Who Is Django Unchained: The Triumphant Bounty Hunter?

I also felt that this scene was important because it was a perfect depiction of what slaves had to endure. This relates to chapter 5 by it explain how slaves ran away and also how they hide in swamps just like the black slave in the film. This relates to chapter 6 by as discussed in the book with the vigilance committees there was a house in the film to shelter the black man and his daughter with the women. I don’t think this was an accurate portrayal of slavery. From what I know I don’t think slaves was black smith because that will give them a chance to acquire their own tools. On the other hand some parts of the film that did portray slavery right like how the slaves escape in the film and also how they get hung if

Why would it matter if your master was rich or poor, you all are slaves their is no difference in the way that you are treated. You both are deemed as cattle, meaning that you are considered being less than a human being! “it was worth a half- cent to kill a "nigger," and a half-cent to bury one.” This quote evoked a lot of emotion,because if you sit and ponder on it they(slave masters) pay hundreds of dollars for them(slaves) and in return the slaves make hundred or thousands of dollars for their master(s). Even though, they pay money for them and go through a lot to retrieve the slaves they can be quickly replaced because of how quickly slaves are brought over from their home to the united states which makes the death of a slave equal nothing. "there is no flesh in his obdurate heart." This quote really gives you somewhat of an insight on how the slaves felt about a particular overseer who was merciless on the slaves, he was deemed as the worse overseer they had ever encountered many said that he was every where around every corner and under every tree. Everywhere they looked he was their waiting and watching

The changes of slavery shown through American history from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, dealing with the horrific brutality and inhumane treatment accepted by much of society, all of the way up to present day, as we just recently had America’s first black president Barrack Obama elected in 2008, show drastic improvements on a national crisis that can be heavily credited to the great historical abolitionist of their time and even still the modern day abolitionists continuing to fight. The abolitionist movement was not simply pushed forward by groups of individuals who agreed on the basis that slavery and what was going on at the time was wrong, but instead was heavily impacted by key individuals who typically had experienced first person what it was like on the side of the chained captive workers who were seen as nothing more than mere property they owned. And while for a multitude of those held captive the only life they

Frederick Douglass states “Nothing would have been done if I had been killed… such remains, the state of things in the Christian city of Baltimore” (124) and conveys his audience through the use of thoughtful pathos and shameful satire. Frederick Douglass was a slave himself and he acknowledged that the death of slaves brought no pity into the slave owners’ minds. To evoke feeling into his white abolitionist and non-abolitionist audience, he placed himself into the situation of being the one who gets killed. As a result of using death, Douglass provokes anger since these individuals did not consider the death of a slave as significantly important.

This movie shows all of the horrible things that are incorporated with war, in excruciating detail. At one point in the movie Scarlet has to witness a man get his leg amputated with no anesthesia, or anything for pain at all due to lack of funds, and lack of ability to get the medicines that were necessary. The accuracy of the film though is somewhat biased. The book was written by a southern woman, and frankly I’m sure had some resentment towards the North, she wrote this book glamorizing the South and making the North look horrendous. They were fighting to free slaves, whereas the South wanted to keep their slaves. The movie for the most part only seems to portray slaves with kind master and the truth of the matter is, no matter how good and kind the master was, the black people were slaves. They were considered property and as such, could be bought, sold, used and abused, and treated like cattle, not people. The slaves were not free. They had no legal rights, because they were not a person under the law. Their "owners" had complete control of their lives. They were not free to go anywhere or do anything without their master’s approval. The master had the right to separate husband and wife, parents and children. It was very rare that an entire slave family would remain intact. There was always the fear of being sold. Because of death or bankruptcy, families were separated and sold to fulfill

What an eye-opening film by Steven Spielberg! The movie, La Amistad, was based on historical events. Blacks from West Africa were captured and sold into slavery. They were put on a boat called the Tecora and later transferred to the clipper called La Amistad. Spielberg did a beautiful job in accurately recreating the events that lead to the historical court hearings of the imprisoned blacks. The hearings began at the state level. Then it was taken to the Supreme Court. Questions about slavery, equality, and freedom, sprung forth during the Amistad case. Not only was this case a milestone for the abolitionist movement, it also questioned the writings of the Declaration of Independence. Where all men created equal, like the constitution

In order to do so, he looks to convince his audience that slavery is an institution that impacts both the slaves and the slaveholders. His emotional tone, driven by logic and straightforwardness, highlight the many ethical dilemmas he faces in his life. From being labeled as a “slave for life” to learning to read and to the many traumatic incidents he experiences, Douglass skillfully uses ethos, pathos, and logos to bring out the emotion of his readers and convince of the evils of slavery. He writes, “I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me, and behold a man transformed into a brute” (Douglass, Chapter 10). His powerful and descriptive language in this statement essentially puts the reader in his shoes and provokes an emotional response. One moment he was optimistic and suddenly he was crushed by the reality that he woke up to everyday.

To begin, Douglass uses imagery to describe the heart wrenching experience of a slave child on a plantation. Without adequate food or clothing, slave children begin the process of dehumanization. Denied blankets or beds, the children slept on the cold and damp floor and Douglass describes with horrid detail his “feet [being] so cracked with the frost, that the pen which [he is] writing might be laid in the gashes”(1836). This painful description creates empathy for a mistreated child whose only “crime” results from his birth to a black mother. In the most dehumanizing comparison, Douglass uses animal imagery to reveal the conditions and manner in which the children are fed. Douglass writes:

Throughout all three films, all of the directors had common themes within their movies. A big common theme between the movies is the idea of greed and personal gain. All three movies have some sort of cash reward that can make them rich. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, has three men, all from different places, go for a confederate cash box that has thousands of gold coins in it. Navajo Joe had a train with a half million dollars that was going to a town, but later intercepted by bandits. Django Unchained, has a man and a former slave that go around as bounty hunters collecting

[1] Before I start this essay, I feel the need to remind the reader that I find slavery in all its forms to be an oppressive and terrible institution, and I firmly believe that for centuries (including this one) bigotry is one of the most terrible stains on our civilization. The views I intend to express in the following essay are in no way meant to condone the practices of slavery or racism; they are meant only to evaluate and interpret the construction of slavery in film.

The film 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of the 1853 autobiography by a slave named Solomon Northup, depicts his everyday life after his rights and freedoms are ripped away. Through the unpleasant slave auction scenes to the sickening slave punishments, 12 Years a Slave is a heartbreaking story that unfortunately conveys the harsh truth on the issues surrounding slavery. Consequently, during the film there are many themes and events that trigger different thoughts and reactions varying between viewers, and importantly a better understanding of Solomon Northup’s story and slavery itself.

Many slaves in the movie were nothing more than exchange value. “Exchange- value, at first sight, presents itself as a quantitative relation, as the proportion in which values in use of one sort are exchanged for those of another sort” (Edles and Appelrouth 2015:76). In the movie Django’s wife was to be sold to him and Dr. Schultz for $12,000 because that was what Mr. Candie believed her to be

The film Django Unchained (2012) by Quentin Tarantino defines the historical issue of institutional racism that existed in the antebellum era of Southern slavery. This unique perspective on history defines the struggle of Django (Jamie Foxx) and Dr. King Schultz (Christopher Waltz) to save Django’s wife, Broomhilda Von Shaft (Kerry Washington) from the evil southern plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio). Candie’s presence as the primary patriarchal figure in the story not only defines the dominance of white racism in the south, but the class-based elitism of the “southern plantation owner” as the apex of the institution of slavery in the antebellum era: “The transition from two 18th and early 19th-century models—the genteel

Django Unchained is a film that follows the story of Django, who was a slave turned bounty hunter, and Dr. King Schultz, who is a bounty hunter. Schultz purchases Django in order to make him a freeman, due to the information he has about his bounty for Schultz. In return, the only goal Django sets out to achieve is finding and rescuing his wife, Broomhida, after they were separated in a slave deal. Schultz and Django come to find that Broomhida is located at the location of the famous Calvin Candie, who is a cotton-field owner. Schultz and Django then come up with a plan to rescue his wife from Candie.

The film set in the deep South in 1858, about a slave who gains his freedom with the help of Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter, and sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner is an intriguing story with very graphic action scenes. The plot of the story begins as Dr. Shultz buys Django (Jamie Foxx), a black slave, from some traveling slave owners. He buys Django because he is chasing a pair of outlaws known as the Brittle Brothers and Django is the only person who knows what they look like. As the plot develops, Dr. Schultz and Django become allies and work together to achieve each other’s personal goals; Dr. Schultz wants to track down and