History WMG / DjangoUnchained

King Schultz is Beowulf, a supposedly unstoppable badass.
The Brittle brothers represent Grendel.
Big daddy is Grendel's Mother, who attacks the people responsible for the death of her son.
Calvin Candie is the dragon, who ultimately kills and is killed by the Beowulf character.
Broomhilda is the dragon's treasure.
Django and his fight against the slavers is the conflict between pagan and Christian values.

He and Lara are hinted to be incestuous, but he didn't want to take the chance of having a handicapped child with his sister (or couldn't even if he wanted to, see above). The husband was brought in specifically to produce heirs to Candieland and, having fulfilled his duty, was swiftly dispatched. Either Calvin did it himself or hired somebody to make it look like an accident. The husband's job was done and he wanted his BEAUTIFUL SISTER to himself.

[[WMG@ Schultz was being more truthful with Calvin than we knew.]]

** Stephen being elitist ties in nicely with a monologue by Candie earlier regarding the "white trash" and "peckerwoods" who serve as his lowest minions; he claims they're so good at handling the black fighters precisely ''because'' they're barely higher on the food chain. And what does Stephen call Django in his last moments? "Uppity". Someone who was too big for their britches, who had no business rising above their status like he did, arrived at the plantatiion that day, and Stephen was displeased with it from the start.

Which takes me to below...

He and Lara are hinted to be incestuous, but he didn't want to take the chance of having a handicapped child with his sister. The husband was brought in specifically to produce heirs to Candieland and, having fulfilled his duty, was swiftly dispatched. Either Calvin did it himself or hired somebody to make it look like an accident. The husband's job was done and he wanted his BEAUTIFUL SISTER to himself.

He's a racist, sadistic, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking blonde]] hillbilly who gets his kicks by being cruel to black people. I know Calvin isn't shown to be married, but he could be related through an illegitimate child of Candie's. Or, since Lara is known to be a widow and looks old enough to have children, she could be his ancestor. Her children aren't shown because they're off at boarding school.

He's a racist, sadistic, blonde hillbilly who gets his kicks by being cruel to black people. I know Calvin isn't shown to be married, but he could be related through an illegitimate child of Candie's. Or, since Lara is known to be a widow and looks old enough to have children, she could be his ancestor. Her children aren't shown because they're off at boarding school.

Django seemed to be a natural at both shooting, and negotiation, taking on a whole ranch full of men with just his revolvers, and then after being captured, escaping with naught but his wits and a quickdraw that would make Billy the Kidd blush. Django and Broomhilde had a few children, and somewhere down the line, there was a lawyer who gave birth to a little girl, destined to be drawn into Mid-World with Eddie Dean.

[[WMG:Dr. Schultz is somehow [[IdenticalGrandson related]] to [[InglouriousBasterds Col. Hans Landa]] ]]

One of the movies that served as inspiration for ''Django Unchained'' is 1975 ''Mandingo''. In ''Mandingo'', the main character is auctioned by a [[DirtyOldWoman Dirty Old]] [[FunnyForeigner German]] [[DirtyOldWoman Woman]]. Additionally, there is the WordOfGod joke that Django and Broomhilda are ancestors to {{Shaft}}. This doesn't make sense, however, since Django doesn't have the last name Von Shaft in the final film, Broomhilda does. Presumably, Tarantino learned at some point that German-Americans (led by politicians like Carl ''Schurz'') were one of the most vocal groups against slavery in the lead-up to the civil war, and decided to adknowledge this by making the Dr. King character a German instead.

[ [WMG: Django is Susannah Dean's great-great-great grandfather, and also is related to the line of Eld.] ]

* The implications of this for Landa [[TomatoInTheMirror are staggering.]]

Perhaps shortly after they sold Django and Hilda the Brothers wanted more pay from Carrucan, money he would not provide. In response, and probably without much foresight or planning, they killed Old Man Carrucan, robbed his estate, and made a run for it, changing their names and getting new jobs working for Big Daddy. They may have well been planning to do the same to Big Daddy before Django and Schultz showed up.

And Stephen is Ruckus's anscestor.

After blowing Candieland sky high, Django and Broomhilda laid low until the Civil War was over, and then headed west with their son, Bartholomew (Perhaps an anglicization of Schultz's real first name, or maybe they just liked how it sounded). On the way they were accosted by a tribe of native americans, but allowed to pass unharmed due to their race. Their son eventually grew up to work for one of the railways cutting through the Rock Ridge area. After getting fired, their son Bart would later go on to foil a plot by the state's attorney general to seize the town of Rock Ridge, with some assistance from the Waco Kid.

Throughout the film, women are seen as passive characters. Broomhilda is a typical DamselinDistress,Lara is a SouthernBelle who does practically nothing and one of Candie's trackers is quite clearly a woman, but has her face covered, wears masculine clothes and never speaks a word of dialogue. At the end of the film, Broomhilda seems to have gained an active status similar to her husband, wearing masculine clothes but not covering her face, wielding a gun and riding off for more adventures. I believe that Tarantino is subtly suggesting that the suppression of race also leads to the suppression of women, and they are just as awful and dehumanising as each other. Considering QT's penchant for the ActionGirl trope and other such strong, female charcters, I feel this is quite likely.

Throughout the film, women are seen as passive characters. Broomhilda is a typical DamselinDistress,Lara is a SouthernBelle who does practically nothing and one of Candie's trackers is quite clearly a woman, but has her face covered, wears masculine clothes and never speaks a word of dialogue. At the end of the film, Broomhilda seems to have gained a status similar to her husband, wearing masculine clothes but not covering her face, wielding a gun and riding off for more adventures. I believe that Tarantino is subtly suggesting that the suppression of race also leads to the suppression of women, and is just as awful and dehumanising as each other. Considering QT's penchant for the ActionGirl trope and other such strong, female charcters, I feel this is quite likely.

Throughout the film, women are seen as passive characters. Broomhilda is a typical DamselinDistress,Lara is a SouthernBelle who does practically nothing and one of Candie's trackers is quite clearly a woman, but has her face covered, wears masculine clothes and never speaks a word of dialogue. At the end of the film, Broomhilda seems to have gained a status similar to her husband, wearing masculine clothes but not covering her face, wielding a gun and riding off for more adventures. I believe that Tarantino is subtly suggesting that the suppression of race also leads to the suppression of women, and is just as awful and dehumanising as each other. Considering QT's penchant for ActionGirls and other such strong, female charcters, I feel this is quite likely.

Stephen obviously likes to be in charge, and hates the idea of things happening without him knowing. When he informs Candie of his suspicions, he uses the exact same phrasing ("they've rode a lot of miles and gone through a lot of trouble", etc.) that Schultz used when speaking in German to Broomhilda. Since we don't know where Stephen is during the sequence between Broomhilda and Schultz, and the rug gets pulled out from under their plan in the very next scene, it seems likely that Stephen was listening in on them, and has at least a working knowledge of German.

He is the right age, cultured, trilingual and very liberal in general for his time. He sees Americans and Southerners in particular with contempt, and says that he doesn't want to die in their country, so why doesn't he just go back to Germany? Because he actually [[YouCantGoHomeAgain can't go home again]]. In RealLife, many German liberals fled to North and South America where they became progressive politicians or joined armies in wars that they considered to be morally justified. Schultz is a bounty hunter because, besides the pay, the job provides him with the opportunity to be TheRemnant By Proxy to a revolution long after it has been crushed, killing oppressive authority figures and convicted murderers alike and freeing people from slavery. This also explains why he can't take it anymore and kills Candie even though it will result in his own death. The image of an oppresive, murdering aristocrat acting with impunity and feeling morally justified about it hit too close to home to ignore it.