Review of Speilbergs Amistad
AMISTAD Director: Steven Speilberg Screenwriter: David Franzioni Amistad is a film that shows the beginning of slavery and how it all began. To my surprise, the African Americans started slavery themselves, because they traded themselves for guns, materials, food, and many other things. Slaves were brought over on the ship, La Amistad from Cuba and tried to free themselves from their owners. The slaves killed all of the whites on their ship except for two. They did not kill these two whites because they hoped that these whites would help them find their way home, but in fact, they were still bringing them to Spain, to be used there. However, these two men led to them to the United States, where there this whole story begins. Two prominate men in New Haven, one African American, one white, finds a young lawyer willing to help them, for a low fare, try to win the slaves freedom. A difficult task to say the least, the young lawyer, Roger begins his job. The task is most difficult because there are documents to say these men belong to Queen Isabella II of Spain, and they are property of Spain because they originated in Havana, Cuba. Roger must p
Roger is an abolitionist, who fights for the freedom of slaves. And then after put on a ship, the slaves killed all the whites, and tried to turn home, however were overpowered by the ocean, and landed in New Haven, which they all are now. This was directly before our Civil War and the Industrial Revolution. There are many crucial and important scenes in this movie. It is absolutely disgraceful how minorities are depicted. Cinque is the main slave, which we come in close contact with in this movie. He defines communication with the slaves, finds out their true story and helps them to be freed from rule and gives them justice. And from there, they were brought to Cuba, where Queen Isabella II purchased this selected group of slaves. rove this is a lie, and prove they came from Africa. This story takes place in the years 1839-1842. Then, it continues into the presidency of 1842, our 9th president, William Henry Harrison. Roger, with the help of his translator Kai-Nyga, begins to talk to Cinque about how he got here.
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