He knows them a lot better than a lot of the native English speakers doing otherwise intellectual content on TH-cam. It's really sad. Never mind rhetoric, they seem not to have even learned basic grammar and syntax in school.
One of the things I find particularly striking about 'Amistad' is how restrained Spielberg is in his camerawork; while his placement, blocking and framing are typically economic and expressive, the camera itself rarely moves (limited to tilts and pans etc.). But we are given a few dolly shots; during a conversation between Cinque and Adams, where the camera pushes in as Cinque describes calling upon his ancestors in times of strife, and in the courtroom speech when Adams does the same.
I had to fight the urge to point out how when Adams rips the Executive Review he takes a couple steps forward. It wouldn’t make much difference to the Justices based on their distance to him, so what he’s doing is approaching the camera to make the action appear bigger for us. It’s discreet and it substitutes a camera movement.
@@Moviewise yes, it's Spielberg at his most economic (the longest shot in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is a static shot of Roy Neary, on the phone to Ronnie, in his livingroom; the action takes Roy from low-angle close-up to wide, as he walks back and forth, all the while maintaining a composition dominated by the model of the Devil's Tower in the middle of the room, and a TV set in foreground left), I would need to rewatch 'Amistad' but I am pretty sure the only other dolly shot in the entire film, aside from the ones I mentioned that link Adams' speech back to his conversation with Cinque, is a lateral tracking shot revealing the row of Judges at the start of Adams' courtroom scene.
Bonus point for Anthony Hopkins delivering this entire brilliant speech in the first take. Granted, his stage background probably helped with that, but compare that to America Ferrera bragging about how she used dozens of takes to get her much shorter and far inferior speech in _Barbie_ just right.
It's an incredible performance. This is one of those movies where everyone involved was already legendary, so I guess they knew the movie had to be the best they could make it. This is swinging for the fences stuff.
I feel like it WOULD BE INSULTING calling you the G.O.A.T. Because it should be OBVIOUS. Keep at it my G! YES. Writer's should learn rhetoric. You, magnificent, bastard.
"Who we are is who we were", standing next to a bust of his father. I remember being aware of the manipulation when I watched this film, but loving it and wanting more! As you say: chills.
Wow. I remember watching Amistad in the theater, and everything in the movie built up to that speech. It was a tremendous release of the tension that had been building and building up to that point in the film. When John Quincy Adams stands up you _know_ he's going to be amazing, and the film actually delivers on that expectation. You explain how it works incredibly well.
4:10 Similes are a TYPE of metaphor. All similes are metaphors but not all metaphors are similes. Much like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
I like the ra ra speech Carrie fishers character makes in ‘volunteers’. “ So, what did I just say”she says to Tom Hanks character who can speak, Vietnamese, I think it is. :”move this log and I’ll sleep with everyone of You!”
I have not seen this one, as "earnest" Spielberg isn't my favorite, but after "The Father," I think I will give something with Hopkins a watch without any arm-twisting. 👌
I'll have to watch this movie. I'm somewhat offput by it for its historical inaccuracies (EVERYTHING about Martin Van Buren in this movie is incorrect), but I think I can swallow a suspension of disbelief pill to experience this.
Can't tell you how happy I am seeing a new video on speech because I rewatch JFK many times this week (which is thanks to you, too, I put off watching it for so long). Thank you wholeheartedly, Mr. Moviewise. edit: Also, I usually watch your videos with a notebook and a pen.
Amistad went a bit under the radar, because it was followed by SPR. It has great stuff in it though. The Middle Passage Sequence, the eloquent screenplay, teh performances, the beautiful camerawork, John Williams' great score... It also makes a great companion piece to Lincoln
@@Moviewise I read the Forsyth book recently and it exposed a gaping hole in my education. When you popped "RHETORIC" across the screen, it was time for popcorn.
I'm a big fan of the Howard Rourke speech on the individual versus the collective in the The Fountainhead. It is Ayn Rand, but still I thought a very good speech. Liked Jimmy Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder. Lot of detailed talk explaining process and how the law works. Boring I know. Spartacus has a nice set of little speeches that establish each character. Olivier, Ustinov and Laughton all get their moments. Gorky Park has fewer speeches but just great pithy lines and characters. " Corpses their faces cut off, murdered and frozen in Gorky Park. Maybe Major Pabluda this is a job for KGB." "Someday Renko this could be you." Or " You know the KGB have better cars. " Yes But they don't always take you where you want to go, do they? " Big Chill Ghandi , Ben Kingsley, got a nice speech in court in South Africa, which nicely outlined a regime where Passive resistance simply wasn't going to work. Oh and Breaker Morant was a courtroom drama with a constant argument about committing murder during the Boer war. casablanca lot of great dialogue. I guess its less speechy.
The next video should be about the 1972 mastery that is something evil by the great Steve. A movie so great it never appears on any of those ""EVERY" Steveven Spielberg movies ranked" videos.
I hear tell that is some of the German movies of the 1930s and 1940s there was speeches that moved millions of people. Those speeches are said to have changed history and destiny of the world. Of course no one likes to talk about those movies or speeches because others might find them to be evil.
While I love this channel and this movie, I have to disagree. The Braveheart ‘they may take our lives’ speech stands alone. Honourable mention for the Rocky IV speech which brought down the Berlin Wall, quite the days work.
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Moviewise know words good
He got a purdy mouth.
As a writer (i suspect) should
He knows them a lot better than a lot of the native English speakers doing otherwise intellectual content on TH-cam. It's really sad. Never mind rhetoric, they seem not to have even learned basic grammar and syntax in school.
One of the things I find particularly striking about 'Amistad' is how restrained Spielberg is in his camerawork; while his placement, blocking and framing are typically economic and expressive, the camera itself rarely moves (limited to tilts and pans etc.). But we are given a few dolly shots; during a conversation between Cinque and Adams, where the camera pushes in as Cinque describes calling upon his ancestors in times of strife, and in the courtroom speech when Adams does the same.
I had to fight the urge to point out how when Adams rips the Executive Review he takes a couple steps forward. It wouldn’t make much difference to the Justices based on their distance to him, so what he’s doing is approaching the camera to make the action appear bigger for us. It’s discreet and it substitutes a camera movement.
@@Moviewise yes, it's Spielberg at his most economic (the longest shot in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is a static shot of Roy Neary, on the phone to Ronnie, in his livingroom; the action takes Roy from low-angle close-up to wide, as he walks back and forth, all the while maintaining a composition dominated by the model of the Devil's Tower in the middle of the room, and a TV set in foreground left), I would need to rewatch 'Amistad' but I am pretty sure the only other dolly shot in the entire film, aside from the ones I mentioned that link Adams' speech back to his conversation with Cinque, is a lateral tracking shot revealing the row of Judges at the start of Adams' courtroom scene.
Thank you for finding cinema's diamonds in the places most of us are not looking!
Bonus point for Anthony Hopkins delivering this entire brilliant speech in the first take. Granted, his stage background probably helped with that, but compare that to America Ferrera bragging about how she used dozens of takes to get her much shorter and far inferior speech in _Barbie_ just right.
With much more complex blocking and movement as well.
It's an incredible performance. This is one of those movies where everyone involved was already legendary, so I guess they knew the movie had to be the best they could make it. This is swinging for the fences stuff.
This has arrived just at the right moment to accompany me restringing my guitar.
I feel like it WOULD BE INSULTING calling you the G.O.A.T. Because it should be OBVIOUS. Keep at it my G!
YES. Writer's should learn rhetoric. You, magnificent, bastard.
Can you handle the ultimate compliment? Hope so. Genius!
I saw Amistad once years ago. Thanks to Moviewise, i will have to revisit it. Thanks again Wise One for making friday great!!!
"Who we are is who we were", standing next to a bust of his father. I remember being aware of the manipulation when I watched this film, but loving it and wanting more! As you say: chills.
I think of the "The World is a Business" speech from Network.
Your videos on rethoric are one of best out there
It is worth noting, I submit, that John Quincy Adam’s original complete speech, available online, is itself a model of rhetorical skill.
Wow. I remember watching Amistad in the theater, and everything in the movie built up to that speech. It was a tremendous release of the tension that had been building and building up to that point in the film. When John Quincy Adams stands up you _know_ he's going to be amazing, and the film actually delivers on that expectation. You explain how it works incredibly well.
Still waiting on that Genius of Powell & Pressburger essay, Wiseman.
Just like Agincourt- BRING ON THE ARCHERS!
A truly great video about truly great movie making about the elements of truly great storytelling!!!
4:10 Similes are a TYPE of metaphor. All similes are metaphors but not all metaphors are similes. Much like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
2nd - sitting at the feet of the master, thanks MovieWise
I usually save videos from this channel in a playlist of mine called Cinema. This one goes to another: Education
I like the ra ra speech Carrie fishers character makes in ‘volunteers’. “ So, what did I just say”she says to Tom Hanks character who can speak, Vietnamese, I think it is. :”move this log and I’ll sleep with everyone of You!”
I have not seen this one, as "earnest" Spielberg isn't my favorite, but after "The Father," I think I will give something with Hopkins a watch without any arm-twisting. 👌
I have visited this speech several times because it is so good. Thank you for this 'scientific explanation'.
extraordinary video, thx man!
I just love the way you speak
Thanks for teaching us with every video!
I'll have to watch this movie. I'm somewhat offput by it for its historical inaccuracies (EVERYTHING about Martin Van Buren in this movie is incorrect), but I think I can swallow a suspension of disbelief pill to experience this.
I fucking love you mr. Moviewise❤
Can't tell you how happy I am seeing a new video on speech because I rewatch JFK many times this week (which is thanks to you, too, I put off watching it for so long). Thank you wholeheartedly, Mr. Moviewise.
edit: Also, I usually watch your videos with a notebook and a pen.
Please make analysis of Park Chang Wook. His movies are insane: Oldboy, Handmaiden, Thirst, Decision to leave....
Thank you for teaching us to be „aware movie buffs“!
You are beautiful, your channel is gorgeous, and all your videos are stunning. Thank you for your work, Movieswise.
As good an actor as Anthony Hopkins is, I can't help but compare him with Robert O'Reilly as Gowron on TNG. Brothers over a bowl of gaach!
More please!
Bravo. Much to learn about the art of movie making
What an underrated film. In every way the prequel for his later masterpiece Lincoln
Amistad went a bit under the radar, because it was followed by SPR. It has great stuff in it though. The Middle Passage Sequence, the eloquent screenplay, teh performances, the beautiful camerawork, John Williams' great score... It also makes a great companion piece to Lincoln
it's like... he has the BEST words
Your video’s are so good
You forgot to thank yourself for teaching us
😅
Absolutely BRILLIANT!
beautiful essay. can you please recommend some books that you used to study rhetoric?
Check the description ;)
@@Moviewise thank you friend
@@Moviewise I read the Forsyth book recently and it exposed a gaping hole in my education. When you popped "RHETORIC" across the screen, it was time for popcorn.
Amazing
Thanks
Thank you very much!
I'm a big fan of the Howard Rourke speech on the individual versus the collective in the The Fountainhead. It is Ayn Rand, but still I thought a very good speech. Liked Jimmy Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder. Lot of detailed talk explaining process and how the law works. Boring I know.
Spartacus has a nice set of little speeches that establish each character. Olivier, Ustinov and Laughton all get their moments.
Gorky Park has fewer speeches but just great pithy lines and characters.
" Corpses their faces cut off, murdered and frozen in Gorky Park. Maybe Major Pabluda this is a job for KGB." "Someday Renko this could be you."
Or " You know the KGB have better cars. " Yes But they don't always take you where you want to go, do they? "
Big Chill
Ghandi , Ben Kingsley, got a nice speech in court in South Africa, which nicely outlined a regime where Passive resistance simply wasn't going to work.
Oh and Breaker Morant was a courtroom drama with a constant argument about committing murder during the Boer war.
casablanca lot of great dialogue. I guess its less speechy.
The next video should be about the 1972 mastery that is something evil by the great Steve. A movie so great it never appears on any of those ""EVERY" Steveven Spielberg movies ranked" videos.
what are you talking about?
@@AugustGallmeyer1998 that's the point
I hear tell that is some of the German movies of the 1930s and 1940s there was speeches that moved millions of people. Those speeches are said to have changed history and destiny of the world. Of course no one likes to talk about those movies or speeches because others might find them to be evil.
To think after all that I'm going to watch the movie subbed in another language
Can I have the name of the book?
Talk about Andrei Tarkovsky!
Team America: World Police had a better speech.
Anthony Hopkins never changes the emotional level of his delivery. I disagree that this is even a good movie speech.
While I love this channel and this movie, I have to disagree. The Braveheart ‘they may take our lives’ speech stands alone. Honourable mention for the Rocky IV speech which brought down the Berlin Wall, quite the days work.
See more movies.
Ok I low-key get nervous when Moviewise don't get enough views. This is one of only 25 channels I follow, so commenting and liking on this. Keep em coming big man, you're giving us gold, gold I tell ya!