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Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter.
- $58.3 million
- Steven Spielberg
- $39 million
- John Williams
May 21, 2023 · Roger Sherman Baldwin Was Older & More Experienced. Roger Sherman Baldwin is introduced in Amistad as a young novice who urges Lewis Tappan to hire him as a lawyer. As he fights the case, the realization of slaves being human beings instead of property dawns upon him. Baldwin's changing moral conscience becomes his defining trait in the movie.
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Dec 12, 1997 · Slavery could, I suppose, be seen largely as a matter of laws and property--at least to those benefitting from it. One of the astonishing facts revealed in Steven Spielberg's “Amistad” is that seven of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices in 1839 were slave-owning Southerners. His new film centers on the legal status of Africans who rise up against their captors on the high seas and are ...
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Aug 25, 2012 · This movie is a fictionalized account of the 1839 revolt by illegally enslaved Africans aboard the Spanish ship, Le Amistad. When the ship was seized on the high seas by a U.S. Navy vessel, abolitionists filed a court case to free the Africans. The trial and subsequent appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court highlighted to the public the evils of ...
It does contain a few visually compelling moments, such as the scene on a slave ship that viscerally conveys the horrors of the Middle Passage. Overall, however, as a movie Amistad is simply a bore. As history, this account of a Cuban slave ship seized in 1839 by its African captives, and their legal travail that ended in the U. S. Supreme ...
In the hold of the slave ship, the camera pans across the chained bodies of the enslaved. Sickness, brutality, mutilation and death are depicted in these scenes; blood is splattered across the deck of the ship as the visceral horrors of enslavement are brought to attention. Suffering and survival are thereby expressed with the film's evident ...
Dec 10, 1997 · AMISTAD. Directed by Steven Spielberg; written by David Franzoni; director of photography, Janusz Kaminski; edited by Michael Kahn; music by John Williams; production designer, Rick Carter ...
