ONTD

But it has nothing to do with them being slaves or masters, they're just characters I happen to like ffs, why does everything have to be turned into some political crap? They're just characters. I wonder if all people getting offended ever had an action figure in their lives, because figures aren't golden idols and it doesn't necessarily mean you wanna be like those characters.
And the movie's historically inaccurate anyway, so it's not like they're celebrating real people from facts involving slavery.

Because essentially it's just a fictional story, and it's not even remotely accurate from the historical point of view. It doesn't portray real facts and real characters, and slavery is not the main theme really, but romance is. The main character doesn't necessarily act because he wants slavery to end (I mean that's not his goal, it's not like in IB where the Basterds' goal was in fact ending the war and nazism), all he wants is to get his wife back. And slavery is a context that could've really been anything else (any dystopian ambientation, for example). Like, why didn't people get offended over the Inglorious Basterds figures? After all, there are still people suffering because of nazism, and neo-nazism is an actual thing, so owning a figure of a nazi, from your point of view, should be problematic too, isn't it? But no, people like Landa because he's a well written character, not because he's a nazi. It's the same thing from my pov. And of course I will buy the movie, but I wish I had a shot at buying Django's figure cause he's a fucking awesome character, that's it.

Why? He's been written and portrayed beautifully. Of course he's a villain, but it's not like villains don't have appeal. Ask all the Loki fans! I loved Landa because of how smart and somewhat funny he was, not because of the nazism.
Anyway, I kinda get how the Django figures are problematic, now.

I like the character.
Loki goes around carving people's eyeballs out and invading New York but there's still a whole bunch of people adoring him (and the wackos even take his side) because they look at other things, not at the moral side of the character.
The same thing applies to all villains ever, there will always be people liking them despite what they do, because they're fictional.

But this particular nazi never existed, that's the whole point.

I don't enjoy the killings, of course. It's the lines he says and how he says them and the way it's written. I just find him an appealing villain.

Landa almost gave me panic attacks. That bastard lol.