Calvin Candie

Evil-doer
Full Name	Calvin Candie
Alias	Mr. Candie Monsieur Candie
Origin	Django Unchained
Occupation	Slaveowner and owner of the Candieland plantation
Powers / Skills	Charming personality Aggression Wealth Political power Strength
Hobby	Watching Mandingo fights.
Goals	Get more slaves in order to become the richest and most powerful slave owner he can (failed). Gain $12,000 from business with Django and Dr. Schultz (failed).
Crimes	No information
Type of Villain	Wealthy, Slaver, Xenophobe

“	Gentlemen, you had my curiosity. But now you have my attention.	„
	~ Calvin Candie to Django and Dr. Shultz.

Calvin Candie is the main antagonist in the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained.

He was portrayed by Academy Award winning actor, Leonardo DiCaprio who also played King Louis XIV and Jay Gatsby.

Biography

Calvin Candie is a Mississippi slave owner who owns a large plantation known as Candieland. Django Freeman's wife Broomhilda was taken to Candieland after being sold to Candie by her and Django's former slave master, who tried to distance them from one another as punishment for being married. Candie is a detestable individual who views his slaves harshly as his property and participates in a blood sport known as Mandingo fighting, forcing male slaves to fight to the death for money. In one brutal instance, Candie has a slave torn apart by dogs because he tried to escape having to participate in any further Mandingo fights, costing Candie some $500. His female slaves are often forced into prostitution. He sees people of color as beneath him and little more than property, and Candie displays a disdain for people who are critical of slavery, referring to them as "nigger lovers." The depths of his depravity are seen when he gives Django and Dr. Schultz a lecture on his belief that people of color are biologically inferior using pseudoscience. He claims that other races' supposed lower intelligence, along with submissiveness is the result of a series of dimples inside the skull, as Candie examines the skull of a deceased slave. Candie appears to be quite close to his head slave, Stephen, and places a great deal of trust in him. Stephen immediately takes issue with Django and seems unable to comprehend the idea of Django being a free man. Stephen is almost as twisted as Candie; appearing to almost take joy with the slaughter and torment of his people. He is notorious for constantly sucking up to Candie, doing things such as repeating and agreeing with everything Candie says. Stephen takes notice of Broomhilda and Django's interaction and uses his relation to Broomhilda to intimidate and question her about him. After discovering the truth about them, Stephen explains to Candie that Django and Dr. Schultz's goal was to purchase Broomhilda. Upon hearing this, Candie loses his calm demeanor and reveals his sick and devious nature by threatening to beat Broomhilda to death with a hammer if Dr. Shultz does not pay $12,000 for her. After signing Broomhilda over, Candie then tries to convince Schultz to shake his hand to seal their transaction. Disgusted by the slave owner's behavior, Dr. Schultz appears to concede to Candie's wish, only to shoot him in the heart with a concealed pistol, killing him almost instantly. At the end of the film, Django returns to Candie's estate after his funeral, killing his sister and all of his guards, setting free several slaves in the process. Django shoots Stephen in the legs and leaves him for dead in the mansion as he walks out, blowing it up with dynamite seconds later.

Personality

Calvin is shown to act on the negative and opprobrious southern stereotypes, as seen with his sadistic racism and his implied crush on his sister. Despite his fearsome reputation, he isn't very intelligent, as he didn't know his favorite writer, Alexandre Dumas, was black, nor does he know how to speak French despite insisting on being addressed as Monsieur. It is also implied that he doesn't know how to read or write. Nevertheless, Candy holds a high opinion of himself, considering himself a worldly person, an expert on French culture and Phrenology, which has since been proven to be a pseudo-science. Despite his negative traits, he is good friends with Stephen, his oldest house slave and a doting brother to his sister Lara. Maybe a little too doting. Calvin is extremely sadistic, taking incredible delight in watching two black men viciously fight right in front of him, and cheering when one gouges out the other's eyes. He also casually orders one of his slaves to be mauled to death by dogs.

Gallery

Candie meeting Django and Dr. Schultz for the first time

Candie finds one of his runaway slaves

Candie with Stephen

Candie having dinner in his mansion

Candie shows his true violent nature

Candie is shot in the heart and his corpse is cradled by Stephen

Trivia

• Although Candie is the main antagonist of the film, he was killed off and replaced by Stephen in the climax, thus making him a Disc One Final Boss.
• Candie is regarded as one of the most evil characters that Leonardo DiCaprio has ever played. In fact, even DiCaprio himself began to feel uncomfortable playing the role.
• Candie's plantation, Candieland, appears to have a well-known reputation throughout the slave community. When it is discovered that Broomhilda is at Candieland, Django tells Dr. Shultz that "All slaves know about Candieland."
• Leonardo DiCaprio was considered for the role of Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds, but it eventfully fell to Christoph Waltz due to his German background.
• It is mentioned at one point during the film that Candie is illiterate.
• Like in most, if not all of DiCaprio's previous roles, Candie smokes for a good amount of the film.
• In the film, Candie's dialogue contains 152 uses of the N-word.
• Calvin is extremely similar to Joffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones:
  • Both of them are highly narcissistic and think highly of themselves for no discernible reason.
  • Both of them lack a certain degree of intelligence or perception of those around them.
  • They are introduced as charismatic and affable people, but gradually show an intense and violent streak when in the presence of the heroes.
  • Both of them have a father figure who secretly manipulates them to their own advantage. In Calvin's case it is Stephen, in Joffrey's case it is Tywin.
  • Both of them are killed unexpectedly after childishly humiliating one of the heroes.
  • Both of them are intolerably xenophobic.
  • They take childlike pleasure in seeing other people suffer.
  • Both of them have an apocalyptic temper that often replaces a calm disposition if things do not go their way.
• Calvin is also quite similar to Pierre, Marquis de Fayet from Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag:
  • Both are quite fond French culture. (Though while Calvin doesn't really know a lot on the culture let alone can't speak the language itself, Pierre is conformed to be of French ethnicity, and can indeed speak French.)
  • Both are sadistic slave holders who believe black people are inferior to white people.
    • As such they believe them to be their property and do what ever they want to them.
    • This results in committing horrible atrocities to their slave without remorse. (For Calvin, it was feeding a slave of his to his dogs alive amongst many others; for Pierre, it was having a ship sink with living slaves still on board.)
    • Additionally both seem non threatening before said atrocities and natures came in to light.
    • However said atrocities and beliefs have also caused their demises and deaths by people strongly against them.