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Did Django need to shoot Lara Lee? Wasn't she innocent?

posted 8 years ago by mattfoley_motivational_s
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The following is from the FAQ section for this movie:

"Did Django need to shoot Lara Lee? Wasn't she innocent?

Calvin Candie's sister, Lara Lee was far from innocent. She lived on a plantation and clearly had no issues with how her brother brutalized his slaves and likely had a say in how they were punished as well. She constantly held up her nose above the black race, viewing them as nothing more than inferior, sub-human animals. She also had no hang-ups about prostituting her slaves to her guests, given how she dragged Broomhilda up to Dr. Schultz's room. While some might bring up as proof of Lara's righteousness when Stephen and Calvin show off Broomhilda's whipped back and Lara chastises them, it's actually due to her eating dinner and not wanting to be repulsed by looking at mutilated skin. At the end of the film, she was the one who originally wanted to have Django castrated, but changed her mind and decided to sell Django to the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company for a slow, brutal, agonizing death, after Stephen subtly suggests it. Not to mention, Lara Lee was making Broomhilda into a "comfort girl" for both the Mandingos and the slave wranglers. Despite the fact that Django really didn't "need" to shoot Lara Lee, as she was unarmed and posed no imminent threat to him, it's understandable as to why he'd want to take revenge on her. In fact, people could even agree that Lara was taken out the easiest, quickest and cleanest way by Django compared to most of the other villains of the film. For example, Django is shown gunning down Billy Crash multiple times and leaves him suffering and wailing a few moments before finally shooting him dead; Django also violently shoots the elderly Stephen in both of his kneecaps before casually walking out of the Big House, leaving the old man screaming in agonizing pain for several long minutes until the plantation blows up."

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Whoever wrote this is sick. Shooting an unarmed woman who has committed no capital crimes and is just a dumb bitch is disgusting. I really hated this aspect of the film and wish it had not happened. I have other issues with this film but this issue is the most glaring one of all. Clearly the person who wrote that FAQ has been hypnotized into thinking that violence against women is OK if that woman was dumb. Personally, I would shoot the person who wrote this crap for being a sick freak who encourages violence against women.

[–] venturaa 8 years ago

She was a racist. Bye Lara Lee.

Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

[–] kvothetraspie 8 years ago

Good riddance! Lara is dead.

[–] ZFox00 8 years ago

"Encourages violence against women," that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it?

It was played for comical effect.

Though didn't she want Django's junk cut off?

[–] strntz (10798) 4 years ago

Though didn't she want Django's junk cut off?

She did, but violence against men doesn't fit the narrative the left is using to destroy "toxic" males.

[–] Dejay 8 years ago

thinking that violence against women is OK if that woman was dumb. Personally, I would shoot the person who wrote this crap for being a sick freak who encourages violence against women.

What if the person who write this entry was actually a women? Wouldn't you be encouraging violence against women then???

[–] lucyfranceshurst 8 years ago

Good point lol bloody tumblerina's get everywhere.

[–] itssamsonbro 8 years ago

It's a Tarintino movie. Enough said.

[–] liutenantsalt 8 years ago

So, you only take issue when it's a woman who is at the receiving end of violence?

Sexist. To all

[–] patrick_bateman_90029 8 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised if the OP feels the same way regarding how Daisy Domergue was written in "The Hateful Eight". Ignore the fact that she was a racist woman whose day to day life revolved around brutally oppressing and dehumanizing an entire race of people based on their skin color or that she was perfectly fine with prostituting the women to the highest bidder, she didn't deserve her fate solely because she's a woman.

Cry me a river.

Miss Lara was just as much pompous gutter trash as her brother and got the fate she deserved the moment she found nothing morally wrong with profiting off slavery.

[–] CatrionaM 8 years ago

A lot of people don't care when disabled people are abused.

[–] taran-rod 8 years ago

Stop being so butthurt, chill out.

[–] CatrionaM 8 years ago

Why do you care?

[–] taran-rod 8 years ago

Because this is total feminazi bullcrap. Okay just because she is a woman she can't be total trash (what she was) and deserve to be shot? No. Sorry, but if you get butthurt based on the simple fact that she has a vagina, you are a retard.

[–] CatrionaM 8 years ago

Actually it's not okay to harm or name call anyone.

[–] taran-rod 8 years ago

If she is a worthless and racist human being who herself had no respect for black people, I have no mercy.

[–] CatrionaM 8 years ago

A lot of people are guilty of prejudice though.

[–] Jade_The_Messenger 7 years ago

I have yet to watch the film, but read the graphic novel adaption of the film's original script. Based off what I've read in the book and your reasoning as to why she was "innocent", of course she was a rascist...but if she would've been left alive, she would've reported Django to the authorities.