Sentences with phrase «house slave who»

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.

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 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.

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.

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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.

Hail to him who can make those movements, he performs the marvelous, and I shall never grow tired of admiring him, whether he be Abraham or a slave in Abraham's house whether he be a professor of philosophy or a servant - girl, I look only at the movements.

Standing in the place of the slave owner's wife, the mammy became the «premier house servant who, though given considerable authority by her owners and admired for her expertise in domestic matters, remained captive.

«Here you go Jimmy, I know you always liked Bertha who nursed you as a baby, you take her with you along with her children to clean your new house... but make sure if you beat her that the stick is no larger than your thumb and if you kill her you will be punished, so be careful with your slaves.»

That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

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.

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).

Lincoln's Cabinet is dubious about his chances of getting the 13th Amendment through the House, but the president — who has already freed the slaves as a wartime measure in the Emancipation Proclamation — orders them to get it passed before the end of the bloody four - year war.

Smith was originally rumored to be considering playing the character of Django, a slave who embarks with Schultz on a mission to free Django's wife, who is working as a slave in the house of sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Some of the other actors in the film are Aja Naomi King, who plays Nat's wife, Aunjanue Ellis, who plays his mother, and Roger Guenveur Smith, who plays the slave who works in the house and doesn't want to see things change.

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.

Meanwhile, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o follows up 12 Years a Slave with a role as a chirpy air hostess (boasting a dubious cockney accent), while House of Cards» Corey Stoll pops up as a buddy cop who could have been drafted in from the 1990s.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

Forest Whitaker portrays Cecil Gaines, the man who worked his way up from being a child slave on a Georgia plantation to the highest level of butler within The White House... a gig that spanned 34 years and eight Presidents.

Missing, though, is a woman present in the novel and in the Eastwood movie — a slave named Hallie (Mae Mercer in the Eastwood film) who works in the house and is owned by Martha.

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.

As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara is luckier than the slaves who work in the fields.

You'll witness the hardships of early settlers, the danger of marauders, the lives of the slaves who built and maintained the property, and the vision of the Caymanians of 1831 who introduced democracy to the Cayman Islands within the walls of the imposing Great House.

This is especially true of Chicago, a city that absorbed tens of thousands of freed slaves during the Great Migration, who then suffered unprecedented housing and employment discrimination, and whose great - grandchildren live today under a regime of de facto segregation, in Southside slums rife with gun violence.

This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.

The firm was instructed by the joint CEOs of the newly launched business, House Productions — Tessa Ross, former head of Film4 and executive producer on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave and Carol; and Juliette Howell, who was previously at Working Title.

Some of the ceilings of the piazzas are painted in a colour called haint blue, a tradition originating with the local Gullah people, descendents of slaves who believed the colour would prevent ghosts from entering the house.