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Joe Dante's version of Ant-Man was really weird.

 

The real life Eliza came to a very bad end. Her story was she was married to her white master (both genuinely loved each other), but her master/husband had a previous wife and daughter who hated Eliza. Eliza's husband then got into financial difficulties and had to sell all his property (including Eliza and their daughter) to his older daughters husband under the promise that his son-in-law and daughter would treat Eliza very well and promise to free her in time. Eliza and her children were tricked into being sold on (this is when she met Solomon). She was told she was going to be freed and had to get her lawful freedom papers but in fact she was going to her new master. As the movie portrays, Eliza and her children were separated and never saw each other again. She was later sold by Mr Ford to another slave master who treated Eliza very badly. Eliza was so overcome with grief for her children that she refused to work despite severe whippings. In the last months of her life even her cruel master had given up on her and she done no work and constantly lay in her hut in severe depression, depending upon the charity of other slaves because her master refused to feed her. She was found dead one day laying on the ground inside her hut by other slaves, she most likely just died of despair. Her husband, btw, was much older than her and tried to find her but couldn't but even if he did find her he wouldn't have had the funds to purchase her anyway since he had to sell all his property to his son in law to pay off his debts. A very tragic end. No one knows what became of Eliza's children. Her son was conceived by a black man but her daughter was half white, who was said to be very beautiful and most likely went on to marry a white man/master.

 

Nasty pieces of work...monsters.

 

Rian Johnson and the bizarre tonal shifts of The Last Jedi.

AKA: When comic relief provides little comedy and no relief.