Character mistake: The check written by Sam Jackson says May 2, 1858. At this point in the movie, it should be 1859.
Django Unchained (2012)
1 character mistake
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Don Johnson, Christoph Waltz
Factual error: In the scene after the Mandingo fight in the Cleopatra club, when Leonardo DiCaprio gives his slave a beer, it is served in a flip top bottle. The first flip-top closure was created by Charles de Quillfeldt in the United States, who filed for a patent on 30 November 1874, receiving patent number 158406.
Dr. King Schultz: How do you like the bounty-hunting business?
Django: Kill white people and get paid for it? What's not to like?
Trivia: In the scene at the dinner table where Leonardo DiCaprio slams his hands on the glass on the table, he actually cut his hand - it wasn't scripted. (01:59:55)
More questions & answers from Django Unchained
Answer: Django and Schultz killed some of Big Daddy's farmhands, and he wasn't going to let a freed slave kill some of his workers. Schultz knew Big Daddy would come after them for what they did. Plus Django would never let go of a chance to kill a slave owner who was trying to kill him.