He threw Ellen (his black mistress) to the ground and called her a n___R. She was the best thing about the movie and I really liked her. :( Plus Mead in the bowling water was unnecessary. It could have been way better.
shareDid you actually think they were gonna let Meade get away with what happened? There was no justice there. You can be the favorite on the plantation until you *glance* at a white woman
YOU MADE ME PLAY SECOND BASE!
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Just finished watching it and I'm gonna go ahead and agree on that. I was really enjoying the movie up until Hammond went psycho.
shareWhats with people today. Is a tiger psycho for turning on its trainer, or a killer whale psycho for killing its trainer. He was psycho when he was "making love to" his "SLAVE", and not boiling his prize, lets say stallion. The point of that scene was to show that even the most rational slave owners were still vile scum. Why? Cause they were SLAVE OWNERS.
shareFor me he was always a creep but when he killed his wife-that was just wrong! Then the treatment of the mistress and killing Mead-he was always a bit borderline.
shareIt seems nobody read the book. I've never seen the movie but seems to be true to the book.
shareI think that was the point, actually. Despite his pretty words and actions up until then, when it came right down to it he was still the master and she was just a N---er to him. There were no good slave owners.
shareHammond had always loved Ellen, but at that time he was mad with Mede and would not have tolerated anyone trying to stop him from taking revenge. I think in the film, Hammond was basically a nice guy who (for example) wouldn't mistreat slaves, but ultimately he was capable of doing bad things since he still acted within a system which - if not actually evil - at least terribly outmoded.
You could see that Hammond was quite humane and actually cared for the slaves. He felt sick when his cousin Charles spanked a wench, and Ellen called him "strange" since he was the only one she knew who cared "what a master does to a wench". He also agreed to free Ellen's "sucker". Later, he refused to sell the child of another female slave so that the two could stay together, and the father interpreted that as softness. It became even clearer in Mede's fight with Topaz. Hammond cried out that he wanted to yield, though it meant he would have lost the bet, in order to prevent the opponent causing Mede further serious harm.
Hammond lost his mind when his wife gave birth to Mede's baby. That was considered the greatest possible dishonor and Hammond had little problem going along with his father and the doctor's "solution" of having both Blanche and the baby murdered. As for Mede, given the unequal relationship between master and slave, there could have been only one outcome.
You all might read some real history so you know how things really were, and still are in some parts of the world. There is no point in sugar-coating one of the most evil institutions that has ever existed.
shareHe threw Ellen (his black mistress) to the ground and called her a n___R. She was the best thing about the movie and I really liked her. :( Plus Mead in the bowling water was unnecessary. It could have been way better.
I was doing good until the end when Norton was being made into soup.
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