Amistad Movie
1. General Information
Name of the Film and Year: Amistad (1997)
Director and Producers: Steven Spielberg. Debbie Allen, Colin Wilson
Written by: David Franzoni
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne Stellan skasgård, Harry Blackmun, Anna Paquin.
Genre: Drama
Some awards: Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Achievement in World Cinema (Stellan Skarsgård), Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture (Djimon Hounsou)
2. Argument
The movie revolves around the ship amistad on 1839. The ship was guided by spanish people, José Ruiz and Pedro Montes, who claimed ownership of the slaves on board the ship. The movie was based on the true story of America's slave trade, that mutiny aboard the slave ship, a half of this movie is revolves in a courtroom drama as lawyers for the slaves seek their freedom and return home. We can see that the african people cant speak in english, so they can´t comunícate with other people. African personalities on the ship were kidnapped and enslaved from Africa.(sierra leona).
Keep going in the movie the ship was intercepted by Americans, and were taken to USA. In that point the african people where started searching, how escape and return to homeland.
The plot revolves around growing realization lawyer Roger Baldwin and Mr. Theodoro Joadson are defending the case involving human beings, not just property rights even there are free men, Who initially refuses to help the captives , but finally convinces Supreme Court to order his return to Africa. However, was able to clearly show evidence that it was true. The problem increase because they having Africans speak Mende, a West African language, not english. So they started to look someone who speak the mende language in the city, its was funny because de laywer and the rest of the people learned some numbers and words in mende. There were screaming. when finally they found a guy. Until this point they started to
Name of the Film and Year: Amistad (1997)
Director and Producers: Steven Spielberg. Debbie Allen, Colin Wilson
Written by: David Franzoni
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne Stellan skasgård, Harry Blackmun, Anna Paquin.
Genre: Drama
Some awards: Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Achievement in World Cinema (Stellan Skarsgård), Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture (Djimon Hounsou)
2. Argument
The movie revolves around the ship amistad on 1839. The ship was guided by spanish people, José Ruiz and Pedro Montes, who claimed ownership of the slaves on board the ship. The movie was based on the true story of America's slave trade, that mutiny aboard the slave ship, a half of this movie is revolves in a courtroom drama as lawyers for the slaves seek their freedom and return home. We can see that the african people cant speak in english, so they can´t comunícate with other people. African personalities on the ship were kidnapped and enslaved from Africa.(sierra leona).
Keep going in the movie the ship was intercepted by Americans, and were taken to USA. In that point the african people where started searching, how escape and return to homeland.
The plot revolves around growing realization lawyer Roger Baldwin and Mr. Theodoro Joadson are defending the case involving human beings, not just property rights even there are free men, Who initially refuses to help the captives , but finally convinces Supreme Court to order his return to Africa. However, was able to clearly show evidence that it was true. The problem increase because they having Africans speak Mende, a West African language, not english. So they started to look someone who speak the mende language in the city, its was funny because de laywer and the rest of the people learned some numbers and words in mende. There were screaming. when finally they found a guy. Until this point they started to