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Or as a vicious plantation owner in «12 Years a Slave».

Huppert plays a French plantation owner in West Africa determined to harvest the coffee crop while life as she knows it is going up in the flames of a conflict in which the contending armies (government, rebels) are nearly indistinguishable.

Step inside the colonial - era great house owned by Jamaica's largest plantation owner in the 1700s.

Not exact matches

What it's about: Based on the acclaimed play, «South Pacific» is about a nurse who falls in love with an older French plantation owner with mixed - race children she has trouble accepting.

However Christian bashing and discrimination — ESPECIALLY Catholic bashing in modern society is regrettably as alive and well as a bigotted southern plantation slave owner in the 1840s.

But then again 80 % of this country believes in mythical slave holders, and at least 60 % believe this celestial plantation owner created them.

I can't speak to the other eight but Tyson Foods and WalMart are no more Christian than slave - owning plantation owners were in the antebellum South.

I can't support the majority when they are terribley wrong...» In defense of christians... you are referring to the southern cult (Baptists) that later apologized for its part in supporting slavery... and yes, they did it to keep gietting MONEY from the wealthy plantation owners who had started donating to the church.In defense of christians... you are referring to the southern cult (Baptists) that later apologized for its part in supporting slavery... and yes, they did it to keep gietting MONEY from the wealthy plantation owners who had started donating to the church.in supporting slavery... and yes, they did it to keep gietting MONEY from the wealthy plantation owners who had started donating to the church...

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

It's like in the days of slavery: if you went to a cotton plantation and asked the slaves and slaveowners who they thought made better slaveowners and better slaves, you would EXPECT them to say, «White people are better slave owners and Africans make better slaves.»

The likelihood that Maunsel White and Edmund McIlhenny were more than mere acquaintances is certainly enhanced by the fact that prominent New Orleans banker Edmund McIlhenny married plantation owner Daniel Averys daughter, Mary Eliza Avery, on June 30, 1859 in St. James Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.

«And since the government's largesse — according to The Australian Financial Review on Monday — goes to Darwin port owners, Wilmar Sugar and JBS Swift — all monopolistic foreign corporations with plantation farming, foreign fly - ins, contractors and mill workers — what benefit is this to Australia?»

After a long narrative about salary negotiations in which the book had made me look like some sort of southern plantation owner dealing with one of his slaves, he wrote: «There is no law that says you have to like your boss...»

States rights was the pretext that plantation owners used to motivate others to die in their stead.

Six months later (as we enter the middle third of the movie), after the duo have become bounty hunting partners, the pair finally set off in search of their main goal — rescuing Djagno's wife Broomhilda, a slaved played by Kerry Washington who has been sold to a nasty Mandingo baron and plantation owner Calvin Candie (played with delicious relish by Leonardo DiCaprio).

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

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).

It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a studio to release a film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.

He ends up on a below - the - border plantation, where he rescues the pretty owner (Dorothy Burgess) from the skullduggery of bandit leader Santono (Noah Beery Sr.) For an actor who was considered a has - been, Monte Blue gives a persuasively virile performance, though he's a bit thick in the middle to be thoroughly convincing as a «young» hero.

They quickly learn that Broomhilda, called Hildy, has been purchased by one Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the scion of a long line of slave owners and the overseer of Candyland, one of the biggest (and thus meanest) plantations in the South.

Stars Jamie Foxx and director Quentin Tarantino praise the actor's indelible performance as plantation owner Calvin Candie in this latest look at the hit film.

Django (Jamie Foxx) goes on to team up with Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter interested in the large reward on Big John, to free his wife from the clutches of villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

When Schultz learns that Django's wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), is also enslaved, he agrees to help find her and buy her freedom, which takes them down to Mississippi, where they face off against a ruthless plantation owner named Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) that specializes in Mandingo fighting.

The veteran plans to write a book about his father, a plantation owner, but soon gets caught up in a series of mysterious murders in the town, and the secrets kept by the townsfolk.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Many sequences in Steve McQueen's new movie, «12 Years a Slave» — the true story of a free black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold to Southern plantation owners — were emotionally exhausting to film.

The German - born, Ireland - raised actor plays cruel plantation owner Epps in the period drama «12 Years a Slave,» in which Brad Pitt, as a...

In point of fact, he seems to be based on the militia leader Francis Marion, a South Carolina plantation owner and veteran of the Indian wars who was known as «the Swamp Fox» for his effective use of the local terrain in springing guerrilla assaults on British troopIn point of fact, he seems to be based on the militia leader Francis Marion, a South Carolina plantation owner and veteran of the Indian wars who was known as «the Swamp Fox» for his effective use of the local terrain in springing guerrilla assaults on British troopin springing guerrilla assaults on British troops.

In 1841, he is kidnapped, shipped to New Orleans, and sold to the plantation owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch).

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).

In 1776 South Carolina, a pacifist plantation owner joins the War for Independence after a British officer murders his 15 - year - old son.

Very violent yet hilariously funny, superb acting from all corners - Waltz and Jackson steal the show while Leo shows up in an awesome turn as a plantation owner and superb visuals... and then there are the Tarantino trademarks - sharp dialogue, humor mixed easily with fear and so much more...

A few years later in 1859, playwright Dion Boucicault halved the calculation and doubled the drama creating THE OCTOROON, a play about a beautiful woman named Zoe (the touching Shawna M. James) who is 1/8 black and the illegitimate daughter of the plantation owner.

This occupation serves him, and his master's (Hammer) well when he is hired by neighboring plantation owners to come and preach to their slaves to keep them in - line.

Nonetheless, it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate indiscriminately.

Thus, we see how the sexualization and rape of sisters by plantation owners and their being forced to mate with strangers for breeding purposes rather than for love when added to the inability of emasculated brothers to protect their females have contributed to a distance and distrust still in evidence.

Others among the supporting cast are used more effectively — Paul Giamatti and Paul Dano as respectively — a callous slaver and plantation foreman, and Alfre Woodward, striking in her few onscreen minutes, as a former slave, now married to a plantation owner.

From Jamie Foxx to Christoph Waltz to Leonardo DiCaprio to Kerry Washington to Samuel L. Jackson — even to Don Johnson as a plantation owner named Big Daddy — the cast raises the film to great heights, even when Tarantino gives in to too many juvenile urges, as he does upon occasion (it's like he just can't help himself — and who's going to tell him no?).

Before long he's on a boat with other kidnap victims and being marketed, naked, in front of Louisiana plantation owners.

He spent twelve years on a plantation in Louisiana serving the brutal and abusive owner Edwin Epps.

In Val Lewton's moody little fantastic horror flick, mousy nurse Betsy goes to the Caribbean to care for afflicted Jessica, the wife of an important plantation owner.

His stunt casting remains an appealing and integral part of his process (this one includes Don Johnson as plantation owner Big Daddy to Jonah Hill as a KKK member in a broadly comedic and comedically long sequence to Samuel L. Jackson uncovering some range as an Uncle Tom - type servant).

Vazante (Unrated) 19th Century saga, set in Brazil's Diamantina Mountains, about a slave - trading plantation owner (Adriano Carvalho) who decides to marry his 12 year - old niece (Luana Nastas), after his wife dies during childbirth.

Schultz, a German who abhors slavery, needs Django's help in tracking down some ornery varmints; for his part, Django requires Schultz's aid in rescuing his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

The Oscar - winning, Gone With the Wind is an epic saga of a plantation owner caught in the War Between the States.

Interestingly, both of the main plantation owners shown utilize scriptures in the Bible as their justification for their actions, though they only key in on a handful out of context and ignore all of the many, many others that run counter to their twisted philosophy.

The inquiry immediately began to mirror conversations that slavers in various institutions would have, where they strived to weaken the minds of a slaves while maintaining the physical characteristics that were seen as a commodity for plantation owners.

Schultz agrees to both grant Django his legal freedom and to help him rescue his beloved wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the clutches of a brutal Mississippi plantation owner named Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio) in exchange for his assistance in completing an assortment of bounty missions over the winter.

In the book Uncle Tom is a middle - aged slave sold downriver again and again until finally he ends up the property of Simon Legree, a monstrous plantation owner who forbids him from reading the Bible and commands him to thrash other slaves.

Both are genre pieces that function as racial revenge fantasies: the war movie Inglourious Basterds shows Jewish - American soldiers slaughtering Nazis in occupied France, and the western Django Unchained follows a freed slave in the antebellum south as he guns down hillbillies, plantation owners, and Klansmen.

He even served as a medic in the Confederate army during the Civil War, but was disheartened to learn how the sons of large plantation owners had been exempted from the military draft.