QWhy did Django kill the slavers who agreed to help him?
ADjango killed the LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. slavers for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, they were slavers -- men who made a living off of working slaves to death in horrible conditions. Django would have been one of those slaves if he hadn't tricked them. Django manages to talk them into letting him go and giving him a gun by fooling them into thinking that the Smitty Bacall gang was hiding out at Candie Land and that there was a $11,500 bounty on the gang. So all the LeQuint Dickey group had to do was ride in and kill them and they'd be able to collect the bounty. Django's request was that he be allowed to carry a gun and help kill the Smitty Bacall Gang. However, Django and Schultz had already killed all of the members of the gang prior to their visit to Candie Land and the $11,500 was used to purchase Hildi. So, once they arrived at the plantation and found out they had been duped, the LeQuint Dickey employees likely would have just in turn killed Django or at the very least made him pay for his deception. So Django had the drop on them and killed all three and likely without any remorse, given their profession.
QWhat is "phrenology" (the term Candie uses during his monologue about Ben and his skull)?
APhrenology is a pseudoscience that was popular in the 1800s. Its core belief was that an individual's nature could be determined by studying the size, shape and bumps present in his or her skull. Phrenology has long since been dismissed as invalid by the medical community. More info on it can be read here. By the time this story begins, the late 1850s, phrenology had already been dismissed as quackery and had declined considerably in popularity, however Calvin obviously believes it's still legitimate -- it's a good way to show how ignorant and racist the character is.
QHow much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
AFor detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Django Unchained can be found here.
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