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Manderlay
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It was in the year of 1933. |
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Grace and her father were heading |
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After leaving Dogville |
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only to find that the mice had been |
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and new forces had taken over |
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The result was |
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that had brought them through the state of |
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No, they will not admit it, |
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Deep down, there isn't a woman alive |
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Whether they involve harems, or |
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being hunted through the jungle |
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However much they go on about |
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Grace and her father had resumed |
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even as they |
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Although Grace had been |
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of letting things go in one ear |
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she was somewhat weary of |
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who believed any nagging woman |
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with the good old bouquet of carnations. |
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You wouldn't have had the guts to |
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No, you're right my girl, |
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We're going, boss... |
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Miss... Lady, can I talk to you? |
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- Yes? |
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I knew they would. |
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They put that Rhenish wine from |
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just to give them |
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One bottle, and it's a whippin'. |
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What are you talking about? Who? |
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- Timothy. |
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That's how they do us slaves. |
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- Slaves? |
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Surely |
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That's what we is at Manderlay... |
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That's how I got out. |
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When a whippin's in the offin' |
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Listen, Grace, it's a local matter. |
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- Just because it's a local matter? |
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You think the Negroes |
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Wasn't it us who brought them here? |
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It's our abuse |
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Untie him! |
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Stop! |
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'Fraid not, lady. Slavery was |
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If you won't obey that law of your own accord, |
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Mam! |
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Water for Mam! |
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Spare me your hypocrisy, |
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Get out. Leave us alone. |
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If you're looking for sympathy, |
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Listen... |
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I'm very old and, |
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I should like |
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If it allows you to go on |
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I'll have to say no, |
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Slavery is over now, |
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It had to come one day. |
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All right... |
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I'll probably refuse you, |
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There's a book |
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I should like you to retrieve it |
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and burn it for me. |
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- It would be best for everyone. |
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But it's my view that anything is best served |
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I beg you. |
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Woman to woman |
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The sins of the past are sins I cannot |
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Now I must leave you. My father's |
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so now everybody |
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Let everyone here know |
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they can enjoy the same freedoms |
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The Constitution |
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Here's a tip |
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There's a weighty written evidence |
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She's dead! |
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The old devil...! |
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Oh, I'm sorry. |
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No, no. If any of us |
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I'm afraid... |
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There's nothing to be afraid of. |
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No. |
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I'm afraid |
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I fear we ain't ready |
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for a completely new way of life. |
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At Manderlay, |
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When do people take supper |
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We don't know these things. |
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Free men eat when they're hungry. |
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Free women, as well. |
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Considering the times |
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Grace's words on meal times for free citizens |
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We shouldn't believe there lay |
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for the wretched |
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Grace rejoined the gangsters, |
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who had concluded their disarmament |
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though their findings were meager |
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All right, we can go. |
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No, let's just wait a moment. |
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What are you waiting for? |
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For them |
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Or for them to burn the place down |
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You are a bigot, Daddy! |
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We owe these people! We brought them here. |
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- We made them what they are! |
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You can't trust them when there's |
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- Why don't they come out? |
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- Last time? |
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You thought it was so sad that |
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And nobody could persuade |
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Tweety was a proud little bird. |
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Well, his dignified exit |
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We found him the next morning |
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- Frozen to death. |
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He was an indoor bird. |
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What do you think |
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How many generations do you think |
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I bet most of them have taken up employment |
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Now they'll get a few dollars, |
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Maybe they'll borrow a bit more |
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who have no doubt opened a store |
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They won't be able to pay back the |
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What you did |
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when push comes to shove, |
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Just as you did with Tweety. |
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So, all we can do |
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What you said |
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- That's fraud. |
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See, I've read |
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that free slaves are given a mule and |
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Yep, that's true |
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but it turned out that the fellow |
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kept it all for himself. |
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It may take them a while to gather |
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for when the family goes on trial. |
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Trial? |
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Tater-pie, |
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There are times when you seem even |
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No, I seem to have |
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We've at least one man |
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and he's gettin' out, |
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He's high-tailin' it, all right. |
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- pardon me... |
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He's scared out of his wits. |
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Would it be possible |
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- Yes, yes... |
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- That's exactly what you're doing. |
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This is a grave day for everyone. |
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I just thought we must |
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We should like to thank you properly |
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It'll only take a moment. |
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- Yes, of course. |
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Not a second longer! |
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Grace was conducted through |
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bestowed upon the slaves, |
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Her actions would mean an absolute |
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There was no doubt about that |
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or was there? |
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Actually, Grace did not see |
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that could have convinced her |
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no one would end up |
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These were human beings |
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but of the kind on whom pain |
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as she was suddenly interrupted |
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When we were slaves |
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we were not required |
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and for the water we drank |
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Nobody needs to say thank you... |
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- But... |
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You mean there's something |
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I didn't mean "but", |
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There's no reason to be grateful for |
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I'm the first |
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you and your people |
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Those gates should have been |
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Only 70 years ago! |
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But before that, of course |
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No... |
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No, no, no. |
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- What can I say? |
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We've heard of your kind. |
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A society lady who spends her time |
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I should like to say thank you. |
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Missy done give her time |
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Time I bet she could have spent |
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'Cause t'was perfect justice |
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and not others. |
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The nigra is violent by nature. |
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Oh, I know |
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And it ain't |
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No, Victoria |
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only on her experience |
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though God knows |
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Burt was a useless eejit whose character |
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had done her best to improve |
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no matter how much |
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by throwing himself |
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Grace looked at Wilhelm, |
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He had not brought her here |
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He just wanted |
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The unfortunate flock |
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would have few chances |
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Living proof of the |
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Listen up... |
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It's all been put on paper. |
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We just needed |
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bein' as these things |
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Bingo? |
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- What are these? |
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The family has been so considerate |
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Grace was not a lawyer |
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and unqualified to assess the contract |
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But she feared that any judge in the county |
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It appeared to Grace |
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they might as well have |
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A body would only sign it |
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if he or she was utterly |
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Or, if he or she |
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Folks, I suppose that |
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- Mark? |
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I once knew this fella from a little township |
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so there ain't no grounds |
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He had cash. Not piles of it. |
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We are prepared to lend you some money |
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And we can also set up |
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After all, |
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And if you buy enough |
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I bet you liable |
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and the goods'll be cheaper |
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Ain't that right, Miss Grace? |
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I have no idea. |
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- Please sign, everybody. |
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Here... |
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All right, let's go. |
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- No, turn it off. |
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You said I didn't have the power |
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and you were right. |
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- I was a child then. |
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This time |
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You said so back in Dogville. |
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That your power would be mine, too. |
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And that I could use it |
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That power |
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That I was open to new ideas. |
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will undoubtedly be applied |
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Daddy, you promised. |
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You were a bastard to Mother but |
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Okay... |
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You've been given |
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Maybe things haven't been split |
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this is as far as |
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I want nothing to do |
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And you won't be able to get |
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to get you out of trouble, |
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you'll have no idea where I am. |
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- Daddy, I'd like to take Joseph. |
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I need a lawyer |
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No... No. Never! |
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Never! I'd never let Joseph go. |
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He's the only man who can draw up a contract |
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Though I haven't needed |
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I still might need it one day! |
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- I'll give you Viggo and Bruno for him. |
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I've given you my best associates, |
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Daddy, I was meant to be given half. |
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Oh, damn it, Grace! |
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So, that very day |
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Joseph employed the |
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his previous employer had given |
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New contracts needed drawing up |
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All with the astonishing goodwill |
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in the company of |
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These are the deeds of gift. |
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Transfer the property to the |
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The last document is your contract |
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Employment? |
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I... don't quite get |
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It'll be without pay |
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and the right of termination |
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- But nevertheless... |
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For you and your family |
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Say something, Bingo. |
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My father's back ain't so strong. |
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He climbed up to reach |
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and he fell off the banister |
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Well, that's what happens |
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When I consider your understanding |
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has reached |
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you and Mr Mays and your family |
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- Go? And leave our home? |
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Even starting from scratch |
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than your former laborers' |
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With regards |
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We'll only act |
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The guns are merely a precaution |
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We intend to stay here but only |
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After which any of the new |
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may cash in his or her |
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Will you collect your deeds? |
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Nobody was enthusiastic or confident |
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But Grace |
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And if she saw little else but fear |
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at least she saw gratitude |
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Namely, |
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Burt! |
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Got a deed of gift here |
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Will Mr Burt approach and take |
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Mr Burt? |
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Burt had actually prepared |
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Despite her lack of faith |
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Burt had succeeded in meeting |
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and she had agreed |
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And there he was, waiting at |
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A helping hand, |
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What a coincidence that |
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of the Manderlay slaves |
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Grace, and Burt's "helping hand". |
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And the similarities between them |
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Young, beautiful, white. |
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Actually, male company |
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Where's the nigger? |
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Grace had moved |
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among its new shareholders. |
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But no one could stop her |
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to make her own observations |
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Hoping to spot the burgeoning change |
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But, unfortunately |
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She saw Victoria |
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in hopes of a glimpse |
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She saw Flora and Elizabeth |
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She saw the men |
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playing for tufts of cotton |
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And she saw how everybody |
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he was never able to give |
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We called him Puddin' Head, but |
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Grace saw Victoria beating |
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And she saw the unstoppable |
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Victoria beating Ed, Ed beating |
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who vented his frustration further |
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who far too rarely managed |
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that her loving father Jack had |
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Which also allowed her |
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to her favorite view |
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Every noontide, |
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how the former slaves |
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with its mysterious numbers |
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as if nothing |
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However, one of them did not submit |
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Timothy, of course. |
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In a flash, his exotic pride |
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This day Grace walked on past |
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where the whites were put to work |
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on her way to the barn |
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- So how's everyone doing? |
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It's not good for the moral. |
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Your father |
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I bet he did. |
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Not this much patience, Niels says. |
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His grandpa was a cotton grower. |
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He says the cotton |
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- The soil doesn't look ready. |
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- Maybe things are different here. |
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Well, if it should have been sown surely |
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Grace didn't want to impose. |
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Her contact with the former slaves |
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But now it was time |
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Excuse me. Sir? Mark. |
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It's about planting the cotton. |
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I've been around for sowin' and harvestin'. |
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Right. |
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So when should |
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There's strict rules for that. |
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You can't mess around |
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Manderlay's always been renowned |
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The swallows always migrate |
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They settle here for the night |
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But the planting? |
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It's a science, my dear lady, |
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Yes, yes. And when |
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Not too soon and not too late. |
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Yes, but when? |
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Should the cotton |
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I'm not the sorta fella to pass on |
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Unless the facts of the matter |
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In other words, |
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Do you know when to plant? |
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- No. |
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This morning |
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He'd gotten frayed |
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- It's a funny thing... |
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Excuse me, Wilhelm, |
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The fields should have been plowed |
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And the cotton planted 2 weeks ago. |
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Does everybody know that? |
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Oh, yes, |
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somebody else |
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In the old days Overseer Mays |
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Maybe it's because |
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Yeah, but Wilhelm, they could |
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Repairs to their homes... |
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The cabins |
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But Mam said we ain't got |
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We'll need |
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How else will people |
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Yeah, |
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if folks felt |
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Something brought out by this, |
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That made their lives better in a |
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Right here and now! |
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I don't know |
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- But we don't have time for that. |
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The harvest might be improved |
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Even says that in Mam's Law. |
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- Mam's Law? |
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It's all the rules |
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But we weren't allowed to read it. |
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Only for Mam and the family, |
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Certainly no more. |
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And there on Mam's bed |
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skimming through the book, filled |
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she came upon a page |
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A table with numbers |
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Somewhere Grace had seen |
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Mam's Law revealed it all: |
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The Manderlay plantation |
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and pitiful rear where the slaves |
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had been kept in an iron grip |
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They represented the psychological |
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Sammy was a Group 5: |
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The formidable Victoria was of course |
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No wonder her husband Burt |
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even if it was |
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Wilma and Mark |
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Wilhelm was a 2: a Talkin' Nigger. |
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Et cetera. There were Pleasin' Niggers |
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The final category, |
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consisted nowadays of Timothy, |
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And Elizabeth. |
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No... It said 7, not 1. |
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She was a Pleasin' Nigger, |
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A person who could transform herself into |
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This was how the slave system had |
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Bondage, |
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As Grace, in deep thought, gazed |
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she recalled |
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dealing with the weeding of the paths |
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The name of the band of woodland |
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Trees and tree trunks, |
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So there were materials |
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Excuse me... |
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May I ask you all something? |
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Isn't it true that somebody |
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can still take the trouble |
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How dare you? |
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You think colored folks prefer holes |
| 00:36:46 |
Then all you need to do |
| 00:36:49 |
But I told you. There ain't never been |
| 00:36:55 |
No materials...? |
| 00:37:01 |
When I'm in the fields |
| 00:37:05 |
Waiting to be turned into boards for a roof. |
| 00:37:08 |
Or an extension or maybe a whole new cabin. |
| 00:37:11 |
That be Mam's garden. |
| 00:37:16 |
And why can't we cut down |
| 00:37:20 |
Have you spent that many happy hours |
| 00:37:26 |
That's true. |
| 00:37:31 |
We ain't seen it as anything |
| 00:37:37 |
I don't know what you think, |
| 00:37:54 |
And at a stroke, these seated, reclining, resting |
| 00:38:03 |
Walking, |
| 00:38:06 |
Without anyone having to threaten |
| 00:38:11 |
as Grace had been told |
| 00:38:14 |
And Grace had won |
| 00:38:18 |
A small beginning of something |
| 00:38:20 |
that would one day erase all the negative, |
| 00:38:33 |
But the appetite for improving |
| 00:38:38 |
unfortunately exceeded that |
| 00:38:43 |
A few of the former slaves had volunteered |
| 00:38:47 |
and with the white family and Grace |
| 00:38:49 |
they made up a sort of gang |
| 00:38:54 |
Under the gaze of a hostile Timothy |
| 00:39:12 |
- He wasn't born here? |
| 00:39:16 |
It's a line of African royalty. |
| 00:39:20 |
He don't drink or gamble like the others be doin' |
| 00:39:26 |
T'was Mam's Law. |
| 00:39:33 |
Grace knew about the clever system |
| 00:39:38 |
Not real money that you |
| 00:39:43 |
The Munsi don't gamble 'cause |
| 00:39:48 |
They believe you have to be |
| 00:39:52 |
and only take |
| 00:39:56 |
I've never heard |
| 00:39:59 |
but I believe |
| 00:40:02 |
They different. |
| 00:40:06 |
They gamble... |
| 00:40:11 |
So Timothy has prejudices, |
| 00:40:14 |
- What? |
| 00:40:19 |
- So you find company, Flora. |
| 00:40:31 |
Timothy? |
| 00:40:34 |
Let me tell you one thing. |
| 00:40:37 |
I know you don't like me. |
| 00:40:40 |
And don't trust me. |
| 00:40:44 |
Although our ideals differ, |
| 00:40:49 |
that I believe will one day be the |
| 00:40:55 |
Let me tell you one thing, too! |
| 00:40:57 |
You got fine words, a posse |
| 00:41:02 |
Somethin' folks here seem to fall for, |
| 00:41:06 |
You're not interested in us. |
| 00:41:11 |
It's tough telling people apart |
| 00:41:16 |
We whites have committed irreparable |
| 00:41:21 |
Manderlay is a moral obligation, |
| 00:41:31 |
Luckily, I'm just a nigger |
| 00:41:36 |
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've come |
| 00:41:40 |
and that ain't nothin' |
| 00:41:44 |
Black hides meetin'... |
| 00:41:46 |
And if I were you, I'd leave now |
| 00:42:03 |
Grace regarded Timothy's hostility |
| 00:42:07 |
The very next day |
| 00:42:11 |
that as a white she was incapable |
| 00:42:16 |
She'd had a chat with Venus |
| 00:42:21 |
Venus had revealed |
| 00:42:23 |
was merely that of |
| 00:42:29 |
- Tell me, have you seen Venus? |
| 00:42:37 |
I have something for Jim. |
| 00:42:39 |
I've had a good look |
| 00:42:42 |
and you're right. |
| 00:42:48 |
- This is far too much... |
| 00:42:52 |
Go on, call him. |
| 00:42:56 |
Jim, come on out here |
| 00:43:07 |
These are for you, |
| 00:43:12 |
Now run along |
| 00:43:17 |
Never mind close-minded folks |
| 00:43:20 |
what art is meant to look like. |
| 00:43:26 |
Excuse me, but I ain't Jim. |
| 00:43:31 |
That's Jim. |
| 00:43:41 |
It is tricky. I've never |
| 00:43:48 |
They're both colored |
| 00:43:51 |
Why look any deeper than that? |
| 00:43:55 |
To be honest, Grace had never been quite sure |
| 00:44:01 |
A blunder like that would, in her former life |
| 00:44:08 |
In her life at Manderlay |
| 00:44:14 |
But like her father, she didn't take long to change |
| 00:44:21 |
This is what has created |
| 00:44:25 |
Even you regard it |
| 00:44:29 |
I must admit it's played |
| 00:44:32 |
That will be my next move. |
| 00:44:37 |
And understand |
| 00:44:40 |
I wouldn't advise it, Missy. |
| 00:44:44 |
Presenting it to them would |
| 00:44:47 |
with which it is to be beaten. |
| 00:44:49 |
It must be made public |
| 00:44:58 |
All right. |
| 00:45:01 |
We'll have to see about |
| 00:45:04 |
I'm not talking about the meetings |
| 00:45:09 |
I mean teaching with a timetable. |
| 00:45:11 |
Old-fashioned, |
| 00:45:16 |
I've got something for you to do. |
| 00:45:21 |
At noon tomorrow I'm giving my first |
| 00:45:27 |
It'll be your job |
| 00:45:30 |
- No excuse for not showing up. |
| 00:45:34 |
No, they're pretty well |
| 00:45:39 |
- Are you listening to me? |
| 00:45:44 |
What? |
| 00:45:51 |
Who are you? |
| 00:45:54 |
My name is Doctor Hector. |
| 00:45:59 |
Do excuse me a moment. |
| 00:46:06 |
I don't believe you possess |
| 00:46:10 |
You have a poker player's face. |
| 00:46:16 |
You see |
| 00:46:19 |
I've never gained access |
| 00:46:23 |
So when I drove by today |
| 00:46:27 |
I took it as a sign of new times. |
| 00:46:29 |
- What exactly do you do? |
| 00:46:34 |
Party games, card games, |
| 00:46:37 |
Well, nowadays |
| 00:46:41 |
You play for money. |
| 00:46:43 |
But I do more than play. |
| 00:46:49 |
And you don't object to revealing |
| 00:46:54 |
Oh, to some people, |
| 00:46:57 |
If you and I establish the business |
| 00:47:03 |
you'll know |
| 00:47:06 |
And what can I expect? |
| 00:47:09 |
Eighty percent. |
| 00:47:12 |
You know all the problems that arose |
| 00:47:19 |
Plantation owners had plenty |
| 00:47:22 |
So they contracted |
| 00:47:25 |
But they didn't have the same hold |
| 00:47:30 |
Of course they lent them money. |
| 00:47:32 |
But quite a few of the nigras |
| 00:47:35 |
actually saved up and paid off their debts. |
| 00:47:39 |
So the plantation owners got worried. |
| 00:47:46 |
- I bet they did! |
| 00:47:48 |
That's where my idea came in. |
| 00:47:50 |
I went to the plantations |
| 00:47:54 |
to entertain their employees, |
| 00:47:59 |
We just had a little game of cards. |
| 00:48:02 |
If anyone was close to repaying his debt |
| 00:48:11 |
And I am prepared to offer you |
| 00:48:22 |
You are not convinced. |
| 00:48:26 |
Let me give you another token |
| 00:48:29 |
I have here a letter from |
| 00:48:35 |
He asked me to smuggle it out. |
| 00:48:38 |
Perhaps you'd like to see it |
| 00:48:41 |
Listen, Mr Hector... |
| 00:48:44 |
Let me say I have never met a man |
| 00:48:50 |
so wholeheartedly, both for |
| 00:48:58 |
So you're |
| 00:49:00 |
I never want |
| 00:49:07 |
All right... |
| 00:49:11 |
Well, I am disappointed. |
| 00:49:14 |
I shall nevertheless bestow |
| 00:49:17 |
I indulge in word games. |
| 00:49:20 |
I like to give my clients something |
| 00:49:26 |
The best technique for a card shark |
| 00:49:30 |
is dealing from the bottom. |
| 00:49:34 |
Look as if you're dealing |
| 00:49:38 |
but instead you just take |
| 00:49:44 |
Taking from the bottom |
| 00:49:47 |
But it is what I do. |
| 00:49:50 |
I take from the bottom. |
| 00:49:54 |
It won't be hard to find me |
| 00:50:06 |
The letter was aimed at a Mr Miller one of |
| 00:50:12 |
and the plantation's only |
| 00:50:18 |
It was short and to the point: |
| 00:50:21 |
We are being held prisoner by |
| 00:50:26 |
Inform the police and please come |
| 00:50:47 |
Indignation is a rare emotion for a gangster |
| 00:50:50 |
but such a state was |
| 00:50:53 |
while they herded the |
| 00:50:57 |
as Grace had reported on Dr Hector's |
| 00:51:03 |
It was hardly the sophisticated |
| 00:51:06 |
that had affected them |
| 00:51:10 |
Welcome to our lesson. |
| 00:51:13 |
Yes, I call it a lesson, |
| 00:51:15 |
as the term "meeting" seems to have scared |
| 00:51:19 |
I was comin'... but I was late. |
| 00:51:23 |
You hadn't made it |
| 00:51:26 |
In the old days we heard the bell |
| 00:51:30 |
T'was easier to keep up with time, |
| 00:51:35 |
Probably because |
| 00:51:37 |
But now for the topic |
| 00:51:43 |
Only four people from your wing |
| 00:51:49 |
and only five helped to plant. |
| 00:51:53 |
If I'd been |
| 00:51:55 |
and had also been one of the five, |
| 00:52:00 |
Democracy means |
| 00:52:05 |
But, as it's not practical |
| 00:52:09 |
a method by which people may |
| 00:52:13 |
This method is called a ballot. |
| 00:52:19 |
So, let's try it out. |
| 00:52:20 |
We should choose a problem. |
| 00:52:26 |
- If I may suggest a small matter... |
| 00:52:31 |
I reckon the little broken rake is mine. |
| 00:52:36 |
It's my rake |
| 00:52:37 |
That's an excellent suggestion. |
| 00:52:43 |
I assume you all know of this dispute |
| 00:52:48 |
Who does the community think |
| 00:52:53 |
It could turn out to belong |
| 00:52:57 |
That would correspond nicely |
| 00:53:02 |
Working together, |
| 00:53:04 |
All right, so who thinks |
| 00:53:09 |
Sammy? |
| 00:53:13 |
I think... |
| 00:53:18 |
All right, all right! |
| 00:53:19 |
Slowly the point of Grace's |
| 00:53:24 |
Most thought the rake |
| 00:53:27 |
a few, that it was Flora's, |
| 00:53:32 |
I still remain... undecided whether the rake |
| 00:53:40 |
Right. So, not surprisingly, |
| 00:53:45 |
From now on the little broken rake |
| 00:53:50 |
There are |
| 00:53:54 |
But the community has spoken. |
| 00:53:56 |
Now Grace embarked on an explanation |
| 00:54:03 |
and that joint ownership |
| 00:54:08 |
To make sure everyone understood |
| 00:54:11 |
they carried out |
| 00:54:15 |
I wanna talk about Sammy be laughin' so loud |
| 00:54:23 |
I been tryin' to sleep and I can't get no sleep |
| 00:54:30 |
Maybe there can be a time |
| 00:54:33 |
and stop laughin', |
| 00:54:38 |
Surely you can't vote |
| 00:54:42 |
I'm hearing it's at sundown. |
| 00:54:46 |
That's what I'm hearing. |
| 00:54:51 |
All right, so that's settled. |
| 00:54:58 |
That's democracy. |
| 00:55:00 |
Finally Wilhelm proposed that |
| 00:55:04 |
for winding up the clock with |
| 00:55:09 |
For mysterious reasons the fairly |
| 00:55:15 |
despite the song and dance |
| 00:55:19 |
Grace ended by announcing |
| 00:55:24 |
Our anger |
| 00:55:28 |
Maybe someone would |
| 00:55:33 |
Ask Timothy. |
| 00:55:37 |
He tell by the sun. |
| 00:55:39 |
Or you can ask Wilhelm. |
| 00:55:41 |
He's so old, he's from |
| 00:55:45 |
Wilhelm and Timothy each made |
| 00:55:50 |
And they were |
| 00:55:53 |
Wilhelm thought it was 8 minutes to. |
| 00:55:59 |
Grace rejoiced quietly at this natural ability |
| 00:56:05 |
But rapidly 2 factions emerged. |
| 00:56:11 |
and the other would not |
| 00:56:16 |
They were thus able to draw on the |
| 00:56:22 |
The result was 5 minutes to, |
| 00:56:29 |
The official time at Manderlay |
| 00:56:39 |
Grace's first lesson |
| 00:56:43 |
But the second one that unfortunately proved |
| 00:56:55 |
Read! |
| 00:56:58 |
Daily ration of food |
| 00:57:05 |
Oh. Oh, no. "1... is..." |
| 00:57:11 |
Six ounces of solid food. |
| 00:57:15 |
They've always been given that. |
| 00:57:20 |
That's a lot less |
| 00:57:26 |
Why should a "Proudy Nigger" |
| 00:57:37 |
How can the way |
| 00:57:40 |
have anything to do with |
| 00:57:46 |
I really don't know, either. |
| 00:57:52 |
It could be |
| 00:57:55 |
No, I just did what it said. |
| 00:57:59 |
It mattered a lot to my mother |
| 00:58:04 |
I know of many places where they |
| 00:58:10 |
And where |
| 00:58:13 |
It's a kind of custom coloreds have |
| 00:58:18 |
But it was forbidden |
| 00:58:21 |
That's not |
| 00:58:23 |
Don't you see what an affront it is, |
| 00:58:30 |
Folks is different. |
| 00:58:32 |
Oxen and rabbits |
| 00:58:37 |
Both parties |
| 00:58:40 |
Stop it! I'm not at all satisfied |
| 00:58:44 |
You're all speaking up |
| 00:58:49 |
I'm going |
| 00:58:51 |
because so little effort |
| 00:59:17 |
Grace thought her idea of making |
| 00:59:22 |
which had seemed so just |
| 00:59:27 |
was perhaps a tad too much |
| 00:59:34 |
Even though as a child |
| 00:59:38 |
of going to the toilet |
| 00:59:41 |
Look at your Uncle Jim. |
| 00:59:45 |
He's in the bathtub, |
| 00:59:58 |
Can we clean our faces now? |
| 01:00:02 |
Yes. Yes, of course. |
| 01:00:10 |
Well... |
| 01:00:14 |
Here comes the dust. |
| 01:00:18 |
Then none of this |
| 01:00:22 |
- What do you mean? |
| 01:00:29 |
The plants |
| 01:00:34 |
It couldn't be worse. |
| 01:00:38 |
But Manderlay's fields have never |
| 01:00:43 |
'Cause the windbreak |
| 01:00:47 |
Grace was not inclined to go into the |
| 01:00:53 |
Soon she'd convinced herself |
| 01:00:57 |
apart from spreading |
| 01:01:03 |
The next day's lesson |
| 01:01:06 |
met little understanding |
| 01:01:12 |
It was when |
| 01:01:15 |
and had decided |
| 01:01:20 |
as she was old |
| 01:01:23 |
that they heard the wind. |
| 01:01:38 |
The dust had come at this time for |
| 01:01:42 |
But every year from |
| 01:01:46 |
it had spared the newly planted cotton |
| 01:01:51 |
by a narrow band of trees known in |
| 01:02:06 |
In the midst of the almost biblical |
| 01:02:11 |
Grace knew that even hand in hand |
| 01:02:16 |
no army of gangsters |
| 01:02:19 |
Nature's extravagant |
| 01:02:24 |
She could only watch as row upon row |
| 01:02:30 |
disappeared |
| 01:02:35 |
Nobody could do a thing. |
| 01:02:41 |
But apparently it did not mean |
| 01:02:46 |
for now Grace |
| 01:02:49 |
He was riding like crazy. |
| 01:02:52 |
Wherever he spotted |
| 01:02:57 |
he would break it up |
| 01:03:03 |
Whether it would help at all |
| 01:03:10 |
no matter how senseless |
| 01:03:16 |
Timothy... |
| 01:03:19 |
Come back! |
| 01:03:21 |
Come back...! Timothy! |
| 01:03:24 |
- Timothy! |
| 01:03:27 |
He knows these storms. |
| 01:03:32 |
Miss Grace, you's head over heels for him. |
| 01:04:08 |
- Where'd you find him? |
| 01:04:28 |
- Is he alive? |
| 01:04:32 |
- But what does it mean, to be alive? |
| 01:04:36 |
Forget it. |
| 01:04:41 |
Is he dead? |
| 01:04:45 |
We colored folks can be awfully |
| 01:05:22 |
That very afternoon |
| 01:05:26 |
surveying the buildings |
| 01:05:32 |
The dust had struck |
| 01:05:36 |
Hardest hit were the food stores in the dilapidated |
| 01:05:43 |
Almost all of their provisions |
| 00:00:06 |
The dust had got in everywhere |
| 00:00:08 |
particularly where no new boards |
| 00:00:13 |
Namely through the cracked glass |
| 00:00:20 |
Valuables, not to mention cash, |
| 00:00:26 |
since the elegant clock on |
| 00:00:31 |
not Swiss, as Mam believed but a copy made |
| 00:00:40 |
The Freed Enterprise |
| 00:00:45 |
Wilhelm and Grace |
| 00:00:48 |
that anybody |
| 00:00:54 |
But then, one by one, the |
| 00:01:08 |
I'm happy you're all here. |
| 00:01:14 |
But I don't really |
| 00:01:21 |
I'd just like to say |
| 00:01:27 |
how badly I feel |
| 00:01:38 |
But of course words |
| 00:01:43 |
No, Missy has learnt |
| 00:01:49 |
But as regards hopelessness, it is |
| 00:01:56 |
There are a million plants |
| 00:02:00 |
If we can save but 50 of them |
| 00:02:03 |
perhaps we can grow a small quantity of |
| 00:02:13 |
I reckon we should make a move. |
| 00:02:19 |
That is how a great disaster turned |
| 00:02:24 |
and how the people, with a common |
| 00:02:29 |
suddenly found themselves working |
| 00:02:34 |
to achieve the common goal |
| 00:02:39 |
Stanley and Bert |
| 00:02:42 |
so people could tell where |
| 00:02:48 |
While Flora, ever so childishly, |
| 00:02:52 |
for her supposed |
| 00:03:05 |
Good night, old Wilma. |
| 00:03:08 |
Good night, child. |
| 00:03:11 |
We can talk for awhile |
| 00:03:15 |
No, thank you, Wilma. |
| 00:03:17 |
I'm not weary enough |
| 00:03:23 |
A walk when a body ain't sleepy |
| 00:03:29 |
I do the same myself. |
| 00:03:33 |
- Good night. |
| 00:03:45 |
That everything seemed |
| 00:03:48 |
could be nothing |
| 00:03:51 |
But her lack of an active part to play |
| 00:03:57 |
and allowed other things |
| 00:04:01 |
Human things like instincts |
| 00:04:08 |
An ominous sense of homelessness |
| 00:04:15 |
Wandering about, |
| 00:04:16 |
Grace suddenly found herself outside |
| 00:04:26 |
Without warning, the homelessness |
| 00:04:30 |
to move up that rusty pipe |
| 00:04:35 |
into where naked bodies |
| 00:04:43 |
Black skin... |
| 00:04:46 |
Male and black manhood. |
| 00:04:58 |
What Grace had felt at the bath |
| 00:05:04 |
Her mind was meant to be |
| 00:05:08 |
A matter in which these thoughts |
| 00:05:15 |
Grace had forced herself to sleep, to |
| 00:05:21 |
An achievement that was possible thanks |
| 00:05:28 |
But the cotton seedling in her |
| 00:05:33 |
It manifested itself as a dream. |
| 00:05:36 |
Grace was in southern climes... |
| 00:05:41 |
There were women in exotic |
| 00:05:47 |
Even in her sleep |
| 00:05:48 |
she hated with a passion any idea of |
| 00:05:54 |
But it was a harem. |
| 00:05:59 |
A group of black slaves appeared, |
| 00:06:05 |
In a twinkling Grace lay among |
| 00:06:10 |
as a flock of Bedouin satisfied her |
| 00:06:18 |
And it was even more confusing |
| 00:06:22 |
and was both the slave |
| 00:06:26 |
and the sheik himself, |
| 00:06:30 |
tested the size |
| 00:06:50 |
- I must have overslept. |
| 00:07:07 |
Yeah... |
| 00:07:10 |
Yeah, she's running |
| 00:07:14 |
- She had anything to eat? |
| 00:07:18 |
She's taken a little oatmeal, |
| 00:07:22 |
She had lung trouble |
| 00:07:26 |
But there was |
| 00:07:29 |
Honestly, you oughta go back home to |
| 00:07:36 |
We're all in this together, |
| 00:07:40 |
And hard it will get. |
| 00:07:43 |
I've seen what's left around here |
| 00:07:51 |
Right... |
| 00:07:56 |
Come on, it'll be all right, Rose. |
| 00:08:06 |
I propose that we ration |
| 00:08:12 |
and spread |
| 00:08:14 |
until we can harvest more |
| 00:08:18 |
And, as I hear there are |
| 00:08:23 |
I think we should give them |
| 00:08:29 |
What's left will be shared out |
| 00:08:37 |
Excuse me... |
| 00:08:39 |
The rest of us? |
| 00:08:43 |
- Of course it does. |
| 00:08:47 |
Joseph swears it couldn't be |
| 00:08:54 |
Your father used to |
| 00:08:58 |
Surely we could steal |
| 00:09:02 |
But I suppose |
| 00:09:06 |
I'm afraid |
| 00:09:10 |
Maybe I am. |
| 00:09:29 |
Sadly, the most nourishing fare |
| 00:09:33 |
had not improved |
| 00:09:36 |
But she needed meat, |
| 00:09:39 |
So now they'd have to do without |
| 00:09:47 |
It was not a good portent |
| 00:09:50 |
that the gangsters were trying to fix |
| 00:09:56 |
But luckily, Joseph, who was able to |
| 00:10:04 |
had met his match |
| 00:10:23 |
As time went by, |
| 00:10:24 |
the scattered cotton plants grew side |
| 00:10:30 |
now that the little donkey meat |
| 00:10:36 |
Grace found herself in the peculiar situation |
| 00:10:39 |
of joining the women in what had been |
| 00:10:46 |
Namely, the southern tradition |
| 00:10:52 |
Having given up |
| 00:10:55 |
Joseph had found |
| 00:10:58 |
he had originally made with Grace's father |
| 00:11:04 |
The wording could be interpreted |
| 00:11:10 |
obliged an employee to obey |
| 00:11:15 |
The authority in this case |
| 00:11:28 |
The good news was that, though the drought |
| 00:11:32 |
Stanley and Timothy had invented |
| 00:11:37 |
- Wait, wait... |
| 00:12:03 |
But the best news of all was Claire |
| 00:12:05 |
who had miraculously |
| 00:12:08 |
that she could empty |
| 00:12:12 |
Always in the middle of the night |
| 00:12:15 |
but nobody was looking but even so... |
| 00:12:26 |
If Grace had thought hunger would |
| 00:12:31 |
actually the opposite |
| 00:13:08 |
Flora, what's goin' on |
| 00:13:13 |
Are they fighting? |
| 00:13:15 |
You mean |
| 00:13:18 |
You want I should |
| 00:13:21 |
No... |
| 00:13:23 |
Mind you, |
| 00:13:28 |
Wouldn't surprise me, them others took |
| 00:13:34 |
Now, don't you tease me, Flora. |
| 00:13:38 |
- Goodnight, then. |
| 00:13:45 |
Flora had teased Grace before |
| 00:13:49 |
But they were hurting in there. |
| 00:13:55 |
And to make everything far worse |
| 00:13:57 |
that heat in her loins came back |
| 00:14:05 |
Or may even have been |
| 00:14:12 |
Devastated, humiliated and overcome |
| 00:14:19 |
In a fit of madness, or what |
| 00:14:23 |
she threw herself |
| 00:14:26 |
forgot about |
| 00:14:30 |
and did what she had not done |
| 00:14:32 |
when she had not yet known |
| 00:14:36 |
She pressed herself onto the knot |
| 00:14:48 |
Whether it was pleasurable |
| 00:14:52 |
but she kept at it. |
| 00:14:56 |
With no regard for the other women |
| 00:15:01 |
the pulsating explosions in her |
| 00:15:11 |
Who knows how it would have concluded |
| 00:15:16 |
fortunately for Grace, a person shaking her back |
| 00:15:22 |
Miss Grace! |
| 00:15:43 |
She dead. |
| 00:15:51 |
I took such care of her... |
| 00:15:56 |
I fed her the good meat... |
| 00:16:04 |
She'd been eatin'... |
| 00:16:12 |
She dead... |
| 00:16:16 |
Now she's dead! |
| 00:16:34 |
- I said come on! |
| 00:16:38 |
No! She hadn't been eatin'... |
| 00:16:45 |
Y'gonna tell 'em, Wilma? |
| 00:16:50 |
I was so hungry... |
| 00:16:55 |
I get so dizzy... |
| 00:17:02 |
And my legs hurt |
| 00:17:05 |
Our good friend and Claire's beloved Wilma been |
| 00:17:12 |
She emptied Claire's plate every, |
| 00:17:15 |
T'was easy as pie, since that window |
| 00:17:20 |
I've eaten |
| 00:17:26 |
My teeth can't take it no more. |
| 00:17:32 |
She killed our little girl. |
| 00:17:36 |
Jack... Jack, she was sick. |
| 00:17:38 |
Miss Grace, Rose didn't worry much |
| 00:17:45 |
'cause she ate so much at night. |
| 00:17:47 |
I want Wilma punished |
| 00:17:51 |
I want this matter put to the vote. |
| 00:17:54 |
I want Wilma punished |
| 00:17:58 |
I want justice, |
| 00:18:03 |
Let me go... |
| 00:18:20 |
Stop! |
| 00:18:22 |
- We will talk about it tomorrow! |
| 00:18:24 |
Stop it! |
| 00:18:35 |
And so the next evening |
| 00:18:40 |
under the magnificent, clear, |
| 00:20:02 |
Now we've heard 'em all, |
| 00:20:04 |
Wilma showed no mercy |
| 00:20:07 |
so no mercy oughta |
| 00:20:11 |
Jack... |
| 00:20:14 |
Killing old Wilma |
| 00:20:17 |
All we want is justice. |
| 00:20:20 |
You've said so many times |
| 00:20:27 |
I propose... that... |
| 00:20:33 |
... she be banished from Manderlay |
| 00:20:40 |
She probably won't survive |
| 00:20:49 |
After all, we don't know if the food |
| 00:20:54 |
Wilma can't have known |
| 00:20:58 |
But she didn't care when it |
| 00:21:03 |
That of our little girl! |
| 00:21:06 |
All Wilma saw was a plate nobody |
| 00:21:11 |
What do you think |
| 00:21:14 |
All of us here |
| 00:21:19 |
What do you think |
| 00:21:23 |
We're all hungry... |
| 00:21:39 |
I'd like to ask y'all |
| 00:21:42 |
to vote |
| 00:21:48 |
All those who believe that Wilma |
| 00:22:09 |
Thank you. |
| 00:22:12 |
Thank y'all. |
| 00:22:18 |
Stop! |
| 00:22:21 |
Grace? |
| 00:22:25 |
I thought we were the ones |
| 00:22:28 |
That's what you always told us. |
| 00:22:34 |
Of course not. It's always. |
| 00:22:35 |
Then they's the decision |
| 00:22:44 |
So let me go across and do it. |
| 00:22:51 |
No... |
| 00:22:55 |
If anybody is going to do it, |
| 00:23:02 |
It must not be |
| 00:23:07 |
That's alright by me. |
| 00:23:10 |
As long as |
| 00:23:13 |
That will be up to me. |
| 00:23:17 |
I'll let you know when it's over. |
| 00:24:03 |
Grace... |
| 00:24:10 |
Be so kind as to tell me... |
| 00:24:15 |
What they decide? |
| 00:24:25 |
Am I gonna die? |
| 00:24:37 |
No, Wilma, |
| 00:24:44 |
What you mean? |
| 00:24:48 |
I mean the ballot did not go Jack's way. |
| 00:24:59 |
They didn't think Claire would have |
| 00:25:06 |
And anyhow, she'd certainly have died |
| 00:25:13 |
Did they really say that? |
| 00:25:16 |
Yes... They really said that. |
| 00:25:31 |
If you knew |
| 00:25:43 |
- I'm just so weary. |
| 00:25:48 |
I know you are. |
| 00:25:53 |
But now you can sleep easy. |
| 00:25:58 |
Yes... |
| 00:26:01 |
I can. |
| 00:26:03 |
Lie down and get some sleep. |
| 00:26:11 |
You are the daughter |
| 00:26:26 |
- Lie down. |
| 00:26:31 |
I'll do that Wilma... |
| 00:26:35 |
Here... |
| 00:26:41 |
Lie down. |
| 00:26:59 |
Wilma? |
| 00:28:44 |
Harvest time finally did arrive and |
| 00:28:51 |
Despite the fewer bushes, |
| 00:28:55 |
It was as if |
| 00:28:58 |
had made the cotton extra white |
| 00:29:03 |
And, even at current prices, |
| 00:29:10 |
Although nothing |
| 00:29:13 |
the harvest was as precise |
| 00:29:17 |
The moment the last tuft of cotton |
| 00:29:22 |
dropping from the skies |
| 00:29:27 |
Everyone observed the sight in awe |
| 00:29:29 |
and for a moment it was greater |
| 00:29:43 |
The old gin was as ready as ever. |
| 00:29:49 |
Greased, stripped down and reassembled |
| 00:29:55 |
They worked well in harness. |
| 00:29:57 |
Niels had never found a joke funny |
| 00:30:04 |
trying to entertain him |
| 00:30:20 |
Miss Grace? |
| 00:30:25 |
Edward! |
| 00:30:28 |
I hardly recognized you. |
| 00:30:32 |
Yes. Your father thought |
| 00:30:36 |
He's on his way |
| 00:30:39 |
- Is Daddy here? |
| 00:30:46 |
He says he'll be by a week, |
| 00:30:51 |
He'll wait in the car outside the gates |
| 00:30:56 |
The way he did in Dogville, he says, |
| 00:31:02 |
- When he asked her to marry him. |
| 00:31:06 |
If you want to go, you better be there |
| 00:31:09 |
- I know, I get the message. |
| 00:31:13 |
- Take care, Miss Grace. |
| 00:31:18 |
Oh, Edward... |
| 00:31:21 |
Just tell Dad that |
| 00:31:27 |
Grace had no intention of going |
| 00:31:32 |
She had her own life now |
| 00:31:36 |
But she'd be at the gates, anyhow. |
| 00:31:39 |
She just had to show him what she had achieved: |
| 00:31:50 |
It was examination day |
| 00:31:53 |
Even though things |
| 00:31:57 |
when Stanley |
| 00:32:00 |
nobody'd be able to keep him |
| 00:32:05 |
and thereby ruin it all. |
| 00:32:08 |
Wilhelm had been skeptical about |
| 00:32:13 |
But Grace had insisted. |
| 00:32:19 |
Oh, Sammy...! |
| 00:32:25 |
Eejit nigger! |
| 00:32:28 |
Are you totally useless? |
| 00:32:31 |
Sorry, Mr Mays. |
| 00:32:35 |
I'm jokin'. |
| 00:32:45 |
Stanley Mays |
| 00:32:50 |
That very evening Grace pronounced |
| 00:32:56 |
Although they were free to go, |
| 00:32:57 |
they had elected to stay as there was talk of hiring |
| 00:33:06 |
And before anybody knew it |
| 00:33:08 |
the money was in the bank |
| 00:33:11 |
from where it had been picked up |
| 00:33:17 |
Niels and Sammy had fixed the car |
| 00:33:23 |
- Thank you for everything. |
| 00:33:26 |
- What are you gonna do now? |
| 00:33:31 |
You could always |
| 00:33:37 |
- Where's Mr Robinson? |
| 00:33:42 |
Grace was touched by Mr Robinson's |
| 00:33:48 |
But it felt right when the car left. |
| 00:33:51 |
It was time for Grace |
| 00:33:57 |
Brave and strong, |
| 00:34:02 |
better this, than corn and wine. |
| 00:34:06 |
Make us worthy, God in Heaven |
| 00:34:11 |
of this goodly land of Thine. |
| 00:34:16 |
Hearts as open as our doorway |
| 00:34:23 |
Iiberal hands and spirits free |
| 00:34:30 |
Alabama, Alabama |
| 00:34:37 |
we will aye be true to thee. |
| 00:35:00 |
He's watching you. |
| 00:35:05 |
- No, he's not. |
| 00:35:08 |
No, he's not. |
| 00:35:09 |
I reckon it have somethin' to do |
| 00:35:14 |
See, honey, when you was boss, |
| 00:35:20 |
Now you're visitin' his. |
| 00:35:26 |
He should have some dinner. |
| 00:35:30 |
- You gonna go get him? |
| 00:35:34 |
- You gotta come get some dinner. |
| 00:36:04 |
In Mam's bedroom Grace recalled |
| 00:36:10 |
Sexual intercourse among the Munsi |
| 00:36:16 |
It would not appeal to Grace, |
| 00:36:19 |
Not with Grace's modern ideas of |
| 00:36:29 |
But Grace seemed to have left her |
| 00:36:44 |
Now actually in the situation she had dreamed of |
| 00:36:51 |
Anyway, Grace had decided |
| 00:38:22 |
Timothy, wake up! |
| 00:38:26 |
Timothy's horse had escaped |
| 00:38:28 |
when fires had been lit around the slave quarters |
| 00:38:48 |
- What happened? |
| 00:38:51 |
You're gonna |
| 00:38:55 |
- The gangsters took the money. |
| 00:38:58 |
The gangsters took the money. |
| 00:39:01 |
That's the answer. And I reckon |
| 00:39:05 |
It certainly is very clear. |
| 00:39:09 |
What makes you think so? |
| 00:39:13 |
When the party ended |
| 00:39:17 |
we all left the table to go |
| 00:39:24 |
Timothy had hid it |
| 00:39:29 |
Timothy was meant to be keepin' an eye |
| 00:39:35 |
And the box had been pulled up. |
| 00:39:40 |
One of the gangsters dug up the money |
| 00:39:47 |
But he couldn't have done it alone. |
| 00:39:50 |
Someone must have told him |
| 00:39:56 |
And Sammy |
| 00:40:01 |
although he'd spent |
| 00:40:07 |
And then everybody |
| 00:40:11 |
and folks is angry |
| 00:40:16 |
Stanley Mays and the family |
| 00:40:22 |
Although Philomena and Bertie |
| 00:40:27 |
Elizabeth is dead, too, |
| 00:40:33 |
It was too soon |
| 00:40:39 |
We weren't quite ready yet. |
| 00:40:43 |
For once |
| 00:40:47 |
She could but reproach herself |
| 00:40:52 |
about resorting to their former |
| 00:40:56 |
- Wilhelm, I can't rouse Timothy. |
| 00:41:02 |
He drank three bottles |
| 00:41:08 |
The Munsi don't drink. |
| 00:41:12 |
Well, maybe... |
| 00:41:27 |
Well, it certainly |
| 00:41:34 |
Didn't I tell you |
| 00:41:39 |
Yes, but I haven't come to do a deal, |
| 00:41:44 |
And in the hope, of course, |
| 00:41:49 |
I needn't have come back |
| 00:41:55 |
This is your 80%... |
| 00:41:59 |
Quite a tidy little sum, too, |
| 00:42:04 |
It's the money from our harvest. |
| 00:42:06 |
I expect so. It's that time of year. |
| 00:42:12 |
See, I had a little game with |
| 00:42:16 |
I knew he'd come from here, so... |
| 00:42:23 |
Don't you think you just might |
| 00:42:27 |
Who did you play |
| 00:42:31 |
Well, it was a day ago now. |
| 00:42:35 |
but I pass this black car |
| 00:42:40 |
They began to follow me |
| 00:42:45 |
That I was a con man |
| 00:42:50 |
What an accusation! |
| 00:42:53 |
- It just took a while to get away. |
| 00:42:57 |
The nigra fellow arrived |
| 00:43:02 |
Timothy. |
| 00:43:05 |
That was it! |
| 00:43:08 |
- Timothy, yeah, that was his name. |
| 00:43:13 |
They don't gamble. |
| 00:43:15 |
Well, I know Munsi don't gamble. |
| 00:43:20 |
Hell of a time gettin' them to |
| 00:43:24 |
He's no Munsi. |
| 00:43:26 |
In fact, he's what I'd call |
| 00:43:29 |
He just stayed bein' splendid, |
| 00:43:35 |
- He told everyone he was a Munsi. |
| 00:43:39 |
See, the girls |
| 00:43:43 |
All the Munsi tales. |
| 00:43:47 |
You know, all that old-fashioned morality. |
| 00:43:52 |
So, on account of that, |
| 00:44:00 |
I'm not even going |
| 00:44:04 |
That's just the kind of fella I am. |
| 00:44:10 |
Now bless me if I can't |
| 00:44:16 |
They say the Mansi |
| 00:44:22 |
Or, the Munsi are so up-stuck. |
| 00:44:36 |
Well, I'll be seein' you. |
| 00:45:05 |
Grace went to the last pages with |
| 00:45:12 |
Where was Timothy, now? |
| 00:45:17 |
A Proudy Slave, |
| 00:45:21 |
Or did it? |
| 00:45:25 |
She looked more closely |
| 00:45:29 |
She compared it to the "7" |
| 00:45:33 |
The Pleasin' Nigger |
| 00:45:36 |
Expert in changing character |
| 00:45:39 |
and what would titillate |
| 00:45:43 |
And then Grace could see it... |
| 00:45:47 |
Timothy's number was not a "1", |
| 00:45:50 |
She had only wanted |
| 00:45:54 |
There was even a note |
| 00:45:58 |
Caution. Diabolically clever. |
| 00:46:25 |
Grace had called a final meeting |
| 00:46:30 |
For that evening, she had decided |
| 00:46:34 |
- With her father when he arrived. |
| 00:46:40 |
I persuaded the community |
| 00:46:45 |
for two ballots. |
| 00:46:46 |
They can scarcely have |
| 00:46:51 |
- Don't be too certain of that. |
| 00:46:57 |
I've come to say goodbye. |
| 00:47:01 |
If you've had 2 ballots today, |
| 00:47:08 |
Farewell presents, if you like. |
| 00:47:11 |
The first... is this. |
| 00:47:18 |
It's the money from our harvest. |
| 00:47:23 |
Actually it's 80% of it. A card shark |
| 00:47:28 |
He scammed the money off somebody |
| 00:47:34 |
- So the gangsters didn't take it? |
| 00:47:40 |
And I won't prolong the tension. |
| 00:47:44 |
It was the treasurer who did it. |
| 00:47:47 |
The man charged with |
| 00:47:51 |
He was overcome |
| 00:47:55 |
Probably because |
| 00:48:00 |
... but a Mansi. |
| 00:48:03 |
However unimportant |
| 00:48:08 |
Which brings me |
| 00:48:11 |
This one. Painful to you or not, |
| 00:48:18 |
In this book which I still regard as the most |
| 00:48:26 |
Timothy is listed |
| 00:48:29 |
A person who can change |
| 00:48:36 |
- Let me find the page... |
| 00:48:46 |
How do you know? |
| 00:48:50 |
How do you know |
| 00:48:55 |
Cause I wrote it. |
| 00:49:12 |
It's all in my meticulous hand. |
| 00:49:17 |
Mam and I were very young |
| 00:49:21 |
and this new statute terrified us. |
| 00:49:26 |
Terrified you? |
| 00:49:29 |
We tried to imagine what kind of |
| 00:49:34 |
Were they ready for it? |
| 00:49:37 |
Or more correctly... |
| 00:49:41 |
Was it ready for them? |
| 00:49:43 |
Legislators made promises, |
| 00:49:47 |
It was then that Mam |
| 00:49:53 |
the way I thought |
| 00:49:56 |
if everyone stayed on |
| 00:50:01 |
But it's a |
| 00:50:05 |
You might call it that. |
| 00:50:13 |
But did the others know |
| 00:50:16 |
Groups 2, 3 and 5... |
| 00:50:22 |
A few members of the other groups |
| 00:50:27 |
But everyone knows now. |
| 00:50:30 |
I wrote Mam's Law |
| 00:50:37 |
For the good of everyone. |
| 00:50:43 |
For the good of everyone? |
| 00:50:48 |
How dare you? |
| 00:50:51 |
It's a recipe for oppression |
| 00:50:58 |
From start to finish. |
| 00:51:03 |
I think you've been reading it |
| 00:51:06 |
Miss Grace, if I may |
| 00:51:13 |
Then Wilhelm initiated Grace |
| 00:51:15 |
into the humane qualities |
| 00:51:20 |
Mam's Law. How it |
| 00:51:24 |
and allowed anybody |
| 00:51:28 |
instead of blaming themselves |
| 00:51:31 |
that they would surely |
| 00:51:35 |
How the noonday parade |
| 00:51:37 |
since the parade ground was |
| 00:51:43 |
How the numbered groups were |
| 00:51:47 |
human beings resort to in order to |
| 00:51:52 |
so that life could be |
| 00:51:56 |
Since a Proudy Nigger (not that |
| 00:52:01 |
survives by perceiving himself |
| 00:52:06 |
by this system to believe |
| 00:52:09 |
and punished than the others. |
| 00:52:13 |
Since a Clowinin' Nigger |
| 00:52:16 |
that Mam's Law |
| 00:52:20 |
just as any other groups |
| 00:52:24 |
How cash was forbidden |
| 00:52:26 |
so gambling was done |
| 00:52:28 |
to prevent ruination and misery |
| 00:52:34 |
Until Grace's head |
| 00:52:38 |
Damn it, Wilhelm, |
| 00:52:41 |
- That's what matters! |
| 00:52:46 |
Which neatly brings me |
| 00:52:51 |
Was Mam's Law still relevant? |
| 00:52:56 |
We agreed that unfortunately it was |
| 00:53:02 |
America was not ready to welcome us |
| 00:53:08 |
and it still ain't. |
| 00:53:10 |
And the way things are goin', it |
| 00:53:14 |
So we agreed we'd like to take |
| 00:53:21 |
and re-impose the old law. |
| 00:53:24 |
Excuse me, but I'm going. |
| 00:53:26 |
As for your going, I'd better tell you |
| 00:53:32 |
As you know, |
| 00:53:35 |
And unfortunately we've good |
| 00:53:41 |
In short: We lack a Mam. |
| 00:53:51 |
- No! |
| 00:53:56 |
Never. |
| 00:53:57 |
With all your idealism |
| 00:54:00 |
I think you could enjoy being the guardian |
| 00:54:06 |
who have no chance in the wild. |
| 00:54:11 |
Just as you thought the notion of |
| 00:54:16 |
You were so sure, you permitted |
| 00:54:22 |
I'd be sorry |
| 00:54:26 |
What do you mean? |
| 00:54:30 |
Only until you understand the way |
| 00:54:34 |
The gate has been repaired |
| 00:54:38 |
The fences are in good shape, |
| 00:54:44 |
Those fences... Come on! |
| 00:54:49 |
Two men with a rusty shotgun |
| 00:54:55 |
How dumb |
| 00:54:58 |
Too dumb to build a ladder |
| 00:55:04 |
Grace had spent a great deal |
| 00:55:07 |
which, to her, didn't seem |
| 00:55:11 |
Her father and his car |
| 00:55:16 |
That was in half an hour. |
| 00:55:19 |
And she was on her own |
| 00:55:23 |
Just how was she |
| 00:55:27 |
When was a section |
| 00:55:31 |
Grace would have to |
| 00:55:34 |
if she was |
| 00:55:38 |
All right. |
| 00:55:41 |
Not from my heart. |
| 00:55:44 |
But as my only option. |
| 00:55:47 |
I'll obey your beloved law. |
| 00:55:51 |
So we'd better start by dealing |
| 00:55:54 |
Timothy. A slave from Group 7 has committed |
| 00:56:02 |
As Mam's Law does not prescribe |
| 00:56:07 |
I shall have to be creative. |
| 00:56:12 |
What was it you said, Flora? About |
| 00:56:19 |
I believe there's a bottle of Rhenish |
| 00:56:21 |
Don't you? |
| 00:56:29 |
So that's what I seen |
| 00:56:35 |
If it wasn't |
| 00:57:21 |
There was still ten minutes |
| 00:57:22 |
until her punctual father would arrive to wait |
| 00:57:30 |
Just enough time |
| 00:57:39 |
Timothy, you can stop |
| 00:57:44 |
Cry... and shout |
| 00:57:48 |
and beg for mercy... |
| 00:57:51 |
... Iike the Mansi you are. |
| 00:57:54 |
The Mansi |
| 00:57:59 |
It's that hatred Timothy and the rest of you |
| 00:58:02 |
that you'll never make me accept! |
| 00:58:05 |
You are a cheat |
| 00:58:09 |
And Wilhelm and all of you who follow him |
| 00:58:15 |
I hope one day your fellow Negroes uncover |
| 00:58:22 |
You make me sick! |
| 00:58:27 |
I'm sure you're quite right, |
| 00:58:32 |
Most likely it's impossible |
| 00:58:37 |
But what I don't get is, |
| 00:58:40 |
What do you mean? |
| 00:58:42 |
Aren't you forgetting something? |
| 00:58:48 |
You made us! |
| 00:59:12 |
Probably the only thing that could |
| 00:59:17 |
was the cheerful tinkle that |
| 00:59:28 |
She needed his support now. |
| 00:59:30 |
Manderlay, too, really was a place |
| 00:59:48 |
Grace recognized her father's |
| 00:59:53 |
Dear Girl. So you tricked |
| 00:59:59 |
I waited the fifteen minutes first, |
| 01:00:05 |
So I popped over to the fence |
| 01:00:12 |
To my great surprise it really looked |
| 01:00:18 |
I'm proud of you, my girl. |
| 01:00:22 |
so you can tell me what you |
| 01:00:27 |
Love, |
| 01:00:38 |
Ballots could be unrivaled |
| 01:00:41 |
but determining the time |
| 01:00:46 |
That was quite apparent. |
| 01:00:51 |
Grace had but a few seconds to choose in which |
| 01:00:58 |
who as her father had teasingly predicted, |
| 01:01:04 |
Grace was in a hurry and did not |
| 01:01:08 |
with a liberal attitude toward race |
| 01:01:14 |
Grace was angry. |
| 01:01:17 |
Manderlay had fossilized in a picture |
| 01:01:23 |
America was a many-faceted place, |
| 01:01:28 |
But "not ready" |
| 01:01:32 |
You really could not say that. |
| 01:01:34 |
America had proffered its hand, |
| 01:01:39 |
but if anybody refused |
| 01:01:43 |
he really only had himself to blame. |
