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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 leaving 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 of Alabama 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 legendary 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 letting things go in one ear and out
the other for a pretty long 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 like 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!
It just 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 law

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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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- Slaves?
- 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 local 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 local matter?

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It's certainly not our responsibility

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You think the Negroes wanted
to leave 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, lady! Slavery was
abolished seventy years ago

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If you won't obey that law of your
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, leave us alone!

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If you're looking 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 like to ask you for a favor

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

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

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

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It had to come one day

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All right, I'll 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 like 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 leave 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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Please let 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 of what will happen now

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

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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
lay any contempt in these words

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for the wretched and
starving people of America

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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 pistol

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All right, we can go

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No, let's just wait a moment!

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what are you waiting for?

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For them 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 last 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 let him out

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Tweety was a proud little bird

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well, his dignified exit didn't
do Tweety a hell of a lot 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 all

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

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

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

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And of course they'll never be able to pay
back the money and they'll 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 loans

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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 land
- 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 land 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 less with it than your dear mother!

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No, I seem to have
underestimated 'em

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we've at least 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 lot 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 lady?

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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 ungrateful

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

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

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

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

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with their pitiful, leaky cabins

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

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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 like the little 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 all

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we've heard of your kind

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

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I should like 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 perfect justice 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 life

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by throwing himself
into Manderlay's deep welI

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Grace looked 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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living 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 legal 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 lawyer 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 might just 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 life in a liberal 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 little
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 lend you some money
as covered by this other piece of paper

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and we also can set up
a little store here, if you like

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after all, it's a long way to town

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And if you buy enough for all of us,
I betcha liable to get a real nice bulk discount

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and the goods'll 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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Please sign, everybody!

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Sign here

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All right, let'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

233
00:21:20,548 --> 00:21:23,478
That your power would be mine, too!

234
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,228
And that I could use it in my own way!

235
00:21:26,513 --> 00:21:30,938
That power was
to carry on the family firm

236
00:21:31,726 --> 00:21:36,033
that I was open to new ideas

237
00:21:36,189 --> 00:21:42,536
The power you ask for now will undoubtedly be
applied to something that's foolish at best and...

238
00:21:42,696 --> 00:21:44,701
Daddy! You promised!

239
00:21:44,906 --> 00:21:50,257
You were a bastard to mother, but when
you promised her something, she got it!

240
00:21:53,290 --> 00:21:58,510
Ok, you've been
given what I promised you

241
00:22:00,506 --> 00:22:03,803
Maybe things haven't
been split right down the middle

242
00:22:03,967 --> 00:22:07,017
but this is as far as I am prepared to go!

243
00:22:07,179 --> 00:22:09,599
I want nothing to do with your plans

244
00:22:09,889 --> 00:22:14,030
And you won't be able to get in touch with
me if anything goes wrong and you need me

245
00:22:14,186 --> 00:22:18,327
as usual, to get you out of trouble,
because fortunately, my dear

246
00:22:18,482 --> 00:22:20,950
you'll have no idea where I am

247
00:22:25,448 --> 00:22:28,829
- Daddy, I'd like to take Joseph, as well
- No

248
00:22:28,992 --> 00:22:31,164
I need a lawyer
to sort out some paperwork!

249
00:22:31,329 --> 00:22:36,845
No, no, never, never

250
00:22:37,043 --> 00:22:39,214
I'd never let Joseph go

251
00:22:39,378 --> 00:22:45,062
He's the only man I know who can draw up a
contract so there's only one possible interpretation

252
00:22:45,218 --> 00:22:47,935
and though I haven't
needed that talent as of yet

253
00:22:48,096 --> 00:22:50,397
I still might need it one day!

254
00:22:51,391 --> 00:22:53,526
I'll give you Viggo and Bruno for him!

255
00:22:53,684 --> 00:22:55,073
Never!

256
00:22:56,021 --> 00:22:59,366
I've given you my best
associates and you know it!

257
00:23:05,822 --> 00:23:09,784
Daddy! I was meant
to have been given half!

258
00:23:09,951 --> 00:23:13,629
- If mother had been alive
- Oh, damn it, Grace!

259
00:23:35,102 --> 00:23:39,942
So, that very day and into
the early hours Joseph employed

260
00:23:40,107 --> 00:23:44,828
the celebrated unambiguous phrases
his previous employer and given him

261
00:23:44,986 --> 00:23:48,415
so wretchedly little
opportunity to practice

262
00:23:48,782 --> 00:23:54,003
New contracts needed drawing
up and old ones needed nullifying

263
00:23:54,621 --> 00:23:59,343
all with the astonishing goodwill
that parties always evince in the company

264
00:23:59,501 --> 00:24:02,799
of rapid-firing machine pistols

265
00:24:05,257 --> 00:24:10,560
These are the deeds of gift, you transfer the
property to the former slaves in joint ownership

266
00:24:10,721 --> 00:24:14,601
The last document is your contract
of employment by this community

267
00:24:14,767 --> 00:24:21,198
Employment? I don't quite
get what you mean by that...

268
00:24:21,857 --> 00:24:25,535
It'll be without pay and the right
of termination is rather one-sidedly

269
00:24:25,694 --> 00:24:28,329
in the hands of the
employer, but nevertheless

270
00:24:28,489 --> 00:24:33,413
Manual labor... for you
and your family and Mr. Mays!

271
00:24:33,578 --> 00:24:35,250
Hard labor

272
00:24:37,123 --> 00:24:39,010
Say something, Bingo!

273
00:24:40,835 --> 00:24:48,558
My father's back ain't so strong, he climbed
up to reach the chandelier, one Christmas day

274
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,607
And he fell off the
banister and struck a table

275
00:24:51,888 --> 00:24:54,439
well, that's what happens
when you've got chandeliers

276
00:24:55,725 --> 00:25:02,452
when I consider that your understanding
of the worth of other human beings

277
00:25:02,607 --> 00:25:05,288
has reached the desirable stage

278
00:25:05,693 --> 00:25:09,537
you and Mr. Mays and
your family will be allowed to go

279
00:25:10,157 --> 00:25:13,005
Go? And leave our home?

280
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,287
Yes

281
00:25:14,453 --> 00:25:18,545
and I assure you that even starting from
scratch your prospects will be a lot better

282
00:25:18,707 --> 00:25:21,341
than your former
labor's would have been!

283
00:25:23,128 --> 00:25:27,518
with regards to the
presence of me and my men

284
00:25:27,799 --> 00:25:29,934
we'll only act as your counselors

285
00:25:30,094 --> 00:25:36,192
The guns are merely a precaution in
case of any threats to the new community

286
00:25:36,350 --> 00:25:40,822
we intend to stay here, but
only until the first harvest is home

287
00:25:40,979 --> 00:25:44,906
after which any of the new
shareholders who wishes to do so

288
00:25:45,067 --> 00:25:48,661
may cash in his or her
deed of gift and receive a dividend

289
00:25:50,406 --> 00:25:52,956
All right, will you
collect your deeds, Mark...?

290
00:25:53,117 --> 00:25:59,049
Nobody was particularly enthusiastic or
confident about these late night legal formalities

291
00:26:01,792 --> 00:26:04,640
But Grace could see beyond this

292
00:26:04,795 --> 00:26:09,102
And if she saw little else than
fear and disquiet in all these eyes

293
00:26:09,592 --> 00:26:13,898
at least she saw
gratitude in one single pair

294
00:26:14,055 --> 00:26:18,361
namely in Wilhelm's mild, old gaze

295
00:26:19,435 --> 00:26:24,441
Burt! I got a deed of gift
here that ain't been accepted

296
00:26:24,607 --> 00:26:28,664
will Mr. Burt approach forthwith
and take delivery of his deed of gift?

297
00:26:28,819 --> 00:26:32,083
Mr. Burt? Mr. Burt?

298
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:37,413
Burt had actually prepared his
escape from his ferocious wife

299
00:26:37,704 --> 00:26:40,468
Despite her lack of faith in his abilities

300
00:26:40,623 --> 00:26:44,385
Burt had succeeded in meeting
a woman through the fence

301
00:26:44,544 --> 00:26:48,056
and she had agreed
to help him to abscond

302
00:26:48,298 --> 00:26:54,230
and there he was waiting at
the agreed place at the agreed time

303
00:26:58,975 --> 00:27:02,523
"A helping hand", the woman had said

304
00:27:02,687 --> 00:27:06,318
what a peculiar coincidence that
two women should come to the aid

305
00:27:06,483 --> 00:27:09,745
of the Manderlay
slaves at the same time:

306
00:27:10,487 --> 00:27:14,912
Grace; and Burt's "helping hand"

307
00:27:15,284 --> 00:27:18,996
and the similarities between
them were also peculiar:

308
00:27:19,163 --> 00:27:25,178
young; beautiful; white in male company

309
00:27:25,586 --> 00:27:29,596
actually male
company in alarming numbers

310
00:27:30,091 --> 00:27:31,644
where's the nigger?

311
00:27:42,061 --> 00:27:47,660
Grace had moved into the freed
plantation: among its new shareholders

312
00:27:47,816 --> 00:27:50,865
She was there as a guard, no more

313
00:27:51,112 --> 00:27:54,623
But no one could stop her
from using this beautiful spring

314
00:27:54,782 --> 00:27:58,495
to make her own little observations
on the people of Manderlay

315
00:27:58,661 --> 00:28:04,344
In the hope of spotting the burgeoning change
in character that freedom ought to bring

316
00:28:04,834 --> 00:28:09,804
But unfortunately
she saw little of just that:

317
00:28:10,590 --> 00:28:17,649
She saw Victoria for the third time, looking down
the well in hope of a glimpse of the body of Burt

318
00:28:18,931 --> 00:28:23,357
She saw Flora and Elisabeth
swooning for Timothy as ever

319
00:28:26,564 --> 00:28:30,077
She saw the men spending
their time on card games

320
00:28:30,235 --> 00:28:34,411
playing for tufts of blue
cotton under their leaking roof

321
00:28:35,115 --> 00:28:40,039
And she saw how everybody would ignore
the eager Mark whenever he opened his mouth

322
00:28:40,203 --> 00:28:45,802
not knowing that he was notorious for never
being able to give an intelligible answer to anything

323
00:28:45,959 --> 00:28:50,136
we called him Putting head,
but his real name wasn't Putting head

324
00:28:52,091 --> 00:28:57,524
Grace saw Victoria beating her
eldest son, for stealing a moldy cookie

325
00:28:57,679 --> 00:29:02,852
And she saw the unstoppable,
irrevocable hierarchy of the beatings

326
00:29:03,102 --> 00:29:07,941
Victoria beating Ed, Ed
beating Milton, and Milton, willie

327
00:29:08,107 --> 00:29:13,872
who finally vented his frustration
further down the food chain on Claire

328
00:29:14,030 --> 00:29:18,620
who far too rarely managed to make
use of the window with the outside handle

329
00:29:18,784 --> 00:29:23,340
that her loving father Jack had
installed as an emergency entrance

330
00:29:23,497 --> 00:29:31,766
which also allowed her to fall asleep every
night to her favorite view of the twinkling stars

331
00:29:33,549 --> 00:29:37,808
Every noontide Grace witnessed
with pity how the former slaves

332
00:29:37,970 --> 00:29:41,434
were arrayed on the parade
ground with its mysterious numbers

333
00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:44,316
and marks beneath Mam's balcony

334
00:29:44,477 --> 00:29:47,691
as if nothing at Manderlay had changed

335
00:29:47,855 --> 00:29:53,372
However, one of them did not submit
to this all-too-soothing power of habit

336
00:29:53,528 --> 00:29:55,331
Timothy of course

337
00:29:55,488 --> 00:30:00,791
In a flash his exotic pride
almost took Grace's breath away

338
00:30:02,870 --> 00:30:08,886
This day Grace walked on past the old "Peach
House" where the whites were now detained

339
00:30:09,044 --> 00:30:13,006
put to work on sundry more
or less needless little repairs

340
00:30:13,173 --> 00:30:16,803
on her way to the
barn housing her gangsters

341
00:30:18,511 --> 00:30:19,934
So, how's everyone doing?

342
00:30:20,097 --> 00:30:22,398
I'm afraid the men got nothing to do

343
00:30:22,557 --> 00:30:24,645
And it's not so good for the morale

344
00:30:24,809 --> 00:30:28,191
In situations like that your father
always came up with something!

345
00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:32,033
I bet he did! But it's
patience that's required

346
00:30:32,234 --> 00:30:37,288
But not this much patience, Niels says,
Niels's grandpa was a cotton grower

347
00:30:37,447 --> 00:30:40,461
And he says the cotton
should've been sown ages ago!

348
00:30:40,617 --> 00:30:42,752
The soil doesn't look ready

349
00:30:42,911 --> 00:30:46,174
Might be because nobody's ploughed it!

350
00:30:46,331 --> 00:30:49,594
Maybe things are different here
from where your grandpa lives?

351
00:30:49,751 --> 00:30:52,385
No ma'am, don't reckon so

352
00:30:52,546 --> 00:30:59,308
well, if it should've been sown, surely
the people here would be the first to know

353
00:31:04,475 --> 00:31:06,811
As she did not want to impose

354
00:31:06,977 --> 00:31:12,411
Grace's intercourse with the former slaves
had been limited to brief greetings and the like

355
00:31:12,566 --> 00:31:16,079
But now it was time for
a talk with some meat to it

356
00:31:16,987 --> 00:31:22,504
Excuse me, sir? Mark?
May I ask you something?

357
00:31:22,701 --> 00:31:25,383
It's about planting the cotton

358
00:31:25,579 --> 00:31:31,215
I've been around for sowin'
and harvestin' and birth and death

359
00:31:31,377 --> 00:31:35,719
Right, so when should
the cotton be planted?

360
00:31:35,881 --> 00:31:38,136
There're strict rules for that...

361
00:31:38,301 --> 00:31:41,314
you can't mess
around with that sort of thing

362
00:31:41,471 --> 00:31:46,525
Manderlay's always been renowned
for the precision of its harvest

363
00:31:46,684 --> 00:31:50,528
the swallows always
migrate right afterwards

364
00:31:50,730 --> 00:31:55,819
they settle here for the night
on their way across the marshes

365
00:31:57,904 --> 00:31:59,873
But the planting?

366
00:32:00,282 --> 00:32:02,701
It's a science, my dear lady

367
00:32:02,867 --> 00:32:08,041
And the weather, what you might've
expected, plays a fear-some role

368
00:32:08,206 --> 00:32:11,800
Yes, yes, and when
will it be time this year?

369
00:32:11,959 --> 00:32:16,220
Not too soon and not too late

370
00:32:17,299 --> 00:32:21,261
Yes, but when? Should the
cotton have already been planted?

371
00:32:21,428 --> 00:32:27,360
I'm not the sorta fella' to pass on
information unless I'm damn sure of it

372
00:32:27,517 --> 00:32:33,035
less the facts of the matter are
one hundred percent, in other words...

373
00:32:33,190 --> 00:32:37,247
the facts need be beyond dispute

374
00:32:42,366 --> 00:32:44,453
Do you know when to plant?

375
00:32:46,078 --> 00:32:47,419
No

376
00:32:47,579 --> 00:32:49,667
I'd better ask Wilhelm,
is he in his cabin?

377
00:32:49,831 --> 00:32:52,466
This morning he went
down to the bath house

378
00:32:52,626 --> 00:32:57,550
he'd gotten a little frayed around
the edges, as they say, it's a funny thing

379
00:32:57,715 --> 00:33:00,728
I'm sorry... I'll go find him myself

380
00:33:03,929 --> 00:33:07,062
Excuse me Wilhelm,
I've come about the fields

381
00:33:09,102 --> 00:33:13,491
The fields should've been ploughed
and harrowed three weeks ago

382
00:33:13,647 --> 00:33:15,699
and the cotton planted two weeks ago

383
00:33:15,858 --> 00:33:17,614
But does everybody know that?

384
00:33:17,777 --> 00:33:24,124
Oh yes, but I reckon they thinkin' somebody
else oughta go out into the fields first

385
00:33:24,492 --> 00:33:29,546
In the old days Overseer
Mays would've driven us out there

386
00:33:29,872 --> 00:33:34,760
Maybe it's because
nobody really trust you, Missy

387
00:33:37,213 --> 00:33:42,516
Yeah, but Wilhelm, they could
be doing something else instead

388
00:33:42,677 --> 00:33:45,395
repairs to their homes

389
00:33:45,972 --> 00:33:47,562
they badly need it

390
00:33:47,724 --> 00:33:50,737
The cabins have
always been a sore spot

391
00:33:50,893 --> 00:33:55,070
But Mam said we ain't
got no material to fix 'em up

392
00:33:55,690 --> 00:33:59,866
But we're going to need what we make on the
cotton, how else will people survive on their own?

393
00:34:00,029 --> 00:34:01,156
Yeah

394
00:34:03,740 --> 00:34:07,501
if folks felt they
was given something

395
00:34:07,661 --> 00:34:11,920
Something brought out
by this, these new times

396
00:34:13,167 --> 00:34:19,430
That made their lives better in
a convincing way, right here and now

397
00:34:19,631 --> 00:34:23,226
I don't know what
that might be, but...

398
00:34:23,594 --> 00:34:25,812
But we don't have time for that

399
00:34:25,971 --> 00:34:28,226
we've been forced to sow late before

400
00:34:28,432 --> 00:34:34,234
The harvest might be improved if we planted
it a bit late, even says that in Mam's Law

401
00:34:35,272 --> 00:34:36,944
Mam's Law?

402
00:34:37,316 --> 00:34:39,404
Oh, yes, Mam's law

403
00:34:39,568 --> 00:34:43,495
It's all the rules for running the plantation

404
00:34:43,656 --> 00:34:48,662
But we weren't allowed to read it,
it was just for Mam and the family

405
00:34:56,377 --> 00:34:59,805
Only for Mam and the
family, Grace thought...

406
00:35:01,382 --> 00:35:03,553
Certainly no more...

407
00:35:16,897 --> 00:35:24,159
And there on Mam's bed skimming through the old
book well filled with bizarre and vicious regulations

408
00:35:24,322 --> 00:35:28,166
she came upon a page
that looked strangely familiar!

409
00:35:28,535 --> 00:35:32,331
A table with numbers
from one to seven

410
00:35:32,664 --> 00:35:37,006
Somewhere Grace had
seen something similar, for sure

411
00:35:41,089 --> 00:35:43,853
Mam's law revealed it all

412
00:35:44,968 --> 00:35:49,393
The Manderlay plantation
with its glamorous front mansion

413
00:35:49,556 --> 00:35:54,776
and pitiful rear where the slaves had
their quarters had been kept in an iron grip

414
00:35:54,936 --> 00:35:56,822
by these very numbers!

415
00:35:57,231 --> 00:36:02,486
They represented the psychological
division of the Manderlay slaves

416
00:36:03,028 --> 00:36:07,370
Sammy was a Group 5:
a Clownin' nigger

417
00:36:07,533 --> 00:36:12,788
The formidable Victoria was of
course a Number Four: a Hittin' nigger

418
00:36:12,954 --> 00:36:17,759
No wonder her husband Burt had found
it necessary to accept "a helping hand"

419
00:36:17,918 --> 00:36:20,883
even if it was another color from his own

420
00:36:21,172 --> 00:36:24,386
Wilma and Mark were losin' niggers

421
00:36:24,633 --> 00:36:27,848
Wilhelm was a Two: a talkin' nigger

422
00:36:28,012 --> 00:36:31,725
Flora was a weepin'
nigger, et cetera et cetera

423
00:36:31,890 --> 00:36:35,604
there were pleasin' niggers
and crazy niggers by the dozen

424
00:36:36,187 --> 00:36:43,661
The final category, Number One proudy niggers
consisted nowadays of Timothy as expected

425
00:36:43,819 --> 00:36:47,663
who was of course
not there, and Elisabeth?

426
00:36:48,783 --> 00:36:53,043
No, it said seven, not one

427
00:36:53,621 --> 00:36:58,627
she was a pleasin' nigger,
also known as a chameleon

428
00:36:58,793 --> 00:37:06,220
A person of the kind who could transform herself
into exactly the type the beholder wanted to see

429
00:37:07,468 --> 00:37:13,353
This was how the slave system had
been kept alive for so long at Manderlay

430
00:37:13,558 --> 00:37:16,904
Bondage even through psychology!

431
00:37:19,939 --> 00:37:24,578
As Grace in deep thoughts
gazed across the fields of Manderlay

432
00:37:24,736 --> 00:37:28,200
she recalled another page in Mam's law

433
00:37:28,406 --> 00:37:34,623
dealing exclusively with the weeding of the
paths in the romantic "Old Lady's Garden"

434
00:37:34,788 --> 00:37:39,048
The name of the narrow band
of woodland that skirted the plantation

435
00:37:39,751 --> 00:37:44,473
"Trees and tree trunks!" Grace thought

436
00:37:44,673 --> 00:37:49,015
So there were materials
at Manderlay after all!

437
00:38:04,901 --> 00:38:10,668
Excuse me,
may I ask you all something?

438
00:38:14,912 --> 00:38:21,461
Isn't it true that somebody
who's even poor and colored

439
00:38:22,586 --> 00:38:25,884
can still take the trouble
to maintain their home?

440
00:38:31,429 --> 00:38:33,315
How dare you?

441
00:38:33,764 --> 00:38:38,190
Do you think colored folks prefer
holes in their roofs and wallowing in mud?

442
00:38:38,769 --> 00:38:42,116
well then, all you need
to do is to mend those holes!

443
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:49,286
But I told you, there ain't never been the
materials for that kind of thing at Manderlay

444
00:38:49,447 --> 00:38:53,504
No materials? That's not true

445
00:38:55,286 --> 00:38:58,964
when I'm in the fields
I see timber wherever I look

446
00:38:59,124 --> 00:39:02,054
just waiting to be turned
into boards for a roof

447
00:39:02,210 --> 00:39:05,887
or an extension or maybe
even a whole new cabin!

448
00:39:06,048 --> 00:39:10,437
That be Mam's Garden,
you can't cut that down

449
00:39:10,677 --> 00:39:13,774
And why can't we cut
down the Old Lady's Garden?

450
00:39:15,015 --> 00:39:21,196
Have you really spent that many happy hours up
there on your knees weeding her romantic paths?

451
00:39:21,355 --> 00:39:25,744
That's true, there's loads of timber

452
00:39:26,651 --> 00:39:30,246
we ain't seen it as anything
but the Old Lady's Garden

453
00:39:31,990 --> 00:39:38,421
I don't know what you think,
but to me it sounds like a splendid idea

454
00:39:50,509 --> 00:39:59,146
And at a stroke these seated, reclining, resting
people had turned into people going full tilt

455
00:39:59,435 --> 00:40:02,946
walking, running, working people

456
00:40:03,106 --> 00:40:07,530
without anyone having to threaten
them in the slightest with "The Lady's hand"

457
00:40:07,693 --> 00:40:11,040
as Grace had been
told the great whip was called

458
00:40:11,447 --> 00:40:14,377
And Grace had won a kind of victory

459
00:40:14,783 --> 00:40:18,627
a small beginning of something
that would one day erase

460
00:40:18,787 --> 00:40:23,095
all the negative inherited
behavior patterns at Manderlay

461
00:40:30,758 --> 00:40:35,978
But, as Grace had suspected, the
appetite for improving the living quarters

462
00:40:36,139 --> 00:40:40,611
unfortunately exceeded
that for preparing the fields

463
00:40:41,478 --> 00:40:44,657
But a few of the former
slaves had volunteered

464
00:40:44,981 --> 00:40:47,994
And with the white
family and Grace herself

465
00:40:48,151 --> 00:40:52,493
they made up a sort of gang
to prepare the soil for the seeds

466
00:40:52,655 --> 00:41:00,000
Under the gaze of a demonstratively hostile
Timothy with his mysterious white handkerchief

467
00:41:11,925 --> 00:41:13,562
He wasn't born here?

468
00:41:13,718 --> 00:41:15,724
He's a Munsi

469
00:41:16,013 --> 00:41:19,856
It's a line of African royalty,
it's a very proud line

470
00:41:20,309 --> 00:41:23,655
He don't drink, either,
or gamble like the others be doing

471
00:41:23,812 --> 00:41:26,576
with their little blue
tufts of cotton money?

472
00:41:27,649 --> 00:41:29,785
T'was Mam's Law

473
00:41:30,277 --> 00:41:32,745
we weren't allowed no real money

474
00:41:34,031 --> 00:41:38,456
Grace knew about the clever
system of currency in Mam's Law

475
00:41:38,910 --> 00:41:43,253
Not real money you
could use in the outside world

476
00:41:44,375 --> 00:41:48,172
The Munsi don't gamble
'cause don't believe in winnings

477
00:41:48,546 --> 00:41:55,391
They believe you have to be humble to your
crops and only take what's absolutely necessary

478
00:41:57,846 --> 00:42:03,482
I've never heard of these Munsi before,
but I do believe I once heard of the Mansi?

479
00:42:03,644 --> 00:42:09,078
They different, they was
slaves of African kings, they gamble

480
00:42:09,775 --> 00:42:12,954
they is true mischief, Timothy say

481
00:42:13,154 --> 00:42:17,034
- So Timothy has prejudices as well?
- what?

482
00:42:17,242 --> 00:42:21,418
Oh, nothing, I was just thinking aloud

483
00:42:21,829 --> 00:42:24,049
Oh, so you've find company, Flora?

484
00:42:24,207 --> 00:42:27,553
No, no, I was on my way out anyway

485
00:42:33,550 --> 00:42:38,853
Timothy, let me tell you one thing

486
00:42:39,931 --> 00:42:46,823
I know you don't like me and
don't trust me, and I can see why

487
00:42:47,397 --> 00:42:52,368
Although our ideals differ,
you have a pride within you

488
00:42:52,527 --> 00:42:56,750
that I believe will one day be
the salvation of everybody at Manderlay

489
00:42:58,575 --> 00:43:00,959
Let me tell you one thing, too!

490
00:43:01,411 --> 00:43:08,589
You got fine words, a posse of gangsters and
your white skin, somethin' folks here seem fall for

491
00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:10,591
But I ain't fooled

492
00:43:10,879 --> 00:43:12,931
You're not interested in us

493
00:43:13,715 --> 00:43:15,934
Not as human beings

494
00:43:16,093 --> 00:43:20,732
After all, it's tough telling people
apart when they're from another race

495
00:43:20,889 --> 00:43:24,733
we whites have committed an
irreparable crime against an entire people

496
00:43:25,686 --> 00:43:31,867
Manderlay is a moral
obligation because we made you!

497
00:43:36,739 --> 00:43:40,500
Luckily, I'm just a nigger
who don't understand such words

498
00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:46,416
and now, if you'll excuse me,
I've come here for the company of my girl

499
00:43:46,582 --> 00:43:49,512
and that ain't nothing for you to see

500
00:43:50,294 --> 00:43:52,465
black hides meetin'

501
00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:58,597
and if I were you I'd leave
now before things get too nasty

502
00:44:09,855 --> 00:44:13,736
Grace regarded Timothy's
hostility as a challenge

503
00:44:14,027 --> 00:44:18,037
And the very next day she
took a step to dispel his claim

504
00:44:18,198 --> 00:44:23,122
that as a white she was incapable
of caring for blacks as individuals

505
00:44:23,328 --> 00:44:27,717
She had had a chat to Venus,
about her somewhat maladjusted son Jim

506
00:44:28,041 --> 00:44:35,515
And Venus had revealed that Jim's behaviour
was merely that of a budding but frustrated artist

507
00:44:36,508 --> 00:44:38,727
Tell me, have you seen Venus?

508
00:44:38,885 --> 00:44:41,982
Nobody here wants your charity!

509
00:44:45,059 --> 00:44:47,064
I have something for Jim!

510
00:44:47,311 --> 00:44:50,739
I've had a really good look
at his face, since our little chat

511
00:44:50,897 --> 00:44:55,987
And you're right, it does
possess an artist's sensitivity

512
00:44:57,238 --> 00:44:58,909
This is far too much

513
00:44:59,073 --> 00:45:03,083
No, no, no, go on,
call him! This is for him

514
00:45:04,828 --> 00:45:10,002
Jim, come on out here
with me and Miss Grace, baby

515
00:45:16,882 --> 00:45:21,770
These are for you,
because we believe in you

516
00:45:21,970 --> 00:45:26,727
Now run along,
and paint your fantastic pictures

517
00:45:26,892 --> 00:45:32,113
and never mind those closed minded folks
who think they know what art is meant to look like

518
00:45:32,273 --> 00:45:34,527
give them hell from me Jim!

519
00:45:36,444 --> 00:45:43,373
Excuse me, but I ain't Jim,
I'm Jack, that's Jim!

520
00:45:52,418 --> 00:45:57,673
It is tricky, as a matter of fact I've
never been able to tell them apart either

521
00:45:59,384 --> 00:46:02,978
They're both colored
and they both got curly hair

522
00:46:03,138 --> 00:46:05,855
why look any deeper than that?

523
00:46:06,724 --> 00:46:12,242
To be honest Grace had never been quite
sure which was Jim and which was Jack

524
00:46:12,647 --> 00:46:16,195
A blunder that would, in her
former life among her fellow whites

525
00:46:16,359 --> 00:46:19,539
merely have occasioned a little laughter

526
00:46:20,197 --> 00:46:25,002
in her life at Manderlay it was disastrous

527
00:46:26,411 --> 00:46:31,252
But like her father, she did not take
long to transform a defeat into anger

528
00:46:31,416 --> 00:46:34,098
energy and a counterattack

529
00:46:34,253 --> 00:46:37,965
This is what has
created all this resistance

530
00:46:38,132 --> 00:46:41,513
Even you regard it
as almost sacred, don't you?

531
00:46:41,802 --> 00:46:45,433
I must admit it's played
a right important part of my life

532
00:46:45,722 --> 00:46:50,148
And that will be my next move!
They should be allowed to see it

533
00:46:50,894 --> 00:46:53,991
and to understand that it
can't do them any more harm

534
00:46:54,148 --> 00:46:56,616
I wouldn't advise it, Missy

535
00:46:57,276 --> 00:47:02,745
Presenting it to them would be like showing
a child the rod with which it's been beaten

536
00:47:02,906 --> 00:47:06,833
I agree, it must be made public,
but we ain't all ripe for it

537
00:47:11,957 --> 00:47:18,767
All right, then we shall have to
see about ripening you, and quickly!

538
00:47:18,922 --> 00:47:22,186
And I'm not talking about the
couple of cozy meetings I've organized

539
00:47:22,343 --> 00:47:23,684
to which hardly anybody turned up

540
00:47:23,844 --> 00:47:28,519
I mean teaching with a timetable,
old fashioned hands on schooling

541
00:47:30,226 --> 00:47:36,739
All right, I've got something for you to do at last,
and it even involves bossing people about...

542
00:47:36,899 --> 00:47:42,250
At noon tomorrow I'm going to give my first
lesson to all of the former slaves of Manderlay

543
00:47:42,405 --> 00:47:45,371
And it'll be your job to
make sure that they're there

544
00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:47,835
No excuse for not showing up!

545
00:47:47,994 --> 00:47:49,465
And the family?

546
00:47:49,621 --> 00:47:52,883
No, they're pretty
well teaching themselves

547
00:47:55,043 --> 00:47:57,013
Are you listening to me?

548
00:47:57,212 --> 00:47:59,929
It's 'cause Niels just got a great hand!

549
00:48:00,215 --> 00:48:01,638
what?

550
00:48:07,722 --> 00:48:09,276
who are you?

551
00:48:10,767 --> 00:48:13,531
My name is Doctor Hector

552
00:48:15,647 --> 00:48:21,413
Do excuse me a moment,
I'll have to pay my way out of this round

553
00:48:23,155 --> 00:48:26,998
God knows, I don't believe you possess
any cards of real significance

554
00:48:27,326 --> 00:48:30,126
You have a poker player's face

555
00:48:33,540 --> 00:48:36,091
You see here my entire enterprise

556
00:48:36,752 --> 00:48:40,714
I'd never gained access
to Manderlay before

557
00:48:40,881 --> 00:48:44,843
so when I drove by today,
I saw the gates were open

558
00:48:45,261 --> 00:48:47,681
I took it as a sign of new times

559
00:48:47,846 --> 00:48:49,816
what exactly do you do?

560
00:48:49,973 --> 00:48:55,064
I entertain, party games,
card games and the like

561
00:48:55,438 --> 00:48:58,024
well, nowadays mainly the latter

562
00:48:59,192 --> 00:49:01,161
You play for money?

563
00:49:01,485 --> 00:49:03,953
Oh, but I do more than play

564
00:49:04,113 --> 00:49:05,620
I cheat!

565
00:49:07,783 --> 00:49:13,834
And you have no objections to
revealing this business secret of yours?

566
00:49:13,998 --> 00:49:17,012
Oh, to some people, but not to you

567
00:49:17,168 --> 00:49:21,807
No, you see, if you and I establish
the business relationship I am anticipating

568
00:49:21,964 --> 00:49:25,393
you'll be happen
to know exactly what to expect

569
00:49:25,551 --> 00:49:27,354
And what can I expect?

570
00:49:28,596 --> 00:49:30,103
Eighty per cent

571
00:49:31,766 --> 00:49:34,151
Now, you certainly know
all the problems that arose

572
00:49:34,936 --> 00:49:39,159
when our beloved new
deal was imposed in '65

573
00:49:39,399 --> 00:49:43,030
the plantation owners had
plenty of land but nobody to work it

574
00:49:43,195 --> 00:49:45,958
So they contracted
with their former slaves

575
00:49:46,114 --> 00:49:50,871
But they just didn't have the same hold
on the rascals as they had in the old days

576
00:49:51,036 --> 00:49:53,124
Of course, they lend them money

577
00:49:53,288 --> 00:50:00,466
Then quite a few of the nigras
actually saved up and paid off their debts

578
00:50:00,670 --> 00:50:04,514
so the plantation owners got worried

579
00:50:07,052 --> 00:50:09,022
- I bet they did!
- Oh, yes

580
00:50:09,304 --> 00:50:11,641
See, that is where my idea came in

581
00:50:11,806 --> 00:50:15,769
I went from plantation to plantation
with the full backing of the plantation owners

582
00:50:15,936 --> 00:50:21,535
to entertain their employees, and they were
sorely in need of diversion, let me tell you

583
00:50:21,692 --> 00:50:23,779
we just had a little game of cards

584
00:50:23,944 --> 00:50:28,334
And if anyone was
close to repaying his debt

585
00:50:28,740 --> 00:50:31,671
I would take their shirt off their back!

586
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:39,217
And I'm prepared to offer you
that very same service today, Mam!

587
00:50:45,591 --> 00:50:47,762
You are not convinced

588
00:50:48,886 --> 00:50:52,315
Let me give you another
token of my profound loyalty

589
00:50:52,473 --> 00:50:57,728
I have here a letter from
a man by the name of Stanley

590
00:50:58,979 --> 00:51:01,317
He asked me to smuggle it out

591
00:51:01,524 --> 00:51:04,905
I thought perhaps you would
like to see it before it is mailed

592
00:51:05,070 --> 00:51:11,333
Listen, Mr. Hector, let me
just say that I've never met a man

593
00:51:11,492 --> 00:51:19,512
whom I have instantly despised so wholeheartedly
both for his personality and his occupation

594
00:51:22,712 --> 00:51:25,216
Does that mean you
are turning down my offer?

595
00:51:25,382 --> 00:51:28,514
I never want to see you here again!

596
00:51:32,139 --> 00:51:38,604
All right, well, I am disappointed

597
00:51:39,021 --> 00:51:42,532
I shall nevertheless bestow
upon you my thought for the day

598
00:51:42,732 --> 00:51:44,986
I indulge in word games

599
00:51:45,152 --> 00:51:50,241
I like to give my clients something
to laugh or think about when I leave

600
00:51:51,783 --> 00:51:58,676
The best technique for a card
sharp is "dealing from the bottom"

601
00:52:00,001 --> 00:52:03,382
Look as if you're dealing
from the top of the deck

602
00:52:04,213 --> 00:52:08,851
but instead you just take the
bottom card, one that you know

603
00:52:10,344 --> 00:52:14,188
"Take from the bottom" means
something else entirely in social terms

604
00:52:14,348 --> 00:52:18,738
but it is what I do,
I "take from the bottom"

605
00:52:20,979 --> 00:52:24,574
won't be hard to find
me if you change your mind

606
00:52:33,367 --> 00:52:40,047
The letter was aimed at a Mr. Miller, one of the
truckers who picked up cotton from Manderlay

607
00:52:40,208 --> 00:52:48,050
and the plantation's only real contact with the
outside world, it was short and to the point

608
00:52:48,674 --> 00:52:53,812
"we are being held prisoner by
gangsters and coloreds at Manderlay"

609
00:52:53,971 --> 00:52:59,855
"inform the police and please
come to our aid with all due dispatch"

610
00:53:15,910 --> 00:53:19,339
Indignation is a rare
emotion for a gangster

611
00:53:19,497 --> 00:53:23,804
but a state of just that was what Grace's
men experienced while they herded

612
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,010
the colored people in
for their lesson that day

613
00:53:27,172 --> 00:53:32,061
as Grace had reported on Doctor Hector's
cheap trick of "taking from the bottom"

614
00:53:32,427 --> 00:53:39,238
And it was hardly the sophisticated ambiguity
of the term that had affected them so dramatically

615
00:53:40,644 --> 00:53:42,862
welcome to our lesson

616
00:53:43,938 --> 00:53:49,289
yes, I call it a lesson as the term "meeting" seems
to have scared some people out of attending

617
00:53:49,445 --> 00:53:53,834
I was coming, but I was late!

618
00:53:53,990 --> 00:53:56,874
Very late, you hadn't made
it by the time we finished

619
00:53:57,036 --> 00:54:01,046
In the old days we could hear
the bell from the old clock in the hall

620
00:54:01,290 --> 00:54:05,300
T'was easier to keep up with time,
but we never hear it no more

621
00:54:05,711 --> 00:54:08,132
Probably because nobody winds it up

622
00:54:08,881 --> 00:54:13,223
But, now for the topic of
this lesson: working together

623
00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:20,569
Only four people from your
wing helped to prepare the fields

624
00:54:20,726 --> 00:54:24,274
and only five helped to plant

625
00:54:25,356 --> 00:54:29,283
I'm not a shareholder in this enterprise but if I
had been and if I had also been one of the five

626
00:54:29,444 --> 00:54:30,914
I would've felt cheated

627
00:54:32,780 --> 00:54:36,956
Democracy means
government by the people

628
00:54:37,743 --> 00:54:41,421
But as it's not practical
for everyone to sit in congress

629
00:54:41,581 --> 00:54:45,887
a method by which people may
express their views is required

630
00:54:46,044 --> 00:54:48,594
this method is called a ballot

631
00:54:48,755 --> 00:54:53,394
All right, so let's try it out

632
00:54:53,676 --> 00:54:58,730
we should choose a problem,
anything anyone can't decide on?

633
00:54:59,391 --> 00:55:02,404
If I may suggest a small matter?

634
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,151
please do

635
00:55:04,562 --> 00:55:10,281
I reckon the little broken rake
is mine, but Flora reckons it's hers

636
00:55:10,444 --> 00:55:16,790
That's an excellent suggestion,
it's a great example

637
00:55:17,201 --> 00:55:22,550
I assume you all know of this dispute and
all feel able to have an opinion on it, right?

638
00:55:22,706 --> 00:55:28,010
who does the community
think owns the rake?

639
00:55:28,170 --> 00:55:31,800
It could turn out to belong
to both parties equally

640
00:55:32,258 --> 00:55:36,564
now that would correspond
nicely with the subject of this lesson!

641
00:55:36,803 --> 00:55:39,521
working together,
sharing together, all right?

642
00:55:39,681 --> 00:55:43,028
So, who thinks it's Elisabeth's rake?

643
00:55:43,894 --> 00:55:45,318
Sammy?

644
00:55:48,274 --> 00:55:52,829
I think it's Elisabeth's rake

645
00:55:52,986 --> 00:55:54,375
All right!

646
00:55:54,530 --> 00:55:59,536
Slowly the point of Grace's edifying
discourse dawned on the majority

647
00:55:59,868 --> 00:56:05,670
Most of them thought the rake was
definitely Elisabeth's a few that it was Flora's

648
00:56:05,874 --> 00:56:08,461
and nobody that it could be shared

649
00:56:08,627 --> 00:56:17,265
I still remain undecided whether
the rake is Elisabeth's or Flora's

650
00:56:17,428 --> 00:56:22,317
Right, so, not too surprisingly,
neither party receives Mark's vote!

651
00:56:22,475 --> 00:56:26,983
From now on a little broken
rake belongs to Elisabeth

652
00:56:27,147 --> 00:56:30,610
That's what ballots are like,
there are winners and there are losers

653
00:56:30,858 --> 00:56:33,160
But the community has spoken

654
00:56:33,486 --> 00:56:38,576
And now Grace embarked on a
protracted explanation of Flora's difficulties

655
00:56:38,741 --> 00:56:40,829
raking without a rake

656
00:56:41,078 --> 00:56:44,920
and that owning things together
could have its advantages

657
00:56:45,790 --> 00:56:49,385
To make sure that everyone
understood the democratic principle

658
00:56:49,544 --> 00:56:53,388
the meeting carried out
another ballot at Jim's suggestion

659
00:56:53,548 --> 00:56:59,729
I wanna talk about the fact that Sammy
being laughing so loud of his own jokes

660
00:56:59,888 --> 00:57:01,276
and they ain't funny

661
00:57:01,431 --> 00:57:06,686
and I been tryin' to get some sleep, and
I can't get no sleep, cause he laughs so loud

662
00:57:08,313 --> 00:57:11,860
Maybe perhaps there can a be
a time when he can stop his joke

663
00:57:12,026 --> 00:57:15,123
and stop laughing,
so we can get some sleep

664
00:57:17,239 --> 00:57:21,629
You can't vote on a man's laughter,
you can't vote on a man's laughter surely

665
00:57:21,785 --> 00:57:25,925
I'm hearing that it's
at sundown at sundown

666
00:57:26,082 --> 00:57:29,214
That's what I'm hearing,
so let's do a vote

667
00:57:30,337 --> 00:57:32,306
All right, so that's settled

668
00:57:38,219 --> 00:57:39,891
That's democracy?

669
00:57:40,346 --> 00:57:44,569
Finally Wilhelm proposed that it would
be practical if somebody was responsible

670
00:57:44,725 --> 00:57:49,032
for winding up the clock with
its small but penetrating chimes

671
00:57:49,313 --> 00:57:55,281
And for mysterious reasons the probing
though fairly passive artist, Jim, was appointed

672
00:57:55,444 --> 00:57:58,707
despite the song and
dance his mother kicked up

673
00:57:59,990 --> 00:58:04,747
Grace wound up the lesson by announcing
that the topic for the next day would be

674
00:58:04,954 --> 00:58:08,797
"our anger and how to communicate it"

675
00:58:09,625 --> 00:58:12,804
Maybe somebody would at
least tell me what the time is?

676
00:58:14,797 --> 00:58:18,179
Just ask Timothy,
he always know what time it is

677
00:58:18,343 --> 00:58:20,893
he can tell by
the sun, he always do that

678
00:58:21,138 --> 00:58:23,818
Or you can always
ask Wilhelm, he's so old

679
00:58:23,973 --> 00:58:26,559
He's from before
the clock ever got here

680
00:58:27,185 --> 00:58:32,405
So Wilhelm and Timothy, each made
his own suggestion as to what the time was

681
00:58:32,565 --> 00:58:35,495
And they were astonishingly close

682
00:58:35,777 --> 00:58:40,831
Wilhelm thought it was eight minutes to,
Timothy thought it was five minutes to

683
00:58:41,158 --> 00:58:47,919
and Grace rejoiced quietly at this natural
ability that they found so straightforward

684
00:58:48,082 --> 00:58:51,463
But rapidly two factions emerged

685
00:58:51,626 --> 00:58:54,213
one which insisted it was eight minutes to

686
00:58:54,379 --> 00:58:58,141
and the other would not hear
of anything but five minutes to

687
00:58:58,925 --> 00:59:04,181
And they were thus able to draw on
the day's learning and put it to the vote

688
00:59:05,266 --> 00:59:10,272
The result was five
minutes to by a small majority

689
00:59:10,812 --> 00:59:13,316
and so it was decided:

690
00:59:13,482 --> 00:59:18,038
the official time at Manderlay
was five minutes to two

691
00:59:23,367 --> 00:59:27,377
Grace's first lesson of the day
took place in relative good humor

692
00:59:27,538 --> 00:59:32,343
but the second one, the one that
had unfortunately proved unavoidable

693
00:59:32,501 --> 00:59:35,301
was severer in character

694
00:59:40,051 --> 00:59:41,641
Read!

695
00:59:43,012 --> 00:59:50,072
Daily ration of food
for slaves from category 7

696
00:59:50,603 --> 00:59:56,866
oh, no, 1 ... is, er...

697
00:59:57,027 --> 01:00:03,457
Six ounces of solid food, and
they've always been given just that

698
01:00:03,699 --> 01:00:05,918
no matter how little
there was in the stores

699
01:00:06,078 --> 01:00:12,045
That's a lot less than
category seven, for example

700
01:00:12,209 --> 01:00:21,142
why should a proudy "nigger" have
less to eat than an eye-pleasin' one?

701
01:00:24,012 --> 01:00:29,232
How can the way your head seems to be
arranged have anything to do whatsoever

702
01:00:29,393 --> 01:00:32,027
with the amount
people are given to eat?

703
01:00:33,563 --> 01:00:38,996
I really don't know either,
not precisely, do you, Mr. Mays?

704
01:00:39,153 --> 01:00:42,948
It could be just to
punish them for their pride!

705
01:00:43,115 --> 01:00:46,247
No, I just did what it said

706
01:00:46,743 --> 01:00:51,963
It mattered a lot to my mother
that we follow these rules

707
01:00:52,166 --> 01:00:58,429
I know of many places where everybody
got quite a bit less than 6 ounces

708
01:00:58,672 --> 01:01:01,520
and where they began to eat dirt

709
01:01:01,675 --> 01:01:05,898
It's a kind of custom coloreds
have when food is scarce 'round here

710
01:01:06,638 --> 01:01:09,569
but it was forbidden under Mam's Law

711
01:01:09,725 --> 01:01:11,860
That's not what we're discussing here

712
01:01:12,020 --> 01:01:17,239
don't you see what an affront
it is to divide people up like that?

713
01:01:18,567 --> 01:01:20,454
Folks is different

714
01:01:21,529 --> 01:01:26,168
oxen and rabbits don't need
equal shares of fodder neither

715
01:01:26,575 --> 01:01:29,423
both parties would
come down with a belly ache!

716
01:01:29,578 --> 01:01:33,422
Stop! All right, I'm not at all satisfied
with what I've heard here today

717
01:01:33,916 --> 01:01:36,764
You're all speaking
up for this foolishness

718
01:01:38,796 --> 01:01:44,562
I'm going to have to penalize you, because
so little effort has been made in these lessons

719
01:02:08,410 --> 01:02:13,499
That evening Grace thought that her idea
of making the whites make up their faces

720
01:02:13,665 --> 01:02:18,340
which had seemed so just and edifying
in her flash of anger that afternoon

721
01:02:18,712 --> 01:02:22,674
was perhaps a tad too
much in the wrong direction

722
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,604
Even though Philomena herself in
her own childhood would not have dreamt

723
01:02:29,764 --> 01:02:33,987
of going to the toilet without
the entertainment of her black nanny

724
01:02:34,144 --> 01:02:40,870
Look at your Uncle Jim, he's
in the bathtub learning how to swim

725
01:02:50,411 --> 01:02:52,712
Can we clean our faces now?

726
01:02:55,041 --> 01:02:57,342
Yes, yes, of course!

727
01:03:03,549 --> 01:03:09,268
Ah well, here comes the dust

728
01:03:11,724 --> 01:03:14,572
so none of this will matter any more

729
01:03:15,769 --> 01:03:17,573
what do you mean?

730
01:03:18,148 --> 01:03:21,031
There's gonna be a dust storm

731
01:03:23,028 --> 01:03:25,661
and the plants have
only just begun to grow

732
01:03:27,948 --> 01:03:30,037
it couldn't be worse!

733
01:03:32,245 --> 01:03:35,875
But Manderlay's fields have
never been harmed by a dust storm

734
01:03:38,001 --> 01:03:40,302
'Cause the
windbreak was still in place

735
01:03:42,380 --> 01:03:48,680
Grace was not inclined to go into what the former
overseer meant by these mysterious words

736
01:03:48,845 --> 01:03:52,807
And soon she had convinced herself
that they had no meaning at all

737
01:03:52,974 --> 01:03:56,854
apart from spreading
disquiet and despondency

738
01:03:58,188 --> 01:04:02,068
The next day's lesson on the
importance of unleashing one's anger

739
01:04:02,234 --> 01:04:05,283
met little understanding
from the assembly

740
01:04:07,656 --> 01:04:10,788
It was when they wound
up with a series of ballots

741
01:04:10,950 --> 01:04:15,956
and the community had rapidly
decided to use Wilma's potatoes for seed

742
01:04:16,123 --> 01:04:19,386
as she was so old and
did not have to eat that much

743
01:04:19,543 --> 01:04:22,094
that they heard the wind

744
01:04:35,017 --> 01:04:39,277
The dust had come at this time
for as long as anybody could remember

745
01:04:39,688 --> 01:04:45,455
But every year from time immemorial
it had spared the newly planted cotton

746
01:04:45,611 --> 01:04:50,665
as the plantation had been cleverly
shielded by a narrow band of trees

747
01:04:50,824 --> 01:04:55,748
known in common parlance as
"The Old Lady's Garden"

748
01:05:04,214 --> 01:05:09,184
In the midst of the almost Biblical
darkness that descended on Manderlay

749
01:05:09,344 --> 01:05:14,481
Grace knew all to well that even
hand in hand with all the races of the world

750
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,938
no army of gangsters
could counter this

751
01:05:18,103 --> 01:05:21,484
Nature's extravagant
demonstration of power

752
01:05:23,649 --> 01:05:27,825
All she could do was watch
as row upon row of the seedlings

753
01:05:27,987 --> 01:05:32,792
she had so welcomed disappeared
beneath the devastating dust

754
01:05:34,411 --> 01:05:36,830
Nobody could do a thing

755
01:05:41,251 --> 01:05:45,214
but apparently it did not
mean that no one would try

756
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,013
for now Grace
discerned a rider out there

757
01:05:49,176 --> 01:05:51,939
He was riding like crazy

758
01:05:52,304 --> 01:05:57,856
As he progressed across the fields, wherever
he spotted a pile of dust beginning to grow

759
01:05:58,018 --> 01:06:01,281
he would break it
up with his horse's hooves

760
01:06:04,233 --> 01:06:09,666
whether it would make the slightest dent
in the grand scale of things was hard to telI

761
01:06:09,821 --> 01:06:11,459
but it was a battle

762
01:06:11,615 --> 01:06:17,250
no matter how senseless
it might be: heroic and dangerous!

763
01:06:17,413 --> 01:06:18,836
Timothy

764
01:06:20,291 --> 01:06:27,136
Come back! Come back!
Timothy, Timothy!

765
01:06:27,298 --> 01:06:30,845
He's gonna be all right,
he knows these storms

766
01:06:34,138 --> 01:06:39,228
Miss Grace, you's head over heels
for him, you's a fool, Miss Grace

767
01:07:11,257 --> 01:07:14,176
- where did you find him?
- He was behind the house

768
01:07:32,444 --> 01:07:33,696
Is he alive?

769
01:07:33,862 --> 01:07:36,657
I do believe I know what
you mean by that question

770
01:07:36,824 --> 01:07:38,742
But what does it mean to be alive?

771
01:07:38,909 --> 01:07:40,869
I mean is he breathing?

772
01:07:41,036 --> 01:07:42,871
Forget it

773
01:07:46,417 --> 01:07:48,335
Is he dead?

774
01:07:49,420 --> 01:07:54,008
we colored folks can be awfully
hard to kill if we want it that way

775
01:08:28,959 --> 01:08:32,880
That very afternoon strong
Timothy was back on his feet

776
01:08:33,047 --> 01:08:36,675
surveying the buildings
for damage caused by the storm

777
01:08:38,761 --> 01:08:42,222
The dust had struck a devastating blow:

778
01:08:42,514 --> 01:08:47,645
Unfortunately, hardest hit were the food
stores in the dilapidated "Peach House"

779
01:08:47,811 --> 01:08:50,105
which had lost its roof

780
01:08:50,356 --> 01:08:53,942
Almost all of their
provisions were now inedible

781
01:08:54,652 --> 01:08:59,281
On top of that the pneumonia
brought by the dust was inevitable

782
01:08:59,990 --> 01:09:02,451
The dust had got in everywhere

783
01:09:02,743 --> 01:09:07,623
particularly where no new boards
could have provided weatherproofing

784
01:09:07,790 --> 01:09:13,170
namely through the cracked glass in
the window on the stars above Claire's bed

785
01:09:14,380 --> 01:09:19,927
"Valuables", not to mention cash,
were non-existent at Manderlay

786
01:09:20,469 --> 01:09:25,265
since the elegant clock miraculously
still ticking merrily away on the mantelpiece

787
01:09:25,432 --> 01:09:27,851
turned out to be, not Swiss

788
01:09:28,018 --> 01:09:29,603
as Mam believed

789
01:09:29,895 --> 01:09:33,982
but a copy made quite locally
and worth practically nothing

790
01:09:35,067 --> 01:09:39,279
"The freed Enterprise
of Manderlay" was bust

791
01:09:40,948 --> 01:09:47,287
Wilhelm and Grace were therefore under no
illusions that anybody would attend class this day

792
01:09:49,957 --> 01:09:55,003
But then, one by one the
Manderlay flock began to appear

793
01:10:04,555 --> 01:10:06,807
I'm happy you're all here

794
01:10:10,728 --> 01:10:13,897
But I don't really have
a lecture for you today

795
01:10:18,068 --> 01:10:20,320
I'd just like to say

796
01:10:24,408 --> 01:10:30,038
how badly I feel about
this hopeless situation

797
01:10:36,086 --> 01:10:40,132
But of course words
aren't much use to you

798
01:10:41,091 --> 01:10:44,803
No, Missy has learnt that much at least

799
01:10:47,806 --> 01:10:53,187
But as regards hopelessness,
it is something we do know a bit about

800
01:10:55,397 --> 01:11:01,779
There are a million plants out there beneath
the dust, if we can save but fifty of 'em

801
01:11:02,029 --> 01:11:07,326
perhaps we can grow a small quantity
of great quality and get a better price for it

802
01:11:12,164 --> 01:11:14,750
I reckon we should make a move

803
01:11:18,837 --> 01:11:24,384
And that is how the greatest disaster
turned into a stroke of luck for Grace

804
01:11:24,551 --> 01:11:29,473
and how the people, with a common
foe, the dust, as their excuse

805
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:34,603
suddenly found themselves working shoulder
to shoulder with their deadliest enemy

806
01:11:34,770 --> 01:11:39,733
to achieve the common goal
as free, grown-up Americans

807
01:11:39,900 --> 01:11:43,403
Stanley and Bertie had
sown the fields with little sticks

808
01:11:43,570 --> 01:11:47,366
so that people could tell where
to uncover the tender seedlings

809
01:11:48,826 --> 01:11:53,205
while Flora ever so
childishly kept teasing Grace

810
01:11:53,372 --> 01:11:58,836
with her digs at Grace's supposed
romantic feelings towards Timothy

811
01:12:07,261 --> 01:12:09,346
Good night, old Wilma

812
01:12:10,264 --> 01:12:12,182
Good night, child

813
01:12:12,599 --> 01:12:16,812
we can lie down and talk
for a while 'fore we go to sleep

814
01:12:16,979 --> 01:12:18,730
No, thank you, Wilma

815
01:12:19,523 --> 01:12:22,526
I'm not weary enough to go to bed yet

816
01:12:22,985 --> 01:12:25,028
A little walk helps

817
01:12:25,737 --> 01:12:29,950
A walk when a body ain't
sleepy is a very good thing

818
01:12:32,077 --> 01:12:34,663
I do the same myself

819
01:12:35,914 --> 01:12:37,583
Good night!

820
01:12:38,166 --> 01:12:39,751
Good night!

821
01:12:48,343 --> 01:12:54,683
That everything seemed as moving along on
its own could be nothing but welcomed by Grace

822
01:12:55,225 --> 01:13:00,856
But her lack of an active part to play
had suddenly left her in a kind of a vacuum

823
01:13:01,023 --> 01:13:04,526
and allowed other things
inside her to claim attention

824
01:13:04,818 --> 01:13:10,073
human things like
instincts and emotions

825
01:13:12,618 --> 01:13:17,873
An ominous sense of homelessness
and loneliness struck Grace this evening

826
01:13:19,917 --> 01:13:26,340
As she wondered about, Grace suddenly found
herself outside the wooden rear of the bathhouse

827
01:13:31,053 --> 01:13:38,268
without warning the homelessness transferred
into a strange desire to move up that rusty pipe

828
01:13:38,435 --> 01:13:46,068
against the flow of dirty water into where
naked bodies were being washed in cheap soap

829
01:13:49,196 --> 01:13:50,948
Black skin

830
01:13:52,699 --> 01:13:56,119
male and black manhood

831
01:14:05,295 --> 01:14:10,342
what Grace had felt at the bath
house was undignified, shameful

832
01:14:10,926 --> 01:14:15,013
Her mind was meant to be
devoted to policy at Manderlay

833
01:14:15,180 --> 01:14:19,559
a matter in which these thoughts
had no business whatsoever

834
01:14:22,521 --> 01:14:28,443
Grace had forced herself to sleep
to rid her thoughts of those black bodies

835
01:14:28,610 --> 01:14:32,114
an achievement that was actually
possible thanks to the stubbornness

836
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:34,366
that flourished in Grace's family

837
01:14:35,701 --> 01:14:40,539
But the cotton seedling in her
love-starved body did not give up

838
01:14:40,998 --> 01:14:44,042
It manifested itself as a dream

839
01:14:44,209 --> 01:14:46,920
Grace was in southern climes

840
01:14:50,007 --> 01:14:55,429
There were women in exotic
costumes and men in turbans

841
01:14:56,054 --> 01:15:03,145
Even in her sleep she hated with a passion
any idea of allowing that her father might be right

842
01:15:03,437 --> 01:15:05,856
But it was a harem!

843
01:15:08,108 --> 01:15:14,573
A group of black slaves appeared,
bearing a huge charger piled with dates

844
01:15:14,740 --> 01:15:19,494
And in a twinkling Grace lay among
the dates, trembling with pleasure

845
01:15:19,661 --> 01:15:25,125
as a flock of Bedouin satisfied
her one by one with their noses!

846
01:15:28,170 --> 01:15:31,798
And it was even more confusing
when Timothy appeared

847
01:15:32,007 --> 01:15:38,555
and was both the slave bearing wine,
hands shaking, and the Sheik himself

848
01:15:39,222 --> 01:15:46,396
whose authoritative hands tested
the size of Grace's most intimate orifices

849
01:16:01,703 --> 01:16:03,497
I must have overslept

850
01:16:04,164 --> 01:16:08,001
I'm sorry, Claire
has had another turn!

851
01:16:18,804 --> 01:16:27,938
Yeah, she's running a bad fever
again, she had anything to eat?

852
01:16:28,105 --> 01:16:30,690
Oh, sure, pork
chops and baked chicken

853
01:16:30,857 --> 01:16:33,693
She's taken a little oatmeal
but it's hard to get it into her

854
01:16:34,611 --> 01:16:38,323
she had this trouble with her lungs
last year when the dust come, too

855
01:16:38,740 --> 01:16:41,368
but there was far more dust this year

856
01:16:41,743 --> 01:16:46,456
Honestly Missy, you oughta go back
home to the clean air and larders full of food

857
01:16:49,084 --> 01:16:53,255
we're all in this together,
no matter how hard it gets

858
01:16:53,421 --> 01:16:55,549
And hard it will get

859
01:16:56,758 --> 01:17:02,430
I've seen what's left around here though
some folks are still fillin' their bellies

860
01:17:05,058 --> 01:17:09,396
You're right,
we've got to talk about that

861
01:17:10,272 --> 01:17:13,066
Come on, it'll be all right, Rose!

862
01:17:20,824 --> 01:17:25,954
I propose that we
ration what we have left

863
01:17:26,371 --> 01:17:32,169
and spread our provisions over a month until
we can harvest more from the vegetable gardens

864
01:17:32,836 --> 01:17:38,633
And as I hear there are so
very few beans and potatoes left

865
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:43,680
I think we should give them to
Rose who needs them for Claire

866
01:17:45,098 --> 01:17:49,561
what's left will be shared
out equally among the rest of us!

867
01:17:52,814 --> 01:17:56,484
Excuse me, the rest of us?

868
01:17:56,985 --> 01:18:00,322
- That goes for us too?
- Yes, of course it does

869
01:18:00,488 --> 01:18:03,241
we've already eaten things
your father would ever have put up with

870
01:18:03,408 --> 01:18:06,286
Joseph swears they couldn't
been described as food at all

871
01:18:06,411 --> 01:18:08,079
legally speakin'!

872
01:18:10,957 --> 01:18:14,169
Your father used to let us obtain
stuff when the coffers were empty

873
01:18:14,336 --> 01:18:16,755
Surely we could steal
something from somewhere

874
01:18:18,757 --> 01:18:21,885
but I suppose that's
no good either, Miss Grace?

875
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,014
I'm afraid you're one tough cookie

876
01:18:27,474 --> 01:18:29,267
Maybe I am

877
01:18:47,452 --> 01:18:51,122
Sadly the most nourishing
fare the estate could still provide

878
01:18:51,289 --> 01:18:54,417
had not improved
Claire's condition much

879
01:18:54,542 --> 01:18:57,712
but she needed meat,
and Timothy knew it

880
01:18:57,879 --> 01:19:03,802
and so henceforth they would have to do
without the loyal old donkey on the treadmill

881
01:19:05,929 --> 01:19:10,517
It was not a good portent of the level
of morale that the gangsters were now

882
01:19:10,642 --> 01:19:14,896
trying hard to fix the car
from the ravages of the dust

883
01:19:15,563 --> 01:19:23,113
But luckily Joseph, a legal expert with the ability
to interpret the most incomprehensible of texts

884
01:19:23,321 --> 01:19:28,243
had met his match in the
1923 Ford owner's manual

885
01:19:43,341 --> 01:19:48,430
As time went by the scattered cotton
plants at Manderlay grew side by side

886
01:19:48,638 --> 01:19:53,601
with its denizens' hunger now that
the little that was left of the donkey meat

887
01:19:53,768 --> 01:19:56,229
was reserved for Claire

888
01:19:56,813 --> 01:20:01,609
And Grace found herself in the
peculiar situation of joining Wilma

889
01:20:01,776 --> 01:20:06,698
and the other women in what had been
completely forbidden under Mam's law

890
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:11,077
namely the southern
tradition of eating dirt

891
01:20:13,788 --> 01:20:19,586
Having given up on the automobile manuals
Joseph had found a quaint turn of phrase

892
01:20:19,711 --> 01:20:22,589
in the agreement into
which he had originally entered

893
01:20:22,714 --> 01:20:25,925
with Grace's father
regarding his employment

894
01:20:26,301 --> 01:20:32,432
The wording could with a little good will be
interpreted to mean that certain circumstances

895
01:20:32,599 --> 01:20:37,687
obliged an employee to obey
a higher authority than his boss

896
01:20:38,188 --> 01:20:41,691
the authority in this
case being his stomach

897
01:20:51,201 --> 01:20:55,205
The good news was that although the
drought had been hard on the fields

898
01:20:55,372 --> 01:20:59,626
Stanley and Timothy had invented
a weapon to deploy against it

899
01:21:00,752 --> 01:21:06,341
wait, wait, it's coming, it's coming

900
01:21:27,570 --> 01:21:30,281
But the best news of all was Claire

901
01:21:30,407 --> 01:21:36,329
who had miraculously gained so much strength
that she could empty her plate of good food

902
01:21:37,497 --> 01:21:44,421
always in the middle of the night when everyone
was asleep and nobody was looking, but even so

903
01:21:51,636 --> 01:21:57,100
If Grace had thought hunger would
put paid to her forbidden sensual fantasies

904
01:21:57,267 --> 01:22:00,270
actually the opposite
was more the case!

905
01:22:35,805 --> 01:22:38,558
Flora, what's goin' on with the chickens?

906
01:22:41,019 --> 01:22:42,729
Are they fighting?

907
01:22:42,854 --> 01:22:45,648
You mean the four
whites after the black?

908
01:22:46,107 --> 01:22:48,693
You want I should open
the door and have a peek?

909
01:22:48,860 --> 01:22:50,361
No

910
01:22:50,904 --> 01:22:55,325
Mind you, that little black hen real proud

911
01:22:55,909 --> 01:23:00,079
wouldn't surprise me if them others
took the chance to give her the odd peck

912
01:23:03,041 --> 01:23:05,668
Now don't you tease me, Flora

913
01:23:07,045 --> 01:23:08,963
Goodnight then

914
01:23:09,130 --> 01:23:10,965
Goodnight

915
01:23:13,968 --> 01:23:18,056
Flora had teased Grace
before with the little black hen

916
01:23:18,306 --> 01:23:22,310
But they were hurting
it in there! No doubt about it!

917
01:23:24,312 --> 01:23:28,858
And to make everything
far worse, that heat in her loins

918
01:23:29,025 --> 01:23:33,947
seemed to come back in spite of
that poor chicken's cry for help

919
01:23:35,281 --> 01:23:39,369
Or even intensified by it?

920
01:23:41,955 --> 01:23:48,795
Devastated, humiliated and overcome
by fear for her sanity, she fled

921
01:23:50,296 --> 01:23:51,798
And in a fit of madness

922
01:23:51,923 --> 01:23:56,928
or what others would simply call "horniness"
she threw herself onto her bed on her tummy

923
01:23:57,095 --> 01:24:01,057
and for a moment forgot all about
shame and political correctness

924
01:24:01,224 --> 01:24:03,726
and did what she had
not done since her childhood

925
01:24:03,893 --> 01:24:07,689
when she had not yet
known it was so infinitely wrong:

926
01:24:07,814 --> 01:24:14,362
she pressed herself onto the knot she had rapidly
and instinctively formed by bunching her quilt

927
01:24:19,867 --> 01:24:24,122
whether it was pleasurable
or painful is hard to telI

928
01:24:24,289 --> 01:24:28,084
but she kept at it,
it was beyond her control

929
01:24:28,293 --> 01:24:33,548
with no regard for the sleep of the women
around her or common decency in general

930
01:24:33,715 --> 01:24:38,928
the pulsating explosions in her
nether regions took over her world

931
01:24:43,641 --> 01:24:48,813
And who knows how it would have concluded
had there not appeared at that very moment

932
01:24:48,980 --> 01:24:50,857
fortunately for Grace

933
01:24:50,982 --> 01:24:55,820
a person shaking her back to
a reasonable state of self defense

934
01:24:55,987 --> 01:24:57,488
Miss Grace! You gotta
come quick, Miss Grace

935
01:24:57,655 --> 01:24:59,073
what?

936
01:25:17,508 --> 01:25:19,260
She's dead

937
01:25:25,808 --> 01:25:28,770
I took such care of her

938
01:25:30,521 --> 01:25:33,107
I fed her the good meat

939
01:25:39,614 --> 01:25:41,699
But she'd been eatin'

940
01:25:47,705 --> 01:25:53,419
she's dead! Dead

941
01:26:12,063 --> 01:26:14,107
But she'd been eatin'

942
01:26:14,232 --> 01:26:19,070
No! She hadn't
been eatin', this 'un had!

943
01:26:21,572 --> 01:26:23,991
Are ya gonna tell 'em, Wilma?

944
01:26:26,828 --> 01:26:34,252
I was so hungry, I get so dizzy

945
01:26:39,882 --> 01:26:42,552
and my legs hurt when I'm hungry

946
01:26:42,719 --> 01:26:49,517
Our good friend and Claire's beloved Old Wilma
been visiting in the window so while we slept

947
01:26:50,017 --> 01:26:53,187
She emptied Claire's
plate every single night

948
01:26:53,312 --> 01:26:58,818
T'was as easy as pie, considerin' that there
window could be opened from the outside

949
01:26:59,068 --> 01:27:07,577
I've eaten so much dirt in my time,
my teeth can't take it no more

950
01:27:10,705 --> 01:27:13,124
She killed our little girl

951
01:27:14,876 --> 01:27:17,128
Jack, she was sick

952
01:27:17,336 --> 01:27:20,047
- Miss Grace
- She was sick, Jack

953
01:27:20,381 --> 01:27:26,429
Rose didn't worry to much about feeding her
during the day, 'cause she ate so much at night

954
01:27:26,637 --> 01:27:29,307
I want Wilma punished
for killin' my little girl

955
01:27:30,641 --> 01:27:33,394
I want this matter put to the vote

956
01:27:33,895 --> 01:27:43,029
I want Wilma punished for killin' my little girl,
I want justice or I'll kill her myself, right now

957
01:27:43,362 --> 01:27:45,448
Let me go

958
01:27:59,086 --> 01:28:01,005
Stop it, Jack!

959
01:28:01,547 --> 01:28:05,259
- Stop we'll talk about it tomorrow...!
- She killed my little girl!

960
01:28:05,468 --> 01:28:06,677
Stop it

961
01:28:16,604 --> 01:28:23,027
And so, the very next evening a
gathering took place under the magnificent

962
01:28:23,152 --> 01:28:28,115
clear, twinkling,
starry sky of Manderlay

963
01:29:47,069 --> 01:29:49,113
Now we've heard 'em all, Wilhelm

964
01:29:49,697 --> 01:29:56,078
Wilma showed no mercy to our Claire so no
mercy oughta be shown to her, she must die!

965
01:29:56,787 --> 01:30:03,044
Jack, killing Old Wilma
won't bring Claire back

966
01:30:03,169 --> 01:30:09,175
All we want is justice, you've said
so many times, that we're entitled to it!

967
01:30:13,930 --> 01:30:22,146
I propose that she
be banished from Manderlay

968
01:30:22,271 --> 01:30:25,107
for stealing food in an emergency

969
01:30:26,984 --> 01:30:31,030
she probably won't survive
that anyway, as old as she is

970
01:30:35,868 --> 01:30:41,499
after all, we don't know if the matter of the
food made any difference at all in Claire's fate

971
01:30:41,666 --> 01:30:44,543
Wilma can't have
known whether it would kill her

972
01:30:46,045 --> 01:30:52,635
but she didn't care a bit when it came to
riskin' somebody else's life that of our little girl!

973
01:30:54,595 --> 01:30:59,308
All Wilma saw was a plate nobody
was touching, she was hungry

974
01:30:59,517 --> 01:31:01,978
And what do you
think the rest of us was?

975
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:05,982
All of us here ate what we had agreed?

976
01:31:07,566 --> 01:31:10,111
And whatcha think little Claire was?

977
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:17,076
we're all hungry, and that
just makes it far, far worse!

978
01:31:28,421 --> 01:31:34,635
All right, I'd like to ask y'all to
vote on Jack and Rose's motion

979
01:31:37,930 --> 01:31:44,145
All those who believe that Wilma
deserves to die, raise your hands!

980
01:32:00,244 --> 01:32:05,207
Thank you, thank y'all

981
01:32:09,295 --> 01:32:10,796
Stop!

982
01:32:12,506 --> 01:32:19,263
Grace, I thought we were the
ones who made the decisions here

983
01:32:19,388 --> 01:32:24,518
that's what you've always told us?
Or maybe it's only sometimes?

984
01:32:25,728 --> 01:32:27,313
No, of course not, it's always

985
01:32:27,438 --> 01:32:30,775
And they's the decisions
you're here to defend, ain't they?

986
01:32:36,072 --> 01:32:39,158
So let me go across and do it!

987
01:32:43,496 --> 01:32:44,872
No

988
01:32:47,958 --> 01:32:51,253
if anybody is going
to do it, it's going to be me

989
01:32:55,424 --> 01:32:58,219
it must not be an act of vengeance

990
01:33:00,262 --> 01:33:02,389
That's all right by me

991
01:33:03,307 --> 01:33:06,560
as long as she
suffers as much as Claire

992
01:33:06,727 --> 01:33:09,105
That will be up to me

993
01:33:10,773 --> 01:33:13,192
I'll let you know when it's over

994
01:33:58,946 --> 01:34:00,781
Grace

995
01:34:05,828 --> 01:34:08,581
be so kind as to tell me

996
01:34:11,167 --> 01:34:13,335
what did they decide?

997
01:34:22,052 --> 01:34:24,013
Am I gonna die?

998
01:34:34,523 --> 01:34:36,984
No, Wilma, you're not going to die

999
01:34:40,946 --> 01:34:42,948
whatcha mean?

1000
01:34:45,117 --> 01:34:50,414
I mean the ballot did not go
Jack's way, you're not gonna die!

1001
01:34:57,338 --> 01:35:01,425
See, they didn't think that Claire
would've eaten the food on her plate anyway

1002
01:35:04,345 --> 01:35:10,476
and anyhow she'd certainly
have died from pneumonia from the dust

1003
01:35:11,977 --> 01:35:14,313
Did they really say that?

1004
01:35:14,980 --> 01:35:18,609
Yes, they really said that

1005
01:35:30,746 --> 01:35:36,460
If you knew
how terrible the waitin' was...

1006
01:35:43,300 --> 01:35:45,761
I'm just so weary

1007
01:35:45,928 --> 01:35:55,020
I know, I know you are,
but now you can sleep easy

1008
01:35:58,440 --> 01:36:03,070
Yes, I can

1009
01:36:04,238 --> 01:36:06,865
Lie down and get some sleep

1010
01:36:12,413 --> 01:36:16,125
You are the daughter I might had

1011
01:36:27,928 --> 01:36:29,513
Lie down

1012
01:36:29,680 --> 01:36:32,558
will you stay 'till I sleep?

1013
01:36:32,725 --> 01:36:34,310
I'll do that, Wilma

1014
01:36:36,854 --> 01:36:38,314
Here

1015
01:36:43,652 --> 01:36:45,362
Lie down

1016
01:37:02,254 --> 01:37:04,089
Wilma?

1017
01:38:51,697 --> 01:38:57,161
Harvest-time finally did arrive and
the cotton went safe into the sacks

1018
01:38:58,954 --> 01:39:02,916
Despite the fewer bushes
the harvest was splendid

1019
01:39:03,459 --> 01:39:08,005
It was as if all the trials and tribulations
had made the cotton extra white

1020
01:39:08,172 --> 01:39:16,346
and the fibers extra strong, and even at
current prices it would bring in a record sum

1021
01:39:19,016 --> 01:39:21,768
And although nothing
was the way it had ever been

1022
01:39:21,935 --> 01:39:25,606
the harvest was as precise
as always at Manderlay

1023
01:39:26,190 --> 01:39:31,695
The moment the last tuft of cotton
was in the sack, the swallows arrived

1024
01:39:31,862 --> 01:39:35,157
dropping from the
skies towards the marshes

1025
01:39:36,033 --> 01:39:42,289
Everyone observed the sight in awe and for
a moment it was greater than all the words

1026
01:39:42,456 --> 01:39:44,750
and politics in the world

1027
01:39:53,342 --> 01:40:00,432
The old gin was as ready as ever, it had
been for a week, greased and stripped down

1028
01:40:00,599 --> 01:40:05,062
and reassembled by Sammy,
who had teamed up with Niels

1029
01:40:05,312 --> 01:40:10,817
They worked well in harness, Niels
had never found a joke funny in his life

1030
01:40:10,984 --> 01:40:17,157
so Sammy, the clownin' nigger, had given
up, not unrelieved, trying to entertain him

1031
01:40:17,324 --> 01:40:20,619
with his somewhat weak material

1032
01:40:31,922 --> 01:40:34,424
Miss Grace? Miss Grace?

1033
01:40:36,677 --> 01:40:43,809
Edward?! God, I hardly recognized you!
You've certainly changed the way you dress!

1034
01:40:44,017 --> 01:40:50,732
Yes, your father thought it was time for a change,
he's on his way into a new area of business

1035
01:40:51,400 --> 01:40:53,652
- Is daddy here?
- No, he just sent me on ahead

1036
01:40:53,819 --> 01:40:55,737
to give you a message

1037
01:40:59,157 --> 01:41:03,245
Your father says he will be by a week
Monday at eight o'clock in the evening

1038
01:41:03,579 --> 01:41:07,416
He told me to tell you that he will wait in the
car outside the gates for a quarter of an hour

1039
01:41:07,583 --> 01:41:11,753
and not a second longer,
the way he did in Dogville, he says

1040
01:41:12,087 --> 01:41:14,965
and the way he did with
your mother, I think it was...

1041
01:41:15,215 --> 01:41:19,136
- when he asked her to marry him
- Yes, something like that

1042
01:41:19,303 --> 01:41:23,015
But if you want to go with him, you better
be there, 'cause he says he'll just push on

1043
01:41:23,223 --> 01:41:25,142
I know, I get the message

1044
01:41:25,309 --> 01:41:27,853
All right, I'm on my way,
take care, Miss Grace!

1045
01:41:28,020 --> 01:41:29,479
You too, Edward

1046
01:41:31,690 --> 01:41:39,823
Edward! just tell dad
that new times have come to Manderlay

1047
01:41:41,450 --> 01:41:46,955
But no, Grace had no intention of
going with her father when he arrived

1048
01:41:47,122 --> 01:41:53,754
she had her own life to lead now and it suited
her just fine, but she'd be at the gates anyhow

1049
01:41:53,920 --> 01:42:00,927
She just had to show him what she had
achieved, a new and better Manderlay

1050
01:42:05,265 --> 01:42:08,852
It was examination day
for Stanley and the family

1051
01:42:09,186 --> 01:42:12,648
because even though things
had been going well recently

1052
01:42:12,814 --> 01:42:16,318
when Stanley partook of his
traditional beer with Mr. Miller

1053
01:42:16,485 --> 01:42:20,864
nobody would be able to prevent him from
revealing what had happened on the plantation

1054
01:42:21,031 --> 01:42:23,575
and thereby ruin it all

1055
01:42:23,909 --> 01:42:29,247
Wilhelm had been highly skeptical about
letting the whites talk to the drivers at all

1056
01:42:29,414 --> 01:42:33,502
but Grace had insisted,
she trusted them

1057
01:42:41,677 --> 01:42:46,556
Eejit nigger! Are you totally useless?

1058
01:42:47,933 --> 01:42:49,976
Sorry, Mr. Mays!

1059
01:42:52,688 --> 01:42:54,398
I'm joking

1060
01:43:02,906 --> 01:43:06,493
Stanley Mays and the family passed

1061
01:43:08,036 --> 01:43:12,791
That very evening Grace
pronounced them graduate Americans

1062
01:43:13,875 --> 01:43:17,838
And although they were free
to go they had elected to stay

1063
01:43:18,004 --> 01:43:23,427
as there was talk of hiring the family
and Stanley Mays on a permanent basis

1064
01:43:24,428 --> 01:43:29,766
And before anybody knew it the days
had passed and the money was in the bank

1065
01:43:29,933 --> 01:43:34,438
from where it had been picked
up by proud Timothy on horseback

1066
01:43:36,606 --> 01:43:41,903
Niels and Sammy had fixed the car,
wisely without reference to the manual

1067
01:43:42,612 --> 01:43:45,115
- Thank you, for everything
- Thank you

1068
01:43:46,116 --> 01:43:50,078
- what are you gonna do now?
- I don't know

1069
01:43:50,746 --> 01:43:53,123
You could always
go back to gangstering

1070
01:43:56,668 --> 01:43:58,545
where is Mr. Robinsson?

1071
01:43:58,712 --> 01:44:01,506
He's been down
the cabins shakin' hands

1072
01:44:02,632 --> 01:44:08,346
Grace was touched by Mr. Robinson's
sudden social interest in the former slaves

1073
01:44:08,680 --> 01:44:15,479
But it felt right when the car left, it was
time for Grace to say goodbye to power

1074
01:44:17,939 --> 01:44:23,028
Brave and strong thy men and women

1075
01:44:23,195 --> 01:44:31,745
Better this than corn
and wine, make us worthy God in heaven

1076
01:44:32,329 --> 01:44:37,626
of this goodly land of Thine

1077
01:44:38,043 --> 01:44:44,466
Hearts as open as our doorway

1078
01:44:44,758 --> 01:44:51,389
Liberal hands and spirits free

1079
01:44:52,224 --> 01:44:58,939
Alabama, Alabama

1080
01:44:59,147 --> 01:45:06,822
we will aye be true to thee

1081
01:45:24,130 --> 01:45:26,132
He's watching you

1082
01:45:28,593 --> 01:45:31,179
- No, he's not!
- He's watching you

1083
01:45:32,097 --> 01:45:33,223
No he's not!

1084
01:45:33,515 --> 01:45:36,560
I reckon it have somethin'
to do with them gangsters leavin'

1085
01:45:38,270 --> 01:45:43,567
See, honey, when you was boss,
he has visitin' your kingdom

1086
01:45:44,401 --> 01:45:47,195
Now, you're visitin' his

1087
01:45:47,529 --> 01:45:50,407
I reckon he wants you now

1088
01:45:51,116 --> 01:45:53,952
He should have some dinner,
I'm gonna go get him

1089
01:45:59,332 --> 01:46:01,543
You gotta come
and get some dinner

1090
01:46:01,877 --> 01:46:03,920
Quiet, woman!

1091
01:46:30,780 --> 01:46:36,661
In Mam's bedroom Grace recalled
Flora's worrying, intimate little details

1092
01:46:36,828 --> 01:46:42,042
Sexual intercourse amongst the Munsi
was determined by ancient traditions

1093
01:46:42,667 --> 01:46:45,962
It would not appeal
to Grace, Flora had said

1094
01:46:46,129 --> 01:46:51,426
not with Grace's modern ideas
of equality of people and the sexes

1095
01:46:56,222 --> 01:47:01,311
but Grace seemed to have left
her progressive attitudes at the table

1096
01:47:11,738 --> 01:47:19,663
Now actually in the situation she had
dreamed of... it was all more bizarre than erotic

1097
01:47:19,913 --> 01:47:23,917
anyway Grace decided
to hang on to this opinion

1098
01:48:53,923 --> 01:48:55,759
Timothy, wake up!

1099
01:48:58,595 --> 01:49:02,348
Timothy's horse had got out of
the staple when fires had been lit

1100
01:49:02,515 --> 01:49:06,895
around the Manderlay slave
quarters while Grace was asleep

1101
01:49:21,159 --> 01:49:22,702
what happened?

1102
01:49:22,869 --> 01:49:28,083
I can't tell you, if you want a clear answer
you gonna have to ask somebody else

1103
01:49:28,291 --> 01:49:31,503
- The gangsters took the money!
- what?!

1104
01:49:32,128 --> 01:49:39,344
The gangsters took the money! That's the answer!
And I reckon it's a pretty clear answer, too!

1105
01:49:39,511 --> 01:49:45,141
It certainly is very clear,
but what makes you think so?

1106
01:49:47,977 --> 01:49:57,320
when the party ended we all left the
table to go and take a look at the money

1107
01:49:59,072 --> 01:50:02,784
Timothy had hid it behind the red slope

1108
01:50:03,868 --> 01:50:09,749
Timothy was meant to be keepin'
an eye on the place, but he wasn't there

1109
01:50:10,458 --> 01:50:14,129
And the box had been
pulled up, it was empty

1110
01:50:15,755 --> 01:50:23,304
One of the gangsters dug up the money
when he was pretendin' to say goodbye

1111
01:50:23,471 --> 01:50:25,682
But he couldn't have done it alone

1112
01:50:25,849 --> 01:50:29,894
Someone must've
told 'em where the box was

1113
01:50:32,772 --> 01:50:36,609
And Sammy refused to admit it was him

1114
01:50:37,861 --> 01:50:41,406
although he'd spent
a whole load of time with Niels

1115
01:50:43,199 --> 01:50:46,744
And then everybody
started yellin' and screamin'

1116
01:50:46,911 --> 01:50:53,376
and folks is angry and no one's listenin'

1117
01:50:53,626 --> 01:50:58,298
Stanley Mays and
the family got away I believe

1118
01:50:59,007 --> 01:51:03,344
although Philomena
and Bertie got cut up real bad

1119
01:51:04,929 --> 01:51:10,685
Elisabeth is dead too,
although that was mostly by accident

1120
01:51:11,060 --> 01:51:19,152
It was too soon to send the guns
away, we weren't quite ready yet

1121
01:51:21,529 --> 01:51:24,741
For once Grace had nothing to say

1122
01:51:25,116 --> 01:51:29,996
She could but reproach herself in silence
for her tasteless joke to the gangsters

1123
01:51:30,246 --> 01:51:34,959
about resorting to their former
occupations if things got tight

1124
01:51:35,168 --> 01:51:37,253
Wilhelm, I can't rouse Timothy

1125
01:51:37,420 --> 01:51:39,797
No, I bet you can't

1126
01:51:40,673 --> 01:51:44,260
he drank three bottles
of hooch before we ate

1127
01:51:47,096 --> 01:51:49,349
The Munsi don't drink!

1128
01:51:52,143 --> 01:51:57,357
Oh, well, maybe they
do on special occasions

1129
01:52:07,283 --> 01:52:11,079
well! It certainly
is lively 'round here!

1130
01:52:14,791 --> 01:52:18,002
Didn't I tell you I didn't
want to see you here again?

1131
01:52:19,379 --> 01:52:24,842
Yes, but I haven't come to do
a deal, I have come to conclude one

1132
01:52:25,260 --> 01:52:30,223
and in the hope of course that
you'll see that I am an honest man

1133
01:52:30,390 --> 01:52:33,351
Cause, I needn't have
come back to settle up at all

1134
01:52:36,521 --> 01:52:44,070
This is your 80 per cent, quite
amounts to a tidy bit too, as you can see

1135
01:52:46,155 --> 01:52:48,241
It's the money from our harvest?

1136
01:52:48,408 --> 01:52:52,370
I expect so, it's that time of year

1137
01:52:54,080 --> 01:53:00,211
See, I had a little game with a young man who
came to see me and I knew he come from here

1138
01:53:00,378 --> 01:53:04,257
so I've made my humble return

1139
01:53:05,717 --> 01:53:08,720
Don't you think that you've
just might have been wrong about me?

1140
01:53:09,595 --> 01:53:12,515
who did you play for all this money?

1141
01:53:14,058 --> 01:53:15,852
It was a day ago now

1142
01:53:16,019 --> 01:53:23,443
See, I would have come sooner but I pass
this black car with some gentlemen in dark coats

1143
01:53:23,609 --> 01:53:28,156
they began to follow me, shouting
the whole time, that I was going to die

1144
01:53:28,364 --> 01:53:35,496
and that I was a con man who dealt
from the bottom, what an accusation!

1145
01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:39,083
well it just took me a while
to get away from them

1146
01:53:39,250 --> 01:53:40,918
who was it?

1147
01:53:41,461 --> 01:53:45,506
The Nigra fellow and he arrived
on horseback, what was his name?

1148
01:53:46,132 --> 01:53:47,717
Timothy?

1149
01:53:49,469 --> 01:53:54,599
Yeah, that was it, Timothy,
yeah, that was his name

1150
01:53:54,766 --> 01:53:58,811
He's a Munsi! They don't gamble!

1151
01:53:59,395 --> 01:54:04,692
well, I know, Munsi don't gamble,
I'm a bit of an expert in this field

1152
01:54:04,859 --> 01:54:07,904
You'll have a devil time
gettin' them to the gamin' table!

1153
01:54:08,821 --> 01:54:14,577
but he's no Munsi, in fact he's what
I'd call a splendid fella at the card table

1154
01:54:14,744 --> 01:54:19,916
and he just stayed bein' splendid
no matter how much he lost

1155
01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:23,544
But he told everyone he was a Munsi

1156
01:54:23,711 --> 01:54:28,716
Of course, see, the girls were
wild about the tales that he told

1157
01:54:28,883 --> 01:54:35,598
All the Munsi tales, the proud African,
the royal line, all that old-fashioned morality

1158
01:54:35,765 --> 01:54:43,356
and the accent of course, and on
account of that the girls was easy to bed

1159
01:54:46,651 --> 01:54:50,863
There! I'm not even going
to avail myself of your gratitude

1160
01:54:51,155 --> 01:54:54,492
That's just the kinda'
fella I am, hey ho!

1161
01:54:57,620 --> 01:55:01,582
Bless me if I can't come
up with a motto for today

1162
01:55:03,543 --> 01:55:09,006
they say the Mansi are
better hung than the Munsi

1163
01:55:09,715 --> 01:55:16,973
or "The Munsi are so up-stuck
but the Mansi, how they fuck!"

1164
01:55:22,437 --> 01:55:25,440
well then, I'll be seein' you!

1165
01:55:25,815 --> 01:55:29,444
we can talk business another day

1166
01:55:54,594 --> 01:55:58,431
Grace went straight to the last pages
with the tables of personal details

1167
01:55:58,598 --> 01:56:00,725
on the slaves at Manderlay

1168
01:56:01,267 --> 01:56:06,898
where was Timothy, now?
Yes, his name had a 1 beside it

1169
01:56:07,148 --> 01:56:13,321
A proudy slave,
as she'd read earlier or did it?

1170
01:56:15,573 --> 01:56:18,910
She looked more closely
at the handwritten number

1171
01:56:19,452 --> 01:56:23,414
She compared it to the
seven next to Elisabeth's name

1172
01:56:23,831 --> 01:56:26,417
The pleasin' nigger
of the chameleon type

1173
01:56:26,584 --> 01:56:30,379
an expert in changing character
according to whatever was opportune

1174
01:56:30,546 --> 01:56:37,887
and what would titillate and enthrall the
other person, and then Grace could see it

1175
01:56:38,054 --> 01:56:41,766
Timothy's number
was not a one but a seven

1176
01:56:41,933 --> 01:56:45,061
She had only wanted to read it as a one

1177
01:56:45,686 --> 01:56:53,736
There was even a note beside Timothy's
name: "Caution, diabolically clever"

1178
01:57:17,760 --> 01:57:22,723
Grace had called a final meeting
for everybody at Manderlay

1179
01:57:23,182 --> 01:57:30,481
for that evening she had decided to leave the
place forever with her father when he arrived

1180
01:57:30,648 --> 01:57:32,650
Oh, you're all here

1181
01:57:33,359 --> 01:57:39,949
I persuaded the community to
assemble, extraordinarily, for two ballots

1182
01:57:40,116 --> 01:57:44,161
whatever they involved, they can scarcely
have anything to do with me any more

1183
01:57:44,453 --> 01:57:46,747
Don't be too certain of that, Miss Grace

1184
01:57:46,914 --> 01:57:52,545
well, I am certain,
I've come to say goodbye!

1185
01:57:55,673 --> 01:57:57,592
And if you've had two ballots today

1186
01:57:57,758 --> 01:58:02,305
well, oddly enough that coincides
with the two presents I have brought

1187
01:58:02,555 --> 01:58:09,478
farewell presents,
if you like, the first is this...

1188
01:58:13,190 --> 01:58:16,569
It's the money from our harvest

1189
01:58:17,361 --> 01:58:23,451
well, actually it's 80 percent of it, a cardsharp
kept the other 20 per cent as commission

1190
01:58:23,868 --> 01:58:29,498
He scammed the money off of somebody
from Manderlay in a game of cards

1191
01:58:30,041 --> 01:58:31,959
So the gangsters didn't take it?

1192
01:58:32,126 --> 01:58:39,216
No, no they didn't
and I won't prolong the tension

1193
01:58:40,384 --> 01:58:43,262
it was the treasurer who did it

1194
01:58:43,471 --> 01:58:46,390
the man charged with
looking after the money

1195
01:58:47,266 --> 01:58:55,941
He was overcome by his eagerness to play,
probably because he isn't a Munsi at all

1196
01:58:57,109 --> 01:59:03,199
but a Mansi, however
unimportant that may sound

1197
01:59:05,284 --> 01:59:14,043
which brings me to my second present, this
one, painful to you or not, it has to come out

1198
01:59:15,419 --> 01:59:23,969
In this book, which I still regard as the most
abominable, contemptible document ever written

1199
01:59:24,136 --> 01:59:26,889
Timothy is listed as a pleasin' nigger

1200
01:59:27,181 --> 01:59:31,894
a person who can change his appearance
to please the beholder, as he has done

1201
01:59:34,980 --> 01:59:36,941
let me find the page

1202
01:59:37,149 --> 01:59:40,277
It's on page 104!

1203
01:59:45,241 --> 01:59:49,078
How do you know? I thought
no slave had ever seen this book

1204
01:59:49,245 --> 01:59:52,873
How do you know what's
on page 104 of Mam's Law?

1205
01:59:53,999 --> 01:59:56,001
'Cause I wrote it!

1206
02:00:11,559 --> 02:00:14,812
It's all in my meticulous hand

1207
02:00:17,106 --> 02:00:20,943
Mam and I were very young
when the war suddenly ended

1208
02:00:21,318 --> 02:00:25,239
and this new statute terrified us

1209
02:00:26,157 --> 02:00:27,825
Terrified you?

1210
02:00:29,660 --> 02:00:35,040
we tried to imagine what kind
of world were these slaves let out into

1211
02:00:35,207 --> 02:00:37,376
were they ready for it?

1212
02:00:38,586 --> 02:00:44,049
Or more correctly,
was it ready for them?

1213
02:00:44,383 --> 02:00:48,179
The legislators promised all kinds
of things but we didn't believe 'em

1214
02:00:48,512 --> 02:00:56,020
And that was then Mam urged me to
commit to paper the way I thought things

1215
02:00:56,187 --> 02:01:01,358
should be done here if everyone
stayed on at Manderlay

1216
02:01:02,902 --> 02:01:05,780
But it's the prolongation of slavery

1217
02:01:06,906 --> 02:01:11,869
You might call it that, you might
also call it the lesser of two evils

1218
02:01:16,040 --> 02:01:18,626
But did the others know
that you wrote this book?

1219
02:01:18,793 --> 02:01:24,256
Groups 2, 3 and 5, always knew

1220
02:01:24,965 --> 02:01:29,887
A few members of the other
groups were better off not knowing

1221
02:01:30,012 --> 02:01:38,229
But everyone knows now, I wrote
Mam's Law for the good of everyone!

1222
02:01:40,439 --> 02:01:42,983
For the good of everyone!

1223
02:01:46,695 --> 02:01:49,573
For the good of everyone?

1224
02:01:51,867 --> 02:01:54,036
How dare you?

1225
02:01:55,037 --> 02:01:59,625
It's a recipe for oppression

1226
02:02:00,501 --> 02:02:06,048
and humiliation from start to finish

1227
02:02:07,341 --> 02:02:12,304
I think you've been reading it through
the wrong spectacles, Miss Grace

1228
02:02:12,471 --> 02:02:16,767
if I may take the liberty of saying so

1229
02:02:17,768 --> 02:02:24,525
And then Wilhelm initiated Grace into the
humane qualities, of the lesser of two evils

1230
02:02:25,317 --> 02:02:29,655
Mam's law! How it
guaranteed food and shelter

1231
02:02:29,780 --> 02:02:33,409
and allowed anybody the privilege
of complaining about their masters

1232
02:02:33,576 --> 02:02:36,704
instead of having to blame
themselves for the life of no hope

1233
02:02:36,829 --> 02:02:40,833
that they would
surely have to lead in the outside world?

1234
02:02:41,250 --> 02:02:45,880
How the noonday parade was a blessing
since the parade ground was the only place

1235
02:02:46,046 --> 02:02:48,841
with shade at the warmest time of day?

1236
02:02:49,091 --> 02:02:53,137
How the numbered groups were determined
according to the patterns of behavior

1237
02:02:53,262 --> 02:02:58,726
that human beings resort to in order
to survive in an oppressive community?

1238
02:02:58,976 --> 02:03:04,857
so that life could be made easier for
each of them, since a proudy' nigger

1239
02:03:05,024 --> 02:03:12,615
not that Manderlay had seen many, if any, of
these, survives by perceiving himself as proud

1240
02:03:12,781 --> 02:03:17,077
and could be helped by this system to
believe that he was a bit more persecuted

1241
02:03:17,202 --> 02:03:19,580
and punished than the others

1242
02:03:20,372 --> 02:03:23,959
Since a Clowning nigger would
benefit greatly from the laughter

1243
02:03:24,126 --> 02:03:27,671
that Mam's Law strictly
demanded of its master

1244
02:03:27,838 --> 02:03:32,301
just as any other groups
benefited from similar obligations

1245
02:03:32,468 --> 02:03:36,639
How cash was forbidden so that
gambling had to be done with cotton money

1246
02:03:36,805 --> 02:03:42,937
to prevent ruination and
misery for the families, etc. etc.

1247
02:03:43,145 --> 02:03:46,857
Until Graces head
felt fair ready to explode

1248
02:03:46,982 --> 02:03:51,528
Damn it, Wilhelm, they're
not free! That's what matters!

1249
02:03:51,654 --> 02:04:00,329
I'd call that a philosophical argument, which
neatly brings me to the two ballots I just mentioned

1250
02:04:00,788 --> 02:04:03,916
was Mam's Law still relevant?

1251
02:04:05,334 --> 02:04:10,547
And we agreed that unfortunately
it was as relevant now as it ever was...

1252
02:04:11,465 --> 02:04:17,846
America was not ready to welcome us
Negroes as equals seventy years ago

1253
02:04:18,013 --> 02:04:23,978
and it still ain't, and the way things are
goin' it won't be in a hundred years from now!

1254
02:04:24,103 --> 02:04:33,696
So we agreed we'd like to take one step
backwards at Manderlay and reimpose the old law!

1255
02:04:34,363 --> 02:04:36,615
Excuse me, but I'm going

1256
02:04:36,907 --> 02:04:42,371
As for your going, well, I'd better tell you
about the second of our ballots

1257
02:04:42,705 --> 02:04:46,083
as you know sadly we lost Mam

1258
02:04:46,333 --> 02:04:51,964
and unfortunately we've good
and well frightened off her descendants

1259
02:04:52,256 --> 02:04:56,218
In short: we lack a Mam!

1260
02:05:03,225 --> 02:05:04,268
No!

1261
02:05:04,393 --> 02:05:07,438
I needn't tell you that
you received every single vote

1262
02:05:08,188 --> 02:05:09,690
Never!

1263
02:05:09,815 --> 02:05:18,532
with all your idealism, I think you'd enjoy being
the guardian of a kind of menagerie for creatures

1264
02:05:18,699 --> 02:05:21,368
who have no chance in the wild

1265
02:05:23,537 --> 02:05:27,791
Just as you thought the notion
of a community would be good for us

1266
02:05:29,209 --> 02:05:34,673
You were so sure that you permitted
yourself to use force to convince us

1267
02:05:35,049 --> 02:05:38,677
I'll be sorry if we have to do likewise

1268
02:05:39,303 --> 02:05:43,599
what do you mean?
Do you intend to keep me prisoner?

1269
02:05:43,724 --> 02:05:47,269
Only 'til you understand the
way you wanted us to understand

1270
02:05:47,853 --> 02:05:50,814
The gate has been
repaired and is closed

1271
02:05:51,440 --> 02:05:56,028
The fences are in good shape
but of course they ain't particularly high

1272
02:05:58,113 --> 02:06:01,658
Those fences, come on

1273
02:06:03,202 --> 02:06:08,373
two men with a rusty
shot gun and a toy pistol

1274
02:06:09,374 --> 02:06:12,377
How dumb do you really think we are?

1275
02:06:13,212 --> 02:06:17,007
Too dumb to build a ladder
if we'd really wanted to get away?

1276
02:06:18,967 --> 02:06:22,429
Grace had spent a great
deal of time on this meeting

1277
02:06:22,596 --> 02:06:25,891
which from her point of view
didn't seem to be getting anywhere

1278
02:06:26,350 --> 02:06:30,896
Her father and his car
would be at the gate at eight

1279
02:06:31,105 --> 02:06:35,067
That was in half an hour,
she had no ladder

1280
02:06:35,192 --> 02:06:38,570
And she was on her
own and guarded by many

1281
02:06:38,821 --> 02:06:42,407
Just how was she
to get out of Manderlay?

1282
02:06:43,408 --> 02:06:47,204
when was a section
of the fence always down?

1283
02:06:47,371 --> 02:06:53,418
Grace would have to change her tactics
rapidly if she was to make the rendez-vous

1284
02:06:53,794 --> 02:06:57,089
All right, I'll do as you want

1285
02:06:58,090 --> 02:07:00,801
not from my heart, though
surely none of you could expect that

1286
02:07:00,926 --> 02:07:06,515
but as my only option, and you needn't
be scared, I'll obey your beloved law

1287
02:07:07,641 --> 02:07:10,853
So we'd better start by
dealing with the present matter:

1288
02:07:11,019 --> 02:07:19,027
Timothy, a slave from group seven has
committed a theft that almost ruined us all

1289
02:07:19,236 --> 02:07:24,783
As I've determined that Mam's Law does not
prescribe any punishment for stealing money

1290
02:07:24,908 --> 02:07:27,161
I shall have to be creative

1291
02:07:29,538 --> 02:07:35,169
what was it you once said, Flora, something
about planting a bottle of Rhenish wine?

1292
02:07:36,628 --> 02:07:45,262
I do believe there is a bottle of Rhenish
wine under Timothy's saddle, don't you?

1293
02:07:48,182 --> 02:07:57,316
So that's what I seen when I went there
yesterday, if it wasn't a bottle of Rhenish wine!

1294
02:08:41,485 --> 02:08:46,657
There was still ten minutes until her
slavishly punctual father would arrive outside

1295
02:08:46,782 --> 02:08:50,619
to wait for his 15 minutes
and not a second longer

1296
02:08:50,869 --> 02:08:54,957
Just enough time for
a verbal farewell salute

1297
02:09:00,879 --> 02:09:04,341
Timothy, you can stop
being proud and silent

1298
02:09:05,509 --> 02:09:15,394
Cry and shout and beg
for mercy like the Mansi you are

1299
02:09:16,228 --> 02:09:19,648
the Mansi who you despise so much

1300
02:09:20,983 --> 02:09:25,070
And it's that hatred Timothy and
the rest of you bear towards yourselves

1301
02:09:25,237 --> 02:09:33,453
that you'll never make me accept, you
are a cheat of the lowest kind, and Wilhelm

1302
02:09:33,954 --> 02:09:38,333
and all of you who follow him, are nothing
but a bunch of traitors to your race

1303
02:09:38,500 --> 02:09:45,048
I hope that your fellow Negroes one day
uncover your betrayal and punish you for it

1304
02:09:45,549 --> 02:09:47,926
You make me sick

1305
02:09:51,096 --> 02:10:00,105
I'm sure you're quite right, Miss Grace, most
likely it's impossible to revile us niggers enough

1306
02:10:00,689 --> 02:10:04,234
but what I don't get is
why it makes you so angry?

1307
02:10:04,359 --> 02:10:06,278
what do you mean?

1308
02:10:06,486 --> 02:10:08,655
Aren't you forgetting something?

1309
02:10:12,826 --> 02:10:14,870
You made us!

1310
02:10:37,768 --> 02:10:40,979
Probably the only thing that could
have stopped the lady with the whip

1311
02:10:41,146 --> 02:10:47,444
from carrying on forever was the cheerful
tinkle that announced her father's presence

1312
02:10:53,992 --> 02:10:58,580
She needed his support
now, Manderlay, too

1313
02:10:58,747 --> 02:11:02,959
really was a place the world
would be better off without...

1314
02:11:15,138 --> 02:11:20,727
Grace recognized her father's
hand writing, "dear girl", it said

1315
02:11:20,936 --> 02:11:25,857
Dear girl, so you
tricked your father yet again

1316
02:11:26,108 --> 02:11:32,489
I waited the fifteen minutes
first but I am too kind hearted

1317
02:11:32,739 --> 02:11:39,496
So I popped over to the fence behind the bushes
and peeked inside to check that you were ok

1318
02:11:40,330 --> 02:11:46,378
to my great surprise it really did look
as if you had a good grip on things for once

1319
02:11:46,545 --> 02:11:48,839
I am proud of you, my girl

1320
02:11:49,047 --> 02:11:50,924
I hope we meet up someday

1321
02:11:51,049 --> 02:11:55,220
so you can tell me what you actually
meant by "new times at Manderlay"

1322
02:11:55,846 --> 02:11:59,558
Love, your dumb old dad

1323
02:12:07,357 --> 02:12:15,449
Ballots could be unrivalled, but determining
the time by public debate was rarely feasible

1324
02:12:15,615 --> 02:12:18,160
That was quite apparent

1325
02:12:21,288 --> 02:12:24,332
Grace had but a few
seconds to choose the direction

1326
02:12:24,458 --> 02:12:28,170
in which to flee away
from her swarthy pursuers

1327
02:12:28,336 --> 02:12:33,550
who, as her father had to teasingly
predicted, were carrying torches

1328
02:12:34,050 --> 02:12:37,554
Grace was in a hurry
and did not notice Burt

1329
02:12:37,679 --> 02:12:43,852
the former fugitive with a liberal attitude
to other races, who never did make it far

1330
02:12:45,437 --> 02:12:54,279
Grace was angry: Manderlay had fossilized in a
picture of this country that was far, far too negative

1331
02:12:54,529 --> 02:12:58,658
America was a many-facetted
place, no doubt about it

1332
02:12:59,367 --> 02:13:03,079
But "not ready" to accept black people?

1333
02:13:03,538 --> 02:13:10,504
You really could not say that America
had proffered its hand, discreetly perhaps

1334
02:13:10,629 --> 02:13:19,054
but if anybody refused to see a helping
hand, he really only had himself to blame!