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A federal judge has ruled that FBI agents acted properly when they searched the California home of accused wine counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan moments after arresting him last year. At a Jan. 17 hearing in a New York courtroom, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman denied a motion by Kurniawan's attorneys to exclude evidence found during the search. Kurniawan must now decide whether to go to trial or change his plea of not guilty.
Agents arrested Kurniawan at his mother's Los Angeles-area home on the morning of March 8, 2012. During the arrest, agents conducted an initial search of the house and obtained a key to a locked room from Kurniawan, entered it and found what they claim was a wine-counterfeiting workshop. Only later that day did agents return with a search warrant.
In a motion to exclude the evidence, Kurniawan's lawyers claimed that the first, warrantless, search violated his Fourth Amendment rights. In a memorandum, Justice Department attorneys countered that, even without including the evidence of the FBI sweep that morning in its request for a search warrant, there was probable cause for a magistrate to issue it. The government lawyers noted that Kurniawan "on multiple occasions" had received shipments of empty bottles of very expensive wine which he had requested from a Manhattan restaurant and a New York collector and that last February he had tried to sell homemade counterfeit wine through a third party at a London auction. They also noted that the agents were concerned Kurniawan's mother might destroy evidence before they returned with a warrant.
Berman said from the bench, "The long and the short of my ruling is that, based on the totality of the circumstances, in my judgment the search warrant was clearly based on probable cause." Kurniawan, 36, sat in the courtroom, dressed in mismatched khaki pants and shirt with black sneakers, wearing his trademark eyeglasses with thick black frames. He showed no emotion as the judge announced his decision. He is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Berman scheduled a conference with the lawyers for Feb. 14 to determine what will happen next in the case. It appears that Kurniawan's options are to go to trial or try and negotiate a plea bargain. Besides being charged with selling counterfeit wine, Kurniawan is also accused of schemes to defraud a finance company by falsifying his application for a $3 million loan, and of double-pledging art works as collateral for additional loans from a New York auction house, and of attempting to defraud a California collector and the New York auction house. According to Kurniawan's attorney, Michael Proctor, his client remains "strong and focused on his case."
It was seven years ago this month that Acker Merrall & Condit held an auction in New York based on Kurniawan's cellar. Among the lots was a bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti 1934 that sold for $12,925, a six-bottle lot of Roumier Bonnes Mares that sold for $28,955, and a 10-bottle lot of Château Cheval-Blanc 1947 that sold for $48,260. According to the indictment of Kurniawan, dated last May, all those wines were counterfeit.
Ted Hudgins — Naples, FL — January 18, 2013 11:08am ET
I feel bad (not really!) for Rudy's lawyers who have to deal with a bona fide sociopath like him. Yes, I know they are getting handsomely compensated, but just the thought of having to listen to Rudy whine on about how the government (and Sotheby's, etc.) are ALL wrong and how he's innocent must be tiring. Most normal clients face reality when confronted with an overwhelming amount of now properly admitted evidence, but somehow I think this one will drag on for who knows how long. Maybe Rudy can make pruno and pass it off as the good stuff when he's doing 10-20.
We can only hope the other counterfitters out there are listening and taking notes about the downside to the fraud they have perpetrated on what used to be a very civilized trade.
Lawrence Newcombe — bay City , MI — January 18, 2013 11:44am ET
With the huge surge in Asian wealth and the desire for the rare and highly sought after wines from France and elsewhere , one can only imagine ( and be wary)of who else is toiling away in the land of coping , counterfeiting , product fraud. Doubt this will be last of these major ripoff crimes in the wine community .
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In what may be a sign of how expectations have been lowered by the bad economy in recent years, most Americans don't feel they need to make six figures to be successful, according to a recent survey. But while it's fine to aim for relatively modest financial goals, if your goals are too modest, they may sell your retirement short.
A study from earlier this year by CareerBuilder.com found that 75 percent of Americans would feel successful with a salary under $100,000. Twenty eight percent of survey respondents said they would need to make between $50,000 and $70,000 to feel successful, while 23 percent said they could feel successful earning less than $50,000.
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The problem is overly modest financial goals may be a sign that Americans don't fully understand how much money they will need in retirement. Before you settle for less, here are five questions you should ask yourself.
- Are you factoring in the need to save for retirement? If you are content with your salary because you can easily pay all your bills, does that include being able to put aside money for retirement? Americans' savings rates have been chronically low, and until you are adequately saving for retirement, you aren't really meeting all your financial needs.
- Are your retirement goals adjusted for inflation? $100,000 may sound like a lot of money, but at a three percent inflation rate, it would be worth just over $41,000 in 30 years. Especially if you are young, your retirement years (in particular the back end of your retirement years) are a long way in the future. Make sure your saving and income goals for those distant years are adjusted for inflation and not based upon today's dollars.
- Are you in a high-risk occupation? For reasons including physical risk, stress or simply the demands of the job, some occupations tend to have shorter careers. If that's true of your job, then you should have higher income goals. This isn't simply to compensate you for the risk or difficulty of what you do; it is also a practical necessity. A shorter career means both fewer earnings years and a longer retirement period. That requires higher savings rates, which people can generally only accomplish by earning an above-average income.
- Have you accounted for the size of your family? One drawback of a generalized financial survey is that the income figures involved don't take into account differences in personal situations. For example, there is a world of difference between a single person earning $70,000, and someone with five kids trying to get by on the same salary. Before you settle on income and savings goals, make sure you have accounted for the size of your family, including your plans for future additions to that family.
- Have you adjusted your goals for where you live? One other way that broad national studies need to be adjusted for individual situations is to account for cost-of-living differences. An annual salary of $50,000 goes much further in a rural area than it does in New York City.
If Americans really are willing to get by with less money, the best way for them to do it would be boost their savings rates so they are spending less now, and putting more aside for the future. Otherwise, they may regret those modest income goals when retirement arrives.
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Tommy Tuberville knew it was going to be "one of those games."
Fresh off a convincing win against then-No. 5 West Virginia, the Texas Tech coach believed, heading into Saturday's game at TCU, that his team might not be running on all cylinders, given the emotion it had expended the previous week.
"You can't expect to go out and play like we play, with the emotion and all those things after playing West Virginia," Tuberville said Monday. "Some games you've just got to go out and find a way to win, no matter how you play."
That's exactly what Tech did. Despite yielding a season high in yardage, struggling to move the ball in stretches and surrendering a 10-point lead in the final minutes against TCU, the Red Raiders found a way to win by making just enough plays in the overtime periods.
The victory sets up another mammoth-sized game for No. 15 Tech (6-1, 3-1 in Big 12), which visits No. 4 Kansas State (7-0, 4-0) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday with first place in the conference on the line.
Tech, with its stated goal of winning a Big 12 title, is facing higher stakes with each game. As exhilarating as the win against TCU was, the challenge for teams with championship aspirations becomes generating the emotion and energy necessary to compete in a hostile environment week after week.
"You have to refresh your mind," Tech safety Cody Davis said. "Focus on getting that win (against TCU) behind us and coming to work like it's game one, where everybody is intense and ready to go, ready to hit something."
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, of course, is well regarded for his ability to keep players' focus confined not only to the next game, but the very next practice, film session or workout.
It's a recipe he has used since taking over the program in 1989 and instituted again when he began his second stint as coach in 2009 after a brief retirement. So it may be of little surprise that Kansas State, picked to finish sixth in the Big 12 preseason poll, is thriving under Snyder's ultimate one-day-at-a-time approach.
"Today is going to be the most important day," he said Monday, a phrase he uses often. "Tomorrow will take on that role when it comes."
Tech quarterback Seth Doege said the coaching staff designs practices in such a way that allows players "to get our legs back under us," but he also said an onus is put squarely those players, especially later in the stages of the season, to get their minds and bodies right amid a daunting schedule.
"It's put on players, put on how badly you want to win," Doege said.
Tech safety D.J. Johnson said this current crop of Red Raiders has become more capable of channeling its emotions and preparing the way it needs to each week. It was an ability the team lacked a season ago, when the highs became too high and the lows ... well, you get the idea.
"Last year we had an idea of what we were capable of," Johnson said, "(but) I don't know if we really bought into it. For us to get a big victory last year (against Oklahoma), it was kind of like you rolled on that thing. You stayed up there a little bit and enjoyed it a little bit to let it linger a little bit too much.
"But this year we know after each game is over, we have another game to play. So until the end of the season comes, we know that we have another game ahead of us."
Getting up emotionally for the game ahead of the Red Raiders this week won't be the only task the team faces. Tuberville said on Monday that Tech will have little chance against the fundamentally sound Wildcats if it doesn't execute better than it did against TCU.
"We're not going to will ourselves to win this week," said Tuberville, who is 6-2 in his career against top-five teams. "We've got to go play. We've got to be prepared. We've got to be focused and every snap can make a difference whether we win it or whether we lose it, or win by a big score or lose by big score. We've got to go play more of our football game."
Tech's game against Kansas State will be its fourth straight game against a ranked opponent and second against a top-five team in the last three weeks. But Johnson said it isn't the opportunity to knock off another much-acclaimed squad that will have the Red Raiders ready to play on Saturday.
"Our ultimate goal is to win that Big 12 title," he said. "So whether they're ranked or not ranked or in the top five or not in the top 5, our goal is to get the 'W.'"
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Abstract: This paper describes a new method of determining the feedback coefficients in a state variable feedback system, given the closed loop transfer function, making use of the transfer function between different and relevant points in the feedback configuration used to realize the desired closed loop transfer function, formulas that can be repetitively used to determine the feedback coefficients are desired. The usefulness and simplicity of these methods are demostrated by illustrative examples where the plant has complex poles, coincident poles and zeros and even when the plant is unstable. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10311/756 Files in this item: 1
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Paddling event raises funds, spirits
Three-year-old Kindred Worrell, the youngest participant in the 19th Annual Varina Lions Canoe-a-thon, didn't have much choice when it came to attending. But she enjoyed the 10-mile cruise, looking at kayaks and fishing a feather out of the James, just the same. Her father, Sgt. Timothy Worrell of the Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries, visited Kindred frequently along the way as he escorted several dozen canoes and kayaks from Rocketts Landing to Osborne Landing. And Kindred's mother, Jennifer, pronounced the journey a relaxing and much-needed episode of "tornado therapy" for herself and fellow teacher Angela Paust. Paust teaches sixth grade at Page Middle School in Gloucester County and Jennifer Worrell is a reading specialist. On April 16, a tornado destroyed roughly half the school building, and Page teachers and students had to transfer to another county middle school. To accommodate the double load, home students and faculty now attend a morning shift, and the contingent from Page attends from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. In addition to the stress of being uprooted and adapting to the new schedule, Page faculty are also coping with reams of lost and destroyed records. "My dad found a GED test in his yard," said Worrell, "four miles away [from the school]. And letters to the chorus teacher were found two counties over in Deltaville." All of which made a leisurely paddle down the James sound pretty appealing to Worrell and Paust when they learned of the canoe-a-thon through Worrell's husband. Pick your pace Unlike the two teachers, Will Harlan has been coming to the canoe-a-thon for years. His neighbor, Buz Snyder, is the event's founder and a long-time activist in the sponsoring organization, the Varina Lions Club. Asked to name his most memorable canoe-a-thon, Harlan said it would have to be his first, when he was still a new member of the Lions Club. Assured by Snyder that the event was not a race, Harlan took his two young sons, whose ages he estimated at seven and ten. "I had never paddled flat water before," Harlan recalled, anticipating a relaxing cruise with his boys. "We brought coolers, fishing rods, radios, and lots of food. But from the moment Snyder and his son hit the water, said Harlan, they never stopped paddling. "What do you mean, 'It's not a race?' he asked Snyder after his loaded-down boat finally arrived at the take-out and picnic. The following year, said Harlan, he and his sons arrived in a stripped-down boat. "And we started getting competitive!" That's the beauty of the canoe-a-thon, say its fans. Paddlers can challenge themselves to try and beat their time from earlier years, challenge family members or buddies in a friendly wager, or even vie to be the first canoeist or kayaker to finish. Or they can sit back and enjoy nature, the river, wildlife, and all the history floating by. River's heritage "Views from the river have not changed that much in over 400 years," pointed out Stephen Winks, the canoe-a-thon sponsorship chairman. Noting that the 17th century Wilton Farm in Varina was called "World's End," because there was no known European habitation beyond that point, he added, "You can not only see the unchanged views . . . but imagine the history of native Americans, and at Wilton, with it literally being the end of the world as we knew it." Both the put-in and take-out sites are historic spots, said Winks. Rocketts Landing was the largest seaport in the country prior to the advent of railroads, and Thomas Jefferson's grandfather and namesake lived at the town of Osborne, across from Osborne Landing, where he operated a ferry. Just half a mile from Osborne Landing also lies Snyder's residence of Aarrahahatteck. "It is the only named spot on Captain John Smith's 1610 map of Virginia," said Winks, "other than James Towne." Although the canoe-a-thon may have originally been organized as a fun club activity and fundraiser -- proceeds contribute to community scholarships, middle school reading programs, after-school YMCA programs, and assistance for the sight and hearing impaired -- Winks views it also as a means of raising awareness about Varina. Most people think of Varina as nothing more than a sleepy rural suburb of Richmond, said Winks. The canoe-a-thon gives organizers a chance to promote the community's beauty, as well as its "extraordinary history [as the] second oldest spot in North America, in the most historic city in North America: Richmond, Va." 'Family reunion' In addition to the opportunity to get close to nature and history, the canoe-a-thon also provides what Harlan calls a "family reunion" atmosphere. Snyder returns with sons and grandchildren every year, and Harlan's two boys -- now in their twenties -- come back to town annually for the event. For Dave Whyte, who paddled with Snyder because his usual partner couldn't make it, the event was a chance to spend a few hours with a role model and good friend. "I keep coming back every year because Buz is like a father to me," said Whyte. Whyte met Snyder in 1994 through his friend Billy Waldecker, who is a great nephew of Snyder's wife, Nelda. "Billy and I were big bass fishing nuts," said Whyte, "so naturally Buz's pond was a great place to visit." In return for the chance to fish at Arrahatteck, Whyte would help out with tasks such as clearing brush or repairing the dock. Eventually, Whyte began attending the Waldecker family reunion each July -- a tradition he has continued since he married and had children. "Over the years, Buz and Nelda fell in love with my family and vice versa, and we feel like part of their extended family," he said. "Arrahatteck is a place that my kids have grown up with and our memories there are very fond." Since his own father's death in 2007, Whyte said Snyder's role in his life has taken on an even more special significance. "I have great respect and admiration for Buz," he said. "[He is] someone I can model myself after in terms of attitude and integrity. "It was an honor to paddle with him for the first time this year." No tornadoes needed As canoe-a-thon participants reached the take-out location at Osborne Landing and gathered for the barbecue lunch, it was clear that even the prospect of a few sore muscles would not deter anyone from returning the following year. One woman, climbing stiffly from her canoe, managed a smile as she groaned, "I don't think I'll do this tomorrow, though." Another woman, who seemed to take perverse pride in finishing last -- even with a helpful tow from the "sag wagon" boat -- showed off several treasures she had found along the journey. "Look at this burly piece of driftwood!" she exclaimed, adding, "There were too many interesting things to see [to paddle fast]." On the bus ride back to Rocketts Landing to pick up cars, Angela Paust was already nostalgic as she reminisced, "It was so nice to be out there on the river." Her fellow teacher, Worrell, confirmed that it won't take a tornado to get them to another canoe-a-thon. "We'll be back next year," said Worrell. "It was awesome." |
VBS seeks blood donations
Citizen Staff Reports 12/16/2013
Virginia Blood Services (VBS), the sole supplier of blood for more than 20 hospitals throughout the state of Virginia, is in need of blood donors to help replenish the local blood supply over the holidays.
A decline in blood donations is typical during the winter months as people become busy with holiday activities and travel. Patient needs remain steady, however, making it important for people to visit a VBS donor site or mobile drive to give blood. > Read more.
Varina's Big Toy parade to help usher in holiday season
In Varina, one of the most anticipated events of the season is approaching. The 19th Annual Big Toy Parade will return on Dec 14, offering a "homey," small-town feel that helps elicit holiday spirit among participants and spectators alike.
The parade, which begins at 3 p.m., is sponsored by the Battlefield Ruritans and Henrico County Parks and Recreation and is held in conjunction with the James River Boat Parade. It is led by a grand marshal along Old Osborne Turnpike and ends at the Osborne Boat Landing, where hundreds of community members gather to await nightfall and the arrival of lighted boats, concluding a festive holiday celebration. > Read more.
Strikers, Kickers form partnership
Citizen Staff Reports 12/03/2013
The region's two premier youth soccer organizations – the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers – have partnered to create Richmond United, a cost-free U.S. Soccer Development Academy program designed to serve the most talented players in the region. The arrangement marks the first time in U.S. Soccer Development Academy history that two member clubs have united their respective Academy programs.
Slated to begin play in the fall of 2014, Richmond United will field U13/14, U15/16 and U17/18 U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams. The teams will train and play home games at two of the top soccer specific complexes in the nation, Ukrop Park and Striker Park. > Read more.
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It's the final weekend before Christmas – but it doesn't have to be a nightmare! Relax with half-a-million twinkling lights, enjoy Theatre IV on Tour's production of "A Christmas Carol" or experience the 11th annual "Miracle of Christmas – Live at the Metro Richmond Zoo." Another way to relax before the Big Day is with a good book. You can find a vast array of books, covering many genres, and meet authors at the Celebrate with a Book event on Saturday. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Find out how your favorite dining establishments fared during their most recent inspections by the Virginia Department of Health. > Read more.
Henrico students star in 'Nutcracker'
A number of Henrico students are performing in the Richmond Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, which runs through Dec. 23. Pictured above, left to right are: back row – Elizabeth Sjovald (Mother Ginger), Deema Meguid, Maya Link (Mogi top) and Sophie Rounds (Mother Ginger) and front row – Sarah Echols (Chinese) and Carter Echols (Chinese). > Read more.
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Resident winemaker Conor McCormack was formerly with the company that started it all, San Francisco's Crushpad and he will supervise production and instruct amateur winemakers in hands-on sessions. McCormack will also make house wines which will be sold at the wine bar and tasting room. A full barrel costs $5,700 and delivers 300 bottles. The price includes a barrel planning session with McCormack to help you select your varietal and region, and discuss wine style options. After that the potential winemakers learn more by taking part in five private winemaking sessions covering topics like fermentation, pressing, racking, barrel tasting and finally bottling. The bottles are finished with your own custom-designed wine label including the name of your choice. Custom Barrel may be shared by a group of up to 12 people and 1/2 barrels are also available.


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Researchers are piecing together the devilishly complex sets of genetic alterations underlying schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Researchers are piecing together the devilishly complex sets of genetic alterations underlying schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
From therapeutics to gene transfer, bacteriophages offer a sustainable and powerful method of controlling microbes.
Institutional funding and research support is critical to academics during this time of continued budgetary belt-tightening across government agencies.
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Researchers are taking advantage of small, transparent zebrafish embryos and larvae—and a special strain of see-through adults—to understand the development and spread of cancer.
Researcher salaries continue to buck the trend of the millennium's first decade, remaining flat or even declining across most life science disciplines.
Epigenetic changes accrued over an organism's lifetime may leave a permanent heritable mark on the genome, through the help of long noncoding RNAs.
On the 10th anniversary of The Scientist's survey of life science academics, institutions are contending with tighter budgets and larger administrative staffs, while working to sustain and inspire their researchers.
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What does he do? – JD, 4
We were sent some Noddy toys to review this week – nicely made, colourful and a close match to the current TV series but, as it turns out, a little too young for JD's tastes.
I imagine it would go down well with a slightly younger Noddy fan – it's aimed at children 3+ after all – but he who is used to the action packed world of Lego Hero Factory and the like was rather more interested when he discovered he could use the ball to bowl down the characters, and even more pleased still when he realised he could shoot them down with his Lego villains.
Little Miss J was very keen on the car, and since it had no small parts, we let her have a good gnaw and it now resides in her toy pile, so despite a bumpy start, Noddy has integrated well in to his new home after all.
Noddy Playscene Playtime with Bumpy is £8.00 from Bandai and there are several other scenes available, allowing children to build up a Toy Town of their own.
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Black In The Saddle: The Racialicious Review Of Django Unchained
By Arturo R. García
When it's all said and done, Spike Lee isn't totally wrong in not wanting to see Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
Setting aside Tarantino's interpretation of the pre-Civil War south for a second, Django finds him retreading familiar ground: it's more Kill Bill than Inglorious Basterds. But in insulating both his hero and his story from history as much as he does here, the writer/director ends up shortchanging both of them.
Spoilers under the cut.
That's no fault of Jamie Foxx, who ably delivers on portraying the titular hero's slow-building emergence. (Indeed, that the film nicks from Joseph Campbell on top of Sergio Leone is the biggest surprise of all.) His Django goes from being a quick study to Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) to being better able to handle the meat of their mission to rescue Django's beloved Broomhilda (Kerry Washington).
But, as Jelani Cobb points out in The New Yorker, some of Tarantino's past predilections keep butting in:
Primary among these concerns is the frequency of with which Tarantino deploys the n-word. If ever there were an instance in which the term was historically fitting it would seem that a Western set against the backdrop of slavery—a Southern—would be it. Yet the term appears with such numb frequency that "Django" manages to raise the epithet to the level of a pronoun. (I wonder whether the word "ni—r" is spoken in the film more frequently than the word "he" or "she.") Had the word appeared any more often it would have required billing as a co-star. At some point, it becomes difficult not to wonder how much of this is about the film and how much is about the filmmaker.
Cobb is correct in describing the use of that slur as numbing; Tarantino ends up inducing more groans than chills on that front. About the "best" you can say is that a) most of the people using it are defined as villains (Schultz avoids it whenever possible; Django uses it matter-of-factly or in the midst of playing someone of higher station) and b) the villains get theirs, without the benefit of being portrayed as "cool" or conflicted or anti-heroes; the closest the film gets to "typical" Tarantino dialogue is a scene where a bunch of proto-Klan members can't get their look together, let alone their act.
As plantation owner Calvin Candie, Leonardo DiCaprio tears into the chance to not be stuck playing another nervy good guy. And there's a fascinating exchange between Candie and his favorite servant Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) where they show as much mutual trust as Django and Schultz, but only behind closed doors; to the rest of the world, they have to perform the massuh/slave relationship. It would have been nice to play both duos against each other more and explore that dichotomy.
Tarantino does succeed at bringing about discomfort using some quieter scenes: there's no catchy score, for instance, on top of the "mandingo" fighting scene in Candie's living room, where the only sounds are Candie's brusque encouragement and the sounds of two desperate men; the scene of one of his slaves being torn apart from dogs ends up being a turning point for Schultz; Jackson succeeds in switching from playing Stephen as Candie's willing fool to being his ruthless eyes and ears on the rest of the house; and, as David Brothers notes, the shot of a noose hanging as the newly freed Django accompanies Schultz into one town spells out how precarious his situation is.
But Tarantino cheats Django out of his ultimate revenge by linking Schultz's death to Candie's. The downfall of his mentor is a necessary step in Django's journey. But eliminating the film's most powerful villain–a man who bought and imprisoned his wife on top of literally playing games with the lives of others–means that what should be a triumphant third act for Foxx's character becomes an abridged victory lap.
Imagine, for a second, the conclusion of Kill Bill without that final conversation between Beatrice and Bill. Without having Candie to overcome at the end, that kind of tension is taken from the conclusion of Django's quest. He mows down the rest of the household's leadership and Stephen, emerging as "that one in 10,000," but emerges further removed from everyone but Broomhilda. This brings to mind another critique of Cobb's:
On the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, it's worth recalling that slavery was made unsustainable largely through the efforts of those who were enslaved. The record is replete with enslaved blacks—even so-called house slaves—who poisoned slaveholders, destroyed crops, "accidentally" burned down buildings, and ran away in such large numbers their lost labor crippled the Confederate economy. The primary sin of Django Unchained is not the desire to create an alternative history. It's in the idea that an enslaved black man willing to kill in order to protect those he loves could constitute one.
Indeed, as the film ends, we see Broomhilda grab a rifle of her own. While Tarantino gave us Django as a superhero, I found myself wishing for a story where she joined him in forging their own myth, one that could be woven into the greater battle about to unfold in Tarantino-Earth.
That is a very interesting point you make about Django being the one to kill Candie's but I think Tarantino got it sport on with the ending. The film was essentially about liberation of self and the illumination of choice which ultimately equates to power. The two major moments in the movie Schultz's decision to have the last say on Candies gamesmanship. The fear of inferiority was Candie's weakness and Schultz's exploited that knowing that it would probably cost him his life. Schultz's (who was the trickster figure in the movie) was himself liberated someone who took to choices away from people with his line of work to giving a couple a chance to the right to make a choice and a the same time giving them the power to defend that choice. His work was done, so for him to take Candie's literally out of the picture cleared the path for Django to reach his own self realisation by tackling the real major villain of the movie, which was the root of what laid beneath the character of Stephen. That root is the conformity of western culture that has disempowered a black generation of their own thought and Stephen was the embodiment of that so I think Tarantino called it right for Django to blow up candy-land and all the so called scentiffic evidence amongst the unread books which fuelled an illusion to keep one in their place.
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America is too racially immature for a movie like Django.
It was after much contemplation and serious debate that I made the decision to go see the Quentin Tarantino movie, Django Unchained, this past weekend. Having majored in African and African American studies in grad school and having done more than my fair share of research and study about chattel slavery in the US and its effects on the collective consciousness of African Americans, I decided that I would go see the movie upon which so much controversy has been brewing and decide for myself if the movie had any merit beyond "entertainment". It is a movie, and by default, its purpose is to make people suspend reality for a couple of hours and get lost in a world of make believe, so, with that in mind, and having weighed the pros and cons, I set out to see for myself what all the hype was about.
Prior to seeing the movie, I was very much aligned with the Spike Lee camp of detractors who were pretty outraged that a white person would dare to tell the story of slavery. Having only seen one movie by Mr. Tarantino previously, I was not impressed with his cultural sensitivity to the Asian people and wasn't expecting much more than a gross/cartoonish depiction of the horrors my ancestors endured. I can say without reservation that Django unchained offered THE most accurate depiction of slavery I've ever seen in a non-documentary film. Hats off to Mr. Tarantino for not only doing his homework about what slaves had to endure but also kudos to him for grasping and interpreting the dynamics of race relations that very few people, white or black, seem to be able to comprehend.
Much has been made about his excessive use of the N word. I, personally, don't ever use the word unless it is in the most academic of discussions. I do not think it has been morphed into some sort of term of endearment and I fully recognize its impact when said in front of white people. My ancestors bled and died at the base of that word so I refuse to casually throw it around out of respect to them. The Black people who do use it, especially those who feel comfortable using it in front of other races, are largely ignorant of the impact of the word or the origins and stigmas attached to it. Black people today use it because, for centuries, that's what we were called and that's all we knew ourselves to be. The messages passed down generationally haven't changed one bit and its use today is almost exactly as it was intended to be used during slavery. That being said, there was not one instance in the movie where the N word was used inappropriately. It was used in the exact context and frequency that it was used during slavery. The theater I went to see the movie at was predominantly white and movie goers laughed and chuckled at the use of the word, largely out of nervous discomfort and I suspect because that's the way they use the word in private conversations and they were rattled by its free/uninhibited use. One can only assume they felt a certain level of comfort being around other whites and confident that the Black movie goers more than likely use the word so frequently there was no fear of reprimand or riot. What the movie did was create an atmosphere of acceptance of the word whereby whites could go home and discuss the movie and casually throw the word around without respect or reverence for its impact.
The gentleman who sat next to my boyfriend apparently thought EVERYTHING in the movie was funny. He laughed incessantly throughout the entire film. It took every ounce of strength in my body not to take my shoe off and beat his ass to a bloody pulp. I was so outraged, so angry that I seethed and burned with hatred for him. His insensitivity and callous disrespect made me see red. My boyfriend, who is not of African descent, didn't seem to take issue with him whatsoever. He saw my discomfort and he ignored it. He didn't ask me if I was okay, he didn't tell the guy to shut the FUCK up, he felt the white man had a right to respond in whatever what he wanted and that I just had to suck it up. Had I been laughing throughout a Holocaust movie inappropriately, the usher, the manager, and a half a dozen movie goers would have insisted that I leave. Had I been with a Black man, he would have insisted that the guy shut up and put the fear of God in him. Again, I have no doubt in my mind that if I were with a Black man and we were laughing inappropriately at a movie about the horrors of a white exerperience, we would have asked to leave the theater. It just proves that today, as in slavery, that if you're white, you're right, if you're black, stay back. Not much has changed since slavery. The feelings, opinions, and personhood of Black people is insignificant to that of whites.
I do not watch violence as a rule so a great portion of the movie I spent with my eyes closed. Tarantino made a shoot 'em up film with carnage galore. I can't imagine that the gun violence was any greater than most movies but the most chilling scenes were the ones where the violence was an accurate depiction of what slave life was like. The slave being ripped apart by dogs, the Mandingo fights to the death, and the brutal rape, whippings, torture, branding, and abuse of slaves was chilling and accurate. Movie goers don't get that. To them, it was all a part of the entertainment, made up.
There is much that movies goers, both white and black, are too uninformed/ignorant to get. Samuel L. Jackson's role was one that depicted the relationship of the house nigger to the master. Because our conversations about race in this country are so superficial and juvenile, the understanding of how a slave with the consciousness of a Stephen could exist. Left to their own devices, moviegoers will assume that he was a self-serving, back-stabbing slave with an agenda to better himself and control/destroy all the other slaves. In reality, house slaves were the creation of slave masters and their allegiance was part and parcel of the system of slavery that needed slaves pitted against one another for its survival.
With the exception of the white protagonist, white people in the movie were depicted as stupid, outrageously cruel, and one-dimensional. They were lazy, treated slaves with despicable inhumane torture and were nonchalant and flippant about using their property, HUMAN BEINGS, for whatever deviant purpose their puny brains could conjure. Slave owners were just that.
There are many more aspects of the movie that could be dissected, examined, and discussed but, unfortunately, America is too racially immature to have any such discussions. White people are insistent upon inflecting the comment, "I'm not racist," "Slavery was in the past, let it go," or, "Can't we all just get along," into every conversation about race. They control conversations about race with their ignorance and refusal to learn, accept a different point of view, and their thinly-veiled racist beliefs. How many white people watched that movie and went home to watch interracial porn where the N word is thrown around like rice at a wedding? How many white people who saw the movie routinely refer to Obama as a nigger and go on rants online where they hide behind a computer screen to espouse racist beliefs? If I've said it once I've said it a million times. White people have to wear a sheet, burn a cross, and run around screaming, "I hate niggers," before another white person will dare to imply that they MIGHT be racist.
Black people are just as misguided. Black people think the movie represents some form of revenge, a win for Blacks as it were. Bullshit! That part was fiction. The concept of a Black man being a gun-wielding bad-ass and able to ride off into the sunset with his lady love is more like science fiction. But Black people are so willing to embrace that "feel good" dynamic of the movie because we don't want to face our shame and humiliation at being connected to a slave past. EVERYONE wants to assume that they would be the one slave in 10,000 who would revolt and kick ass and take names later. The truth of the matter is, slaves were subservient and bred to be docile and millions upon millions of slaves conformed to the rules in order to live, to survive, because they didn't know any other way. Black people are terrified to acknowledge a connection to a slave past because they feel as if recognizing the impact of slavery on themselves means that they are by default inherently inferior.
It won't be until we can have an intelligent, informed, comprehensive discussion about slavery, race, and all its many, messy complexities that a movie like Django will be effective. For now, we are painfully diseased and incapable of having a dialogue about slavery/racism that goes beyond any more than cliché and rhetoric. Django was created with the potential to create an amazing dialogue about race but sadly, the nation just isn't ready for that.
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