Compare And Contrast The Historical And Historical Accuracy Of The Amistad
The Amistad The Amistad is a film released in 1997 directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg’s career as a producer, director and writer has made him known as one of Hollywood’s best film directors. The Wagon Train in 1957 was the first film that Steven Spielberg assisted in producing. Some of the first works of Spielberg are shown in the short films the Battle Squad and Escape to Nowhere. The first movie that Spielberg directed that put him on route to being one of the most well known and wealthiest movie directors of all time was the film Jaws in 1975. The Amistad is based on the true story of a slave ship named the Amistad that is transporting slaves from Cuba to the United States in 1839. The cargo of the ship is comprised of Africans,
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First off, the film does not show the correct number of court cases that were held. The court cases in the film are so distorted that it does not depict the historical significance of how the cases were handled. In the film, the court makes it seem as if the judges and their views of slavery are all on the same page. It depicts the idea that the Supreme Court was convinced by John Adams plea to prove that slavery was against the natural rights of any man and that it was a major step in the abolition of slavery. The film proclaims the idea that this court case is a turning point in the struggle to end slavery in the United States. The court cases in the film were revolved around the idea of slavery as a domestic institution rather than the Atlantic Slave Trade as the real Amistad court cases were. The court cases helped outlaw the slave trade in the Atlantic in the international treaty in 1840 which none of that is shown in the film. If the court cases were shown correctly in the film then it could have been significantly more historically accurate. Throughout the film there are always people talking about a civil war that is coming in the near future. This bothers me because of the fact that the civil war is still over twenty years in the future. Slavery was a main cause of the civil war but it does not need to be
First off, the film does not show the correct number of court cases that were held. The court cases in the film are so distorted that it does not depict the historical significance of how the cases were handled. In the film, the court makes it seem as if the judges and their views of slavery are all on the same page. It depicts the idea that the Supreme Court was convinced by John Adams plea to prove that slavery was against the natural rights of any man and that it was a major step in the abolition of slavery. The film proclaims the idea that this court case is a turning point in the struggle to end slavery in the United States. The court cases in the film were revolved around the idea of slavery as a domestic institution rather than the Atlantic Slave Trade as the real Amistad court cases were. The court cases helped outlaw the slave trade in the Atlantic in the international treaty in 1840 which none of that is shown in the film. If the court cases were shown correctly in the film then it could have been significantly more historically accurate. Throughout the film there are always people talking about a civil war that is coming in the near future. This bothers me because of the fact that the civil war is still over twenty years in the future. Slavery was a main cause of the civil war but it does not need to be