In contrast, the film with the black gaze either represents
sympathy or violence, ranging from the camera position as the voyeur seeing the
black slaves being abused verbally or physically, or through Django’s own gaze,
mostly being violent. The use of violence goes along with the stereotype of
black men being violent. Interesting how this is conveyed even whilst the
slaves are under white control an example would be the Mandigo fighting scene.Sympathy more comes from the viewer, regardless of ethnicity, the camera positions you into feeling sorry for characters mostly because they are black and endure punishment for their ethnicity.
The black gaze also focus’s on Django through a different perspective as a perspective. Through a neutral perspective Django is just a hero saving his wife. Through the black gaze Django is viewed as a traitor through him not showing any form of brotherhood and care to the various black slaves he meets along the way in rescuing Bromhilda (his wife). The epitome example of this is the scene where Schultz tries to get Calvin to stop abusing a slave by offering to pay for him. Django gets involved and basically says that Calvin can do anything he wants to the slave as he says ‘he’s yo nigger’. This then leads to the slave being eaten alive by dogs. These two shots parallel to one another signify the contrast in brotherhood at this point Django, being alone and the other slaves in a group shot all together.
The scene that transitions alignment with Django from a black gaze is the burning down of candyland. With the actions of killing several of the slave owners and abusers within the plantation as well as burning the plantation home down, this symbolises Django actually putting an end to slavery within one of the South's biggest plantation homes as well as freeing the slaves who used to work there. This then aligns Django in being a black man and defending his ethnicity it also justifies his previous actions as he needed to be quiet previously to allow him the opportunity to blow up candyland.
