Also, his character in Django Unchained was an inversion of the Magic Negro trope: a very white character who exists solely to develop the main character.
In the second and third acts, yes, but he does have his own thing going on in the first act. He’s absolutely an inversion of that trope, but he’s also much more fleshed out than some of the characters he’s an inversion of.
Which really speaks to how lazy a lot of those writers were when it came time to flesh out their non-white characters.
Also, his character in Django Unchained was an inversion of the Magic Negro trope: a very white character who exists solely to develop the main character.
In the second and third acts, yes, but he does have his own thing going on in the first act. He’s absolutely an inversion of that trope, but he’s also much more fleshed out than some of the characters he’s an inversion of.
Which really speaks to how lazy a lot of those writers were when it came time to flesh out their non-white characters.
Was he magic? I don’t remember that bit. Or is that also inverted, the non-magic white guy.
Not actually magic but the trope is the negro in the past would’ve been “magic” because they help the main character in some way.
That’s a pretty big stretch for his Django character.
His archetype, you will find, is just called a “mentor”
Like Glinda, the Good Witch
That’s a new term for me. Thanks for deepening my appreciation of the film.