The audience's first introduction to Candieland finds Dr. Schultz, Django, Candie, Candie's lawyer, and a dozen-plus of Candie's slaves happening upon a frightened runaway slave up in a tree as vicious dogs haunt the tree's base, bark and wait to rip the slave limb from limb. It's a pivotal, excruciating scene that finds Schultz disgusted by the horrific display, while Django inhabits the utter darkness of his role-playing in order to sell Candie on his background. Our hero is complicit in the unspeakable brutality against his own people, and all we can do is look on in horror.
