Sentences with phrase «house slave»

What it does have is Samuel L. Jackson in a pinpoint performance as an unctuous old house slave who's more layered than he appears, and when Django, Schultz, and Candie are sitting around the parlor trying to outwit each other, the film achieves that QT hypnotic mood.

But I think my favorite performance of the entire film is Samuel Jackson as head house slave Stephen, hovering over DiCaprio, always wobbling and shaking, with the grey hair.

While naturally dark - skinned slave women were left to work the fields, their children would receive preferential treatment, being brought into plantation homes to serve as house slaves.

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York

Nightjohn (1996), adapted by Bill Cain from a novel for young adults by Gary Paulsen, is the story of Sarny (Allison Jones), a young house slave on a cotton plantation, who is taught to read by Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly), a slave who escaped to the north but returned to captivity to teach others what he knew.

Leonardo DiCaprio is also set to star as villain Calvin Candie, while Samuel L. Jackson is signed on to play Candie's head house slave Stephen.

But the true revelation of Candyland is Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), a 76 - year - old house slave who has served generations of Candies, and who has become institutionalized by time, his codependent relationship with his master, and the small margin of power he wields with perverse pleasure over the other slaves.

Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave.

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Master & Slave couple in LTR seeking house slave boy to do menial chores, to act as 3rd when required, to service needs of Master and Primary Slave.

It's lorded over by Stephen (an almost unrecognisable Samuel L. Jackson), an ageing house slave who might look like Uncle Ben off of the rice box, but who has a heart as black as coal, in particular when it comes to strangers in his midst.

The two are welcomed with some traditional Southern hospitality, but soon, Candie's ornery house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) discovers their plot with nothing more than an observational eye and a hunch.

It's Samuel L. Jackson who really shines, because his layered performance as the head house slave comments on an entire history of actors playing Uncle Tom.

By the end we've spent a lot of time at Candyland, and we know these are some bad dudes (including Samuel L. Jackson as a Candie - loyal house slave), but all the violence ultimately feels sloppy, arbitrary, inexact.

At no time does Jackson attempt to soften the edges of Stephen, Candie's lifelong chief house slave.

When Schultz locates her as property of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), he and Django offer up a ruse to get Candie's attention and make their way into the depths of Candyland, the plantation where Cavil holds sway over numerous slaves, none more visible than Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), an ancient house slave afforded the opportunity to speak freely.

Under the supervision of house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie dishes out whippings, brandings, beatings, dog attacks and castration.

Samuel L Jackson has long been a Tarantino favorite, and his delivery as the diabolical Uncle Tom house slave who has some secrets of his own, will bring the house down when he first sees Django and, in a much darker way, when his suspicions are confirmed.

While each of these provide wonderful moments, the real bingo occurs courtesy of the main performances of Jamie Foxx (Django), Christoph Waltz (Dr King Schultz, bounty hunter), Leonardo DiCaprio (Calvin Candie, plantation owner), and Samuel L Jackson (Stephen, Candyland house slave).

Stalin's plan for society was enforced by a huge secret police force and included the mass execution of political opponents, the forced starvation of millions of peasants, and a vast network of prison camps (gulags) erected to house slave labor.

Only nothing is that easy, especially when Django gains the critical eye of Candie's house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson).

Bashar was beaten regularly, put to work as a house slave for her captor's family in Raqqa, and forced to work in an explosives warehouse, where she made suicide vests using a chemical paste infused with small metal components, or «pieces of iron,» she recalls.

People who call her and uncle Tom or a house slave are the very people who will never allow things to change.

There will always be uncle Toms in the world or house slaves.

There were many fine candidates on the right who were African - American, who were called traitors, Uncle Toms, house slaves, by those on the left, referring to these people as individuals who apparently did not remember that they were black.

In the 1800s we would have called these people the house slaves.

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There are encounters with a comical predecessor of the KKK (led by a terrifically over the top Don Johnson), a small town sheriff who is not what he seems and, of course, the very proper southern gentleman / Mandingo fighting aficionado and plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)-- and his right hand plantation man, house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson, stealing every scene he's in in a scary, mean, dangerously funny role).

Candie is assisted in his savagery by Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), a house slave who may be the most shocking invention in «Django Unchained.»

Tarantino film regular Samuel L. Jackson adds some humor and class to the proceedings as Candie's house slave.

It was Jackson's role as Stephen, Candie's house slave, that turned out to be the real antagonist in the movie.

Thoughts by TSR: Even with casting like Jamie Foxx as the titular freed slave out for revenge, Christoph Waltz as a German bounty hunter and Samuel L. Jackson as the house slave / right - hand man of evil plantation owner Calvin Candie, Kevin Costner was one of Quentin Tarantino's casting decisions I was most excited about.

Mbatha - Raw plays Rachel, a «house slave» when we meet her, who is almost immediately introduced as Knight's lover in that flash - forward I mentioned.

When Minty, a house slave, doesn't come quickly enough when called, her mean - tempered owner, Mrs. Brodas, burns the girl's rag doll and sends her to work in the fields.

However, Mitchell's estate authorized a sequel written by Donald McCaig in 2007 (Rhett Butler's People), and he has been commissioned to write a prequel as well, this time from the perspective of Scarlett's house slave, Mammy.

She observed that the house slaves had a special status above the others and she was aware that the closer you were to the Master's family, the more special your position, as with Silas.

The hierarchy - master / mistress; house slaves; swamp slaves - was very evident.

The house slaves found the swamp slaves almost as repugnant as the whites found the blacks.

The double standard that I found most interesting in The Healing was the one between the «house slaves» and the «swamp slaves».

And all the house slaves conspire to keep the mistress happy by making Grenada available to the mistress.

The narrative is alternately told from a third - person point of view and from the perspective of Zarité, known as Tété, a mulatto girl who works as a house slave on a sugarcane plantation.

Dean Wesley Smith refers to Michael Stackpole «s piece, Degrees of Slavery (from November 1) about his use of «house slave» as a term for a traditionally published author.

We've seen words like «house slave» and, I du n no, something about frogs and monkeys sexually assaulting one another?

That ancestry and the mark of the goddess on her body mold her life as a house slave in colonial Virginia.