and he's the one that actually brings the phrenology aspect into the piece.the one thing this thing is missing, and i think it needs to be there because it was the pseudoscience that allowed these southern buj waz feel comfortable about doing the inhuman stuff they were doing. what fascinated me about the ideal of leonardo playing it, once we had our meeting, i walked away and, okay, let me think about the piece now with a younger man. let me go through the paces in my own mind to see if that changes anything for the good or for the bad. and one of the pretexts that i wanted to get at in this movie is how the southern arstockeracy could allow themselves to do this. and actually think it's okay, talk themselves into it being proper and right. to me this whole thing of, you know, town-- town aristocrates, southern aristocracy, it's just european aristocracy, brought over ad hoc. they kept what they lid. they chucked ouhat they didn't like and made up a bunch of stuff to go along with it at their own bidding. and so with that in mind, you have to think about it.

and he goes into this phrenology explanation.not any different but the minds are different. we talked about the colonized mind on this show and "django," fox's attack on that mind throughout the piece is cathartic, it is heroic and the killings that he does in this film of people who represent slavery are heroic and if he wasn't killing slave masters and samuel l. jackson, who represents slavery, then he would be psychotic. >> hold on, hold on, hold on. >> stop, stop. we need to mediate between two things. i don't think it's romantic. i want to tell you why i don't think it's romantic. because real life slavery wasn't romantic. when i teach this, my students are just dead because i drag them through slavery to lynchings to all this stuff and they're beat up by the time we get to 1920s. i tell them you need to see this much, you need to understand this violence. we read real narratives, of the wpa and everything else. one of the things i brought up when we were talking about this show beforehand is that this whole thing is just vi