Django Unchained Page #7

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DJANGO:

Huh?

ZZ:

Dr.SCHULTZ

Do slaves believe in marriage'?

DJANGO:

Me and my wife do.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Where is she now?

DJANGO:

I dunno. They put us in different boxcars,

and sent U.S to The Greenville Slave Auction.

She got sold two days 'fore me.

But I don't know who to.

Dr.Schultz takes out a long stick of beef jerky.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Care for some jerky?

DJANGO:

Sure.

Dr.Schultz rips him off a piece. Django chews on it. As he chews,

SCHULTZ SAYS;

Dr.SCHULTZ

So your plan is to trackdowri your wife, and

purchase her.freedom? Only you don't know

where she is?

A chewing Django nods his head, yes.

Dr.Schultz, takes a big bite of jerky, chews for a "moment contemplating

the dilemma, then pronounces;

Dr.SCHULTZ

Well that shouldn't be all that difficult.

So how long ago did all this happen?

DJANGO:

A few months ago.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Three or four?

DJANGO:

Three.

Dr.SCHULTZ

So shecamefrom the Carrucan Plantation,

and shewassold at The Greenville Slave

Auctiontosome :
unknown customer three

monthsago?

Django nods his head, yes.

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Dr.SCHULTZ

The bad part about slavery being a business,

is it's immoral. The good part about it being

a business is, they keep records. Somewhere

in Greenville there's a book with your wife's

name in it, and the name of the customer who

bought her, and more then likely their address.

But then Schultz seems to get second thoughts.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Still, seventy-five dollars in your back

pocket is a pretty nice grub steak, but it's

not going to get you very far in Greenville.

Not to mention a slave auction town in

Mississippi isn't the safest place you could

visit. Free or not.

DJANGO:

I'll have my freedom papers.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Yes you will. But say you show them to some

rascals, and they take them from you and

tear them up?

DJANGO:

They could do that?

Dr.SCHULTZ

I'm not saying they would, but they could.

DJANGO:

They do that I'll kill 'em.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Great! Now you get hung for killin' a white

man. The point being is the place,is just

too dangerous for you.

DJANGO:

Well I gotta go, when do I go?

Dr.SCHULTZ

When you get more dangerous.

EXT - CHATTANOOGA - DAY

Muddy and wet big city Chattanooga. We're in the back of a STORE that.

sells SERVANT/HOUSE N*GGER UNIFORMS. Django comes bursting out of the

stores back door. He's very distressed. One glance at the outfit he's

wearing explains the distress.

Z:

DJANGO:

is dressed in a powder blue satin Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, that

wouldn't be out of place in the court of Marie Antoinette at

Versailles.

Dr.Schultz comes trailing after him.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Django, you have to, it's part of "The Act".

You're playing a character. Your character

is The Valet. This is what The Valet wears.

Remember what I told you. During the act,

you can never break character.

CUT TO:

EXT - BENNETT MANOR- DAY

We see Dr. Schultz, riding slightly in front of Django, dressed in his

blue satin Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, as they enter the property of

BENNETT MANOR, a plantation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Django leads a

riderless horse, behind him and Tony.

As the two men ride their horses up the road that leads to the front

steps of Bennett Manor, alongside the cotton fields, all the SLAVES

stop picking cotton, and straighten their bent backs up to stare in

wonder at this sight.

The patriarch of Bennett Manor, SPENCER "BIG DADDY" BENNETT, dressed in

a fancy leisure suit of the day, emerges from the double doors of the

mansion, and stands on the top steps, hands on hips, watching the white

man and black man move from the background to the foreground.

While there are plenty BLACK MALES out in the cotton fields, the

majority of the slave population of Bennett Manor is pretty.BLACK

FEMALES, fourteen to twenty-four, referred to as, "PONY'S".

The biggest money making crop of this farm, after cotton.

As Dr.Schultz and fancy pants Django, bring Fritz and Tony to a stop

in front of Bennett Manor, they've drawn quite a crowd of SLAVES,

BENNETT FAMILY MEMBERS, and WHITE WORKERS (OVERSEER'S).

Spencer Bennett keeps on the top step so he won't be forced to look up

at the darkee on the horse.

SPENCER BENNETT:

It's against the law for n*ggers to ride

horses in this territory.

Dr.SCHULTZ

This is my valet, and my valet doesn't walk.

SPENCER BENNETT:

I said n*ggers -

Z .ate`

Dr.SCHULTZ

His name is Django, he's a free man, and

he can ride what he pleases.

SPENCER BENNETT:

Not on my.property, around my n*ggers

he can't.

Dr.SCHULTZ

My good sir, perhaps we got off on the

wrong boot. Allow me to unring this bell.

My name is Dr.King Schultz, this is my

valet, Django, and these are our horses,

Fritz, and Tony.

Fritz, does his head bow.

This makes the pretty PONY'S surrounding Bennett, giggle.

Dr.SCHULTZ

Mr. Bennett, I've been lead to believe you

are a gentleman, and a business man.

And it is in these capacities that we've

ridden from Texas to Tennessee to talk

with you now.

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