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i was waiting....
The commercial advertising-- "Why don't they just rise up and kill the whites?"...something like that.
Well, that $old it for me.
How Tarantino answers the question & how that scene would unfold, sparked my curiosity to see the film.
"At first you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention."
...That was the million dollar question? I thought, wait, these guys are f*ckin with us (us meaning the general public)... how would you answer?
Candie uses science & medicine to support his subservient claim...."3 dimples"...wtf... Tarantino was smart to give an 1850s answer.
At that point, I felt as though the film didn't give me the answer I was looking for. Candie answers his own question. So I didn’t count his response to be rational. Theatrical but not rational.
I kept thinking, how could they not answer the friggin question?
Marketing Django as a concept within a concept... A black hero killing white villains and why is he the only one? Advertising Django with a question?
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Dr. Schultz, feeling responsible for Django. The “Cleopatra House" & house-slave named "Sheba" (two of the worlds most powerful african women). Plus, Beethoven & Dumas…c’mon, all time classics.
Candie, a slave owner, paying homage to black culture and black contributions, simultaneously, exploiting the very people whose ingenuity, invitations & achievements he holds in the highest regard.
This is Tarantinos most intelligent film. why? the damn question. Django re-defines the term spaghetti western.” I mean, ‘mama mia‘, the pasta is thick.
I'm glad people responded to the violence & n-word controversy/criticism like adults. violence= it's a western. n-word= an unclassified term still in transition.
Black people still attach the "n-word" to slave-history instead of African history... Tarantino could have used a slew of words to describe slaves. I recall hearing the word “pica ninny” which is far more comically-tragic (to me) than ”nigger.”
Do we know the context & how the n-word has been bastardized?
The etymology of the n-word (in it’s various forms & definitions) goes beyond slavery. African dialect has similar sounds & spellings… for example: Negus, Niger, Wah Ben Naga & Senegal are all african words with similar pronunciation to the n-word. Hailesse Sailiei was known as “The Great Negus Nagast” meaning King of kings.”
The n-word derives from the Portuguese meaning "black." However, the african terms for the n-word usually applied to sacred, spiritual and religious beliefs. Ironically, the term “nigger” may have been recognizable to the early-slaves (from their native languages). Hearing a foreign variation of the word may have caused slaves to respond or embrace the term.
but... did the movie give us an answer? maybe!
i would suggest Dr. Schultz answers the million dollar question... when referring to Candie as an....
I think that about summed it up for me.
