Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Most Offensive Moments in Django Unchained #5

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Responses to Django on a Horse

From the moment of the opening scene when Schultz frees Django and provides him a horse, every person - white or black - who sees Django throughout the rest of the film is in utter disbelief of he is seeing. Schultz and Django travel into towns and up to plantation entrances, and every reaction is that of dumbfounded staring. Schultz can't figure out what the issue is, and Django explains, "They ain't never seen a n***** on a horse."

Most Offensive Moments in Django Unchained #4

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1 in 10,000

Many times throughout the film, Candie refers to Django as the "1 in 10,000 n*****." His meaning behind the phrase stems from his atrocious belief in phrenology, and his reasoning of it lies in his fascination of never meeting a black man like Django. Candie (and every white in the movie besides Schultz) cannot wrap his head around the idea that a black man can be of remotely equal standing to a white man, and his repeated exclamation of Django being 1 in 10,000 makes Django the unbelievable exception to the rule.