Django Unchained Page #9

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DJANGO:

They could be usin' a different name.

They woulda' come to the plantation in

the last year.

BETINA:

You mean The Shaffer's?

DJANGO:

Maybe? Three brother?

BETINA:

Ah-huh.

DJANGO:

Are they here?

BETINA:

Ah-huh.

DJANGO:

Can you point one of 'em out to me?

BETINA:

Well ones over in that field.

She points to the cotton field, at a OVERSEER on top of a horse, whip

in hand, eyeing the blacks at his mercy.

Django takes hold of a little bag slung over his shoulder opens it, and

takes out a shiny brass SPYGLASS, the type a sea captain might use.

Obviously a prop from Dr.Schultz. He slides it open, places it against

his eye, and points it in the direction of a figure out in the cotton

field landscape.

SPYGLASS POV:

Astride his nag, the filthy hillbilly, who calls himself SHAFFER, but

who Django knows to be ELLIS BRITTLE, looks on, oblivious to Django's

observation.

DJANGO SPAGHETTI WESTERN FLASHBACK

He remembers Ellis Brittle BURNING a "r" into Broomhilda's cheek with a

BRANDING IRON.

BACK TO DJANGO AND THE SPYGLASS

he lowers the glass.

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BETINA:

(INNOCENTLY)

Is that who you lookin' for?

DJANGO:

Yep.

He folds the spyglass back up, and puts it back in his purse.

DJANGO:

Where's the other two?

BETINA.

They by the stable, punishin' Little Jody

for breakin' eggs.

DJANGO:

They whippin' Little Jody?

She nods her head, yes.

DJANGO:

Point me in that direction.

She points to a shed, and keeps pointing right.

BETINA:

You go to that shed, and keep goin' that way.

Which means; "Go to the shed and turn right."

DJANGO:

Go git that white man, I came here with.

He slaps her ass, to hurry her up.

Then looks to the shed, and begins crossing the distance between him

and The Brittle Brothers.

FLASH ON:

A memory from The Carrucan Plantation; The Brittle Brothers giving his

wife Broomhilda, a peelin'.

PEELIN' :
A punishment by bullwhip, across the back.

LITTLE RAJ makes a line in the dirt with the heel of his boot.

Making Django stand behind it, as he watches his wife being whipped.

BIG JOHN BRITTLE SLASHES the beauty of Broomhilda's back with his

BULLWHIP.

DJANGO, keeping behind the line, begs Big John for mercy.

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DJANGO:

Please Big John, she won't do it no more!

She's real sorry!

The WHIP RIPS her back.

DJANGO:

(SCREAMING)

Goddamit, Big John!

LITTLE RAJ:

Whoa n*gger, calm down, keep it funny.

Django gets on his knees, and on behalf of Broomhild.a, begs Big John

Brittle with everything he has.

BACK TO DJANGO:

crossing the lawn towards The Brittle Brothers, like an express train.

FLASH ON:

Big John Brittle standing over him, bullwhip in hand, saying to the

KNEELING DJANGO;

BIG JOHN BRITTLE

I like the way you beg, boy.

EXT - STABLE - DAY

Little Raj Brittle, ties LITTLE JODY, a petite slave girl (eighteen)

to a dead tree stump.

BIG JOHN BRITTLE paces, taking a few practice CRACKS with his WHIP.

LITTLE JODY begs The Shaffer Brothers/The Brittle Brothers for mercy.

ROGER goes and sits on a old wagon wheel to watch the whippin'.

BIG JOHN BRITTLE

Now Jody quit your caterwaulin'. You know

yourself it's for your own good. N*ggers

are clumsy. You'd break everything in

goddamn sight, you weren't cured. And the

only known cure for n*gger clumsiness

is a peelin'.

Little Jody begs to differ.

BACK TO DJANGO:

As Django in his powder blue satin suit hurries across the grass to

Little Jody and The Brittle Brothers, he collects eight little friends

who happily run along with the fast walking man. EIGHT LITTLE FRENCH

BULLDOGS who bark, yelp, snort and breath at his heels.. Django pays the

little dogs no nevermind.

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BACK TO BIG JOHN BRITTLE

In position to take the skin off of Little Jody's back.

BIG JOHN:

After this we'll see if you break eggs again.

DJANGO:

turns the corner to the stable, and stands behind them. They don't see

him. Big John rears back to make the first WHIP LASH...

WHEN ...

.DJANGO'S VOICE, stops him;

DJANGO:

John Brittle!

Big John breaks his whip stride, looks. up, and in a discarded full

length broken mirror from the big house, laying abandoned against the

stable wall, he see's DJANGO, dressed in his powder blue satin Little

Lord Flauntleroy outfit, surrounded by his pack of little French

Bulldogs.

LITTLE JODY on her knees, tied to the dead tree stump, looks up see's

the same thing in the mirror.

LITTLE RAJ looks to his left at the sounds of the voice.

BIG JOHN turns toward Django, who he still doesn't recognize.

DJANGO just stares back.

BIG JOHN smile disappears. He recognizes Django.

So does Roger.

LITTLE RAJ:

Django?

Django crosses toward Big John, raising up his arm like he's going to

shake his hand ...

DJANGO:

Remember me?

.Django extends his arm, and Dr.Schultz's Derringer arm

contraption,. POPS the TINY GUN into his hand, and he FIRES a tiny

bullet smack dab into BIG JOHN'S MERCILESS HEART.

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