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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.
Djimon Gaston Hounsou (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ m ən ˈ uː n s uː / JY-mən OON-soo; [1] French: [dʒimɔ̃ unsu]; born April 24, 1964) [2] is a Beninese-born American actor. He began his career appearing in music videos and made his film debut in Without You I'm Nothing (1990).
A golden sculpture of Cinqué is located outside the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, where the first part of the Amistad series of trial and appeals was held. Robert Hayden's poem Middle Passage incorporates accounts of the revolt on La Amistad and the subsequent trial. The likeness of Sengbe Pieh appears on Sierra Leone's 5000 leone ...
Richard Corliss of Time magazine heavily praised Spielberg's direction, as well as the cast and visual effects. [57] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of a possible four, saying that it is "wonderful and maddening". [58] Ebert later gave the film a full four stars and added it to his "Great Movies" canon in 2011 ...
Amistad: Yes Yes No [23] 1998 Saving Private Ryan: Yes Yes No [24] 2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Yes Yes Screenplay [25] 2002 Minority Report: Yes No No [26] Catch Me If You Can: Yes Yes No [27] 2004 The Terminal: Yes Yes No [28] 2005 War of the Worlds: Yes No No [29] Munich: Yes Yes No [30] 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the ...
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Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars and praised Spielberg's direction, saying: "Spielberg has taken an important but largely forgotten, and hardly action-packed slice of the Cold War, and turned it into a gripping character study, and thriller that feels a bit like a John Le Carre adaptation if Frank Capra ...
The movie's first scene is accompanied by Elvis Presley's 1956 version of "Hound Dog", arguably the biggest hit of the movie's era, and an RIAA-certified 4× Platinum recording. As an in-joke, Williams incorporated a measure and a half of Johannes Brahms ' " Academic Festival Overture " when Indiana and Mutt crash into the library.