, and therefore should be noted in this project.