Candie was a Francophile, and obsessed with Dumas. For someone who thinks so little of blacks and has them as slaves that would be a slap in the face to find out Dumas was black. I really don't see how this is hard to grasp.
:facepalm: Candie is not a real person, yeah? We're talking about why Tarantino wrote a character who is a slave-owning Francophile. I don't believe for a second that he did that simply so he could interject that little-known Dumas "trivia" into the film.
How is his being a Francophile a key component to the film? His being a slave-owner obviously is. But a non-French reading Francophile? To be clear, I don't think it was an afterthought either. I think it's an allusion to the reality (perhaps unconscious) that he lifted the basic structure of the film from Dumas.
Srsly, what don't you get about Tarantino that all his films his takes on genres he loves taken over the top. He probably included that because (a) The Count of Monte Cristo is the revenge story and (b) Dumas was black.
Watched it today with friends. I really enjoyed it. It's no Pulp Fiction, and it was a bit all over the place at times, but it had an orsm soundtrack, great performances from Waltz, Leo and especially Samuel L Jackson, over the top action and great dialogue. If you don't think too much, it's really enjoyable.
Where did I say anything that suggests a refusal to acknowledge or an ignorance about that? Dumas wasn't black. And yeah to (A). I think that's the case. My point is, he cited Dumas as the author of The Three Musketeers rather than Monte Cristo because it would be too overt. Then again, it doesn't seem like very many people on here have read Monte Cristo, or Dumas at all.
Maybe you would've inferred the same association as what I did. You probably wouldn't infer anything if you hadn't read Dumas/Monte Cristo. And believed that he was black. Because somebody in a movie misrepresented the truth. I'm sure that scene had the desired effect on you. Anyway, let's just forget it. You guys liked it. I thought it was total shit. Agree to differ.
I thought the Dumas line was because both Waltz and Leo were in movie adaptations of his books (Waltz in the 3 Musketeers, Leo in Man in the Iron Mask). Probably also because Leo's character was obsessed with the French, and he wanted to stump him. In the end, if you are analysing this movie, you are clearly not as smart as you think you are.
Samuel L Jackson is just godly. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MISkuh9btsA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
