

The duo begins a deal to purchase one of the fighting slaves as a coverage for rescuing Broomhilda.Īs the duo travel to Candyland, Django is riding horseback alongside Candie's hired white men while the fighter slaves walk on foot and Schultz is invited to share the carriage with Candie and his lawyer. When Django meets Candie, he antagonizes him since he is Broomhida's owner. Schultz reminds him not to make Candie suspicious to which Django retorts that he is only trying to play the part. After the winning slave kills the losing slave (a rule that is part of the slave fight), Candie congratulates him and rewards him a drink. When Django and Schultz arrive at yoza Cleopatra Club*, they are taken to the bar to meet Candie, who is watching two muscular slaves fight to the death. Until his death, he was the owner of Django's wife Broomhilda von Schaft. His father owned the ranch and he grew up on it his whole life. An odd thing about him is he insists on being called Monsieur when he doesn't know a word of French.


His friend is Stephen, a slave who caters to his every need to the detriment of his fellow slaves. Calvin is only slightly less cruel to female slaves, assigning the older and homelier women to either harvesting cotton or housekeeping, but taking young attractive slave women to be prostituted in a brothel he also owns called the Cleopatra Club. Calvin even feeds a slave to dogs for refusing to fight any more of these gladiatorial battles. Calvin shows great joy in watching Mandingo fight displayed for the amusement of onlookers, despite the fact that these fights are damaging the health of his slaves and rendering them unfit to harvest cotton or any other jobs that needs to be done, which is directly hurting production of his plantation. His other two are forcing male slaves to participate in brutal wrestling matches called Mandingo fights, and charging admission for spectators to come watch these fights. Calvin Candie gets his wealth from three sources the cotton from his plantation, which is his sole legitimate source of income. He owns the fourth largest cotton plantation in Mississippi which he calls Candyland. Candie ( JMay 5, 1859) was the Francophile owner of the plantation Candyland and the initial main antagonist of Django Unchained.Ĭalvin Candie is one of the villians in Django Unchained.
