Once King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) discovers that plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) has possession of Django's wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), they hatch a plan to purchase her without arousing Candie's suspicions. Fearing Candie will attempt to extort them if they are honest about their intentions, they plot to feign an interest in buying one of Candie's prized Mandingo fighters, Eskimo Joe, while buying Broomhilda as an additional transaction that won't catch anyone's attention. However, the plan doesn't work, as Stephen discovers their plan and informs Candie, who extorts them out of their entire $12,000 anyway. Though Schultz was clearly concerned about Candie having no interest in just selling them a prostitute, or extorting them, Schultz and Django could simply have offered $12,000 (or maybe slightly less, in case Candie wanted to haggle) for Broomhilda in the first place, and maybe, just maybe, everyone could have survived, particularly Schultz, who ultimately ends up being killed by his own arrogance (but we'll get to that later). Tarantino talked about this plot point in interviews, noting that Schultz needed a "plan B", hence the contrived first scheme, but still, sometimes the simplest way is the best.
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