20 Things You Somehow Missed In Django Unchained

6. The Poker Game Uses Slaves' Severed Ears As Chips

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OK, now this one's really gross, and you might wish you never knew about it.

Near the end of the movie, moments before Django kills the trackers who are playing poker, look incredibly closely at the table they're playing on, and you might notice they're not playing with typical chips but rather some strange, fleshy objects.

As it turns out, they're actually betting with ears, and Tarantino's script goes further to clarify that they're the ears of black slaves. 

And if that's somehow not horrifying enough, Tarantino adds that those who rewatch the film might even notice that some of the Candyland slaves are missing ears. Good god.

 
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