Stephen is spouting these "yessah, nossah" kind of minstrel lines, very much a horrible stereotype. Candie has the name and the blue blood. Maybe they feel guilty because Stephen is such an ultimate Uncle Tom, and just too twisted, too dangerous. Stephen Calvin Candie To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. None : Stephen Get her over there and get her cleaned up and bring her back over here to, uh, Doctor -. Calvin Candie is the main antagonist in the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained. [singing] : When we first meet Stephen, he comes out all stooped, walking with a cane to greet DiCaprio and meet Foxx and Waltz's characters, who are undercover trying to infiltrate the plantation. Not so fast. Southern hospitality dictates I make her available to him. What you think she doin' there, in the hot box? But he puts on this face to make them think he's stooped and bent and shaky and oldand he's none of those things. Still, you take her ass out! Last night. This relationship reinforces Stephen's idea that he is superior to field slaves, an idea that he treasures. Most movies about slavery present slave owners as monsters and slaves as pitiful victims. : : Elle Driver | So he leaves the day to day plantation operations in Stephens capable hands. Stephen is a house slave that has completely bought into the racist ideology that justified slavery in the American south. : Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly | Broomhilda : You scaring me. Hell's bells, the niggas we sell to LeQuint Dickey got it worse than that!" : Feed him to Stonesipher's dogs." There were no white people mixed into his blood or anything. : Calvin's major concern is just to go out and stage Mandingo fights. And you, you old, decrepit bastard, you are to show them every hospitality. John Ruth | Django Wayne Gale, From Dusk Till Dawn In conclusion, Stephen is a slave-driving race traitor an unforgivable villain. Lt. Muldoon | Vincenzo Coccotti | Broomhilda's Backstory. We arent supposed to like Stephen any more than we like Dick Cheney. But I don't hold on to stuff. Stephen is the opposite of that, but we're turning that convention on its head. In his first scene, he sees our hero Django ride up to the door of the Candieland mansion. Major Marquis Warren | We finally got to about four different looks and started to mix and match different elements. Oh, God-motherfucking-damn it! This here is what you take with you. Django : Hey, Snowball. Calvin Candie . Django The sight of an empowered freeman on his plantation is hideously offensive to both his sense of order and his place as the #1 black man in his world. And it's honest. : HUH? Broomhilda Stephen! After noticing a connection between Django and Broomhilda, he intimidates and questions her on how she knows him. Dis nigger here? Incredible intellectObservation skillsIntimidationPersuasion : That's why when Django rides up on a horse, with a gun, speaking out of turn, the first thing Stephen has to do is let those other negroes around there on the plantation who see Django know that they can't aspire to that. How can I test if a new package version will pass the metadata verification step without triggering a new package version? SOLD TO THE MAN WITH EXCEPTIONAL BEARD, AND HIS UNEXCEPTIONAL NIGGER! He's a slaver. Well when did she go? RIGHT IN FRONT OF BOTH YA'LL! There must be a self-hatred there too, isn't there? Find out how you match to him and 5500+ other characters. Thats easy to swallow but neither interesting nor accurate. Aw, Stephen, you have nails for breakfast? If there'd been a snake, it would have bit me. : People look at him and immediately think of him as subservient. How many niggers you think you seen come and go? America tends to sugarcoat slaveryyou see negroes out in the field picking cotton, and they're singing a song. Jesus Christ, Stephen! Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly | This is no mere case of. : Stephen calmly throws his cane away and tells Django he counted six shots, before Django pulls out another gun shooting Stephen in both of his knees, making Stephen lose his calm demeanor, and wounding him in the process. Then I says, "Shitfire! While race conflict is Americas very public Achilles Heel, class differences are swept under the rug. As the senior house slave, he has the luxury of being the authority over the other slaves, but his intellect, like that of all slaves, is grossly underestimated by his owner. Well, you got a problem with that? : Calvin Candie Django calls you "Snowball." Stephen pays the bills, calls the shots, and orders the punishments for runaway slaves. Sanford Smithers, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood : Quentin has that theme running through his movies. Marco | Full Name I tried a lot of different skin tones, ages, variations on hair. By and by Ohhhhhh! Being a senior house slave more respected than the rest, Stephen personally views himself second only to the white man with all his fellow black people beneath him. Well, be careful now, Dr. Schultz. Yolanda, Natural Born Killers This is best demonstrated when he wails over Calvin's death and cradles his body in his arms. What do you think the other slaves feel about him? Sure. Stephen Evil-doer And if y'all think my price for this nigger here is too steep, what I'm gonna desire to do is [Candie causally sets his cigarette down; he suddenly but quickly picks up his hammer and violently grabs hold of Broomhilda's hair, slamming her face on the dinner table and raising the hammer above her head. Company Credits Do you feel that way? This relationship reinforces Stephens idea that he is superior to field slaves, an idea that he treasures. Dr. King Schultz Stephen! Then why is you cryin'? []. They would know if you're holding back. [to the Overseers] : Stephen will not allow anything to hurt Candie or Candyland a scruple that places him on the opposite side of Django and Schultzs rescue mission. : Django shoots Stephen in both kneecaps before lighting a fuse attached to the Australians' dynamite. [laughing] Hey, Snowball. Calvin Candie Take her out. And after pointing this out to him, he shoots Stephen in the kneecap. Calvin Candie Hildi is my nigger. : Go on, now. He cant leave. Mickey and Mallory | Calvin Candie "Two weeks in Boston!" Stephen Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine? May I lift my hands off the table in order to remove my billfold? rev2023.4.17.43393. Ya'll gonna be together with Calvin in the "bye-and-bye". Django remembers Schultz predicting he will become known as "the fastest gun in the West," before riding off . The phrase "Uncle Tom" has also become an epithet for a person who is Stephen, my boy! Richard "Richie" Gecko | particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to ! 723. : Then, they're gonna hit you in the head with a hammer, throw your ass down the nigger hole. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Movies & TV Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for movie and TV enthusiasts. Buck | Cookie Notice Stephen Apocalypse Now (1979)***The production of Apocalypse Now was a disaster befitting the title.Director Francis Ford Coppola fired original star Harvey Keitel. Stephen Is he spinning you around too much? That may be one of the few instances of a black man wearing blackface in a mainstream film. Does Chain Lightning deal damage to its original target first? This week's cover: 'Django Unchained' draws its guns, 'Django Unchained': Jamie Foxx on portraying slavery, 'Django Unchained': Three new clips unveiledVIDEO. Old Man Carrucan | Stephen Stephen is treacherous and sneaky, a traitor to his fellow slaves who has aligned himself with the White Man, horrifically benefiting from his systematic oppression. TAKE THIS GODDAMNED HAMMER HERE, AND BEAT HER ASS TO DEATH WITH IT! Drexl Spivey | After some dialogue, Django shoots Stephen in his kneecaps and leaves him to die as the explosives he sets off destroys the main house and burns Candyland to the ground. Inhabiting that space is kinda cool. What? Like a baby miss mammy titty! [Stephen chuckles at the shivering, then-helpless Django]. Them motherfuckers ain't here to buy no mandingos. Dr. King Schultz Stephen doesnt have to answer to anyone. Making a splash: A deep dive into the live-action Little Mermaid with a new generation's Ariel. His father did that job, his grandfather did that job. Origin I'm gonna tell you why you're wrong when I get home. Stephen Right from the his first appearance till his last he had been limping, or using a stick to walk. He's been born into the idea that he's not property. I give up! : Get her ass up outta there! Django Unchained Uh, Hildi 'in the hot box. Later, he informs Candie that Django and Schultz are more interested in Broomhilda than purchasing the male slaves they had told him they wanted. NOW WHAT'S IT GONNA BE DOC? Because I said so, that's why! Calvin Candie You see, under the laws of Chickasaw County, Broomhilda, here, is my property and I can choose to do with MY PROPERTY WHATEVER I SO DESIRE! Django Its wasteful and expensive and it encourages materialism that leads you away from the road to happiness. And Quentin put a lot of great things in his mouth to say. Stephen doesnt. Did Jesus have in mind the tradition of preserving of leavening agent, while speaking of the Pharisees' Yeast? Was it uncomfortable for you to inhabit someone as despicable as Stephen? The limp is part of his guile to fool those around him into dismissing him, and this malice aforethought is what Jackson used to try and create "The most hated Negro in cinematic history.". Like a baby miss mammy titty! You might have caught yourself a little dose of nigger love. Cagey and not to be underestimated, Stephen will do anything to protect his monstrous master. Well what did she do? Stephen closely studies Broomhilda and Django's reaction to the scene, looking more suspicious than ever. : : Go open the guest bedrooms and get two ready. Cheney could never be President, but it didnt stop him from running the country. Share the best GIFs now >>> How did you avoid making a misstep that even you might later look back on as too far? They brung her back this morning. Please enable Javascript and hit the button below! Of course he takes it. Not really. Because you're scary. He doesn't feel himself as actual property. I understand. : Noticing how Django and Broomhilda look at each other during dinner, he becomes suspicious. Django Yes, it did. Stephen comes from a long line of working house slaves. : Stephen From his first look at Django on his horse, he develops a deep hatred for the emancipated slave. At about 2 hours and 20 minutes, Steven (played by Samuel L Jackson) has his first of two one-on-one conversations with Django. : If he's playing the role of an Uncle Tom, best to look the part. Yes. [Django just stares at the old man talking to him]. Mr. White | Django here's a freeman. People went out there, sun-up to sun-down, and were beaten for not getting up or left there to die. There is no too far. : In this conversation, the idea of genital mutilation arises, and Steven seems to show a familiarity with such an ugly practice. You wanna know my name or the name of my horse, you ask me. Here's your trophy, Javier Bardem. Well, naturally, it is the soaring eagle that attracts her attention, not the plucked chicken. She offers him too much money for too easy a job. Stephen is a house slave on steroids, the self-loathing black man par excellence, who hates the field slaves . Now, considering y'all have ridden a whole lot of miles [Candie aggressively grabs Broomhilda's head, she whimpers as Django looks on intensively]. Django Unchained Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. and done spread a whole lot of bull to purchase this lovely lady right here, it would appear that Broomhilda is in fact the right nigger. I've done all that during rehearsals. Butch Pooch | Technical Specs, [black house servant exiting the Big House], [Lets go of Broomhilda's head and slams the hammer loudly on the table], [after Django is recaptured, stripped naked, taken to a barn and chained upside down from the ceiling; Stephen walks in and throws a bag of filthy clothes on the barn floor], [the library doors open revealing Calvin Candie, Stephen is sifting his brandy]. : | It is time for me to rest my tired eyes. Yeah, he could do the noble thing and work the fields, take the whippings, and die young with no say in his destiny. I can't hear you, nigger! Big Daddy Bennet | : : Stephen seethes with righteous anger. Finding valid license for project utilizing AGPL 3.0 libraries. I've done all the stuff I need to do to get where I need to get before I get to work every day. : Broomhilda : Because you're scary. : Nobody has ever laid a hand on him. 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