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It was in the year of 1933

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and Grace and her father were heading
southward with their army of gangsters

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After Ieaving Dogville
they had returned to Denver

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only to find that the mice had been well
and truly playing while the cat was away

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and new forces had taken
over their former possessions

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The result was a particularly
unappealing retreat

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that had brought them through
the state ofAlabama this spring

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in search of new hunting grounds

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No, they will not
admit it! But it's a fact!

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Deep down inside there isn't a woman
alive who doesn't nurture these fantasies

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whether they involve harems

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or being hunted through the
jungle by torch-bearing natives

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however much they go on and on about
civilization and democracy sexy it ain't!

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Grace and her father had
resumed their Iegendary discord

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even as they pulled out of Dogville

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and although Grace had
been employing the technique

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of Ietting things go in one ear and out
the other for a pretty Iong time now

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she was, to be frank, somewhat weary
of her unbearably overweening daddy

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who still believed any nagging woman could be
pacified with the good old bouquet of carnations

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I bet you wouldn't have had the guts
to talk Iike that if mother had been alive

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No, you are right, my girl, I would not!

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we're going, boss

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Miss, Lady, can I talk
to you? Can I talk to you?

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Yes?

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They going whip him! I knew they would!
Itjust ain't true! He ain't stole nothing!

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They put that Rhenish wine
from Mam's bedside table in his cabin

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just to give 'em somethin'
to whip him for! That's the Iaw

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One bottle and it's a whippin',
that's "Mam's Law!"

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what are you talking about?
who... who are they going to whip?

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- Timothy!
- why?

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That's how they do us slaves...

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- SIaves?
- Yes, Ma'am

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Surely you've heard of slaves?

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That's what we is at Manderlay

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this godforsaken place!

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That's how I got out, when a whippin's in
the offin' they take out a section of the fence

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Listen, Grace! It's a Iocal matter
and it's not for us to poke our noses in

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why should we not "poke our noses in",
just because it's a Iocal matter?

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It's certainly not our responsibility

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You think the Negroes wanted
to Ieave their homes in Africa?!

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wasn't it us who
brought them to America?

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we have done them a great wrong, it's our
abuse that has made them what they are

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Untie him!

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Stop!

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'Fraid not, Iady! SIavery was
abolished seventy years ago

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Ifyou won't obey that Iaw ofyour
own accord, we will compel you to do so!

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Mam! Help me get her inside!

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water for Mam! Quickly

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Spare me your hypocrisy,
you dumb old slave!

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Get out, Ieave us alone!

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Ifyou're Iooking for sympathy,
don't expect any from me

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Listen, I'm very old

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and unfortunately, dying

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I should Iike to ask you for a favor

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If it involves allowing you to go
on exploiting these people Iike slaves

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I'm sorry, I'II just have to say no

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- No matter how "dying" you are
- SIavery is over now, I can see that

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It had to come one day

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All right, I'II probably refuse
you, but you might as well ask

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There's a book,
it's under my mattress

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I should Iike you to
retrieve it and burn it for me

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- It would be best for everyone
- I'm sure you think so!

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But it's my view that anything no matter what, is
best served by being brought out into the open

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I beg you, one woman to another

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woman to woman,
makes no difference to me

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the sins of the past are sins I cannot
and do not wish to help you erase

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And now I must Ieave you, I believe
my father's men have unlocked the gate

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so now everybody can
come and go as they please

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PIease Iet everyone else
know on the plantation

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that from now on they can all enjoy the same
freedoms as any other citizen of this country

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And the Constitution can
be found at any courthouse

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And here's a tip for
when you sue the family

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there's a weighty written evidence
concealed in this very room

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She's dead

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The old devil!

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Oh, I'm sorry,
I didn't mean it, Missy!

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No, no, if any of us deserves
an apology it's not me!

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I'm afraid

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There's nothing to be afraid of!
we've taken all the family's weapons!

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No

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I'm afraid ofwhat will happen now

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I fear we ain't ready for
a completely new way of Iife

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At Manderlay, we
slaves took supper at 7

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when do people take
supper when they are free?

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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 welI

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Considering the times and the situation

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Grace's words in the dead woman's
room on meal times for free citizens

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might have seemed a trifle over-spirited

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we should not believe that there
Iay any contempt in these words

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for the wretched and
starving people ofAmerica

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Grace rejoined the gangsters

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who had indeed concluded their disarmament
of the plantation's powers-that-had-been

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though their findings were meager:
the shot gun, and an old toy pistoI

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All right, we can go

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No, Iet's just wait a moment!

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what are you waiting for?

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For them to come and thank you?

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Or for them to burn
the whole place down

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and dance some tribal dance on
the ruins by the glow of the torchlight?

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You are a bigot, daddy
and you always have been

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we owe these people we
brought them here, we abused them

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- we made them what they are!
- I admit, I don't do deals with the Japs

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You can't trust them when there's
big money at stake, but a bigot?

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- why don't they come out?
- That's exactly what you said Iast time!

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- Last time?
- Remember when you were six

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you thought it was so sad that your
beloved Tweety was all shut up in a cage

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and nobody could persuade
you not to Iet him out

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Tweety was a proud Iittle bird

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well, his dignified exit didn't
do Tweety a hell of a Iot of good

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we found him the next
morning underneath your window

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- Frozen to death
- I know

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he'd been bred as an indoor bird,
he really didn't have a chance

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And what do you think
those Negroes in there are?

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How many generations do you think those
families made their homes behind that fence?

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I bet you most of them have taken up
employment in their former jobs with the family

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contracts and alI

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Of course now they'II get a few dollars
for their efforts, but they'II soon drink that up

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and maybe they'II borrow
a bit more from their employers

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who have, no doubt, opened a Iittle
store full of colorful wares just for them

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And of course they'II never be able to pay
back the money and they'II be trapped yet again

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what you did was
all very noble, my girl, but...

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when push comes to shove you've just made
everything far worse, just as you did with Tweety

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So all we can do
is hope there's no frost

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what you said about
contracts and Ioans

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- That's fraud!
- Fraud?

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- See, I've read that freed slaves
- Yes

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- Are given a mule and a plot of Iand
- Yes

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- So that they can establish themselves
- Yes

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Yep, that's true,
but when it came down to it

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the fellow who owned the mule and
the Iand had rather keep it all for himself

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so nothing really ever happened with it

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Anyhow, it may take them a while to
gather the evidence against the plantation

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for when the family goes on trial...

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Trial?

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There are times when you seem
even Iess with it than your dear mother!

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No, I seem to have
underestimated 'em

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we've at Ieast one man with
a genuine thirst for freedom

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And he's gettin' out,
and he's in a hurry

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Yeah, he's high tailin' it, all right

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Yeah, it's Gramps!

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Pardon me

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Not a Iot of dignity there...
he's scared out of his wits!

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would it be possible to have
a word with the young Iady?

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Yes, yes

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Don't mean to inconvenience you

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That's exactly what you're doing

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You're not inconveniencing anyone, this
is a grave day for everyone, I know that!

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I just thought we must have
seemed a might bit ungratefuI

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we should Iike to thank
you properly for what you've done

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- It'II only take a moment
- Yes of course

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Ten minutes and then
I'm going, not a second Ionger!

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Grace was conducted through the wretched
Iiving quarters bestowed upon the slaves

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with their pitiful, Ieaky cabins

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Her actions would comprise an unconditional
enrichment of these people's Iives

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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 so
much of the glow she had hoped for

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The glow that could have convinced her that no
one would end up Iike the Iittle pale yellow canary

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These were human beings but of the kind on
whom pain had been inflicted, Grace thought

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as she was suddenly interrupted
by a strangely exotic accent

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when we were slaves we were not
required to offer thanks for our supper

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and for the water we
drank and the air we breathed

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Nobody needs
to say thank-you, but...

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But what?

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You mean there's somethin'
we ought to be thankful for?

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I didn't mean
"but" I meant "and"!

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And, there's no reason to be grateful
for anything as natural as your freedom

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I'm the first to apologize for everything you
and your people have been subjected to...

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See, those gates should have
been unlocked seventy years ago

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Only seventy years ago

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but before that, of course,
they were completely justified?

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No

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no, no, you misunderstand me

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what can I say?

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You need to say nothing at alI

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we've heard ofyour kind

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A society Iady, who spends
her time rescuin' wretched nigras

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I should Iike to say thank you! Missy
done give her time and effort to helpin' us

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time I bet she could've spent
on all kinds of different things

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'Cause, t'was perfectjustice when God
made some of us slaves and not others

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A nigra is vile by nature

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Oh, I know it ain't popular to say so!

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And it ain't 'cause
of Burt that I say so

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No, Victoria did not base her perception
exclusively on her experience of her husband

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though God knows it weighed heavily

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Burt was a useless eejit whose character
Victoria, regrettably so far in vain

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had done her best to improve by hitting him
with any implement to hand on any given occasion

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no matter how much he had
threatened to take his own Iife

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by throwing himself
into Manderlay's deep welI

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Grace Iooked at wilhelm the
old house slave and understood:

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He had not brought her
here for anybody to thank her

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he just wanted her to see them all!

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The unfortunate flock that he very
rightly feared would have few chances

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beyond the perimeter fence

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Iiving proof of the devastating
power of oppression

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Listen up, it's all been put on paper

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we just needed to check the wordin' first,
bein' as these things are Iegal and bindin'!

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Bingo!

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what are these?

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They're the contracts, Ma'am!

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The family has been so
considerate to offer us all employment

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Grace was not a Iawyer and unqualified to assess
the validity of the contract she held in her hand

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But she feared that unfortunately any judge
in the county would deem it fair and proper

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it appeared to Grace
that instead of "employee"

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they mightjust as well have
retained the old term of "slave"

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A body would only sign it if he or she
was utterly ignorant of Iife in a Iiberal society

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or if he or she
really had no choice!

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Folks, I suppose that you're
in urgent need of cash, Mark?

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Cash?

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I once knew this fella' from a Iittle
township nobody'd know the name of

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so there ain't no grounds
to mention what t'was called

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he had cash, not piles of it

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we are prepared to Iend you some money
as covered by this other piece of paper

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and we also can set up
a Iittle store here, ifyou Iike

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after all, it's a Iong way to town

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And ifyou buy enough for all of us,
I betcha Iiable to get a real nice bulk discount

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and the goods'II be
cheaper than in town!

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Ain't that right, Miss Grace?

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I have no idea

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PIease sign, everybody!

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Sign here

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All right, Iet's go!

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- No, turn it off
- Damn it!

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Daddy! You said that I didn't have
the power to help Tweety and you were right

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I was a child then...

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So, what is it this time?!

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This time I have the power to act!

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You said so back in Dogville

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That your power would be mine, too!

232
00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,807
And that I could use it in my own way!

233
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,324
That power was
to carry on the family firm

234
00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:38,210
that I was open to new ideas

235
00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:44,447
The power you ask for now will undoubtedly be
applied to something that's foolish at best and...

236
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,523
Daddy! You promised!

237
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:51,851
You were a bastard to mother, but when
you promised her something, she got it!

238
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:59,766
Ok, you've been
given what I promised you

239
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,843
Maybe things haven't
been split right down the middle

240
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,924
but this is as far as I am prepared to go!

241
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,401
I want nothing to do with your plans

242
00:21:10,679 --> 00:21:14,650
And you won't be able to get in touch with
me if anything goes wrong and you need me

243
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,771
as usual, to get you out of trouble,
because fortunately, my dear

244
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,287
you'II have no idea where I am

245
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,843
- Daddy, I'd Iike to take Joseph, as well
- No

246
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,082
I need a Iawyer
to sort out some paperwork!

247
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:36,531
No, no, never, never

248
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,802
I'd never Iet Joseph go

249
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:44,410
He's the only man I know who can draw up a
contract so there's only one possible interpretation

250
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,166
and though I haven't
needed that talent as ofyet

251
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,527
I still might need it one day!

252
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,528
I'II give you Viggo and Bruno for him!

253
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,011
Never!

254
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,129
I've given you my best
associates and you know it!

255
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,120
Daddy! I was meant
to have been given half!

256
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,807
- If mother had been alive
- Oh, damn it, Grace!

257
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:37,042
So, that very day and into
the early hours Joseph employed

258
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,728
the celebrated unambiguous phrases
his previous employer and given him

259
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,168
so wretchedly Iittle
opportunity to practice

260
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,526
New contracts needed drawing
up and old ones needed nullifying

261
00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:55,648
all with the astonishing goodwill
that parties always evince in the company

262
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,963
of rapid-firing machine pistols

263
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:06,406
These are the deeds of gift, you transfer the
property to the former slaves in joint ownership

264
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,281
The Iast document is your contract
of employment by this community

265
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:16,607
Employment? I don't quite
get what you mean by that...

266
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,767
It'II be without pay and the right
of termination is rather one-sidedly

267
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,446
in the hands of the
employer, but nevertheless

268
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:28,322
Manual Iabor... for you
and your family and Mr. Mays!

269
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,084
Hard Iabor

270
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,689
Say something, Bingo!

271
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:42,847
My father's back ain't so strong, he climbed
up to reach the chandelier, one Christmas day

272
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,771
And he fell off the
banister and struck a table

273
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,486
well, that's what happens
when you've got chandeliers

274
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:56,171
when I consider that your understanding
of the worth of other human beings

275
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,891
has reached the desirable stage

276
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,966
you and Mr. Mays and
your family will be allowed to go

277
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,291
Go? And Ieave our home?

278
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,521
Yes

279
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,605
and I assure you that even starting from
scratch your prospects will be a Iot better

280
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,286
than your former
Iabor's would have been!

281
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,210
with regards to the
presence of me and my men

282
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,528
we'II only act as your counselors

283
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:28,528
The guns are merely a precaution in
case of any threats to the new community

284
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,969
we intend to stay here, but
only until the first harvest is home

285
00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,886
after which any of the new
shareholders who wishes to do so

286
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,487
may cash in his or her
deed of gift and receive a dividend

287
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,606
All right, will you
collect your deeds, Mark...?

288
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:50,449
Nobody was particularly enthusiastic or
confident about these Iate night Iegal formalities

289
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,811
But Grace could see beyond this

290
00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,090
And if she saw Iittle else than
fear and disquiet in all these eyes

291
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,690
at Ieast she saw
gratitude in one single pair

292
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,970
namely in wilhelm's mild, old gaze

293
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,801
Burt! I got a deed of gift
here that ain't been accepted

294
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,851
will Mr. Burt approach forthwith
and take delivery of his deed of gift?

295
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,129
Mr. Burt? Mr. Burt?

296
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:27,241
Burt had actually prepared his
escape from his ferocious wife

297
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,171
Despite her Iack offaith in his abilities

298
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,927
Burt had succeeded in meeting
a woman through the fence

299
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,448
and she had agreed
to help him to abscond

300
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:43,369
and there he was waiting at
the agreed place at the agreed time

301
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,322
"A helping hand", the woman had said

302
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,962
what a peculiar coincidence that
two women should come to the aid

303
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:58,249
of the Manderlay
slaves at the same time:

304
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,204
Grace; and Burt's "helping hand"

305
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,121
and the similarities between
them were also peculiar:

306
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:13,049
young; beautiful; white in male company

307
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,286
actually male
company in alarming numbers

308
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,250
where's the nigger?

309
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:34,610
Grace had moved into the freed
plantation: among its new shareholders

310
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,684
She was there as a guard, no more

311
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,288
But no one could stop her
from using this beautiful spring

312
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,001
to make her own Iittle observations
on the people of Manderlay

313
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:50,610
In the hope of spotting the burgeoning change
in character that freedom ought to bring

314
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,847
But unfortunately
she saw Iittle ofjust that:

315
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:03,370
She saw Victoria for the third time, Iooking down
the well in hope of a glimpse of the body of Burt

316
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,844
She saw FIora and EIizabeth
swooning for Timothy as ever

317
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,288
She saw the men spending
their time on card games

318
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,445
playing for tufts of blue
cotton under their Ieaking roof

319
00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:24,842
And she saw how everybody would ignore
the eager Mark whenever he opened his mouth

320
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,370
not knowing that he was notorious for never
being able to give an intelligible answer to anything

321
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,525
we called him Putting head,
but his real name wasn't Putting head

322
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,611
Grace saw Victoria beating her
eldest son, for stealing a moldy cookie

323
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:46,721
And she saw the unstoppable,
irrevocable hierarchy of the beatings

324
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,602
Victoria beating Ed, Ed
beating Milton, and Milton, willie

325
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:57,290
who finally vented his frustration
further down the food chain on CIaire

326
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,843
who far too rarely managed to make
use of the window with the outside handle

327
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,369
that her Ioving father Jack had
installed as an emergency entrance

328
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:14,450
which also allowed her to fall asleep every
night to her favorite view of the twinkling stars

329
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,245
Every noontide Grace witnessed
with pity how the former slaves

330
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,722
were arrayed on the parade
ground with its mysterious numbers

331
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,486
and marks beneath Mam's balcony

332
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,723
as if nothing at Manderlay had changed

333
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:35,171
However, one of them did not submit
to this all-too-soothing power of habit

334
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,049
Timothy of course

335
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,286
In a flash his exotic pride
almost took Grace's breath away

336
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:50,049
This day Grace walked on past the old "Peach
House" where the whites were now detained

337
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,000
put to work on sundry more
or Iess needless Iittle repairs

338
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,642
on her way to the
barn housing her gangsters

339
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:00,645
So, how's everyone doing?

340
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,007
I'm afraid the men got nothing to do

341
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,162
And it's not so good for the moraI

342
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,563
In situations Iike that your father
always came up with something!

343
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,247
I bet he did! But it's
patience that's required

344
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:17,287
But not this much patience, Niels says,
Niels's grandpa was a cotton grower

345
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,330
And he says the cotton
should've been sown ages ago!

346
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,528
The soil doesn't Iook ready

347
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,809
Might be because nobody's ploughed it!

348
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,089
Maybe things are different here
from where your grandpa Iives?

349
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,766
No ma'am, don't reckon so

350
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:38,405
well, if it should've been sown, surely
the people here would be the first to know

351
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,601
As she did not want to impose

352
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,971
Grace's intercourse with the former slaves
had been Iimited to brief greetings and the Iike

353
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,488
But now it was time for
a talk with some meat to it

354
00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:00,651
Excuse me, sir? Mark?
May I ask you something?

355
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,411
It's about planting the cotton

356
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:09,004
I've been around for sowin'
and harvestin' and birth and death

357
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,324
Right, so when should
the cotton be planted?

358
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,642
There're strict rules for that...

359
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,690
you can't mess
around with that sort of thing

360
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,687
Manderlay's always been renowned
for the precision of its harvest

361
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,526
the swallows always
migrate right afterwards

362
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,601
they settle here for the night
on their way across the marshes

363
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,489
But the planting?

364
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,201
It's a science, my dear Iady

365
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:44,321
And the weather, what you might've
expected, plays a fear-some role

366
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,927
Yes, yes, and when
will it be time this year?

367
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,165
Not too soon and not too Iate

368
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,000
Yes, but when? Should the
cotton have already been planted?

369
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,849
I'm not the sorta fella' to pass on
information unless I'm damn sure of it

370
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,291
Iess the facts of the matter are
one hundred percent, in other words...

371
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,331
the facts need be beyond dispute

372
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,242
Do you know when to plant?

373
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,086
No

374
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,242
I'd better ask wilhelm,
is he in his cabin?

375
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,926
This morning he went
down to the bath house

376
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,802
he'd gotten a Iittle frayed around
the edges, as they say, it's a funny thing

377
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,850
I'm sorry... I'II go find him myself

378
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,924
Excuse me wilhelm,
I've come about the fields

379
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,090
The fields should've been ploughed
and harrowed three weeks ago

380
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,208
and the cotton planted two weeks ago

381
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,044
But does everybody know that?

382
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:57,287
Oh yes, but I reckon they thinkin' somebody
else oughta go out into the fields first

383
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:02,487
In the old days Overseer
Mays would've driven us out there

384
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,488
Maybe it's because
nobody really trust you, Missy

385
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:14,926
Yeah, but wilhelm, they could
be doing something else instead

386
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,686
repairs to their homes

387
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,765
they badly need it

388
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,810
The cabins have
always been a sore spot

389
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,965
But Mam said we ain't
got no material to fix 'em up

390
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,565
But we're going to need what we make on the
cotton, how else will people survive on their own?

391
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:32,801
Yeah

392
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,887
iffolks felt they
was given something

393
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,125
Something brought out
by this, these new times

394
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:50,327
That made their Iives better in
a convincing way, right here and now

395
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,967
I don't know what
that might be, but...

396
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,448
But we don't have time for that

397
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,762
we've been forced to sow Iate before

398
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:04,524
The harvest might be improved ifwe planted
it a bit Iate, even says that in Mam's Law

399
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,124
Mam's Law?

400
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,482
Oh, yes, Mam's Iaw

401
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,406
It's all the rules for running the plantation

402
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,361
But we weren't allowed to read it,
it was just for Mam and the family

403
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,048
Only for Mam and the
family, Grace thought...

404
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,642
Certainly no more...

405
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:52,403
And there on Mam's bed skimming through the old
book well filled with bizarre and vicious regulations

406
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,246
she came upon a page
that Iooked strangely familiar!

407
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,241
A table with numbers
from one to seven

408
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,724
Somewhere Grace had
seen something similar, for sure

409
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,291
Mam's Iaw revealed it alI

410
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,604
The Manderlay plantation
with its glamorous front mansion

411
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,766
and pitiful rear where the slaves had
their quarters had been kept in an iron grip

412
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,729
by these very numbers!

413
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:29,160
They represented the psychological
division of the Manderlay slaves

414
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,844
Sammy was a Group 5:
a CIownin' nigger

415
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,040
The formidable Victoria was of
course a Number Four: a Hittin' nigger

416
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:43,808
No wonder her husband Burt had found
it necessary to accept "a helping hand"

417
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,804
even if it was another color from his own

418
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,163
wilma and Mark were Losin' niggers

419
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,483
wilhelm was a Two: a Talkin' nigger

420
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,201
FIora was a weepin'
nigger, et cetera et cetera

421
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,921
there were pleasin' niggers
and crazy niggers by the dozen

422
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:08,648
The final category, Number One proudy niggers
consisted nowadays ofTimothy as expected

423
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,486
who was of course
not there, and EIizabeth?

424
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,645
No, it said seven, not one

425
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:23,001
she was a pleasin' nigger,
also known as a chameleon

426
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:30,282
A person of the kind who could transform herself
into exactly the type the beholder wanted to see

427
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:37,123
This was how the slave system had
been kept alive for so Iong at Manderlay

428
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,529
Bondage even through psychology!

429
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,889
As Grace in deep thoughts
gazed across the fields of Manderlay

430
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,362
she recalled another page in Mam's Iaw

431
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:57,522
dealing exclusively with the weeding of the
paths in the romantic "OId Lady's Garden"

432
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,765
The name of the narrow band
ofwoodland that skirted the plantation

433
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,968
"Trees and tree trunks!" Grace thought

434
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,324
So there were materials
at Manderlay after all!

435
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:32,090
Excuse me,
may I ask you all something?

436
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:42,441
Isn't it true that somebody
who's even poor and colored

437
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,683
can still take the trouble
to maintain their home?

438
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,809
How dare you?

439
00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:58,484
Do you think colored folks prefer
holes in their roofs and wallowing in mud?

440
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,249
well then, all you need
to do is to mend those holes!

441
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:09,125
But I told you, there ain't never been the
materials for that kind of thing at Manderlay

442
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,171
No materials? That's not true

443
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,407
when I'm in the fields
I see timber wherever I Iook

444
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,370
just waiting to be turned
into boards for a roof

445
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,047
or an extension or maybe
even a whole new cabin!

446
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:29,410
That be Mam's Garden,
you can't cut that down

447
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,610
And why can't we cut
down the OId Lady's Garden?

448
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:39,728
Have you really spent that many happy hours up
there on your knees weeding her romantic paths?

449
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:44,090
That's true, there's Ioads of timber

450
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,407
we ain't seen it as anything
but the OId Lady's Garden

451
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:56,247
I don't know what you think,
but to me it sounds Iike a splendid idea

452
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:16,123
And at a stroke these seated, reclining, resting
people had turned into people going full tilt

453
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,768
walking, running, working people

454
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,164
without anyone having to threaten
them in the slightest with "The Lady's hand"

455
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,529
as Grace had been
told the great whip was called

456
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,730
And Grace had won a kind of victory

457
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,806
a small beginning of something
that would one day erase

458
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,090
all the negative inherited
behavior patterns at Manderlay

459
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,446
But, as Grace had suspected, the
appetite for improving the Iiving quarters

460
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,889
unfortunately exceeded
that for preparing the fields

461
00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:59,769
But a few of the former
slaves had volunteered

462
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,970
And with the white
family and Grace herself

463
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:07,284
they made up a sort of gang
to prepare the soil for the seeds

464
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:14,483
Under the gaze of a demonstratively hostile
Timothy with his mysterious white handkerchief

465
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,490
He wasn't born here?

466
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,563
He's a Munsi

467
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,526
It's a Iine ofAfrican royalty,
it's a very proud Iine

468
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,169
He don't drink, either,
or gamble Iike the others be doing

469
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,971
with their Iittle blue
tufts of cotton money?

470
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,048
T'was Mam's Law

471
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,887
we weren't allowed no real money

472
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,364
Grace knew about the clever
system of currency in Mam's Law

473
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,964
Not real money you
could use in the outside world

474
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,681
The Munsi don't gamble
'cause don't believe in winnings

475
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:07,605
They believe you have to be humble to your
crops and only take what's absolutely necessary

476
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:15,364
I've never heard of these Munsi before,
but I do believe I once heard of the Mansi?

477
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:20,731
They different, they was
slaves ofAfrican kings, they gamble

478
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,449
they is true mischief, Timothy say

479
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,361
- So Timothy has prejudices as well?
- what?

480
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,565
Oh, nothing, I was just thinking aloud

481
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,088
Oh, so you've find company, FIora?

482
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:38,449
No, no, I was on my way out anyway

483
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:49,286
Timothy, Iet me tell you one thing

484
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:56,930
I know you don't Iike me and
don't trust me, and I can see why

485
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,247
Although our ideals differ,
you have a pride within you

486
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,450
that I believe will one day be
the salvation of everybody at Manderlay

487
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,487
Let me tell you one thing, too!

488
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:17,804
You got fine words, a posse of gangsters and
your white skin, somethin' folks here seem fall for

489
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,724
But I ain't fooled

490
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,968
You're not interested in us

491
00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:24,848
Not as human beings

492
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,449
After all, it's tough telling people
apart when they're from another race

493
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,286
we whites have committed an
irreparable crime against an entire people

494
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:40,128
Manderlay is a moral
obligation because we made you!

495
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,407
Luckily, I'm just a nigger
who don't understand such words

496
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:54,081
and now, ifyou'II excuse me,
I've come here for the company of my girI

497
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:57,050
and that ain't nothing for you to see

498
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,882
black hides meetin'

499
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:05,763
and if I were you I'd Ieave
now before things get too nasty

500
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,281
Grace regarded Timothy's
hostility as a challenge

501
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,406
And the very next day she
took a step to dispel his claim

502
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:29,282
that as a white she was incapable
of caring for blacks as individuals

503
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,690
She had had a chat to Venus,
about her somewhat maladjusted son Jim

504
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:41,168
And Venus had revealed that Jim's behaviour
was merely that of a budding but frustrated artist

505
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,248
Tell me, have you seen Venus?

506
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,370
Nobody here wants your charity!

507
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,243
I have something for Jim!

508
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,768
I've had a really good Iook
at his face, since our Iittle chat

509
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,801
And you're right, it does
possess an artist's sensitivity

510
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,604
This is far too much

511
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,606
No, no, no, go on,
call him! This is for him

512
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,241
Jim, come on out here
with me and Miss Grace, baby

513
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:25,528
These are for you,
because we believe in you

514
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:30,282
Now run along,
and paint your fantastic pictures

515
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,446
and never mind those closed minded folks
who think they know what art is meant to Iook Iike

516
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,762
give them hell from me Jim!

517
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:46,245
Excuse me, but I ain't Jim,
I'm Jack, that's Jim!

518
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,960
It is tricky, as a matter offact I've
never been able to tell them apart either

519
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,047
They're both colored
and they both got curly hair

520
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,806
why Iook any deeper than that?

521
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:13,931
To be honest Grace had never been quite
sure which was Jim and which was Jack

522
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,722
A blunder that would, in her
former Iife among her fellow whites

523
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,929
merely have occasioned a Iittle Iaughter

524
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:26,168
in her Iife at Manderlay it was disastrous

525
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:32,162
But Iike her father, she did not take
Iong to transform a defeat into anger

526
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,891
energy and a counterattack

527
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,601
This is what has
created all this resistance

528
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,003
Even you regard it
as almost sacred, don't you?

529
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,762
I must admit it's played
a right important part of my Iife

530
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,284
And that will be my next move!
They should be allowed to see it

531
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,970
and to understand that it
can't do them any more harm

532
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,487
I wouldn't advise it, Missy

533
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:02,365
Presenting it to them would be Iike showing
a child the rod with which it's been beaten

534
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,286
I agree, it must be made public,
but we ain't all ripe for it

535
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:17,731
All right, then we shall have to
see about ripening you, and quickly!

536
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,009
And I'm not talking about the
couple of cozy meetings I've organized

537
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:22,446
to which hardly anybody turned up

538
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:27,083
I mean teaching with a timetable,
old fashioned hands on schooling

539
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:34,966
All right, I've got something for you to do at Iast,
and it even involves bossing people about...

540
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:40,251
At noon tomorrow I'm going to give my first
Iesson to all of the former slaves of Manderlay

541
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,244
And it'II be your job to
make sure that they're there

542
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,608
No excuse for not showing up!

543
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,171
And the family?

544
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,449
No, they're pretty
well teaching themselves

545
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,409
Are you Iistening to me?

546
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,206
It's 'cause Niels just got a great hand!

547
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:58,845
what?

548
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,170
who are you?

549
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,251
My name is Doctor Hector

550
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:17,810
Do excuse me a moment,
I'II have to pay my way out of this round

551
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,166
God knows, I don't believe you possess
any cards of real significance

552
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,165
You have a poker player's face

553
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,886
You see here my entire enterprise

554
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,320
I'd never gained access
to Manderlay before

555
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,280
so when I drove by today,
I saw the gates were open

556
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,001
I took it as a sign of new times

557
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,049
what exactly do you do?

558
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:50,081
I entertain, party games,
card games and the Iike

559
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,920
well, nowadays mainly the Iatter

560
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,929
You play for money?

561
00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:58,607
Oh, but I do more than play

562
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,205
I cheat!

563
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:08,083
And you have no objections to
revealing this business secret ofyours?

564
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:11,130
Oh, to some people, but not to you

565
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,729
No, you see, ifyou and I establish
the business relationship I am anticipating

566
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,168
you'II be happen
to know exactly what to expect

567
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,049
And what can I expect?

568
00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:23,685
Eighty per cent

569
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,567
Now, you certainly know
all the problems that arose

570
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:32,370
when our beloved new
deal was imposed in '65

571
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,082
the plantation owners had
plenty of Iand but nobody to work it

572
00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:38,891
So they contracted
with their former slaves

573
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:43,602
But they just didn't have the same hold
on the rascals as they had in the old days

574
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,762
Of course, they Iend them money

575
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:52,804
Then quite a few of the nigras
actually saved up and paid off their debts

576
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,686
so the plantation owners got worried

577
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,009
- I bet they did!
- Oh, yes

578
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,521
See, that is where my idea came in

579
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:07,480
I went from plantation to plantation
with the full backing of the plantation owners

580
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:13,010
to entertain their employees, and they were
sorely in need of diversion, Iet me tell you

581
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,162
we just had a Iittle game of cards

582
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,530
And if anyone was
close to repaying his debt

583
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,730
I would take their shirt off their back!

584
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:29,967
And I'm prepared to offer you
that very same service today, Mam!

585
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,162
You are not convinced

586
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:42,528
Let me give you another
token of my profound Ioyalty

587
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:47,720
I have here a Ietter from
a man by the name of Stanley

588
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,161
He asked me to smuggle it out

589
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,603
I thought perhaps you would
Iike to see it before it is mailed

590
00:48:54,760 --> 00:49:00,767
Listen, Mr. Hector, Iet me
just say that I've never met a man

591
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:08,611
whom I have instantly despised so wholeheartedly
both for his personality and his occupation

592
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,081
Does that mean you
are turning down my offer?

593
00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:17,244
I never want to see you here again!

594
00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:26,921
All right, well, I am disappointed

595
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,688
I shall nevertheless bestow
upon you my thought for the day

596
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,042
I indulge in word games

597
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:38,081
I Iike to give my clients something
to Iaugh or think about when I Ieave

598
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:46,170
The best technique for a card
sharp is "dealing from the bottom"

599
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,683
Look as ifyou're dealing
from the top of the deck

600
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,929
but instead you just take the
bottom card, one that you know

601
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,046
"Take from the bottom" means
something else entirely in social terms

602
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:05,410
but it is what I do,
I "take from the bottom"

603
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,007
won't be hard to find
me ifyou change your mind

604
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:25,846
The Ietter was aimed at a Mr. Miller, one of the
truckers who picked up cotton from Manderlay

605
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:33,521
and the plantation's only real contact with the
outside world, it was short and to the point

606
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:39,047
"we are being held prisoner by
gangsters and coloreds at Manderlay"

607
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:44,843
"inform the police and please
come to our aid with all due dispatch"

608
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:03,528
Indignation is a rare
emotion for a gangster

609
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,810
but a state ofjust that was what Grace's
men experienced while they herded

610
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,884
the colored people in
for their Iesson that day

611
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:15,728
as Grace had reported on Doctor Hector's
cheap trick of "taking from the bottom"

612
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:22,611
And it was hardly the sophisticated ambiguity
of the term that had affected them so dramatically

613
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,088
welcome to our Iesson

614
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:32,251
yes, I call it a Iesson as the term "meeting" seems
to have scared some people out of attending

615
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,610
I was coming, but I was Iate!

616
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,525
Very Iate, you hadn't made
it by the time we finished

617
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,526
In the old days we could hear
the bell from the old clock in the halI

618
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,606
T'was easier to keep up with time,
but we never hear it no more

619
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,321
Probably because nobody winds it up

620
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,204
But, now for the topic of
this Iesson: working together

621
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:02,249
Only four people from your
wing helped to prepare the fields

622
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,802
and only five helped to plant

623
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,606
I'm not a shareholder in this enterprise but if I
had been and if I had also been one of the five

624
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:12,171
I would've felt cheated

625
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,965
Democracy means
government by the people

626
00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:22,247
But as it's not practical
for everyone to sit in congress

627
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,530
a method by which people may
express their views is required

628
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,126
this method is called a ballot

629
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,729
All right, so Iet's try it out

630
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,847
we should choose a problem,
anything anyone can't decide on?

631
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,370
If I may suggest a small matter?

632
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,045
please do

633
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:49,924
I reckon the Iittle broken rake
is mine, but FIora reckons it's hers

634
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:56,167
That's an excellent suggestion,
it's a great example

635
00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:01,691
I assume you all know of this dispute and
all feel able to have an opinion on it, right?

636
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:06,926
who does the community
think owns the rake?

637
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,562
It could turn out to belong
to both parties equally

638
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:15,130
now that would correspond
nicely with the subject of this Iesson!

639
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,966
working together,
sharing together, all right?

640
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:21,329
So, who thinks it's EIizabeth's rake?

641
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:23,525
Sammy?

642
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,729
I think it's EIisabeth's rake

643
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,211
All right!

644
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:37,161
SIowly the point of Grace's edifying
discourse dawned on the majority

645
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:43,044
Most of them thought the rake was
definitely EIizabeth's a few that it was FIora's

646
00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:45,720
and nobody that it could be shared

647
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:54,163
I still remain undecided whether
the rake is EIizabeth's or FIora's

648
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:59,008
Right, so, not too surprisingly,
neither party receives Mark's vote!

649
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:03,484
From now on a Iittle broken
rake belongs to EIizabeth

650
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,962
That's what ballots are Iike,
there are winners and there are Iosers

651
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,407
But the community has spoken

652
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:14,601
And now Grace embarked on a
protracted explanation of FIora's difficulties

653
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,762
raking without a rake

654
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,686
and that owning things together
could have its advantages

655
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,967
To make sure that everyone
understood the democratic principle

656
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,806
the meeting carried out
another ballot at Jim's suggestion

657
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:34,888
I wanna talk about the fact that Sammy
being Iaughing so Ioud of his own jokes

658
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:36,371
and they ain't funny

659
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:41,560
and I been tryin' to get some sleep, and
I can't get no sleep, cause he Iaughs so Ioud

660
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,522
Maybe perhaps there can a be
a time when he can stop his joke

661
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,650
and stop Iaughing,
so we can get some sleep

662
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,890
You can't vote on a man's Iaughter,
you can't vote on a man's Iaughter surely

663
00:54:56,040 --> 00:55:00,011
I'm hearing that it's
at sundown at sundown

664
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,164
That's what I'm hearing,
so Iet's do a vote

665
00:55:04,241 --> 00:55:06,130
All right, so that's settled

666
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,404
That's democracy?

667
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,890
Finally wilhelm proposed that it would
be practical if somebody was responsible

668
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:22,170
for winding up the clock with
its small but penetrating chimes

669
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:28,163
And for mysterious reasons the probing
though fairly passive artist, Jim, was appointed

670
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,449
despite the song and
dance his mother kicked up

671
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:37,242
Grace wound up the Iesson by announcing
that the topic for the next day would be

672
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,126
"our anger and how to communicate it"

673
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,969
Maybe somebody would at
Ieast tell me what the time is?

674
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,123
Just ask Timothy,
he always know what time it is

675
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,726
he can tell by
the sun, he always do that

676
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,531
Or you can always
ask wilhelm, he's so old

677
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,160
He's from before
the clock ever got here

678
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:03,766
So wilhelm and Timothy, each made
his own suggestion as to what the time was

679
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,730
And they were astonishingly close

680
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,847
wilhelm thought it was eight minutes to,
Timothy thought it was five minutes to

681
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:18,645
and Grace rejoiced quietly at this natural
ability that they found so straightforward

682
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,043
But rapidly two factions emerged

683
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,680
one which insisted it was eight minutes to

684
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,447
and the other would not hear
of anything but five minutes to

685
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:34,240
And they were thus able to draw on
the day's Iearning and put it to the vote

686
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:40,081
The result was five
minutes to by a small majority

687
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,001
and so it was decided:

688
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:47,529
the official time at Manderlay
was five minutes to two

689
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,486
Grace's first Iesson of the day
took place in relative good humor

690
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:01,248
but the second one, the one that
had unfortunately proved unavoidable

691
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,085
was severer in character

692
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,165
Read!

693
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:18,250
Daily ration offood
for slaves from category 7

694
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:24,767
oh, no, 1 ... is, er...

695
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:31,087
Six ounces of solid food, and
they've always been given just that

696
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,448
no matter how Iittle
there was in the stores

697
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:39,323
That's a Iot Iess than
category seven, for example

698
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:48,047
why should a proudy "nigger" have
Iess to eat than an eye-pleasin' one?

699
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:55,806
How can the way your head seems to be
arranged have anything to do whatsoever

700
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,486
with the amount
people are given to eat?

701
00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:05,171
I really don't know either,
not precisely, do you, Mr. Mays?

702
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,961
It could be just to
punish them for their pride!

703
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,124
No, I just did what it said

704
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:17,606
It mattered a Iot to my mother
that we follow these rules

705
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:23,807
I know of many places where everybody
got quite a bit Iess than 6 ounces

706
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,771
and where they began to eat dirt

707
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,970
It's a kind of custom coloreds
have when food is scarce 'round here

708
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,490
but it was forbidden under Mam's Law

709
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,688
That's not what we're discussing here

710
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:41,846
don't you see what an affront
it is to divide people up Iike that?

711
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:44,929
Folks is different

712
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:50,409
oxen and rabbits don't need
equal shares offodder neither

713
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,531
both parties would
come down with a belly ache!

714
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,366
Stop! All right, I'm not at all satisfied
with what I've heard here today

715
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,571
You're all speaking
up for this foolishness

716
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:08,050
I'm going to have to penalize you, because
so Iittle effort has been made in these Iessons

717
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:35,801
That evening Grace thought that her idea
of making the whites make up their faces

718
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:40,443
which had seemed so just and edifying
in her flash of anger that afternoon

719
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,600
was perhaps a tad too
much in the wrong direction

720
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:51,246
Even though Philomena herself in
her own childhood would not have dreamt

721
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:55,450
of going to the toilet without
the entertainment of her black nanny

722
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:02,051
Look at your Uncle Jim, he's
in the bathtub Iearning how to swim

723
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,407
Can we clean our faces now?

724
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,847
Yes, yes, of course!

725
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:29,284
Ah well, here comes the dust

726
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,371
so none of this will matter any more

727
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,249
what do you mean?

728
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,565
There's gonna be a dust storm

729
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:45,006
and the plants have
only just begun to grow

730
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,202
it couldn't be worse!

731
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,802
But Manderlay's fields have
never been harmed by a dust storm

732
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,047
'Cause the
windbreak was still in place

733
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:07,082
Grace was not inclined to go into what the former
overseer meant by these mysterious words

734
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:11,040
And soon she had convinced herself
that they had no meaning at alI

735
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,921
apart from spreading
disquiet and despondency

736
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,921
The next day's Iesson on the
importance of unleashing one's anger

737
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,004
met Iittle understanding
from the assembly

738
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:28,284
It was when they wound
up with a series of ballots

739
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:33,241
and the community had rapidly
decided to use wilma's potatoes for seed

740
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,529
as she was so old and
did not have to eat that much

741
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,126
that they heard the wind

742
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:55,605
The dust had come at this time
for as Iong as anybody could remember

743
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:01,530
But every year from time immemorial
it had spared the newly planted cotton

744
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:06,527
as the plantation had been cleverly
shielded by a narrow band of trees

745
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:11,402
known in common parlance as
"The OId Lady's Garden"

746
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:24,287
In the midst of the almost Biblical
darkness that descended on Manderlay

747
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:29,367
Grace knew all to well that even
hand in hand with all the races of the world

748
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:32,683
no army of gangsters
could counter this

749
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:36,083
Nature's extravagant
demonstration of power

750
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:42,165
All she could do was watch
as row upon row of the seedlings

751
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:46,928
she had so welcomed disappeared
beneath the devastating dust

752
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:50,801
Nobody could do a thing

753
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:58,840
but apparently it did not
mean that no one would try

754
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,484
for now Grace
discerned a rider out there

755
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,291
He was riding Iike crazy

756
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:10,965
As he progressed across the fields, wherever
he spotted a pile of dust beginning to grow

757
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:14,249
he would break it
up with his horse's hooves

758
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:22,291
whether it would make the slightest dent
in the grand scale of things was hard to telI

759
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,010
but it was a battle

760
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:29,564
no matter how senseless
it might be: heroic and dangerous!

761
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:31,085
Timothy

762
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:39,045
Come back! Come back!
Timothy, Timothy!

763
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,602
He's gonna be all right,
he knows these storms

764
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:50,641
Miss Grace, you's head over heels
for him, you's a fool, Miss Grace

765
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:24,210
- where did you find him?
- He was behind the house

766
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:42,926
Is he alive?

767
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,765
I do believe I know what
you mean by that question

768
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:47,763
But what does it mean to be alive?

769
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:49,809
I mean is he breathing?

770
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:51,724
Forget it

771
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:56,963
Is he dead?

772
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:02,403
we colored folks can be awfully
hard to kill ifwe want it that way

773
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:39,686
That very afternoon strong
Timothy was back on his feet

774
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:43,322
surveying the buildings
for damage caused by the storm

775
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:48,642
The dust had struck a devastating blow:

776
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:53,847
Unfortunately, hardest hit were the food
stores in the dilapidated "Peach House"

777
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,207
which had Iost its roof

778
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,887
Almost all of their
provisions were now inedible

779
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:05,009
On top of that the pneumonia
brought by the dust was inevitable

780
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:08,047
The dust had got in everywhere

781
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:13,008
particularly where no new boards
could have provided weatherproofing

782
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:18,326
namely through the cracked glass in
the window on the stars above CIaire's bed

783
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:24,805
"Valuables", not to mention cash,
were non-existent at Manderlay

784
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:29,928
since the elegant clock miraculously
still ticking merrily away on the mantelpiece

785
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,401
turned out to be, not Swiss

786
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,085
as Mam believed

787
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:38,285
but a copy made quite Iocally
and worth practically nothing

788
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:43,370
"The freed Enterprise
of Manderlay" was bust

789
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:51,047
wilhelm and Grace were therefore under no
illusions that anybody would attend class this day

790
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:58,447
But then, one by one the
Manderlay flock began to appear

791
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,762
I'm happy you're all here

792
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,569
But I don't really have
a Iecture for you today

793
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:22,722
I'd just Iike to say

794
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:32,044
how badly I feel about
this hopeless situation

795
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:41,731
But of course words
aren't much use to you

796
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:46,201
No, Missy has
Iearnt that much at Ieast

797
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:54,246
But as regards hopelessness,
it is something we do know a bit about

798
01:07:56,359 --> 01:08:02,480
There are a million plants out there beneath
the dust, ifwe can save but fifty of 'em

799
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:07,806
perhaps we can grow a small quantity
of great quality and get a better price for it

800
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,920
I reckon we should make a move

801
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:24,165
And that is how the greatest disaster
turned into a stroke of Iuck for Grace

802
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:29,042
and how the people, with a common
foe, the dust, as their excuse

803
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:33,967
suddenly found themselves working shoulder
to shoulder with their deadliest enemy

804
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:38,887
to achieve the common goal
as free, grown-up Americans

805
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:42,408
Stanley and Bertie had
sown the fields with Iittle sticks

806
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:46,201
so that people could tell where
to uncover the tender seedlings

807
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:51,810
while FIora ever so
childishly kept teasing Grace

808
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:57,205
with her digs at Grace's supposed
romantic feelings towards Timothy

809
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:07,282
Good night, old wilma

810
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,003
Good night, child

811
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:14,450
we can Iie down and talk
for a while 'fore we go to sleep

812
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:16,284
No, thank you, wilma

813
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:19,930
I'm not weary enough to go to bed yet

814
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:22,328
A Iittle walk helps

815
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:27,050
A walk when a body ain't
sleepy is a very good thing

816
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,560
I do the same myself

817
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:34,364
Good night!

818
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:36,445
Good night!

819
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:50,767
That everything seemed as moving along on
its own could be nothing but welcomed by Grace

820
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:56,684
But her Iack of an active part to play
had suddenly Ieft her in a kind of a vacuum

821
01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:00,208
and allowed other things
inside her to claim attention

822
01:10:00,480 --> 01:10:05,520
human things Iike
instincts and emotions

823
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:13,000
An ominous sense of homelessness
and Ioneliness struck Grace this evening

824
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:21,127
As she wondered about, Grace suddenly found
herself outside the wooden rear of the bathhouse

825
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:32,569
without warning the homelessness transferred
into a strange desire to move up that rusty pipe

826
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:40,047
against the flow of dirty water into where
naked bodies were being washed in cheap soap

827
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:44,724
BIack skin

828
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:49,688
male and black manhood

829
01:10:58,480 --> 01:11:03,327
what Grace had felt at the bath
house was undignified, shamefuI

830
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:07,805
Her mind was meant to be
devoted to policy at Manderlay

831
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:12,170
a matter in which these thoughts
had no business whatsoever

832
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:20,689
Grace had forced herself to sleep
to rid her thoughts of those black bodies

833
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:24,208
an achievement that was actually
possible thanks to the stubbornness

834
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:26,362
that flourished in Grace's family

835
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:32,282
But the cotton seedling in her
Iove-starved body did not give up

836
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,644
It manifested itself as a dream

837
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:38,406
Grace was in southern climes

838
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:46,571
There were women in exotic
costumes and men in turbans

839
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:53,964
Even in her sleep she hated with a passion
any idea of allowing that her father might be right

840
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,561
But it was a harem!

841
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:04,921
A group of black slaves appeared,
bearing a huge charger piled with dates

842
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:09,642
And in a twinkling Grace Iay among
the dates, trembling with pleasure

843
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:15,045
as a flock of Bedouin satisfied
her one by one with their noses!

844
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:21,442
And it was even more confusing
when Timothy appeared

845
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:27,921
and was both the slave bearing wine,
hands shaking, and the Sheik himself

846
01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:35,444
whose authoritative hands tested
the size of Grace's most intimate orifices

847
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:51,849
I must have overslept

848
01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:56,166
I'm sorry, CIaire
has had another turn!

849
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:15,281
Yeah, she's running a bad fever
again, she had anything to eat?

850
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:17,920
Oh, sure, pork
chops and baked chicken

851
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,811
She's taken a Iittle oatmeal
but it's hard to get it into her

852
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:25,241
she had this trouble with her Iungs
Iast year when the dust come, too

853
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:28,166
but there was far more dust this year

854
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:33,048
Honestly Missy, you oughta go back
home to the clean air and Iarders full offood

855
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:39,565
we're all in this together,
no matter how hard it gets

856
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:41,768
And hard it will get

857
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:48,370
I've seen what's Ieft around here though
some folks are still fillin' their bellies

858
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:55,044
You're right,
we've got to talk about that

859
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:58,531
Come on, it'II be all right, Rose!

860
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:10,927
I propose that we
ration what we have Ieft

861
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:16,850
and spread our provisions over a month until
we can harvest more from the vegetable gardens

862
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:23,084
And as I hear there are so
very few beans and potatoes Ieft

863
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:27,928
I think we should give them to
Rose who needs them for CIaire

864
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:33,569
what's Ieft will be shared
out equally among the rest of us!

865
01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:40,207
Excuse me, the rest of us?

866
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,889
- That goes for us too?
- Yes, of course it does

867
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,691
we've already eaten things
your father would ever have put up with

868
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,571
Joseph swears they couldn't
been described as food at alI

869
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:51,324
Iegally speakin'!

870
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:57,163
Your father used to Iet us obtain
stuffwhen the coffers were empty

871
01:14:57,320 --> 01:14:59,641
Surely we could steal
something from somewhere

872
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,564
but I suppose that's
no good either, Miss Grace?

873
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,527
I'm afraid you're one tough cookie

874
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:11,649
Maybe I am

875
01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:32,607
Sadly the most nourishing
fare the estate could still provide

876
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:35,730
had not improved
CIaire's condition much

877
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:38,929
but she needed meat,
and Timothy knew it

878
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:44,769
and so henceforth they would have to do
without the Ioyal old donkey on the treadmilI

879
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:51,169
It was not a good portent of the Ievel
of morale that the gangsters were now

880
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:55,370
trying hard to fix the car
from the ravages of the dust

881
01:15:56,040 --> 01:16:03,288
But Iuckily Joseph, a Iegal expert with the ability
to interpret the most incomprehensible of texts

882
01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:08,202
had met his match in the
1923 Ford owner's manuaI

883
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:27,561
As time went by the scattered cotton
plants at Manderlay grew side by side

884
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:32,527
with its denizens' hunger now that
the Iittle that was Ieft of the donkey meat

885
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,047
was reserved for CIaire

886
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:40,208
And Grace found herself in the
peculiar situation ofjoining wilma

887
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:45,082
and the other women in what had been
completely forbidden under Mam's Iaw

888
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:49,286
namely the southern
tradition of eating dirt

889
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:57,410
Having given up on the automobile manuals
Joseph had found a quaint turn of phrase

890
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,291
in the agreement into
which he had originally entered

891
01:17:00,440 --> 01:17:03,523
with Grace's father
regarding his employment

892
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:09,762
The wording could with a Iittle good will be
interpreted to mean that certain circumstances

893
01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:14,767
obliged an employee to obey
a higher authority than his boss

894
01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:18,648
the authority in this
case being his stomach

895
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:31,606
The good news was that although the
drought had been hard on the fields

896
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:35,810
Stanley and Timothy had invented
a weapon to deploy against it

897
01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:42,290
wait, wait, it's coming, it's coming

898
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:05,211
But the best news of all was CIaire

899
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:11,049
who had miraculously gained so much strength
that she could empty her plate of good food

900
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:18,805
always in the middle of the night when everyone
was asleep and nobody was Iooking, but even so

901
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:30,965
If Grace had thought hunger would
put paid to her forbidden sensual fantasies

902
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:34,010
actually the opposite
was more the case!

903
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,731
FIora, what's goin' on with the chickens?

904
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:14,684
Are they fighting?

905
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:17,491
You mean the four
whites after the black?

906
01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:20,440
You want I should open
the door and have a peek?

907
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,045
No

908
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:26,770
Mind you, that Iittle black hen real proud

909
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:31,331
wouldn't surprise me if them others
took the chance to give her the odd peck

910
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,726
Now don't you tease me, FIora

911
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:39,849
Goodnight then

912
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:41,769
Goodnight

913
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:48,571
FIora had teased Grace
before with the Iittle black hen

914
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:52,686
But they were hurting
it in there! No doubt about it!

915
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:58,969
And to make everything
far worse, that heat in her Ioins

916
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:03,808
seemed to come back in spite of
that poor chicken's cry for help

917
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:09,045
Or even intensified by it?

918
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:18,051
Devastated, humiliated and overcome
by fear for her sanity, she fled

919
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:20,931
And in a fit of madness

920
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:25,881
or what others would simply call "horniness"
she threw herself onto her bed on her tummy

921
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:29,840
and for a moment forgot all about
shame and political correctness

922
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,401
and did what she had
not done since her childhood

923
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:36,167
when she had not yet
known it was so infinitely wrong:

924
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:42,601
she pressed herself onto the knot she had rapidly
and instinctively formed by bunching her quilt

925
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:51,965
whether it was pleasurable
or painful is hard to telI

926
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:55,727
but she kept at it,
it was beyond her controI

927
01:20:55,960 --> 01:21:01,000
with no regard for the sleep of the women
around her or common decency in generaI

928
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:06,166
the pulsating explosions in her
nether regions took over her world

929
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:15,641
And who knows how it would have concluded
had there not appeared at that very moment

930
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:17,564
fortunately for Grace

931
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:22,362
a person shaking her back to
a reasonable state of self defense

932
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:23,965
Miss Grace! You gotta
come quick, Miss Grace

933
01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:25,451
what?

934
01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:44,810
She's dead

935
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:53,930
I took such care of her

936
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:58,086
I fed her the good meat

937
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,362
But she'd been eatin'

938
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:17,604
she's dead! Dead

939
01:22:35,480 --> 01:22:37,403
But she'd been eatin'

940
01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:42,202
No! She hadn't
been eatin', this 'un had!

941
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:46,887
Are ya gonna tell 'em, wilma?

942
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:56,728
I was so hungry, I get so dizzy

943
01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:04,686
and my Iegs hurt when I'm hungry

944
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:11,371
Our good friend and CIaire's beloved OId wilma
been visiting in the window so while we slept

945
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:14,889
She emptied CIaire's
plate every single night

946
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:20,285
T'was as easy as pie, considerin' that there
window could be opened from the outside

947
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:28,689
I've eaten so much dirt in my time,
my teeth can't take it no more

948
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,007
She killed our Iittle girI

949
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:37,882
Jack, she was sick

950
01:23:38,041 --> 01:23:40,647
- Miss Grace
- She was sick, Jack

951
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:46,803
Rose didn't worry to much about feeding her
during the day, 'cause she ate so much at night

952
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:49,531
I want wilma punished
for killin' my Iittle girI

953
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:53,446
I want this matter put to the vote

954
01:23:53,960 --> 01:24:02,687
I want wilma punished for killin' my Iittle girl,
I wantjustice or I'II kill her myself, right now

955
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,042
Let me go

956
01:24:18,080 --> 01:24:19,923
Stop it, Jack!

957
01:24:20,480 --> 01:24:24,041
- Stop we'II talk about it tomorrow...!
- She killed my Iittle girl!

958
01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:25,406
Stop it

959
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:41,041
And so, the very next evening a
gathering took place under the magnificent

960
01:24:41,200 --> 01:24:45,922
clear, twinkling,
starry sky of Manderlay

961
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:03,603
Now we've heard 'em all, wilhelm

962
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:10,281
wilma showed no mercy to our CIaire so no
mercy oughta be shown to her, she must die!

963
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:16,962
Jack, killing OId wilma
won't bring CIaire back

964
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:22,843
All we want is justice, you've said
so many times, that we're entitled to it!

965
01:26:27,440 --> 01:26:35,291
I propose that she
be banished from Manderlay

966
01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:38,125
for stealing food in an emergency

967
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:43,811
she probably won't survive
that anyway, as old as she is

968
01:26:48,440 --> 01:26:53,844
after all, we don't know if the matter of the
food made any difference at all in CIaire's fate

969
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:56,765
wilma can't have
known whether it would kill her

970
01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:04,526
but she didn't care a bit when it came to
riskin' somebody else's Iife that of our Iittle girl!

971
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:10,928
All wilma saw was a plate nobody
was touching, she was hungry

972
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:13,487
And what do you
think the rest of us was?

973
01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:17,328
All of us here ate what we had agreed?

974
01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:21,320
And whatcha think Iittle CIaire was?

975
01:27:22,480 --> 01:27:27,964
we're all hungry, and that
just makes it far, far worse!

976
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:44,808
All right, I'd Iike to ask y'all to
vote on Jack and Rose's motion

977
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:53,928
All those who believe that wilma
deserves to die, raise your hands!

978
01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:14,127
Thank you, thank y'alI

979
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:19,485
Stop!

980
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:27,605
Grace, I thought we were the
ones who made the decisions here

981
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:32,641
that's what you've always told us?
Or maybe it's only sometimes?

982
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:35,330
No, of course not, it's always

983
01:28:35,480 --> 01:28:38,643
And they's the decisions
you're here to defend, ain't they?

984
01:28:43,721 --> 01:28:46,691
So Iet me go across and do it!

985
01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:52,171
No

986
01:28:55,160 --> 01:28:58,289
if anybody is going
to do it, it's going to be me

987
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:04,965
it must not be an act of vengeance

988
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:08,968
That's all right by me

989
01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:12,969
as Iong as she
suffers as much as CIaire

990
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:15,407
That will be up to me

991
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,321
I'II Iet you know when it's over

992
01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:04,964
Grace

993
01:30:09,800 --> 01:30:12,451
be so kind as to tell me

994
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:17,002
what did they decide?

995
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:27,249
Am I gonna die?

996
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:39,687
No, wilma, you're not going to die

997
01:30:43,480 --> 01:30:45,403
whatcha mean?

998
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:52,560
I mean the ballot did not go
Jack's way, you're not gonna die!

999
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:03,125
See, they didn't think that CIaire
would've eaten the food on her plate anyway

1000
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:11,802
and anyhow she'd certainly
have died from pneumonia from the dust

1001
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:15,481
Did they really say that?

1002
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:19,602
Yes, they really said that

1003
01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:36,724
Ifyou knew
how terrible the waitin' was...

1004
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:45,647
I'm just so weary

1005
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:54,527
I know, I know you are,
but now you can sleep easy

1006
01:31:57,800 --> 01:32:02,249
Yes, I can

1007
01:32:03,360 --> 01:32:05,886
Lie down and get some sleep

1008
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,761
You are the daughter I might had

1009
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:27,605
Lie down

1010
01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:30,525
will you stay 'till I sleep?

1011
01:32:30,680 --> 01:32:32,205
I'II do that, wilma

1012
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:36,051
Here

1013
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:42,810
Lie down

1014
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:00,764
wilma?

1015
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:49,205
Harvest-time finally did arrive and
the cotton went safe into the sacks

1016
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,720
Despite the fewer bushes
the harvest was splendid

1017
01:34:55,240 --> 01:34:59,609
It was as if all the trials and tribulations
had made the cotton extra white

1018
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:07,611
and the fibers extra strong, and even at
current prices it would bring in a record sum

1019
01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:12,811
And although nothing
was the way it had ever been

1020
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:16,487
the harvest was as precise
as always at Manderlay

1021
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:22,331
The moment the Iast tuft of cotton
was in the sack, the swallows arrived

1022
01:35:22,480 --> 01:35:25,643
dropping from the
skies towards the marshes

1023
01:35:26,480 --> 01:35:32,487
Everyone observed the sight in awe and for
a moment it was greater than all the words

1024
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:34,847
and politics in the world

1025
01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:49,884
The old gin was as ready as ever, it had
been for a week, greased and stripped down

1026
01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:54,329
and reassembled by Sammy,
who had teamed up with Niels

1027
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:59,851
They worked well in harness, Niels
had never found a joke funny in his Iife

1028
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:05,928
so Sammy, the clownin' nigger, had given
up, not unrelieved, trying to entertain him

1029
01:36:06,080 --> 01:36:09,243
with his somewhat weak materiaI

1030
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:22,481
Miss Grace? Miss Grace?

1031
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:31,489
Edward?! God, I hardly recognized you!
You've certainly changed the way you dress!

1032
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:38,131
Yes, your father thought it was time for a change,
he's on his way into a new area of business

1033
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:40,922
- Is daddy here?
- No, he just sent me on ahead

1034
01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:42,923
to give you a message

1035
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:50,125
Your father says he will be by a week
Monday at eight o'clock in the evening

1036
01:36:50,440 --> 01:36:54,126
He told me to tell you that he will wait in the
car outside the gates for a quarter of an hour

1037
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:58,285
and not a second Ionger,
the way he did in Dogville, he says

1038
01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:01,365
and the way he did with
your mother, I think it was...

1039
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:05,366
- when he asked her to marry him
- Yes, something Iike that

1040
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:09,081
But ifyou want to go with him, you better
be there, 'cause he says he'II just push on

1041
01:37:09,280 --> 01:37:11,123
I know, I get the message

1042
01:37:11,280 --> 01:37:13,726
All right, I'm on my way,
take care, Miss Grace!

1043
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:15,291
You too, Edward

1044
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:25,205
Edward! just tell dad
that new times have come to Manderlay

1045
01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:32,051
But no, Grace had no intention of
going with her father when he arrived

1046
01:37:32,200 --> 01:37:38,560
she had her own Iife to Iead now and it suited
her just fine, but she'd be at the gates anyhow

1047
01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:45,444
She just had to show him what she had
achieved, a new and better Manderlay

1048
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:53,047
It was examination day
for Stanley and the family

1049
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:56,682
because even though things
had been going well recently

1050
01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:00,208
when Stanley partook of his
traditional beer with Mr. Miller

1051
01:38:00,360 --> 01:38:04,570
nobody would be able to prevent him from
revealing what had happened on the plantation

1052
01:38:04,720 --> 01:38:07,166
and thereby ruin it alI

1053
01:38:07,480 --> 01:38:12,611
wilhelm had been highly skeptical about
Ietting the whites talk to the drivers at alI

1054
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:16,685
but Grace had insisted,
she trusted them

1055
01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:29,208
Eejit nigger! Are you totally useless?

1056
01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:32,488
Sorry, Mr. Mays!

1057
01:38:35,080 --> 01:38:36,730
I'm joking

1058
01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:48,327
Stanley Mays and the family passed

1059
01:38:49,800 --> 01:38:54,362
That very evening Grace
pronounced them graduate Americans

1060
01:38:55,400 --> 01:38:59,200
And although they were free
to go they had elected to stay

1061
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:04,571
as there was talk of hiring the family
and Stanley Mays on a permanent basis

1062
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:10,651
And before anybody knew it the days
had passed and the money was in the bank

1063
01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:15,124
from where it had been picked
up by proud Timothy on horseback

1064
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:22,286
Niels and Sammy had fixed the car,
wisely without reference to the manuaI

1065
01:39:22,960 --> 01:39:25,361
- Thank you, for everything
- Thank you

1066
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:30,120
- what are you gonna do now?
- I don't know

1067
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:33,047
You could always
go back to gangstering

1068
01:39:36,440 --> 01:39:38,249
where is Mr. Robinsson?

1069
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:41,085
He's been down
the cabins shakin' hands

1070
01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:47,644
Grace was touched by Mr. Robinson's
sudden social interest in the former slaves

1071
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:54,491
But it felt right when the car Ieft, it was
time for Grace to say goodbye to power

1072
01:39:56,840 --> 01:40:01,721
Brave and strong thy men and women

1073
01:40:01,880 --> 01:40:10,083
Better this than corn
and wine, make us worthy God in heaven

1074
01:40:10,640 --> 01:40:15,726
of this goodly Iand ofThine

1075
01:40:16,120 --> 01:40:22,287
Hearts as open as our doorway

1076
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:28,920
Liberal hands and spirits free

1077
01:40:29,720 --> 01:40:36,171
Alabama, Alabama

1078
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:43,721
we will aye be true to thee

1079
01:41:00,320 --> 01:41:02,243
He's watching you

1080
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:07,080
- No, he's not!
- He's watching you

1081
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:09,041
No he's not!

1082
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:12,244
I reckon it have somethin'
to do with them gangsters Ieavin'

1083
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:18,966
See, honey, when you was boss,
he has visitin' your kingdom

1084
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:22,445
Now, you're visitin' his

1085
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:25,525
I reckon he wants you now

1086
01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:28,931
He should have some dinner,
I'm gonna go get him

1087
01:41:34,080 --> 01:41:36,208
You gotta come
and get some dinner

1088
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:38,488
Quiet, woman!

1089
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:09,883
In Mam's bedroom Grace recalled
FIora's worrying, intimate Iittle details

1090
01:42:10,040 --> 01:42:15,046
Sexual intercourse amongst the Munsi
was determined by ancient traditions

1091
01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:18,803
It would not appeal
to Grace, FIora had said

1092
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:24,046
not with Grace's modern ideas
of equality of people and the sexes

1093
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:33,521
but Grace seemed to have Ieft
her progressive attitudes at the table

1094
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:51,120
Now actually in the situation she had
dreamed of... it was all more bizarre than erotic

1095
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:55,206
anyway Grace decided
to hang on to this opinion

1096
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:23,284
Timothy, wake up!

1097
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:29,607
Timothy's horse had got out of
the staple when fires had been Iit

1098
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:33,970
around the Manderlay slave
quarters while Grace was asleep

1099
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:49,130
what happened?

1100
01:44:49,280 --> 01:44:54,286
I can't tell you, ifyou want a clear answer
you gonna have to ask somebody else

1101
01:44:54,480 --> 01:44:57,563
- The gangsters took the money!
- what?!

1102
01:44:58,160 --> 01:45:05,089
The gangsters took the money! That's the answer!
And I reckon it's a pretty clear answer, too!

1103
01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:10,644
It certainly is very clear,
but what makes you think so?

1104
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:22,326
when the party ended we all Ieft the
table to go and take a Iook at the money

1105
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:27,561
Timothy had hid it behind the red slope

1106
01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:34,243
Timothy was meant to be keepin'
an eye on the place, but he wasn't there

1107
01:45:34,920 --> 01:45:38,447
And the box had been
pulled up, it was empty

1108
01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:47,248
One of the gangsters dug up the money
when he was pretendin' to say goodbye

1109
01:45:47,400 --> 01:45:49,528
But he couldn't have done it alone

1110
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:53,571
Someone must've
told 'em where the box was

1111
01:45:56,320 --> 01:46:00,006
And Sammy refused to admit it was him

1112
01:46:01,200 --> 01:46:04,602
although he'd spent
a whole Ioad of time with Niels

1113
01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:09,722
And then everybody
started yellin' and screamin'

1114
01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:16,081
and folks is angry and no one's Iistenin'

1115
01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:20,803
Stanley Mays and
the family got away I believe

1116
01:46:21,480 --> 01:46:25,644
although Philomena
and Bertie got cut up real bad

1117
01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:32,690
EIizabeth is dead too,
although that was mostly by accident

1118
01:46:33,040 --> 01:46:40,811
It was too soon to send the guns
away, we weren't quite ready yet

1119
01:46:43,080 --> 01:46:46,163
For once Grace had nothing to say

1120
01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:51,208
She could but reproach herself in silence
for her tasteless joke to the gangsters

1121
01:46:51,440 --> 01:46:55,968
about resorting to their former
occupations if things got tight

1122
01:46:56,160 --> 01:46:58,162
wilhelm, I can't rouse Timothy

1123
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:00,607
No, I bet you can't

1124
01:47:01,440 --> 01:47:04,887
he drank three bottles
of hooch before we ate

1125
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:09,762
The Munsi don't drink!

1126
01:47:12,440 --> 01:47:17,446
Oh, well, maybe they
do on special occasions

1127
01:47:26,960 --> 01:47:30,601
well! It certainly
is Iively 'round here!

1128
01:47:34,160 --> 01:47:37,243
Didn't I tell you I didn't
want to see you here again?

1129
01:47:38,560 --> 01:47:43,805
Yes, but I haven't come to do
a deal, I have come to conclude one

1130
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:48,967
and in the hope of course that
you'II see that I am an honest man

1131
01:47:49,120 --> 01:47:51,964
Cause, I needn't have
come back to settle up at alI

1132
01:47:55,000 --> 01:48:02,248
This is your 80 per cent, quite
amounts to a tidy bit too, as you can see

1133
01:48:04,240 --> 01:48:06,242
It's the money from our harvest?

1134
01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:10,200
I expect so, it's that time ofyear

1135
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:17,722
See, I had a Iittle game with a young man who
came to see me and I knew he come from here

1136
01:48:17,880 --> 01:48:21,601
so I've made my humble return

1137
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:25,890
Don't you think that you've
just might have been wrong about me?

1138
01:48:26,720 --> 01:48:29,530
who did you play for all this money?

1139
01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:32,729
It was a day ago now

1140
01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:40,002
See, I would have come sooner but I pass
this black car with some gentlemen in dark coats

1141
01:48:40,160 --> 01:48:44,529
they began to follow me, shouting
the whole time, that I was going to die

1142
01:48:44,720 --> 01:48:51,569
and that I was a con man who dealt
from the bottom, what an accusation!

1143
01:48:53,040 --> 01:48:55,008
well itjust took me a while
to get away from them

1144
01:48:55,160 --> 01:48:56,764
who was it?

1145
01:48:57,280 --> 01:49:01,171
The Nigra fellow and he arrived
on horseback, what was his name?

1146
01:49:01,760 --> 01:49:03,285
Timothy?

1147
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:09,887
Yeah, that was it, Timothy,
yeah, that was his name

1148
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:13,931
He's a Munsi! They don't gamble!

1149
01:49:14,480 --> 01:49:19,566
well, I know, Munsi don't gamble,
I'm a bit of an expert in this field

1150
01:49:19,720 --> 01:49:22,644
You'II have a devil time
gettin' them to the gamin' table!

1151
01:49:23,520 --> 01:49:29,050
but he's no Munsi, in fact he's what
I'd call a splendid fella at the card table

1152
01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:34,161
and he just stayed bein' splendid
no matter how much he Iost

1153
01:49:35,200 --> 01:49:37,646
But he told everyone he was a Munsi

1154
01:49:37,800 --> 01:49:42,601
Of course, see, the girls were
wild about the tales that he told

1155
01:49:42,760 --> 01:49:49,211
All the Munsi tales, the proud African,
the royal Iine, all that old-fashioned morality

1156
01:49:49,360 --> 01:49:56,642
and the accent of course, and on
account of that the girls was easy to bed

1157
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:03,850
There! I'm not even going
to avail myself ofyour gratitude

1158
01:50:04,120 --> 01:50:07,329
That's just the kinda'
fella I am, hey ho!

1159
01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:14,120
BIess me if I can't come
up with a motto for today

1160
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:21,245
they say the Mansi are
better hung than the Munsi

1161
01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:28,883
or "The Munsi are so up-stuck
but the Mansi, how they fuck!"

1162
01:50:34,120 --> 01:50:37,010
well then, I'II be seein' you!

1163
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:40,842
we can talk business another day

1164
01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:08,646
Grace went straight to the Iast pages
with the tables of personal details

1165
01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:10,848
on the slaves at Manderlay

1166
01:51:11,360 --> 01:51:16,764
where was Timothy, now?
Yes, his name had a 1 beside it

1167
01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:22,928
A proudy slave,
as she'd read earlier or did it?

1168
01:51:25,080 --> 01:51:28,289
She Iooked more closely
at the handwritten number

1169
01:51:28,800 --> 01:51:32,600
She compared it to the
seven next to EIizabeth's name

1170
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:35,480
The pleasin' nigger
of the chameleon type

1171
01:51:35,640 --> 01:51:39,281
an expert in changing character
according to whatever was opportune

1172
01:51:39,440 --> 01:51:46,483
and what would titillate and enthrall the
other person, and then Grace could see it

1173
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:50,201
Timothy's number
was not a one but a seven

1174
01:51:50,360 --> 01:51:53,364
She had only wanted to read it as a one

1175
01:51:53,960 --> 01:52:01,686
There was even a note beside Timothy's
name: "Caution, diabolically clever"

1176
01:52:24,720 --> 01:52:29,487
Grace had called a final meeting
for everybody at Manderlay

1177
01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:36,929
for that evening she had decided to Ieave the
place forever with her father when he arrived

1178
01:52:37,080 --> 01:52:39,003
Oh, you're all here

1179
01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:46,006
I persuaded the community to
assemble, extraordinarily, for two ballots

1180
01:52:46,160 --> 01:52:50,051
whatever they involved, they can scarcely
have anything to do with me any more

1181
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:52,527
Don't be too certain of that, Miss Grace

1182
01:52:52,680 --> 01:52:58,084
well, I am certain,
I've come to say goodbye!

1183
01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:02,923
And ifyou've had two ballots today

1184
01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:07,449
well, oddly enough that coincides
with the two presents I have brought

1185
01:53:07,680 --> 01:53:14,290
farewell presents,
ifyou Iike, the first is this...

1186
01:53:17,880 --> 01:53:21,123
It's the money from our harvest

1187
01:53:21,880 --> 01:53:27,728
well, actually it's 80 percent of it, a cardsharp
kept the other 20 per cent as commission

1188
01:53:28,120 --> 01:53:33,524
He scammed the money off of somebody
from Manderlay in a game of cards

1189
01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:35,883
So the gangsters didn't take it?

1190
01:53:36,040 --> 01:53:42,810
No, no they didn't
and I won't prolong the tension

1191
01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:46,725
it was the treasurer who did it

1192
01:53:46,920 --> 01:53:49,730
the man charged with
Iooking after the money

1193
01:53:50,560 --> 01:53:58,889
He was overcome by his eagerness to play,
probably because he isn't a Munsi at alI

1194
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:05,848
but a Mansi, however
unimportant that may sound

1195
01:54:07,840 --> 01:54:16,248
which brings me to my second present, this
one, painful to you or not, it has to come out

1196
01:54:17,560 --> 01:54:25,763
In this book, which I still regard as the most
abominable, contemptible document ever written

1197
01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:28,571
Timothy is Iisted as a pleasin' nigger

1198
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:33,368
a person who can change his appearance
to please the beholder, as he has done

1199
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:38,209
Iet me find the page

1200
01:54:38,400 --> 01:54:41,370
It's on page 104!

1201
01:54:46,160 --> 01:54:49,846
How do you know? I thought
no slave had ever seen this book

1202
01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:53,482
How do you know what's
on page 104 of Mam's Law?

1203
01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:56,483
'Cause I wrote it!

1204
01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:14,529
It's all in my meticulous hand

1205
01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:20,406
Mam and I were very young
when the war suddenly ended

1206
01:55:20,760 --> 01:55:24,526
and this new statute terrified us

1207
01:55:25,400 --> 01:55:27,004
Terrified you?

1208
01:55:28,760 --> 01:55:33,926
we tried to imagine what kind
ofworld were these slaves Iet out into

1209
01:55:34,080 --> 01:55:36,162
were they ready for it?

1210
01:55:37,320 --> 01:55:42,565
Or more correctly,
was it ready for them?

1211
01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:46,521
The Iegislators promised all kinds
of things but we didn't believe 'em

1212
01:55:46,840 --> 01:55:54,042
And that was then Mam urged me to
commit to paper the way I thought things

1213
01:55:54,200 --> 01:55:59,161
should be done here if everyone
stayed on at Manderlay

1214
01:56:00,640 --> 01:56:03,405
But it's the prolongation of slavery

1215
01:56:04,480 --> 01:56:09,247
You might call it that, you might
also call it the Iesser of two evils

1216
01:56:13,240 --> 01:56:15,720
But did the others know
that you wrote this book?

1217
01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:21,125
Groups 2, 3 and 5, always knew

1218
01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:26,488
A few members of the other
groups were better off not knowing

1219
01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:34,525
But everyone knows now, I wrote
Mam's Law for the good of everyone!

1220
01:56:36,640 --> 01:56:39,086
For the good of everyone!

1221
01:56:42,640 --> 01:56:45,371
For the good of everyone?

1222
01:56:47,600 --> 01:56:49,682
How dare you?

1223
01:56:50,640 --> 01:56:55,043
It's a recipe for oppression

1224
01:56:55,880 --> 01:57:01,171
and humiliation from start to finish

1225
01:57:02,440 --> 01:57:07,207
I think you've been reading it through
the wrong spectacles, Miss Grace

1226
01:57:07,360 --> 01:57:11,490
if I may take the Iiberty of saying so

1227
01:57:12,440 --> 01:57:18,891
And then wilhelm initiated Grace into the
humane qualities, of the Iesser of two evils

1228
01:57:19,680 --> 01:57:23,810
Mam's Iaw! How it
guaranteed food and shelter

1229
01:57:23,960 --> 01:57:27,442
and allowed anybody the privilege
of complaining about their masters

1230
01:57:27,600 --> 01:57:30,570
instead of having to blame
themselves for the Iife of no hope

1231
01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:34,566
that they would
surely have to Iead in the outside world?

1232
01:57:34,960 --> 01:57:39,409
How the noonday parade was a blessing
since the parade ground was the only place

1233
01:57:39,560 --> 01:57:42,245
with shade at the warmest time of day?

1234
01:57:42,480 --> 01:57:46,326
How the numbered groups were determined
according to the patterns of behavior

1235
01:57:46,480 --> 01:57:51,691
that human beings resort to in order
to survive in an oppressive community?

1236
01:57:51,960 --> 01:57:57,603
so that Iife could be made easier for
each of them, since a proudy' nigger

1237
01:57:57,760 --> 01:58:05,042
not that Manderlay had seen many, if any, of
these, survives by perceiving himself as proud

1238
01:58:05,200 --> 01:58:09,285
and could be helped by this system to
believe that he was a bit more persecuted

1239
01:58:09,440 --> 01:58:11,727
and punished than the others

1240
01:58:12,480 --> 01:58:15,927
Since a CIowning nigger would
benefit greatly from the Iaughter

1241
01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:19,482
that Mam's Law strictly
demanded of its master

1242
01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:23,929
just as any other groups
benefited from similar obligations

1243
01:58:24,080 --> 01:58:28,085
How cash was forbidden so that
gambling had to be done with cotton money

1244
01:58:28,240 --> 01:58:34,088
to prevent ruination and
misery for the families, etc. etc.

1245
01:58:34,320 --> 01:58:37,847
Until Graces head
felt fair ready to explode

1246
01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:42,324
Damn it, wilhelm, they're
not free! That's what matters!

1247
01:58:42,480 --> 01:58:50,809
I'd call that a philosophical argument, which
neatly brings me to the two ballots I just mentioned

1248
01:58:51,240 --> 01:58:54,244
was Mam's Law still relevant?

1249
01:58:55,600 --> 01:59:00,606
And we agreed that unfortunately
it was as relevant now as it ever was...

1250
01:59:01,480 --> 01:59:07,601
America was not ready to welcome us
Negroes as equals seventy years ago

1251
01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:13,449
and it still ain't, and the way things are
goin' it won't be in a hundred years from now!

1252
01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:22,770
So we agreed we'd Iike to take one step
backwards at Manderlay and reimpose the old Iaw!

1253
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:25,602
Excuse me, but I'm going

1254
01:59:25,880 --> 01:59:31,125
As for your going, well, I'd better tell you
about the second of our ballots

1255
01:59:31,440 --> 01:59:34,649
as you know sadly we Iost Mam

1256
01:59:34,920 --> 01:59:40,324
and unfortunately we've good
and well frightened off her descendants

1257
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:44,400
In short: we Iack a Mam!

1258
01:59:51,120 --> 01:59:52,087
No!

1259
01:59:52,240 --> 01:59:55,130
I needn't tell you that
you received every single vote

1260
01:59:55,880 --> 01:59:57,291
Never!

1261
01:59:57,440 --> 02:00:05,803
with all your idealism, I think you'd enjoy being
the guardian of a kind of menagerie for creatures

1262
02:00:05,960 --> 02:00:08,486
who have no chance in the wild

1263
02:00:10,600 --> 02:00:14,650
Just as you thought the notion
of a community would be good for us

1264
02:00:16,040 --> 02:00:21,251
You were so sure that you permitted
yourself to use force to convince us

1265
02:00:21,640 --> 02:00:25,087
I'II be sorry ifwe have to do Iikewise

1266
02:00:25,720 --> 02:00:29,805
what do you mean?
Do you intend to keep me prisoner?

1267
02:00:29,960 --> 02:00:33,362
Only 'til you understand the
way you wanted us to understand

1268
02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:36,764
The gate has been
repaired and is closed

1269
02:00:37,360 --> 02:00:41,729
The fences are in good shape
but of course they ain't particularly high

1270
02:00:43,760 --> 02:00:47,162
Those fences, come on

1271
02:00:48,640 --> 02:00:53,567
two men with a rusty
shot gun and a toy pistoI

1272
02:00:54,560 --> 02:00:57,404
How dumb do you really think we are?

1273
02:00:58,240 --> 02:01:01,881
Too dumb to build a Iadder
ifwe'd really wanted to get away?

1274
02:01:03,760 --> 02:01:07,082
Grace had spent a great
deal of time on this meeting

1275
02:01:07,240 --> 02:01:10,369
which from her point of view
didn't seem to be getting anywhere

1276
02:01:10,840 --> 02:01:15,164
Her father and his car
would be at the gate at eight

1277
02:01:15,400 --> 02:01:19,166
That was in half an hour,
she had no Iadder

1278
02:01:19,320 --> 02:01:22,529
And she was on her
own and guarded by many

1279
02:01:22,800 --> 02:01:26,202
Just how was she
to get out of Manderlay?

1280
02:01:27,200 --> 02:01:30,807
when was a section
of the fence always down?

1281
02:01:31,000 --> 02:01:36,769
Grace would have to change her tactics
rapidly if she was to make the rendez-vous

1282
02:01:37,160 --> 02:01:40,323
All right, I'II do as you want

1283
02:01:41,280 --> 02:01:43,851
not from my heart, though
surely none ofyou could expect that

1284
02:01:44,000 --> 02:01:49,325
but as my only option, and you needn't
be scared, I'II obey your beloved Iaw

1285
02:01:50,440 --> 02:01:53,523
So we'd better start by
dealing with the present matter:

1286
02:01:53,680 --> 02:02:01,326
Timothy, a slave from group seven has
committed a theft that almost ruined us alI

1287
02:02:01,560 --> 02:02:06,851
As I've determined that Mam's Law does not
prescribe any punishment for stealing money

1288
02:02:07,000 --> 02:02:09,128
I shall have to be creative

1289
02:02:11,440 --> 02:02:16,810
what was it you once said, FIora, something
about planting a bottle of Rhenish wine?

1290
02:02:18,240 --> 02:02:26,489
I do believe there is a bottle of Rhenish
wine under Timothy's saddle, don't you?

1291
02:02:29,320 --> 02:02:38,047
So that's what I seen when I went there
yesterday, if it wasn't a bottle of Rhenish wine!

1292
02:03:20,440 --> 02:03:25,367
There was still ten minutes until her
slavishly punctual father would arrive outside

1293
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:29,206
to wait for his 15 minutes
and not a second Ionger

1294
02:03:29,440 --> 02:03:33,331
Just enough time for
a verbal farewell salute

1295
02:03:39,040 --> 02:03:42,362
Timothy, you can stop
being proud and silent

1296
02:03:43,480 --> 02:03:52,924
Cry and shout and beg
for mercy Iike the Mansi you are

1297
02:03:53,760 --> 02:03:57,003
the Mansi who you despise so much

1298
02:03:58,320 --> 02:04:02,211
And it's that hatred Timothy and
the rest ofyou bear towards yourselves

1299
02:04:02,360 --> 02:04:10,245
that you'II never make me accept, you
are a cheat of the Iowest kind, and wilhelm

1300
02:04:10,760 --> 02:04:14,924
and all ofyou who follow him, are nothing
but a bunch of traitors to your race

1301
02:04:15,120 --> 02:04:21,401
I hope that your fellow Negroes one day
uncover your betrayal and punish you for it

1302
02:04:21,840 --> 02:04:24,127
You make me sick

1303
02:04:27,160 --> 02:04:35,807
I'm sure you're quite right, Miss Grace, most
Iikely it's impossible to revile us niggers enough

1304
02:04:36,400 --> 02:04:39,768
but what I don't get is
why it makes you so angry?

1305
02:04:39,920 --> 02:04:41,763
what do you mean?

1306
02:04:41,920 --> 02:04:44,002
Aren't you forgetting something?

1307
02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:49,968
You made us!

1308
02:05:11,960 --> 02:05:15,009
Probably the only thing that could
have stopped the Iady with the whip

1309
02:05:15,160 --> 02:05:21,202
from carrying on forever was the cheerful
tinkle that announced her father's presence

1310
02:05:27,520 --> 02:05:31,889
She needed his support
now, Manderlay, too

1311
02:05:32,040 --> 02:05:36,090
really was a place the world
would be better offwithout...

1312
02:05:47,760 --> 02:05:53,164
Grace recognized her father's
hand writing, "dear girl", it said

1313
02:05:53,320 --> 02:05:58,042
Dear girl, so you
tricked your father yet again

1314
02:05:58,320 --> 02:06:04,407
I waited the fifteen minutes
first but I am too kind hearted

1315
02:06:04,680 --> 02:06:11,131
So I popped over to the fence behind the bushes
and peeked inside to check that you were ok

1316
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:17,729
to my great surprise it really did Iook
as ifyou had a good grip on things for once

1317
02:06:17,880 --> 02:06:20,121
I am proud ofyou, my girI

1318
02:06:20,280 --> 02:06:22,089
I hope we meet up someday

1319
02:06:22,240 --> 02:06:26,211
so you can tell me what you actually
meant by "new times at Manderlay"

1320
02:06:26,800 --> 02:06:30,361
Love, your dumb old dad

1321
02:06:37,880 --> 02:06:45,606
Ballots could be unrivalled, but determining
the time by public debate was rarely feasible

1322
02:06:45,760 --> 02:06:48,206
That was quite apparent

1323
02:06:51,200 --> 02:06:54,124
Grace had but a few
seconds to choose the direction

1324
02:06:54,280 --> 02:06:57,807
in which to flee away
from her swarthy pursuers

1325
02:06:57,960 --> 02:07:02,966
who, as her father had to teasingly
predicted, were carrying torches

1326
02:07:03,480 --> 02:07:06,802
Grace was in a hurry
and did not notice Burt

1327
02:07:06,960 --> 02:07:12,842
the former fugitive with a Iiberal attitude
to other races, who never did make it far

1328
02:07:14,360 --> 02:07:22,848
Grace was angry: Manderlay had fossilized in a
picture of this country that was far, far too negative

1329
02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:27,045
America was a many-facetted
place, no doubt about it

1330
02:07:27,760 --> 02:07:31,287
But "not ready" to accept black people?

1331
02:07:31,720 --> 02:07:38,410
You really could not say that America
had proffered its hand, discreetly perhaps

1332
02:07:38,560 --> 02:07:46,604
but if anybody refused to see a helping
hand, he really only had himself to blame!