FILM * Django Unchained: 'Monologo di Calvin Candie sul teschio umano' (Cit. 3)
" [Mostra a Django e Schultz un cranio umano] Questo è Ben. È un muso nero che ha vissuto qui per molto tempo. Decisamente molto tempo. "Old Ben" qui ha accudito mio padre e il padre di mio padre, finché ha tirato le cuoia un giorno. "Old Ben" ha accudito me. Crescere come il figlio di un grosso proprietario di una piantagione del Mississipi pone un uomo bianco in contatto con tutta una abbondanza di facce nere. Ho passato tutta la vita qui, proprio qui... A Candieland. Circondato da facce nere. A vederle tutti i giorni, un giorno dopo l'altro, mi chiedevo sempre una cosa: perché non ci uccidono? Su quella veranda là fuori, tre volte a settimana per cinquant'anni, "Old Ben" qui radeva mio padre con un rasoio a mano libera. Ora, nei panni di Old Ben a mio padre avrei tagliato quella dannata gola, e non ci avrei certo messo cinquant'anni a decidere! Ma non l'ha mai fatto. Perché no?[Prende un seghetto dalla borsa] Vedete, la scienza della frenologia è cruciale per la comprensione dell'interazione tra le nostre due specie. Nel cranio dell'africano qui, l'area associata alla sottomissione è larga più di qualunque umano e qualunque altra subumana tra le specie sul pianeta terra. [Taglia un pezzo posteriore del cranio che asporta con un paio di pinze e che mostra ai suoi ospiti] Se esaminate questo pezzo di cranio qui, noterete tre distinte fossette. Qui, qui e qui. Ora, se avessi in mano il cranio di un Isacco Newton, o un Galileo, le tre fossette sarebbero state nell'area del cranio comunemente associata con la creatività. Ma questo è il cranio di Old Ben... E nel cranio di Old Ben, non gravato dal genio, queste tre fossette sono situate nell'area del cranio comunemente associata con... il servilismo. Mr. Brillante [Django], devo ammettere che sei un tipo in gamba, ma se io prendessi questo martello qui, e lo abbattessi sul tuo cranio, tu avresti le stesse tre fossette, nello stesso posto di Old Ben! "
[ This is Ben. He's a old Joe that lived around here for a long time. And I do mean a long damn time. Well Ben here took care of my daddy and my daddy's daddy, till he up and keeled over one day. Old Ben took care of me. Growing up the son of a huge plantation owner in Mississippi puts a white man in contact with a whole lot of black faces. I spent my whole life here right here in Candyland, surrounded by black faces. And seeing them every day, day in day out, I only had one question. Why don't they kill us? Now right out there on that porch three times a week for fifty years, old Ben here would shave my daddy with a straight razor. Now if I was old Ben, I would have cut my daddy's goddamn throat, and it wouldn't have taken me no fifty years to do it neither. But he never did. Why not? You see, the science of phrenology is crucial to understanding the separation about two species. In the skull of the African here, the area associated with submissiveness is larger than any human or other sub-human species on planet Earth. If you examine this piece of skull here, you'll notice three distinct dimples. Here, here and here. Now if I was holding a skull of a... of an Isaac Newton or Galileo, these three dimples would be in the area of the skull most associated with creativity. But this is the skull of old Ben, and in the skull of old Ben unburdened by genius, these three dimples exist in the area of the skull most associated with servility. Now bright boy, I will admit you are pretty clever. But if I took this hammer here and I bashed it in your skull, you would have the same three dimples in the same place as old Ben. Hey! Now lay your palms flat on the table top! If you lift those palms off that turtle shell table top, Mr. Pooch is gonna let loose with both barrels of that sawed off! There have been a lot of lies said around this dinner table here tonight, but that you can believe! ]
[ This is Ben. He's a old Joe that lived around here for a long time. And I do mean a long damn time. Well Ben here took care of my daddy and my daddy's daddy, till he up and keeled over one day. Old Ben took care of me. Growing up the son of a huge plantation owner in Mississippi puts a white man in contact with a whole lot of black faces. I spent my whole life here right here in Candyland, surrounded by black faces. And seeing them every day, day in day out, I only had one question. Why don't they kill us? Now right out there on that porch three times a week for fifty years, old Ben here would shave my daddy with a straight razor. Now if I was old Ben, I would have cut my daddy's goddamn throat, and it wouldn't have taken me no fifty years to do it neither. But he never did. Why not? You see, the science of phrenology is crucial to understanding the separation about two species. In the skull of the African here, the area associated with submissiveness is larger than any human or other sub-human species on planet Earth. If you examine this piece of skull here, you'll notice three distinct dimples. Here, here and here. Now if I was holding a skull of a... of an Isaac Newton or Galileo, these three dimples would be in the area of the skull most associated with creativity. But this is the skull of old Ben, and in the skull of old Ben unburdened by genius, these three dimples exist in the area of the skull most associated with servility. Now bright boy, I will admit you are pretty clever. But if I took this hammer here and I bashed it in your skull, you would have the same three dimples in the same place as old Ben. Hey! Now lay your palms flat on the table top! If you lift those palms off that turtle shell table top, Mr. Pooch is gonna let loose with both barrels of that sawed off! There have been a lot of lies said around this dinner table here tonight, but that you can believe! ]
(Monologo tratto dal film "Django Unchained", 2012, di Quentin Tarantino)
Immagine tratta da 'Django Unchained': Calvin Candie, interpretato da Leonardo DiCaprio, in una scena del film
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