THE CONSPIRATOR This is the debut film from the American Film Company- a production company who has made it their goal to produce history based films with a high level of accuracy‚ yet still be accessible. The story here concerns the trial of Mary E. Surratt‚ the lone female accused of being a conspirator in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. This film had the pedigree to be a Best Picture contender - interesting‚ true‚ and rarely told story; brilliant ensemble cast; insane attention to detail
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The film “The Conspirator” is relating back to the civil war era. The movie was basically about the trial of this lady named Mary Surratt‚ one of the conspirators in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. The actor who played Mary Surratt’s was not so identical. She had all her flaws intact. They could’ve presented her in a more realistic manner. Also‚ the script was at times too weighed down by political agenda‚ the dialogue stiff‚ and the characters sometimes reciting ideology that
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The four conspirators who were in charge of the assassination of Julius Caesar had many reasons for their attack and desire to kill the emperor of the Roman Republic. The four men that came up with the plan to assassinate Julius Caesar were not enemies of him‚ and had different beliefs on why they should kill him. The first two conspirators‚ Gaius Trebonius and Junius Brutus Albinus‚ both having a friendly relationship with Julius Caesar‚ had both served and fought with Caesar‚ but both men believed
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In Julius Caesar the conspirators used both logic and emotions to bring other people to their side and help them take down Caesar. They also used bribery on the people and let the people’s greed over power them leading them to become easily manipulated. one thing that one of the conspirators did ‚ Cassius ‚ was forge letters from the people complaining about Caesar for Brutus to find ‚ and make him think that the the roman citizens were against the growing power that Caesar controlled. Cassius was
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The Conspirator is a movie made in 2010 directed by Robert Redford. The whole point of making this movie was to bring history to life. Through other movies made by Hollywood‚ the truth of the story is very small. In this movie‚ they went back and went as historically correct to the time after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. After the assassination of President Lincoln‚ men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill Lincoln and the vice president and the secretary of state.
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The unnamed conspirator is considered a third party when it comes to the court room. In real life the unnamed conspirator is someone who influences the way people react to rape. The unnamed conspirator is also taught by our parents and by society itself. An example is a woman blaming herself for being raped. In the back of the victims mind she is responsible for being raped; if she just wouldn’t have met him at the bar‚ if she wouldn’t have taken him back to her place and if she wouldn’t have been
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The Conspirator Movie Key Notes The film starts out at Ford’s theater‚ downtown D.C. where President Lincoln‚ Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward are attending a play. Lewis Powell and David herald try to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward‚ but are unsuccessful and only stab him and his son. George Atzerodt was to kill the vice president but we seem George at the bar taking shots‚ not being able to carry it out and walks out of the theater
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Caesar “Let’s kill him boldly‚ not wrathfully” (Ⅱ.Ⅰ.171-172). In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare the conspirators (Brutus‚ Cassius‚ Casca…) feel Julius Caesar isn’t the best ruler for Rome. They have a very horrid plan to get rid of him for good. The real question is were the conspirators justified or not? In Williams play‚ the conspirators are definitely justified in killing Caesar because of his ambitious power and physical weakness. He was not fit to be the ruler of
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Lady Macbeth From Head Conspirator to Wimp The story of Macbeth by Shakespeare is one of his most read and most loved plays. It was not unlikely that out of all of his plays that Macbeth would be one of the few successful plays that would be turned into an opera. Verdi wrote the opera with librettists Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei. The opera was written around 1846 and premiered on March 14‚ 1847 at the Teatro dell Pergola in Florence‚ Italy. A few years later the Verdi revised the
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The thing that really got the conspirators started in the overthrow of Julius Caesar was Cassius. His best move that he made was getting Brutus to join the conspirators. He had a good knowledge of his fellow peers‚ his logical and emotional appeals allowed him to draw Brutus in to the conspirators and to be able to do what he wanted to do. He was able to draw Brutus by doing all of the things that he needed to do in order to get Brutus in on the plan to overthrow Julius Caesar. The
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