depends on the director’s point of view as well as the casting director‚ the 1948 Laurence Olivier ’s black-and-white version of Hamlet starting Laurence Olivier and Eileen Herlie‚ is a classic film that is generally considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time. The Olivier version is a story as merely the centerpiece in front of a roving camera. It has been accorded numerous honors‚ including four 1948 Academy Awards: Best Picture‚ Actor‚ Art Direction-Set Direction‚ and Costume Design. In
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COMM3820 Reaction To Amistad Amistad was a very touching movie and showed a lot of fight and determination from the West Africans and several others working to gain freedom for the slaves.. During the movie I felt that I to were experiencing the gruesome triumphs that the West African slaves experienced during their fight toward freedom. Though I have seen several movies dealing with race it is always interesting to learn more about history. Amistad showed how the West Africans
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In this legal study‚ the case of United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad‚ 40 U.S. 518 will be examined in relation to a supreme court precedent in the freeing of slaves in the American North . The date of the Supreme Court trial was 1841. The initial location of the Amistad trial began in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut in Hartford‚ Connecticut‚ but was eventually tried in Washington D.C. in the U.S. Supreme Court. The liberation of illegally
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Two Perspectives of the Same Thing Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion gives the impression of being told by someone who lived through the experience‚ while provide fact and details need to understand the story in a deeper level. However it doesn’t just describe the actual event‚ the rebellion‚ but also informs the reader of what happened before the slave boarded the Amistad‚ what transcribe throughout the journey that lead the slaves to rebel and what happened after they took the ship until
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Tarea 4-Amistad (1997) Negative Critique: Charles Taylor- Salon.com Positive Critique: James Berardinelli- Reel Views Based on a true story‚ about a group of enslaved Africans aboard the slaveship La Amistad who overtake the ship and attempt to return to their homeland. When the ship is seized‚ the captives are brought to the United States where a courtroom battle ensues that captures the attention of the entire nation while confronting the very foundation of the American justice system
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certainly you can’t free your gun or your house. So how could you free a slave? It was pretty much a messed up way of thinking back then‚ but it was all they knew. People can and do change. Changes in how people thought was evident in the movie Amistad. Cinque the chosen spokesman for the Africans had a vivid real idea of freedom. He wanted to go home. It’s that simple. He had been taken by force from his home and family and place in a foreign place and was being held captive for something
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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
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Amistad: Reaction Paper The video I watched was Steven Spielberg’s Amistad. This video was basically about slaves who took over a small Spanish ship called “Amistad” and awaited trial in America‚ which would turn out to be one of the most critical trials in American history. Of course‚ with Spielberg’s twists‚ the movie is able to stay very entertaining‚ while still being very authentic. Amistad may have been a major Hollywood movie‚ making millions‚ but the film makers did everything possible
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Throughout the movie Amistad‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ conflict between Natural Law and Positive Law appears to be an underlying theme. The story is of a group of African slaves that effected a mutiny on their slave ship. After killing many Spaniards‚ the African slaves were then captured and put on trial. The story is based on a historical trial which took place in the United States during the years of 1939-1940. This trial ultimately became a very tricky political game between the North and
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The Amistad was a ship that made its way across the Atlantic Ocean to Cuba in 1839. It carried more than fifty slaves in inhumane conditions‚ but on July 2‚ the slaves freed themselves and rebelled. The captive’s journey is a story of rebellion‚ human rights‚ and the "unquenchable human spirit of the world.” (paragraph 11) The Freedom Schooner Amistad is a modern model of the Amistad. Just because they have similar names does not mean that the two ships are the same. One significant difference
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