Amistad (6/8) Movie CLIP - The Natural State of Mankind (1997) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) gives his opening statement to the Supreme Court addressing that the natural state of mankind is freedom.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Rico, the 152-minute drama opens with a pre-credit sequence showing Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) and the other Africans in a violent takeover of the Amistad. Captured, they are imprisoned in New England where former slave Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman), viewing the rebels as "freedom fighters," approaches property lawyer Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), who attempts to prove the Africans were "stolen goods" because they were kidnapped. Running for re-election, President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) overturns the lower court's decision in favor of the Africans. Former President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) is reluctant to become involved, but when the case moves on to the Supreme Court, Adams stirs emotions with a powerful defense. The storyline occasionally cuts away to Spain where the young Queen Isabella (Anna Paquin) plays with dolls; she later debated the Amistad case with seven U.S. presidents. The character portrayed by Morgan Freeman is a fictional composite of several historical figures. For authentic speech, the Africans speak the Mende language, subtitled during some scenes but not others.
CREDITS:
TM & © Dreamworks (1997)
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Steven Spielberg
Producers: Debbie Allen, Bob Cooper, Bonnie Curtis, Paul Deason, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Tim Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Colin Wilson
Screenwriter: David Franzoni
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And this guy did this whole speech in one take. Damn. Anthony Hopkins is one hell of an actor.
MAnuscript421 For real. I just rewatched this movie and i can't believe how natural he made the whole thing look. Such a great performance
+MAnuscript421 one of the greatest speeches ever in cinema.. however my all time favorite is Robin Williams's speech to Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting park scene.
MAnuscript421 The real speech was 8 hours
How could it be one take with 4 different camera angles?
@@BrendanWhelan They were shooting at the same time.
Keep in mind this man did this after ye already served as president. Imagine a former president doing something like this in his retirement
James John Quincy Adams had never retired from politics. He’s been around it his entire life, being the son of John Adams (lawyer, delegate, and president), and started engaging in politics at the age of 12-14 as the aid/secretary to the Ambassador of Russia (I think it was Russia). After his presidency he basically went straight to the House of Representatives and served until he died of a stroke in that room.
Kanye?
@@natalollipop_art remarkable. !!
We don't have to imagine. Such an honorable ex-president already is among us, James Earl Carter.
Keep in mind that we're usually totally okay with most of the presidents retiring after serving in office 😆
John Quincy Adams was a hell of a man, and openly did everything he could to make life difficult for the pro slave types
Not just that but he and his son spoke heavily against invading Mexico as well because they knew exactly why they wanted to take over Mexican territory.
@@victormoisesgalvan1596 And he took a young Abe Lincoln under his wing and Abe became a pallbearer at his funeral. Abe shared a lot of John Quincy's views on slavery. We have A LOT to thank the Adams family for...
One of the very best speeches in all movie history which has many poignant messages that affect all of us as human beings. Sir Anthony Hopkins has been one of my favourite actors even since I saw him in The Elephant man. One of the world's finest most versatile actors.
Anthony Hopkins did a magnificent job ! He did justice to a man who has not received his due and gave his all during his service to our country. To talk to him would be the,most enlightening experience. He knew Washington, Jefferson, Marquis de Lafayette, Hamilton, his parents John and Abigail...including Benjamin Franklin and countless others. He spoke 6 languages, graduated 2nd in his class Harvard and started as a junior. Best Secretary of State in our history....my gosh!
This speech is brilliant. I could listen to it every day.
John Quincy Adams a true lawyer much like his father John Adams.
This is to me one of the best written speech I've ever had the pleasure to listen and Anthony Hopkins nailed it
saw Amistad, the year it was released on vhs. Anthony Hopkins is legend !!
John McGee give us free goddamnit
*Sir
Hearing Sir Anthony speak in an American accent as opposed to his Welsh accent is something I just like. No real reason, his voice as John Quincy Adams is just wonderfully calming to me.
John Quincy Adams has a curl british accent since he grew up in colonial Massachusetts
Hey no offense, but I can make a positive comment about an actor’s voice in a role without someone going correcting me? Like, I’m just commenting on Anthony’s voice okay.
Sir Anthony Hopkins is a ridiculously great actor
As a character said in a different Spielberg movie….”Home is everything.”
If the founding fathers were more like John Adams we would have had more John Quincy Adams' raised by them.
The natural state of man is freedom
Amistad," like Spielberg's "Schindler's List," is about the ways good men try to work realistically within an evil system to spare a few of its victims. "Schindler's List" works better as narrative because it is about a risky deception, while "Amistad" is about the search for a truth that, if found, will be small consolation to the millions of existing slaves. As a result, the movie doesn't have the emotional charge of Spielberg's earlier film - or of "The Color Purple," which moved me to tears. What is most valuable about "Amistad" is the way it provides faces and names for its African characters, whom the movies so often make into faceless victims
Profound as it ever gets...
I get a feel of John Q Adams
Good movie but I didn’t like that they left out JQA’s involvement in the life of Perry Caravello.
i loved this movie growing up
I never realized that cinque was played by Djimon Hounsou, the same actor who played Solomon in Blood Diamond
Sadly both points of view expressed her have a measure of truth. For all of recorded history those in power have been enlarged by the labor of the masses, whether indentured servant, slave or laborer instead of those who labor for production to share equitably
And equally In the profit of their labor. All
The while they desire freedom, yearn for it. This is why people lead lives of quiet desperation now. They work 1/3-2/3 of thier life away for a few weeks of freedom a year and a sense of security that just isn’t real. This is not what God or nature designed man to do or to be.
Very true, well said
The way this is cut up ruins the scene.
Of course Captain Fitzgerald omit in his letter, that he just destroyed the trade post fortress, he was not lying when he said, The Fortress in
Siera Leon, trading slaves does not exit
(anymore)...😂😂😂....in the movie. Why build another Slave Trading Fortress?
John Quincy Adams had an IQ of 175.
Another day another work
Abraham Lincoln, all men are created equal
Benjamin franklin
Formidável...
FREEDOM.
Interesting ^^
Exactly!
cannot stand the encouraging US way with the background music. I'm going to court next week as a witness and sure as God, there'll be no trumpet
Maybe there should be...in your head. It might help keep you focused on what's at hand rather than what you're going to have for lunch.
Ron woodroof
Odin
Lucius Fox
Korath the Pursuer
King George the 3rd
Erik Selvig
Such a great guy...why didn’t you free the slaves while you were president??? Complacently is just as bad as the oppressors.
He is not a King, he is the President.. he can only enforce the laws.. not make them
@@ramans11 oh really? Tell that to Lincoln who was willing to have a civil war
@@mm4forever Lincoln didn’t start the war
Jesus loves you and he wants you to repent and to spread the word of God or
Good movie but I didn’t like that they left out JQA’s involvement in the life of Perry Caravello.