COMPARISON BETWEEN THE BOOK AND MOVIE AMISTAD

Comparison between the book and movie Amistad

Comparison between the book and movie Amistad

Introduction

The book is a novelization of the film 'Amistad', released in 1997 and directed by Stephen Spielberg. It is 1839. Fifty Africans kidnapped from their home in Sierra Leone, in West Africa. They put in chains and transported by ship, in appalling conditions, to Cuba in the Caribbean, where they sold as slaves to two Spaniards, Ruiz and Montes. The Spaniards put them on another ship, the Amistad, and the ship sets sail for America, where the Africans are to be put to work in the sugar plantations. Then something extraordinary happens. Led by Cinque, the captives break loose from their chains and kill the Spanish sailors. However, they do not kill Ruiz and Montes, but instruct them to sail the ship back to Africa. Instead, unknown by the Africans, the two Spaniards continue the journey to America.

Discussion and analysis

The excerpt you are about to see is from the 1997 film Amistad, which directed by Steven Spielberg. The film based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad by Africans who sold into slavery in Cuba. When the Africans reached the U.S., they were imprisoned and put on trial. An abolitionist lawyer argued about their case and, it went all the way to the Supreme Court. As this scene begins, the attorney for the Africans, former U.S. President John Quincy Adams (played by Anthony Hopkins), addresses the Supreme Court. The man asked to stand is the rebel leader Cinque (played by Djimon Hounsou). The film ends, true to the historical record, with the Supreme Court is ruling that the slaves illegally sold into slavery and with the order to return them home to Africa.

The Film Review

"Amistad" is one of the most significant setbacks in the career of Steven Spielberg. In an attempt, to perform, the same feat four years ago with "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List" director almost simultaneously made the sequel to this movie dinosaurs and historical cutting, denounces slavery. She was also the first movie that led to the brand new label, "DreamWorks" with what the expectations were higher. However, the result for both films was well below the repot of the above without success, and not just because they match the year of "Titanic".

The film wants to reflect faithfully the events of 1838 assumptions about the events in La Amistad, when a group of Africans mutinied, killing the entire crew except two, arrested shortly after and tried not once but three times. The film aims to achieve a former revenge by showing how bad they were the Spanish (not that I speak are Spanish, the viewers would like if they were French or English) dealing in slaves while Americans fight for the abolition of slavery and defend them. The same as always say. Of course, this is not the big mistake but the historical representation ridiculous bordering on historical figures such as ...