Django Unchained: How to DESTROY An Ideology - Wisecrack Edition

[@BobPantsSpongeSquare97]

I like how seamlessly Christoph Waltz goes from being the most evil representation of a German in Inglorious Basterds to the idealized good representation in Django, in back to back movies

[@Lebronwski]

Haha that’s what I was thinking, he probably needed redemption after Inglorious Basterds.

[@austinhernandez2716]

I have yet to see inglorious bastards, so seeing him play such a good role in Django, it will feel weird seeing him as the evil antagonist. That's when you know the actor did a damn good job, when you associate the character to the actor. It feels so authentic and genuine that you forget its a fictional character and you can't see the actor as anyone else.

[@jonasflocke477]

@@austinhernandez2716 Give it a watch, when I watched it I felt uncomfortable every time I saw him on screen. Seriously amazing performance

[@vincentgonzales2296]

@@austinhernandez2716 a😅

[@janinemurdock2043]

And now we get to see him being a creep again in The Consultant

[@Y0ungContrarian]

I want to throw out another interesting detail in Django Unchained which I feel was intentional and probably noticed before, even if rarely: Dr Shulz is a DENTIST and the main villain is a man named Calvin CANDY, who by the way has terrible dental hygiene. Schultz refuses the 'white cake' saying that he doesn't go in for sweets. What is candy and cake made out of? Sugar, which was produced largely in the Caribbean by slave labour making many unethical people rich while feeding the masses something sweet. Dr. Shulz refusal is another layer of critique against that bullshit system.

[@milesmagee8852]

bruh

[@kelsstizzle2]

Epic catch

[@danielramsey6141]

Well done!

[@jaysway9251]

Reaching

[@Anthropoid3]

@@jaysway9251 I wouldn't say it's reaching. The dentist vs. Candy angle definitely seems deliberate, and once we recognize this deliberate reference, connecting it to slavery themes makes sense because basically everything in the movie connects to slavery themes.

[@teddybruscie]

That Klan scene nearly killed me how funny it was. Lol "My wife was up all night making these bags and all I here is CRITICIZE CRITICIZE CRITICIZE."

[@williamjenkins7612]

lol right!? "All that matters is if the horse can see!!"

[@madferit1987]

That scene was gold :)

[@kevinperales7899]

Did anybody bring extra bags? Lol

[@nikkimcdonald4562]

Hahaha that scene was awesome 👍👍

[@Borderose]

He may be a racist, but at least he's good to his missus.

[@travissloan5296]

It’s also fitting that Stephen faked being crippled his whole life to stay in the house, then django actually cripples him

[@mnorth1351]

Dude! Nice catch.

[@dogmeat2447]

Wym, he has lumbago

[@CurrentlyAimless]

Poetic justice.

[@MrVic-qu9qh]

I didn't even realize that!

[@richardbenzler346]

He wasn’t crippled for long…

[@smartalec2001]

The clearest refutation of slaves being incapable of logos is Brunhilde's fluency in German. She can speak the same language as Schultz, where no-one else at Candie-land can.

[@slutspanties3143]

smartalec2001 it was said that her earlier masters were German and the mistress taught her so she would have one to talk to

[@ber1779]

wãvê she was able to learn it while candy only goes by monsier but does not actually speak french

[@jordan_roadhouse4798]

It is also a work of fiction.

[@bremensims6086]

No one else at Candie-land can, but the Candyman can.

[@Eikinkloster]

It's interesting that the refutation creates an entirely non representative image of Black people, who in general couldn't care less about Wagnerian themes even today nearly two centuries after the whites slaughtered each other to end slavery. A slavery system inherited from the Africans themselves, who sold their defeated enemies to Europeans who had abolished slavery centuries before. It's a completely fantasious refutation that sounds hollow for that

[@dimitrik7511]

I didn't even realize it was Candy's clothes he was wearing in the end of the film. They look so much better on him than on Candy. What a power move, stealing something like that from your enemy.

[@junkbucket50]

sort of like the film equivalent of teabagging

[@kokumalamoi3421]

Would like this comment but can't destroy a 111. Too beautiful.

[@davidb7208]

I didn't notice it till my 6th viewing and i was surprised i always missed it.

[@tevitamotulalo3909]

Dimitri K not stealing. Appropriating. Just as the Candie family (and the whole slavery institution) has been appropriating human lives for their facade of superiority and culturedness, Da Jango is enslaving that facade and the spirit of Candie for his own purpose, pulling a swipe in the form of a justice move to reappropriate that which was stolen in the first place.

[@ethanunbeaten]

Actually in the beginning of the film when Dr Schulz frees Django, he tells Django to take the coat from the dead slaver, not really related but i think it's an interesting detail

[@michaeljosefjackson]

What about Shulz was a dentist fighting Candy

[@kasane1337]

Dude, that's just...damn.

[@zacktrever1878]

Woke comment of the day

[@LuvzToLol21]

Holy shit

[@AmazingOneTV]

Opened my fucking eyes wow

[@indie-mox7473]

This video was good but this comment is better.

[@awkwardcupcake3395]

God I still get chills thinking about Waltz's portrayal of Shulz. He follows his hero into the very depths of hell to rescue the princess. And all he has to do to walk away alive is shake hands with the devil. And he can't do it. Even knowing it will cost him his life, to look true evil in the eye without destroying it would cost him more. Such a fantastic movie.

[@thedarkgunslinger2869]

Fun fact It was all a trap to catch him with the hidden gun to forfeit the offer and incarcerate all of them

[@toro5280]

It was a poorly written scene, I think. His actions made no sense whatsoever. Killing Candy killed all the progress Schultz and Django made saving HIldy. Even after their play was exposed Candy was still willing to part with her for the right price, instead of kicking them out and keeping her. Why was Schultz even so mad? That "extraction" was a very successful operation, and even from a business point o f view both parties became what they wanted - Django and Schultz never cared for that fighter and they would have paid any price for Hildy, while Candy got a ton of cash for a slave that cost 10 times less. Schultz, because of his ego, condemned Django to torture and death and Hildy to being a slave again. We only have a happy end because those three slavers were willing to listen to Django.

[@dasonbane2839]

@NotLDaz the spelling is fine it's the grammar that isn't

[@danktempsey6110]

@@toro5280 No it's not actually it is really a great scene which showcases that every character is not perfect For the whole movie you see King always having the upper hand against his enemies in every situation and he takes great pride in that Until that last scene where he gets outsmarted by Candie and his goons You could sense the irritation of King in whole scene, this guy remained cool and calm but just as the tables turn his pride takes a hit and ofcourse shaking hands with Candie would also cleave a huge chunk of his soul This is also buttressed by the dialogue Candie:- I think you're a bad loser King:- And I think you're an abysmal winner

[@toro5280]

@@danktempsey6110 That's all true, but it doesn't change the fact that he screwed the whole plan and basically doomed Django and his wife. He is free to commit suicide by Candy if that's his thing, but Django never signed up for this. He signed up for having his wife back - and despite havinhg helped Schultz for months in return, thus delivering in full on his end of the deal, the last act Schultz ever did saw Django chained (the irony) and his wife enslaved again.

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

"When a German meets a real live Siegfried that's kind of a big deal" love it

[@JoshSweetvale]

And then he knowingly did an Obi-Wan Kenobi at Candyland.

[@UltimateVegetto]

There's SO MUCH GOING ON in this movie. Just today noticed the very, very last thing happening in the movie is Hildi taking a gun into her hands as well as they ride away from Candyland's ruins. As if Django's empowerment started to have a rippling effect.

[@robertmurray7279]

In Django2 Tarantino will make sure to give her 1/2 the lines she had in this one and extra choking close ups to correct the mistake

[@pseudonymousbeing987]

@@robertmurray7279 U wat nigga?

[@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS]

@@robertmurray7279 Originally Hateful Eight started as a novel sequel to Django called. DJango into the white winter...or something like that I believe.

[@JoshSweetvale]

I don't know if it's deliberate, but the outro music is very 20th century swing. And then Django makes a Trollface.jpg It's not like Django's gonna live past the 1900s, but there is this little arc of connection, a little divine grace that lets Django touch the promised land for just an instant...

[@atticus7166]

I like to think that Django and Hildi end up starting a gang of slaves they freed and abolitionists.

[@BossStar]

"I like the the way you video essay boy.." *Django voice*

[@tellmesomething2412]

Nice.

[@danielhughes8593]

I like the way you comment boy

[@dalmir5212]

Daniel Hughes I like the way you reply boy

[@grimaffiliations3671]

Dalmir I like the way you reply to replies boy

[@gladmad1336]

Oh God, I read that in Arthur Morgan’s voice ”I like teh way ya video essay boah..”

[@airestesshistory8100]

Whether it’s Django Unchained or Inglorious Basterds, there is a theme in Tarantino’s films, Germans (namely Waltz) humiliating Americans trying to speak European languages.

[@wattsnottaken1]

AirEstes’s History Hans Landa: “could u say it one more time?” Aldo: “GOR- Lami”

[@darkslayer2739]

They call it Le Big Mac

[@maonyksmohc9574]

americans also speak a european language when they speak english

[@reimourrpower9357]

This is a device of paradox. Multi-lingual Landa is still a sociopathic murderer who is enthralled with American language & dialect ("a Bingo!") and wants to be 'captured' and brought to the USA seeing the Allies are winning. Django, former African slave now bounty hunter as trained by Schultz, must now school Schultz in how they must "intrigue" Candie and the white slavers & henchmen because the super-educated Dr. Schultz still does not fully understand the politics of southern class, customs and mores. Django teaches Schultz as Aldo teaches Landa by the end.

[@w0ttheh3ll]

While playing germans in both films, Waltz is austrian.

[@Heinrich2awsome]

I liked the part where Django said "Auf Widersehen" to the corpse of Schulz.

[@diazkohen2149]

I like the whole dialog between Big Daddy & his team

[@ryanbarrie9143]

"Auf Weidersehen" traditionally means til i see you again, That got me

[@gooberstein4166]

that part always makes my heart tug a little 😥

[@batmandavidrojas]

Auf Wiedersehen

[@ryanbarrie9143]

@@batmandavidrojas thank you, will now edit comment

[@abbakarenina]

One of my favourite moments is when Schultz toasts to Candy in German (“Prost”) and Candy replies by muttering the word “German” 😂 cracks me up every time

[@nicholas_ayres]

I like when he says "Wonder Bar" instead of wunderbar

[@KRIGBERT]

@Dr. M. H. WÜNDËRBÄR!

[@Icetea-2000]

Dr. M. H. There is no Umlaut in wunderbar

[@sashimi879]

@Dr. M. H. wunder, pal.

[@Icetea-2000]

Dr. M. H. Because it’s annoying, and even if you made a joke, it’s just painfully unfunny

[@lordbane729]

Django WAS NOT dressed like one of the 3 Musketeers. Ha was dressed like a character from a painting by Thomas Gainsborough, "The Blue Boy".

[@TheWinjin]

Oh dear, I forgot about that painting. Quite a stab at WASP establishment, innit?

[@consuelom6691]

LordBane Correctamundo! De facto proof of your cultural literacy.

[@silverdropstudios7323]

I thought it was Austin Powers

[@dr.lyleevans6915]

Winjin Intentional subversion

[@michaeldavidmontalvo2402]

@@silverdropstudios7323 hahaha

[@sillythygoose]

I looked up Christop Waltz and it’s hard to believe how little he has actually been in considering how good of an actor he is

[@CherryBomb_Games]

Hollywood is full of bullshit bureaucracy.

[@Venusflytrapssss]

Quality over quantity

[@mr.lonewolf8199]

One of my favourite actor out there

[@konnorrockkonnoisseur4970]

@@Venusflytrapssss kinda like Tarantino’s filmography

[@okuyasuniijimura]

Well and he's austrian so it's not without reason

[@rabenvater2455]

You did not get the whole point of the Beethoven-scene. Beethoven is the first free artist. He is literally a symbol for freedom in art. So Dr. Schultz can't stand the violation of this symbol.

[@poliestotico]

Raben Vater first free artist meaning what?

[@benatalbizbeaskoetxea479]

@@poliestotico Musicians used to be under the wing of a nobleman, who paid them to always have them at their service. Beethoven was one of the first composers to break this situation and become sort of a "freelance" composer.

[@NPC1921]

I think the video's point is still relevant and the spirit still stands, if not the letter.

[@lubu2960]

@@benatalbizbeaskoetxea479 TIL

[@majorleaguelag]

I always thought the scene reflected how Schultz couldn’t stand the German “fur Elise” being played for slave owners (as he also recalls the flashbacks of the slave and the dogs)

[@hester234]

Django Unchained was always my favorite Tarantino movie, followed by Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds. Waltz is as convincing playing Dr. Schultz as he is playing Hans Landa. His two Oscars are well deserved. (Leo should have got his Oscar for Candy, too, not for the Revenant.)

[@TheWinjin]

Afair, he didn't get one because he was a straight-up a-hole before that, and he reformed, apologised, and so he immediately got the Oscar. It wasn't for that one, it was well deserved by that point.

[@alexandersong5753]

@@TheWinjin being an a-hole has nothing to do with acting skills/winning an oscar

[@thefilmeffect6089]

It's been my favorite Tarantino movie for years and my favorite film of the 2010s. I also love that Tarantino gave us a modern western epic and it will probably be the last for a long time. I also love The Hateful Eight, but it's a completely different style. This was the best decade of Tarantino films IMO and really shows his growth as a filmmaker. My Tarantino Top 5: 1. Django Unchained 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Inglourious Basterds 4. The Hateful Eight 5. Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood

[@thefilmeffect6089]

@@alexandersong5753 ...yes it does because the Academy Awards are all about politics, timing, and the campaign a studio puts on for a film/actor to win.

[@JoeMama-dt4jg]

@@TheWinjin brooo, my thoughts exactly (about leo deserving an oscar for Django)

[@troyevitt2437]

Schultz finding out Django's wife's name was Brunhilde led him to tel Django of the Viking mythos of Siegfried, Odin and the Valkyrie, his wife's namesake. By telling Django he can be Siegfried in real life, he's undermining Adolf Hitler's lionized composer, Wagner, and the pre-Nazi racialism and that during the timeline of Wagner's life and career, the years leading up to the USA's civil war.

[@JoshSweetvale]

He's also making very clear that Django is the hero of the movie and he (Schultz) is a teacher. He's basically Obi-Wan Kenobi.

[@greenchilaquiles]

I seriously doubt Tarantino thought this through like you're doing.

[@troyevitt2437]

@@greenchilaquiles Oh, but Tarantino did, I just happened to notice it in real time and a couple years latter had my theory confirmed watching Christoph Waltz being interviewed in a "making of" documentary. Dr. Shulltz hated the antisemitic white supremacists bastardizations of his native Germany which is why he told a black man he could be the Germanic hero, "Siegfried", and why he told Miss Laura to stop playing Beethoven on the harp. (Pasted from Facebook where a friend talked Germany and paganism): Late 19th Century Germany had both a "liberal progressive" neo-paganism movement and an antisemitic wing of white supremacist paganism such as Theosophy. The liberal end lead to much of the interest we see today in the Thor/Odin-myths in Scandiavian Metal as well as nudist beaches/camps and the body-building movement. The "right-wing" lead to Fascism and it borrowed the physical fitness aspect from the liberals. This is also when OUIJA Boards and seances became popular. The communist revolutions and the American Civil War left a lot of grieving loved ones who wanted to believe psychics could put them in touch the deceased. Waltz himself is an Austrian-born, German-educated fellow and rather dislikes sharing both his native and "foster" countries with a certain little lunatic with an iconic mustache. That's why he loved the role he played in "Inglorious Basterds" as well.

[@Vasses935]

y tho Tarantino was the dude who broke down Top Gun’s gay undertones through sheer symbolism. Tarantino loves being very deliberate with his symbolism as he knows its the best way to keep people engaged trying to figure everything out.

[@asspills]

@@greenchilaquiles ppl like this dude think nothing is ever done purposefully, just because they don't (can't) engage with anything except on an extremely shallow level. It's beyond them, so they convince themselves it's beyond the artist too.

[@TheAlgerietop]

When the aussi tells django "you're allright for a black fella". A phrase still used today by people not realising the utter racism.

[@roninkraut6873]

The reverse is also true, “your all right for a white guy”

[@rocketgeek96]

@@roninkraut6873 Not to be confused with the sarcastic response to "And all the girlies say I'm pretty fly," with "For a white guy!"

[@roninkraut6873]

@@rocketgeek96 Exactly. I guess racism only goes one way. I guess no ones done the math to realize whites are a minority in the world. Identity politics is toxic and a truly sad way to view the world

[@roninkraut6873]

@ashy Every time I point this out I get this response from people like you. That’s the point, dumbass. Human beings can be a ruthless species. Trying to manufacture fake oppression isn’t helpful, especially when REAL issues actually exist. We’ve dealt with equality in laws and it’s over. It’s a never ending loop because there is money/power in division. We should be focusing on the actual issues to our species

[@toro5280]

@ashy I come from a country that was enslaved for 500 years by the Ottoman empire. This ended in 1878, a bit later than slavery in the US. I bet you didn't know or care, which is understandable because apparently white people can't be victims. Ironically a black person in the US has the chance of becoming the leader of the free world, a president of the greatest country, something a white european coud never become ;)

[@ukflifestyle]

Hearing the actual breakdown of the symbolic overtones made me love the movie even more. Thanks WiseCrack

[@totallynotjeff7748]

There are so many layers to the movie, it's great!

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

When they make an enjoyable movie with tangible and subversive commentary and it's just right.

[@menotyu9576]

until you realize, much like Tarantinos other films, they only sound intelligent but when scrutinized by reality fall under Travolta's description of Hollywood "moronic stringing together of words", making Tarantino similar in that way to the antagonists in his films, appearing intelligent only to the uneducated.

[@ukflifestyle]

@@menotyu9576 until you realize that all humans are walking contradictions... what about actually debunking instead of stating an opinion. Thanks for your energy even tho it didnt even attempt at making a real point. Tarintino uses parady, satire, and exaggerations to make points like comedians. All schools of thought should be challeneged but sorry you only want to see things from your " realistic" point of view .. everyone knows his movies are fictional anyway and you're trying to compare it to some type of truth when truth on these things are subjective anyway. If you dont like it thats good for you .. just stick with reading Nietzsche and Darwin if you hate fiction so much. Sorry you cant find enjoyment in someone being shot with a gun and exploding just because it just doesnt make sense. Try Socrates he would have delight in schooling you about how much you think you know that you dont know. 🤔. Good luck trying to make sense of any art that comes from a unboxed human mind. Your statement looks like a stringing together of words to sound intelligent while not providing any enlightenment about what you criticize. Insults without providing a argument is a good reflection of someone trying to smash words together to sound intelligent while not expressing intelligence. Again i thank you for your opinion but i would prefer a debate if you felt the need to criticize people for liking a art form you clearly cant comprehend.

[@Stylesinner]

Me too, Benoit!

[@Jonas-xl4wg]

This movie is so re-watchable!

[@afrosymphony8207]

VERY VERY

[@arkinyte13]

Love him or hat him Tarantino is a master of dialogue.

[@andriipalchik]

This movie is unwatchable!

[@skinheadtylerdurden9290]

Yes it is Bowlther Tyrone

[@The_officialDrengr]

You're telling me I've watched it so many times! It is genuinely one of if not my favourite film.

[@IncoherentRampage]

I also really enjoyed the camaraderie between Django and Schultz. It served as a sort of ideal relationship between people of different nationalities and ethnicities to contrast even sharper against the environment of the South during slavery.

[@xavierthevoid]

Oddly enough...before Arab Spring kicked off I got along with most Europeans

[@theslasher89]

@@xavierthevoid Why did that change afterwards?

[@THE_BIGGEST_HATER]

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[@DarkAngelEU]

@@theslasher89 The Arab Spring created a power vacuum that's mainly been filled by conservatives, ie Islamitists, fundamentalists and nationalists. It's a bit like when Iran had its staged revolution and suddenly threw itself back to the middle ages.

[@arsalan2231]

@@DarkAngelEU eh, been there a few years ago. not all that bad, iran's got a bad reputation but i mean, compared to its neighbors, iran's the MVP in the region. If you just mind your own business and not get involved in politics, you can lead a pretty decent life. But then again, i've been there only whilst my father worked a consultancy case for a year there, so i guess you could say I'm not the most reputable source, but still though, "back to the middle ages" is a bit of a stretch. They're by no means the same as isis-ridden syria or war torn iraq and afghanistan.

[@8Mev]

How to destroy an ideology: 1) Shared values: Scrape the surface of civilisation and expose the ignorance and backwardness 2) Disidentification: complicate the direct association between symbols and users and make it meaningless 3) Act out:. Be patient and smart. Play the difficult role till you get your opportunity

[@christianhigares7086]

Does this actually work?

[@oceanberserker]

@@christianhigares7086 He missed (4. Like the title said: burn it to the ground.

[@QUITUTINCIPICTURES]

First time I got the Beethoven scene

[@adibbehroozitv6447]

QUITUTINCI TV same here now it all makes sense

[@cpeithman999]

That scene always broke my heart. Kubrick showed nicely that if you need the perfect antithesis to Selfish Brutality, Ludwig Van is a good go-to guy. Kubrick indicts the individual, but Tarantino uses the juxtaposition to show the divide between the best and the worst of Western Civilization. But, I think using a Cultural Classic as a critique continues the image of north and south american slavery as a Cultural Institution instead of an Economic Institution. Slavery was a method by which unprofitable industries became profitable by reducing labor costs to zero.

[@watcher8582]

It's just an interpretation, though.

[@LoganLS0]

@@cpeithman999 But it was only possible as an economic institution because it was so deeply ingrained as a cultural institution.

[@pavliksin123]

Nah, I'm pretty sure that was just Tarantino being Tarantino

[@MrUndersolo]

A sharper critique than “12 Years a Slave” to me... - a black Canadian who watched this film multiple times

[@kirathekillernote2173]

12 years a slave didn't crticise as much as it forced you to look at horrors that were there. It's protagonist hardly had any agency or a position to make decisions. It was more of a slave's memoir than critique or dismantling of system. But I get your point. Django Unchained did a better job at showing complete picture while giving a very entertaining movie, but stupid people made a fuss about it and here we are

[@cgmason7568]

Because 12 years a slave is based on a real story

[@Pantano63]

shut up

[@FrankCastle-tq9bz]

Personally, I prefer the 2016 version of "Birth of a Nation" - the story of the Nat Turner revolt really shows how even the most gentile of slave owners still considered their slaves to be mere pieces of property at the end of the day and how this prompted backlash from the slaves as they sought to assert their own sovereignty. It turned the narrative of the 1915 silent film on its head: instead of the film showing the perspective of terrified Caucasians that dread the revenge of the former slaves, this version depicts all the cruelties and neglect for their needs and desires that led to the rampage of vengeance - pointing out that this would have never happened if slavery was never an accepted institution in the first place...

[@elisabethschmerzler963]

Frank Castle I think all three are good portrayals but I have to agree that Birth of a Nation is an excellent film both for its storytelling in script and scene. Shame that most people don’t even know the movie exists

[@heartjakehotel9955]

I have ads on so I just heard the sentences “It’s worth mentioning how the Christian bible, the book meant to signify proper European religion, was used to justify slavery.” and “Lets play RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS” said back to back.

[@GippyHappy]

The beauty of the internet

[@Joetino]

I got a Butterfinger ad

[@superraegun2649]

The part that I find really disturbing is when the comfort girl in the mandingo bar flirts with Candi. He sees her as less than human and as property and yet she flirts with him. I'm assuming she's just playing a role but that's really disturbing.

[@generaljackripper666]

In any system there are means by which to move ahead of one's station.

[@JM-gd3hr]

Even today some dudes see girls and women as less than human yet mutual flirting occurs.

[@reptilesceptile1035]

@@JM-gd3hr and of course the opposite is also true

[@bubbybets9336]

@@reptilesceptile1035 no. the opposite doesnt occur

[@reptilesceptile1035]

@@bubbybets9336 ofc it does lmaoo

[@AnotherLifeish]

Panache is a french word, just for future reference. Another jab at Candy's apparent fluency in French language & culture

[@Odinsday]

lol I never realized how many jabs Schultz made to Candy.

[@jeremybrown9611]

Threw all kinds of shade at him

[@matthewmudgett7413]

that and parley (different character gets confused by parley but still) are technically loanwords from french, you can find them both in english dictionaries. You could totally interpret his use of the word as a sly jab at candy, but I think given his reaction in the scene, that wasn't his intent.

[@kategrant2728]

@@matthewmudgett7413 Even if Schultz didn't intend, I think Tarantino did.

[@francoiscoupal7057]

@@kategrant2728 COnsidering Schultz character, I think he quickly realized that Candy had an extremely tenuous grip on French and milked it's potential jabs for all their worth.

[@DanYeLL2003]

I just love Tarantino’s movies, they’re just on another level. It’s going to be a sad day when he stops making them...😔

[@ulisesmontoya9366]

And that day has come...

[@BosSupes]

@@ulisesmontoya9366 Not yet. Still Star Trek and his 10th official movie left to go

[@qtbrown11]

Danielle Martinos thanks.

[@martinpfefferle2558]

Brothel workers? Do you mean ladies of negotiable affection?

[@MrUndersolo]

Overeager beaver greeters?

[@LeMeilleurr]

Martin Pfefferle nigga them is hoes

[@Blitz-xo4oj]

Red Star u don’t say

[@Drewzdev]

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[@basstedson]

What do we want? freedom, justice and reasonably priced love.

[@laotasurfs1110]

"IT'D BE NICE T'SEE" Anyways, I can't be the only one to assume Stephan and Candy were shadows of Django and Schultz, parts of themselves (or their lot) they had to overcome, which is why Candy -- despite being the one who bought Broomhilda -- wasn't Django's main antagonist and ended up being killed by Schultz.

[@asspills]

Great observation!! Candy was very much Schultz villain, which is why the final act is about Django fighting back to face his own personal villain, Stephen. Both of them now left without their partner/mentor, and each managing this turn of circumstance in very different ways.

[@mnorth1351]

Wow, that's a great way to look at it!

[@alandeutsch9987]

HOLY SHIT. HOLY SHITTTT. this this this this this. that's actually genius. shultz and django both killed the evil, artificial, hypocrtical, irrational versions of themselves

[@Crafterman535]

Steven is as close as it gets to a live action Uncle Rukus and it’s an amazing performance

[@carldrogo9492]

Candance Owens already exists...that's as Uncle Ruckus as it gets.

[@thecraplordsell4575]

@@carldrogo9492 She’s a loudmouth idiot but she’s no uncle ruckus for she still have love for her people regardless.

[@bigchungus8287]

@@carldrogo9492 bruh why you got to drag politics into this, this is a video about Django and movies

[@dogperson1210]

Candace Owens is nowhere near ruckus

[@cornfield3034]

@@dogperson1210no, she’s much worse

[@RamnaViaz]

Also I noticed in the film how candy demands to be called monsieur even though he doesn't understand French but the slave girl who opens the door to django and Schultz at the beginning of that scene seems to be able to speak it perfectly since she says bonsoir, and then she understands and thanks Schultz when he speaks french to her as she opens the door, merely seconds before revealing that the plantation owner and master of all these slaves demands the title of monsieur for himself but doesn't speak french we see one of his slaves understanding that language perfectly, and the whole wonder-bar thing is hilarious hahaha brumhilde speaks perfect german but candy can only muster a mispronounced and mediocre attempt at a german word.

[@nathanseper8738]

Very brilliant observation. It shows how utterly idiotic slavery and its supporters were, as their justifications were completely hollow.

[@woooweee]

​@Jay Barker That would be the only explanation because otherwise the owner would have had to have taught her the language. That being said this film was nothing but caricature on the level of "orange man bad" level simplistic thinking. Its amusing to watch the Hollywood liberal indulge in the idea that the southerner was dumb, but this is nothing new, its so old and so cliched that it undermines the entire premise of this youtube video. Its a retread of the old and tiresome white liberal savior narrative, of guilt and self proclaimed virtue. Go watch some of Alternative Hypothesis's videos on the south and slavery for a different perspective. The false historical narrative pushed in this film is simply insulting. The genetics speak for themselves, owners rarely bred with their slaves beyond the notable exceptions, else black people would be obviously far whiter than they are now. They were expensive to own, and frankly in the end inefficient and detrimental to the economy reliant on them as they undermined labor competition, much as illegals do today. Which is funny because the very people who are so quick to point out slavery as idiotic are staunch supporters of the modern form, mass importing poverty for capitalist exploitation. Tarentino lost his touch long ago, Django is just another bad piece of propaganda, like so many films today, only praised because it fit an agenda.

[@j0hn00arthur]

@@woooweee youre so full of yourself that its amazing you got even two likes for this pretentious self praising toxic text

[@Pluto-og5nh]

jon hes not wrong

[@francoiscoupal7057]

@@Pluto-og5nh But he is very far from right either. False Dichotomy here. Let's say about 10% right and 90% wrong, because of extreme personal biases.

[@FIFODavid]

I love this movie. Another thing I love about it is the parallels between Schultz and Django, and Candie and Stephen. They are essentially the same pair just with different morals, one seen as good and the other as bad. I also love the idea of Dr. Schultz being a dentist being paired with a man with the name of Candie with bad teeth.

[@worrywirt]

Oh my godddd I’m such an idiot!!! I never realised WHY he was called Candy 😱 dude, thx for opening my eyes

[@GippyHappy]

I feel like you had a way different interpretation of Stephen than I did. I just keep thinking of how Django said "that's nothing worse than a black slaver" (or something similar) Stephen essentially was making himself a black slaver by the way he treated the other slaves and acted like he was just as important as his master. Besides that it didn't seem like he was only acting to gain power because he genuinely mourns Calvin when he dies and yells at about how great candyland is while Django makes his exit.

[@SirBlackReeds]

He's even more important given that he runs Candyland. He even forges Monsieur Candie's signature.

[@asspills]

He's indoctrinated, fully and completely. While he still hides his true self and plays a role, manipulating the system/society for his own benefit, he's also absorbed it and its values and twisted logic. He couldn't live comfortably in his comfortable house position, if he didn't believe the same vile beliefs and justifications as the other slavers. So he is genuinely a black slaver, in deeds and in belief. There's a direct term for this, as it was a common phenomena, called an "Uncle Tom". Stephen is the embodiment of it. But, it's still crucial to keep in mind that this was only because he had been forced into a horrific position where he had to be. Victims often conform themselves into their abusers to seek reprieve.

[@johnnyferalcat896]

Well there was black slave owners in that time, in fact hell, the whole reason America had slaves was because of black warlords in Africa

[@carmen_says_hi]

@@johnnyferalcat896 And Americans were willing and eager to buy them.

[@Echidna23Gaming]

@@carmen_says_hi The whole world was. Almost all of the slaves imported to the Americas during slave times went to just Brazil alone since they basically just worked their slaves to death and replaced them continuously. Just like the Barbary pirates sold and used millions of enslaved Europeans during the same time. Shits fucked and still happens all over the world today. We're just damn lucky enough that we were born or live in the sliver of time and in the particular places where it's no longer a thing.

[@seamusscullion1596]

Wow the new red dead update looks sick

[@daniellove162]

I would live to see tarantino direct a RDR2 Django pack, covering the time they were raising money in the west.

[@seamusscullion1596]

Daniel Love Same how cool would that be

[@gorestfump8935]

Another prequel. We are now playing as Lenny's dad.

[@bipedleek241]

Seamus scullion imagine if Django met Lenny

[@DonLonzo]

"How Leo didn't win a Oscar?" The real question is how wasn't Jamie even nominated? 😒

[@generaljackripper666]

His entire performance is stereotypical?

[@redflame300]

@@generaljackripper666 nope not the reason

[@ftniceberg874]

Strange...all of p3d0wood is full of woke libtard leftoids...THEY are the ones who select winners of Oscars. I doubt OP is smart enough to know that since most leftoids have 70 IQ.

[@TheAtmosfear7]

@@redflame300 Oh please. Of all the institutions in the USA, Hollywood is by far the most progressive and woke of them all. You cannot act like the liberal sycophants that gave Black Panther an Oscar out of all films are racist lmao

[@gandalfandchill549]

Seriously, it wasn't until the second time I watched it that I realized how insanely good his performance was. The transition from slave to bounty hunter to playing the roll of a black slaver to his final form of vengeance is just mind-blowing. It's not until you get into the characters head that you fall completely in love with the character.

[@yosoyflips]

I love that they called Schultz out for basically owning Django at the beginning. The best characters in fiction are rarely ones without flaws or faults, even the 'good guys'.

[@jeremybrown9611]

@Young Man right he was the only real White dude that called a Spade a Spade

[@mirosawirzyk5247]

Okay I'm European and I see a German person who is portrayed as a educated noble person - for me it is a mockery, since the XIX century this nation main and only aim of existence is to subjugate neighboring nation with force or now economiclly...

[@agonleed3841]

@@mirosawirzyk5247 well that sucks for you

[@BlackuKnighto]

@@mirosawirzyk5247 Is the only reason as to why you chose to write the number 19 as XIX to sound smart? That would be interesting considering your grammar. Besides that, didn't you pick the wrong century? 19th century does not mean from 1900 onward. The 19th century is a terrible example to pick for your point. Do you even know anything about pre first world war Germany?

[@nachomartinez4758]

@@BlackuKnighto I'm just here to say that in other languages, centuries are always written in roman numerals. So that's not an attempt to sound smart at all. The grammar mistakes are also explained by the fact that English is not his first language. Native English speakers tend to forget that other languages exist, which is exasperating. About picking the wroong century, I kind of agree. But the time shown in the movie is close in time to the Franco-Prussian war, so he's not totally incorrect either.

[@idrisnewton4552]

one of of the greatest love stories i've ever seen. that man was dedicated and willing to die for the love loyalty and commitment that he made to his wife.

[@sith1986]

also, mobsters and gangs dressing nicely in suits in an effort to show civility when they are anything but... of course you could also look at the rich politicians dressing nicely as the same.

[@SirBlackReeds]

Not all rich politicians are bad, sheesh. As for gangs, it depends which ones you're talking about. When's the last time you have ever seen a Blood or Crip dressed in a suit?

[@Murmurrr]

@@SirBlackReeds he didn’t say all. Why are you trying to defend politicians so much?

[@chrisleebowers]

TV Preachers and those mega-church guys

[@murk4552]

@@SirBlackReeds yeah they are, they never do anything they claim to fix in their worthless, rhetorical platitudes of endless excuses.

[@murk4552]

@@SirBlackReeds also Bloods and Crips who become high level dealers dress flashier all the time.

[@jonanjello]

17:03 - damn, I never noticed Steven was acting his limp. Insightful!

[@chrisleebowers]

Yeah, that's a big reveal. His patois goes away too, he was capable of "logos" the whole time and hiding it from the White People. It's an awesome moment, because the illusion of weakness was his power, it is only when he is defeated do we see how strong smart and capable he really was the whole time

[@zionsutherland6312]

I can't see, you can't see, ALL THAT MATTERS IS CAN THE FUCKIN HORSE SEE!! lol

[@franciscohcoronado4947]

That's a RAID!!

[@vinodkumarPrajapativnd]

So it will be nice to see.

[@SynchronizorVideos]

I always point out this movie when someone says that Blazing Saddles could never be made today.

[@reimourrpower9357]

Did you notice the direct Mel Brooks references? . . . ... the horses rearing their heads at Big Daddy's ("Fritz!...) and in Young Frankenstein when they say "Frankenstein!" the horse rear up. And when Candie's sister is going from room to room ("speak some German!...) is the same as Cloris Leachman walking with the candlabra in in the castle ("would you like some milk?). Also Blazing Saddles' Headley Lamar's suit & waistcoat gear & attitude very clearly influenced Calvin Candie with suit, waistcoat, wild behavior and creepily implied attraction to his "SISTER! Darling you are a sight for sore eyes..". Plus of course Django & Schultz playing out the Bagheads into the trap was same as the townies in Blazing Saddles playing out the KKK by luring them into town ("where da white women at?!").

[@comradesam3382]

This is what ,2012 film? 8 years is a long time

[@tonystark8757]

Funny, I've heard a lot of people say that Django would never be made today.

[@SynchronizorVideos]

@@comradesam3382 8 years is a whole lot less than 46, and 2012 is plenty recent enough to still be "PC Hollywood". Besides, people have been saying "Blazing Saddles could never be made today" since at least the '90s, probably earlier. Hell, they told Mel Brooks he couldn't make Blazing Saddles back in the '70s during its production.

[@SirBlackReeds]

Bear in mind that getting both Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson in the same movie is like two big N-word passes in one.

[@Shuyin781]

Calvin Candy: an internet man of culture Dr.Schulz: an actual man of culture

[@cabnbeeschurgr]

Django actually looks way more fly in Calvin's clothes than Calvin did

[@tkddude16]

To add to Mr.Candy and his lack of knowledge of the German language, when Schults and Candy toast, schults says "prost" meaning cheers in German, while Candy just responds with "German" and says it a bit quickly and under his breath a bit, not wanting to show how he is not on the same level as Schults.

[@samhugh08]

Wooowww. ONE MINUTE in and he already called Django the fastest in the West. He’s the fastest gun in the South. Reported.

[@JacksonDavis]

That's what I was thinking but I believe he was in the west at the start?

[@jackstoutamore8541]

Jackson Davis Nope! The movie starts in Texas and moves East

[@moremoor8295]

Slight "correction" to Wagner: He was a raging anti-semite himself. Whether he would have approved of the Nazis idolisation of his music is unclear, but he would most likely have been a good friend and ally to them.

[@bebeenderson7863]

The way Hilde faints tho when she sees her man is iconic

[@IbrahiemLegoFilms]

Christoph Waltz man, one of the best actors of all time. Edit: Holy crap guys, 88 likes, Ive never had that many likes in my damn life..

[@Gothead420]

Definitely. Many german actors, btw.

[@IbrahiemLegoFilms]

@@Gothead420 Im a german national, and I have to say sadly not..most german forms of media are just unbelievably bad and stupid..in my opinion at least..

[@deadpilled2942]

He was such a great villain in Inglorious Bastards that I don't think he should've played a villain in Spector bc he will never top it.

[@deadpilled2942]

@@IbrahiemLegoFilms well you have us, sir. American stuff isn't always perfect, but we manage to create alot of interesting films and tv.

[@Gothead420]

@@IbrahiemLegoFilms I meant the internationally known ones...but not Till Schweiger. Hes not an actor. Hes an idiot, playing himself.

[@Space_Toasty]

It's also the best spaghetti western you've ever laid philosophy on

[@gwoncom1679]

The movie takes place before the premiere of Wagner's "Götterdämmerung", Schulz is referring to the original Nibelungenlied, which Wagner's opera is based on.

[@XBullitt16X]

Loved Django, an amazing movie, still remember it so well even though I have only seen it once. Leo, was an amazing villain in the movie, it was outstanding performance.

[@kenmina-hs1wb]

This channel inspired me to connect philosophy with films. Now watching movies is a completely different experience

[@Choshako]

It's a much better experience for it, right? I can't imagine watching a movie or any media piece just for empty consumption anymore. A movie/show/etc without a deeper meaning behind it besides entertainment is just a waste of time.

[@geraltrivia9565]

I disagree, Stephen was not simply playing the cards he was dealt. He was extremely intelligent and understood the system extremely well that he profited from it. He enjoyed punishing slaves and was pretty much in charge of Candyland. Someone like that could start an uprising or make a silent escape for himself but he enjoyed exerting his authority around the other slaves as much as Candy. He even cried when Candy died, he might be even worse than Candy due to him having first hand experience to the pain of being a slave yet participating in their oppression

[@thies-hinrich8448]

As it was said in the video, he went up the system as much as possible. He had to accept it deeply to gain from it, but he was still a slave.

[@geraltrivia9565]

@@thies-hinrich8448 but he didn’t. He clearly enjoyed ordering slaves around

[@thies-hinrich8448]

@@geraltrivia9565 serious meant question: How do you imagine him uprirsing or escaping?

[@geraltrivia9565]

@@thies-hinrich8448 conspiring with the other slaves, killing all the whites. You do know slaves revolts actually happened and some were successful in that the slaves escaped right? My point is that Stephen enjoyed being an oppressor like his master

[@calebdziepak2950]

"Alexander Dumas is black." One of my favorite lines in movie history.

[@hulmad]

Alexandre*

[@Pantano63]

It's funny because it's false. He was mixed.

[@calebdziepak2950]

@@Pantano63 While you are undeniably correct, at this time, a person with any amount of DNA (even though DNA was not something known of at the time, but you get what I mean) from a non-white was considered a "tainted one", even if it was from someone several generations back. I am absolutely not disputing the validity of your answer, but racist people in the U.S. at this time did not make that distinction.

[@Pantano63]

@@calebdziepak2950 Sure, that's how things were in the US, but Dumas was French, not American, so in reality he was subject to the rules and norms of French society and he was perceived as mixed, not someone who's fully black. If he were fully black he would've suffered way more racism and possibly slavery. He would've never become the writer we know today. Publication, education, status, all those things would've been denied to him. But he was able to get them precisely because, although mixed, he was mostly white (of French aristrocracy, no less). France and the US were and still are quite different.

[@calebdziepak2950]

@@Pantano63 You are absolutely correct. It's precisely this fact that allows for such a great mic drop on a U.S. slave owner who could not conceive that a man who has any amount of other-than-white blood was capable of writing great works of literature. That cultural disconnect allowed for a moment like that to happen (even fictionally), and it was beautiful to watch on screen knowing that an exchange such as that could have actually happened between a real abolitionist and slave owner at this time.

[@lettucebaby2172]

“What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the films of Quentin Tarantino?” Me: feet

[@whiskeyactual.]

"HE GON STAY IN THE BIG HOUSE!?"

[@darcgibson5099]

Also how Soviet art depicted average people, the workers, in the style of great mythical gods or kings.

[@JoshSweetvale]

It's sad that communism is always just a front for dictators.

[@briandalton5527]

I am no dictator but a person who frees peoples souls

[@briandalton5527]

Fuck the Rich

[@shoesweep]

@@briandalton5527 absolute chad

[@متين-ج4ز]

Joshua Sweetvale LOL

[@ricardomendez9179]

Damn, this probably is one of your finest videos. Keep the good job Wisecrack!!

[@Logan-dk8of]

I thought Django Unchained was just a movie about Django being a badass, and now I learn that it is a good and intelligent movie.

[@android19willpwn]

Tarantino is really good at balancing low-brow action romp with high-tier writing. Fun for all the family.

[@agonleed3841]

That's what was told to you. Any ,movie with a black lead doing great shit ESPECIALLY if it's a story of rise to power, or overthrowing power, will always be first looked at as mindless badassery ,meanwhile movies like 300, gladiator, and Troy are movies black people had to learn to love while wishing there was a movie that exaggerated on their history as well.

[@jackxiao9702]

A lot of good movies are good because your brain realize there is a lot of genius subtext but not be able to point it out

[@wwaxwork]

It can be both.

[@bideakande42]

@@MonBerry Why do you have to be mean? Just live and let live. Let's all just be happy that we can all enjoy a great film together.

[@krishnabharani4279]

The philosophy of Charles Boyle ( Brooklyn 99) - the joy of being a sidekick.

[@DoubleGoon]

Such a great film that I can watch multiple times a year. I usually can't sit through a film anymore, I don't know why, but Django keeps me glued to my seat.

[@noticias6111]

The part about agency through acting/performing: it would interesting to explore it even in legitimate employment (worked at a call centre).

[@LoganLS0]

So... Sorry to Bother You?

[@noticias6111]

@@LoganLS0 `_` huh : ) ...that *did not* occur to me!. I'm more surprised by how there are not more movies and such deconstructing call centre work..I would think that 'Black mirror' could have had an episode about it years before 'Sorry to bother you'.

[@claravinas9265]

That movie exists its called "sorry to bother you" great 2018 sleeper hit

[@noticias6111]

@@claravinas9265 *Definitely* would not complain to see more creative takes on call-centre life, though.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Arr Ziz Omg I feel that. When I was in retail, my Sickly Sweet Customer voice was damn near empowering. Someone pissing you off? Wish them a good day in the sweetest tone possible. What are they gonna do? Complain you’re doing your job?

[@Lobstrique]

i love this channel so much it hurts

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

You should go to sci show and have them check that out

[@nicholasabram5938]

@@nerdlingeeksly5192 I see what you did there.

[@LoganLS0]

If it hurts you're doing it wrong.

[@sebastianotero]

Hands down my fav movie of all time it has all the good qualities of a great film badass action, great writing, awesome music, costumes on point, acting top notch like literally every single role was nominated for an academy award Waltz being the best and the directing it couldn’t be done by anybody else than Tarantino

[@klaud7311]

"On one hand I despise slavery, on the other hand I need your help"

[@Cmqndlr]

django unchained is closure for 12 a years a slave lol

[@MrUndersolo]

Nailed it!

[@chrisleebowers]

They were released theatrically within a couple weeks of each other and I ended up seeing them both on the big screen the same weekend. Django was a refreshing palette-cleanser after 12 years

[@MatthewChenault]

And the 1831 confession of Nat Turner reminds me why slave revolts are bad and why you should never listen to propaganda.

[@RobotKongTV]

4:05 Even in Aristotle's time, remember that kingdoms with their entire languages and civilisations and languages, were sometimes conquered during wars and their inhabitants made into slaves. Did that deprive them of their LOGOS?

[@generaljackripper666]

Even other Greeks were enslaved.

[@Doflaminguard]

They know it is bad but its free labor. Thats why they needed justification on why it is needed. Vilifying them if from an enemy state or saying they are lesser than humans.

[@rage_2000]

First thing that comes to mind in Tarantino films? A big central text that says: *“Written and directed by QUENTIN TARANTINO”*

[@LynnHermione]

The bit about Aristotle is weird. Greeks didn't consider slavery as something inherent to a group people but an unfortunate circumstance, and several great poets were openly former slaves. Romans later used Greek slaves as teachers. They even had Greek slaves invent Roman literature.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Helots.

[@puzanfish7705]

@@JoshSweetvale helots were only in Sparta

[@natesmodelsdoodles5403]

@@puzanfish7705 IIRC, weren't they also literally one of the worst ideas Sparta ever had, directly contributing to it's eventual fall?

[@ALotOfCancer]

Your romanticized view of slavery is concerning. I shouldn't be able to tell that you're white just by reading your comment, yet here we are...

[@krkngd-wn6xj]

It was a bit of a tangent, but it is good historical context for the importance of language to the common justifications of slavery.

[@pavliksin123]

Wait a minute wasn't the entire point of Greek slavery justification by debt or defeat? Greeks didn't consider their slaves as much lesser. I think Aristotle in his philosophising mostly meant servile people, he even said that some slaves were not slaves by nature which I take just means servile.

[@bouyiaka]

This is what I was going to post. Greeks might have logos as a reason to enslave barbarians (anyone that did not speak Greek) but they enslaved anyone defeated in war, or people paid their debt by serving as a slave for a specific duration

[@rodrigocabreraruiz4468]

Aristotle argued that people had a role in society. These roles were meted out according to the nature of each person. A warrior has the nature of a warrior and a servant the nature of a servant. It's not about being lesser. It's about justifying slavery and explaining when it is permissible. If a slave could do the things others could do, then he was wrongfully a slave. The children of slaves were not born slaves. He argued instead that these societal positions existed and were based on our natures. People capable only of being slaves should be slaves. People capable of being kings should be kings. Every person should conform to their role in society according to their nature. He was not necessarily in agreement with the methods the Greeks employed to establish slavery.

[@andrebrown8969]

It was still slavery...while this was in the past, it is still a justification. Past or present people will seek to justify anything they see fit.

[@pavliksin123]

I didn't say that it wasn't slavery, I just argued against the American perception of slavery, where there seems to be some sort of an idea that all slavery was racist and extremely superiorist.

[@rodrigocabreraruiz4468]

I just defined slavery according to Aristotle. It wasn't based off of race in ancient times. I just wanted to expand on Aristotle and what he thought of slavery. There was much disagreement even in Greece about slavery, but Aristotle constructed an argument based off of theories on the soul and the ideal city. Thus, slaves would be very different in his view of an ideal city than what is modernly thought of as a slave.

[@brya9681]

I love this movie, now more than ever is rebellion against a racist, repressive system needed.

[@brya9681]

@@ethanmcfarland8240 sounds like someone is afraid of the guillotine. Fear it or not it slices off the heads of tyrants all the same.

[@ethanmcfarland8240]

Bryan A Traitors to the republic shall be hanged

[@vasilivros4166]

What the fuck even is this thread?... Both of you now...

[@brya9681]

@@vasilivros4166 you're the one who wandered in here buddy. You could just move along.

[@_greenrunner_]

if you talking cops, it’s not really racist considering the deaths commited by cops are across all races. White people being the highest because they are the vast majority

[@urderieevlartcrossesboi5971]

Can you guys do a wisecrack on Samuel l. Jackson throughout his decades in flim

[@mrbrian826]

That last scene was so satisfying and epic. Tarintino always gives the bad guys the ending they deserve. I remember laughing my ass off when watching Once upon a time in Hollywood's ending.

[@22duckys]

Almost every point in this video is on track, although like others I would've enjoyed seeing something about the skull scene. However, starting at 13:22, you mention that this movie subverts the Western. While Django does take aspects of the Western in it's style, the reason the Western never focused on slavery much is that slavery never really caught on in the West, it wasn't really a staple part of society at all. Now, this isn't due to a lack of racism on the white westerner's part (see them constantly using Native Americans as villains) but rather that the lifestyle and average wealth level was very different in the West and the South. Without plantations, there was no "need" (not a justification, using racist 1840's justification to explain why this happened in history) for slaves to work a field as the cost outweighed the benefit, and having a house slave would have just seemed plain ridiculous or frivolous for a frontier family barely able to feed their own family.

[@agonleed3841]

Idk where you got your history from. But, while sure there weren't fields and fields of slaves. Blacks indeed were slaves for westerners. They indeed could be no more than just the gathering bitches. Or danger warners or bait. And they were hated, beaten, scapegoated, killed and essed with just for gun..all the good old slavery ideas. There are even stories from natives where blacks..if they weren't killed by the natives..which actually didnt happen much...they were either helped or taken in. And therefore had the same fate as the natives. The natives, once they saw how the white man was...dphad no problem with the darker ones. And they began to work together in many instances. And western ers indeed kept house slaves or "indentured servants". It was easier to do that, than to always find a wife or such to keep up the house while you were out. No love had to be shown to a servant. But yes, by the time the west was settled, it became less and less and stature thing like in the south. But blacks were still used. Still hated. Still judged. Etc. Westerners just decided when the stories were told, they'd avoid ALL the negatives. And those who spread the words. The southerners, northerners, middles...they were amazed by the stories and by this time, even to them, slavery was just such a normal thing, they didnt mention jt

[@22duckys]

Agon Leed I’m speaking in generalizations of course, speaking about the general viability of the trade as a whole in the west. It also depends what you mean as the west. My assumption was the West could be presumed to be the states not labeled North or South during the time leading up to or during the split. I’m using a few justifications for my belief. First, most western states were admitted as free states as a compromise when the south wanted a new state in the south to be admitted as a slave state (e.g. California for Texas). Since the states didn’t protect slavery, the idea of using slaves to help mine in the gold rush (the main hope of slavers in the west) fell apart pretty quickly as most others didn’t like the competition and slaves that ran away were protected under the law. Second, one of the largest communities in the west outside of the California miners was the Mormon church in Utah. The LDS church became incredibly strict against slavery after they (conveniently) had a revelation about it once the union told them they would need to ban it to become a state, making it difficult for all others in the area to own slaves as well. So yes, you might be right that a trapper might have brought his slave here, or a miner could’ve kept a slave there, the cultural and legal difficulties made using slaves nearly impossible. The fact that they were just not a part of the culture in an accepted way as well as the very small amount of them in the area all results in Slavery never being associated with the Western. Again, this doesn’t mean they weren’t racist, just clarifying. Sources: Holt, Michael F. The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War. McPherson, James M. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

[@22duckys]

@cyotee doge A) White people did slavery far before they saw it in West Africa, see pinnacles of Western culture like Greece and Rome for that. However, unlike Greco-Roman and West African slavery which were motivated by most political goals and ends (I have defeated your people therefore I own some of your people), Western slavery of Africans was motivated by an idea that somehow the color of their skin made Africans less than human and therefore created as a lesser class of enslaved work-beings. Not the same thing, not the same treatment, and not the same justification. Good try though.

[@agonleed3841]

@cyotee doge man. The people that try to use that to justify always only use what they learned from either KZbin, or by the bias history. YES Africans owned slaves. Slavery was a thing in many culutres. Wpthe difference is..where are we today? In America. Everywhere that owned slaves, and have freed and changed, has went through a phase. A phase where the people freed were criticized and hurt. However, a big difference is that most slavery in much of the past was indentured servitude. Caste systems. All that a person could either buy themselves out of of with the change of the system, so came the realization of reality. Going back to slavery in Africa, and tribes selling them off..its kinda in the same form of..there are indeed bad tribes ..but mostly the slaves were prisoners. Do badders. What we today call the prison system. The Europeans used those at first. Then came the pressure of their guns and whatnot and strategy to set tribes against tribes because...prisoners of war, became slaves that would be sold. But what the Africans didnt know was that what the Europeans had in mind was the TYPE of slavery. The type to break families apart, erase a culture, breeding and enslaving children. Acts that the Africans weren't implementing. Learn your adrican history. Now...in America what's happening is..all of that. Separated families, children sold, breeding, killings, NOT indentured servitude. Vicious slavery. And so generations and generations later once freed, there was still the case that these freed slaves were hunted, killed, beaten, etc just for being them. Freed in a land surrounded by people who wanted to erase them. Time goes by and you get ghettos.where the society forced them into, pressured them to stay within, not allowed any that disnt just get lucky, to join the basic freedom of just making it from the bottom. The benefit that most other races get. The view of the black man/woman has been engrained into the generation minds ofnost whites. So you now have blacks in countryside trying to survive attacks and lack of opportunities. Most not getting the type of land needed to even create their own basic needs, and also not so permitted to even buy their basic needs. And you have them in towns or cities the same. Everything forced negativily on blacks. And the rhetoric of them just being lazy. Kinda hard to show your hard work when the opportunity isn't there. But now the imagery ismod lazy blacks. There are documented proofs of drugs being flooded into the ghettos. The gangs you know now, started as protection for those neighborhoods. Just like you see and enjoy every movie of a dystopian future where the people who live there must live by any means necessary because the world outside that living area is unlivable...blacks were stuck in these areas with the outside being not permitted to them.stress leads to looking for escape. Drink or drugs. And now that means all those people who couldn't get jobs, now have a way to make money. Those same people who wanted to protect the areas..the good ones got outnumbered by the morally ambiguous ones. The ones who thought they could just sell to those who use, buy the weapons and supplies needed to fix their areas. No different than mafia. No different than many great movies you love. It got out of hand. I mean..if you're risking your life and freedom every single day just to survive, what would you do to the person trying to steal that from you? Because remember, there are other desperate people living there too. So fan groups of protectors became gangs. Violent. Which again...documented government proof that was indeed the plan. Research your nation. So the imagery of the black man becomes lazy, thug, violent. But really, they're all just a result of the b.s. that white America created. Which can be changed once people understand and stop passing judgement and actualy lend a hand to those in need. Race being a nonfactor If you decide to not help, that's fine, but being ignorant about shit just makes you look stupid. There you go. Summary. From African slavery to the trickery that got us here, throughhistory to what where your ignorance should now be fading from education. This summary actually does no justice to real research. Take your time. Take a week or 2 and do a little research. Your mommy and daddy and grandpa doesnt know all of history. And they were likely taught the same biased ignorance as well. Or just purposely misled you. School obviously doesnt tell it all. Its 2019 and we still haven't just integrated true history. Were still using just a month to celebrate black history. How about this, if you want to really rub it in a black persons face, do true research and come with something past "but other people had slaves so get over it" Learn how the nation operates, or PROVE they dont operate as such.

[@LadCarmichael]

@22duckys Slavery was never originally a question of race. Aristotle himself, like this video showed, tried to justify slavery by cataloguing supposed "physical particularities" that would give a scientifical justification to slavery when it was a pure politico-economical one. Slavery was always an economic phenomenon. Slave trade in sub-Saharan Africa predates by several millennia the rise of the Triangular Trade. Berbers, Arabs, Carthaginians, Romans all used to trade black people, giving rise to a veritable economy and societies built around slaves, it's just that it weren't limited to blacks only. The Europeans didn't truly go deep in Africa, at least until the 19th century when land grabbing became a race and a matter of philosophy and prestige. Before that, all the slaves were victims of internal warfare between Africans, where tribes would sell their captives for Europeans guns and weapons to again go at war and capture more slaves. The Europeans just stayed on the coast and bought them. The Europeans developed racial justification after that. It was not because they were racist that they bought slaves, it's because they needed them as a source of energy in a world pre-steam engine that they created a philosophy that allowed them to create a loophole in the Christian interdiction (see Bartholomeus de las Casas). Racism is an invention to circumvent a problem that white themselves created. And it's worth noting that at the times, white serfs were often not better than slaves, forbidden to leave their land, sometimes limited in their marriage, etc... You also just have to look at white workers in the industrialized North at the time, who were paid a pittance and often called today industrial slaves with how little freedom they had due to their poverty.

[@MisfortunateJustice]

Hahaha Glad you went into why this is my fave Tarantino film.

[@crumblebee1369]

It is so creepy that the algorithm recommends this to me at this particular moment when I see the “burn it all to ground” title.

[@JesusHComedy]

7:55 That scene is also really cool because there's these christian anecdotes floating around of pocket bibles saving people from literal shots to the heart.

[@arnowisp6244]

Guess God wasn't with him.

[@stonewolf6853]

At the end, that was NOT a peace sign, which is palm out, but the European version of "go eff yourself", which is palm in.

[@Tulpen23]

Though this is a true statement for European culture, it is not true for American culture. For reference: see many rap videos, etc. where the artists flash a peace sign, usually at an angle, and palm inward. I agree though that when producing content intended to be consumed by an international audience, it's best to be more aware of norms outside of one's own culture in order to prevent any misunderstanding.

[@rayneozier]

I'm a 22yr old, life long lover of films, and Tarantino is my favorite filmaker. Kill Bill (1&2) is my favorite movie, but I enjoy Django too. I had a general idea about some of the grader themes of this movie. But this was very informative. Tarantino always subverts what ever genere he's tackling when ever he makes a film. Django is arguably the best example. Great vid👍

[@Primodsaint]

And a lot of critics and people said that Tarantino was a racist. There are layers to art and Sam Jackson and Jamie Foxx are some of the greatest black men to ever act and they are willing to work with a genius like Tarantino in a heartbeat. He does love feet though.

[@n1pster3]

Thank you! Just finished watching this movie and your analysis really helped me take away the most important points of the movie. An equally amazing analysis for an equally amazing movie!

[@theamazinghaole2384]

I watch this movie every time I get hammered. This is one of the greatest movies ever made.

[@masterarash7]

Django Unchained is still one of my favorite movies ever!

[@calebjohnson5058]

That went way further than I ever viewed this movie, but it was made very detailed and I’d have to say I saw the point you made subconsciously. “Good show!”

[@Hobolishus123]

Talking about disidentification reminds me of the episode of Atlanta where Darius goes to purchase a piano. Before any of the actual plot of the episode begins, Darius is seen purchasing a hat saying "Southern Made" with a confederate flag on it, however he crosses out some of the letters and adds a ? to remake the hat so it says "u mad?"

[@PaulLemars01]

A small issue I have with the plot is Shulz's death. From a theatrical point of view I didn't see why Tarantino killed him so easily at the hands of Candy's enforcer. From a logical point of view we had been led to believe Shulz was a very intelligent assassin. I understand that the handshake was putting him in a position of weakness but I just feel that the character would have moved to protect himself since he knew the thug was behind him. I would have thought that since Shulz was a co-protagonist he could have swiveled around after shooting Candy, shot the thug winging him and then Django finishes him off. Maybe Shulz is injured and Django saves Shulz as well as Brunhilda and then blows up the mansion. I dunno, I just found Shulz's death weak and unsatisfying.

[@m.c.blobmedia]

8:01 To quote Frederick Douglass, “Not all who read understand. And not all who understand learn.” The quote may be incorrectly paraphrased, but the gist is there.

[@tristanrosario9404]

These videos make me realize how little I know about writing.

[@soupbro2786]

SOOOOooo about that.... "Cloud Atlas" philosophy of... Pretty Please!

[@janedough8997]

Yes please!!!

[@QuietVillain]

Yuh please respond to me is cloud Atlas good? I will watch even if you dont respond.

[@soupbro2786]

@@QuietVillain bruh, the film had me watching it like over and over to the point where I found myself buying the DVD. The film has alot of underlining meaning within life through past, present and future lives. A film to understand a purpose in life and finding that purpose. If that dont catch you, its held with an A-list cast with Tom Hank's and Halle Berry. If you got 3 hours to spend, and and empty space in your mind to comprehend what the actual Neck is going on. I suggest trying it out. *Disclaimer* you won't understand the first view of the film. So don't sweat it (if you do though, hats off to yah)

[@lucidnonsense942]

I hate to be "that guy," but if you liked the movie, get the book. It's got all the good parts without the sucky ones, as those scenes make sense in the world build. Plus, it's a lot more nuanced.

[@calebjackson3895]

MAY be another "half baked" episode. I mean, yeah; the stated theme was that our deeds shape our future lives. But some evil souls like Hugo Weaving's kept getting positions of power, while good souls like Jim Sturgess' kept getting shit on.

[@mad_ace]

It is amazing of Christoph Waltz how he can play the most lovable protagonist and (one of) the most hated Tarantino antagonist(s) so effortlessly!

[@pacheco3328]

This video proves that MLA format is the most effective way to explain things.

[@halfasleepvampire7545]

What I love about the movie is that, while obviously it revolves around race, but instead of the lesson being “white people evil, black people hero” the lesson is, “I doesn’t matter what you are or where you come from. If matter how you act and what you choose to become.” Anyone can truly be the hero, anyone can be the villain.

[@someguyyouknow6420]

Somewhere in the world, Spike Lee is crying.

[@psishredder]

I'd say that stuff like this proves the fundamental truth that arrogance replaces respectability with comically rigid stupidity.

[@reggiefurlow1]

As a black man in this country trying to walk a good life will encounter the Sam Jackson character and it catches you off guard but is painful when it happpens

[@bookdream]

Never seen a philosophy video that made me so hype

[@finallyanime]

Actually with the thing about pages over the mans heart, there’s a verse in the bible that says you’re supposed to essentially bind/meld the word on the ‘table’ of ones heart. Meaning take to heart the word and not just face value which many misunderstand it for. This guy is using the word superficially & literally binds it on his person...but django straight up shoots through it & shows how paper thin/non-existent their take of faith is. Slavers used the bible to justify slavery for a number of reasons I can’t get into but The story is symbolic on a number of levels extending past the story of Siegfried. Should give it a watch again to see what you’ve missed