They were slavers. They were taking people to be thrown into mining pits until they died. Yes, they come off as a bit silly, and that's a fun bit of writing on Tarantino's part, but I'm not going to excuse the KKK earlier in the movie because of the very funny bags-on-heads conversation they have. Likewise, these mining jagoffs are either sadistic or apathetic towards committing atrocities for a buck.
Irredeemable is a bit different. I'm sorta with Tolkien on that one. However, expediency in Django suggests that he needs to take them out.
Your statement, "Django just isn't a good guy," confuses me. What does he do that's bad?
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He kills slavers, the hired muscle of slavers, and evil and wicked people (Stephen, e.g.). The most morally ambiguous thing he does in the movie is bounty hunting, and even that is basically serving as an arm of law enforcement.
I'd argue that, at the beginning of the film, Dr. Schultz is more grey in his morality. He has a beautiful plot arc where he starts as eccentric, goofy, loves his job, but is generally apathetic towards good and evil in the world and ends as somebody who is deeply troubled by the wrongdoing he sees and is forced to act on his convictions. All of this is well-written and beautifully-played, of course.
I'll grant you that Django is more single-minded and has less of an arc in that sense, but he's a cool-cat stoic hero type. Yes, he mostly cares about getting his wife back, but the goal he has in mind and the carnage he inflicts is the same as that of characters like Liam Neeson in Taken.
Now, if you can remember something Django does that makes him so he "just isn't a good guy," I'll reconsider.
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esshor (109)
8 months ago
He is mean to slaves in his presence. He intervenes to prevent Schultz from purchasing to save a slaves life. Doesn’t bat an eye while dogs tear that slave apart. While he doesn’t personally commit any depraved atrocities, he doesn’t use his new free and financially prosperous platform to aid other suffering African American slaves. Anything he does is purely selfishly driven. With such a crazed singleminded intensity, that everything he ends up doing and committing just leads he and his wife’s life to a hopeless, desperate, destitute, fearful and hunted state.
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Ace_Spade (9435)
8 months ago
The examples that you are citing (prevents purchase, prevents saving) are because if Schultz blows their cover, they will all be torn apart.
He uses his freedom to raid Candyland. He uses his freedom to save the other slaves who were captured by the Aussies.
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