History Fridge / DjangoUnchained

* Broomhilda's nature as a textbook FlatCharacter and DistressedDamsel may seem strangely at odds with the movie's otherwise-progressive themes, but recall that the movie has a running theme of being based on the classic fairy tale plotline. Plus, a line from Stephen indicates that she actually ''has'' acted on her own initiative and tried to escape ''twice'' now.

* At the end of the film, Django and Hilda successfully [[spoiler:kill all the owners and overseers at Candieland before running away]]. One can only imagine the reaction that must've occurred throughout the South at the thought of a slave rebellion going that far.

* When Schultz and Candie complete the paperwork for Broomhilda (after Schultz's plan goes up in smoke), King explains Candie that normally, he'd depart from Calvin's home with an "Auf Wiedersehn". However, the phrase in German translates to "Until I see you again", and Schultz never wants to be in Candie's presence ever again, so he simply says goodbye. Later, when Django finds Schultz's corpse after the final shootout, he bids his late mentor "Auf Wiedersehn". When Django heads back to Candieland to finish off the rest of Candie's goons and family, he tells Cors to bid Lara Lee goodbye.

* If the theory that Stephen is only playing dumb in the presence of others is true, then consider the moment where Dr. Schultz says the word 'panache' and Stephen acts all confused -- it's evident that Calvin didn't get it, judging by his expression and how he fields the reply so as not to look like he doesn't know the definition. It's almost as though Stephen got all over-the-top befuddled for Calvin's benefit.

* This has been confirmed in interviews that Schultz was a veteran of the 1848 German Revolution, which tried and failed to topple the corrupt aristocracy. Not only would this explain his liberal-for-the-time attitude toward black people, but it would also explain his hatred for Calvin. America is supposed to be an asylum of liberty, and it would be infuriating to see Calvin as a living perversion of those ideals. Many of the Fourty-Eighters, as they were known, went on to fight in the Civil War because of their opposition to slavery.

** Besides that, as noted elsewhere, Stephen's life has already been destroyed, whether he realizes it or not. With Calvin's death, Stephen's cushy position as head house negro is in jeopardy. He can probably still manage Candyland for a little while, but Clara is young enough to marry. Whoever she marries will take over the household, and is probably not going to be as spoiled and lazy as Candie. Manipulating someone he didn't raise and already sees him as property is going to be a lot harder for Stephen--at best he'd be replaced and at worst he'd be killed for it.

** Even considering the standards of the setting's era, the sheriff was willing to prosecute and potentially kill two men for walking into a bar because one of them wasn't white (regardless of whether he was a free man.) Then there's also the fact that escaping a criminal profile by skipping states and turning into a lawman in a new jurisdiction does not absolve him of his criminality, nor does it overtly prove that he was doing it as a token of atonement, and it's just as easy to speculate that posing a sheriff in a new town provides him with a convenient cover that allows him to hide in plain sight.

* The implied IncestSubtext between Calvin and Laura. Not only is Calvin ''excessively'' eager to see his sister, she presents herself in a way that seems less like a sibling greeting her brother, and more like a lover... she obviously dolled herself up for his arrival.
* Lara Lee (Calvin's sister) is a widow. Considering his very unsettling infatuation with her, is it really ''that'' far-fetched to consider Calvin might have had something to do with that so he could have her for himself? He is shown to enjoy watching human beings being killed before his very eyes, so it isn't a stretch to think he is perfectly capable of knocking off his own brother-in-law

* While Stephen's actions in the movie are horrible and inexcusable, consider his situation: he's lived his whole life in world where he's treated as nothing better than a work horse, his very ''race'' makes him subhuman to everyone, he's witnessed numerous crimes against humanity, and he constantly has to play an Uncle Tom for the benefit of his masters. [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil All the suffering he's probably endured]], [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror being desensitized to such cruelty]], [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy being embittered by having to kowtow to a bunch of white trash imbeciles]], [[NotUsedToFreedom and never getting any kind of freedom]] would destroy and corrupt ''any'' person. Being a brutal house slave is likely the only thing Stephen knows how to be and the only thing he can aspire to. While he's done too much bad to be sympathetic, he's also a victim of the evils of slavery itself.

** As Schultz points out, Creator/AlexandreDumas was black. Specifically, his father, Thomas Alexandre Dumas, was a creole man from colonial Haiti and his mother was a slave. Thomas had been born a slave until his father took him to France to be freed, where he would become a prominent figure in the French Revolution. Dumas' ancestry is that of a man oppressed for his race overcoming oppression and rising in the military ranks.
** Dumas himself faced no small amount of discrimination for his race. Dumas was also a staunch advocate of liberty and rights his entire life: he participated in the 1830 revolutions, he fled from France because he had become an opponent of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and he would (after the events of this movie) participate in the Italian reunification. Dumas would definitely have tremendous contempt for not only Calvin's beliefs, but Dumas would see Calvin as another decadent aristocrat he would despise.

* This has been confirmed in interviews that Schultz was a veteran of the 1848 German Revolution, which tried and failed to topple the corrupt aristocracy. Not only would this explain his liberal-for-the-time attitude toward black people, but would also explain his hatred for Calvin. America is supposed to be an asylum of liberty, and it would be infuriating to have to see Calvin, a living perversion of those ideals.