'The Count Of Monte Cristo'

I thought it interesting if not odd that in his film Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino wrote in a line about Alexandre Dumas being of African descent (his paternal grandmother was an African slave in the French colony of Haiti). Odd because the film is set pre-Civil War in the Southern United States and the line is provided to somewhat show that someone famous was black. The character King Schulz thinks Dumas would not think kindly to the institution (Dumas died in 1870 so he probably had thoughts about the subject), not because he’s a “soft-hearted Frenchy” but because of his ethnicity.

The point of the line, though, is that Django Unchained mirrors the revenge plot of Dumas’ most famous work The Count of Monte Cristo. Although he probably thought poorly of slavery, but was probably a supporter of Django as he exacted his revenge on white culture and those that had tortured him and his wife.

Dumas probably also supported the wife. He not only married but had at least 40 affairs and a number of illegitimate children. We can’t all be so noble.