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I'm talking mainly here about the scene where a professor friend of Virgina Madsen's character's husband regaled back to her in a smug, arrogant, know-it-all fashion over a big dinner at a fancy restaurant the origins of the Candyman character/myth that claimed he had sired a half-white child with the daughter of a man who commissioned him to paint his daughter's portrait as he was quite the artist, and as a result of this he was hunted down and basically butchered shortly thereafter by an angry racist mob led by the woman's enraged father.