Amistad By Stephen Spielberg
Amistad was produced and released by Stephen Spielberg in 1997. Many of the main characters from the film Amistad are portrayed by famous actors such as Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, and Morgan Freeman. The main theme of the film depicts how you should never lose hope in the face of adversity. One of the main characters of the film who was portrayed by Djimon Hounsou as Cinque a member of a tribe captured by a neighboring African tribe and being sold into slavery. Along Cinques journey as a slave he endured many obstacles such as seeing his friends or family members die at the hands of mercenaries. The film depicts how slaves were illegally captured and sold into slavery against their own will. The film starts
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The people also spoke in very realistic language such as the Spanish, Mende, and English. The most influential scene was the flashback of how Cinque was captured and they had to endure watching the man getting whipped. The blood and the hurt and the pain displayed on the man’s face and the others faces was very realistic and very important to understanding the severity of how sometimes illegal slave trade looked. The setting where the detained Africans were being held in the jail was poorly executed because it just seemed very odd and out of order. It seemed as if the Africans never ate and they were being treated as if they were puppets of the court. Many times you would often see Cinque attempting to understand what Mr. Baldwin was saying in a language that he didn’t speak. The film was historically accurate with things such as the illegal slave trade and people like Queen Isabella and John Quincy Adams. The actions people took and the battles that ensued after and before the illegal slave trade began also seemed very accurate. The laws and the actions people took during the court proceedings are very different from the laws and actions we have today in ways like once a person has been tried for a crime they cannot be tried again because a ruling has already been granted and is recognized as final under the
The people also spoke in very realistic language such as the Spanish, Mende, and English. The most influential scene was the flashback of how Cinque was captured and they had to endure watching the man getting whipped. The blood and the hurt and the pain displayed on the man’s face and the others faces was very realistic and very important to understanding the severity of how sometimes illegal slave trade looked. The setting where the detained Africans were being held in the jail was poorly executed because it just seemed very odd and out of order. It seemed as if the Africans never ate and they were being treated as if they were puppets of the court. Many times you would often see Cinque attempting to understand what Mr. Baldwin was saying in a language that he didn’t speak. The film was historically accurate with things such as the illegal slave trade and people like Queen Isabella and John Quincy Adams. The actions people took and the battles that ensued after and before the illegal slave trade began also seemed very accurate. The laws and the actions people took during the court proceedings are very different from the laws and actions we have today in ways like once a person has been tried for a crime they cannot be tried again because a ruling has already been granted and is recognized as final under the