Amistad (4/8) Movie CLIP - The Verdict (1997) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
It's a victory for Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), Theodore (Morgan Freeman), and Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard) as Judge Coglin (Jeremy Northam) rules in favor of freeing the Africans and finds the Spaniards guilty of slave trading.
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:
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Cast: Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Northam
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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1:56 what sucks is that this judge has done the right moral, ethical and legal thing, and now has to worry about his career.
Federal judges in the United States have always had life tenure, precisely so they won’t have to worry about political pressure in their rulings
@@chaseclark8867they mean that he will not be able to ascend any higher and may face a pressure campaign for his removal.
That jumping "Yes!" Mathew McConaughey does is something so out of place for the time period, yet it's never bothered me. It perfectly evokes the emotion of the moment. I believe Spielberg recognized this and that's why he left it in the final cut. The emotion of a scene sometimes transcends any technical elements.
yup, he lost part of his beard LOL
Thanks for that…it’s exactly what I thought. Spielberg is a phenomenon, but if there’s something to criticize it might be his tendency to push a scene past where he should have yelled, “Cut!” I would have yelled “Cut!” before Matthew McConaughy jumped up like he’s at the World Series watching his team win-but somehow it works here. Praise to actor and director.
@@tomassanchez6443 I went back and looked, some of facial hair is suddenly missing.
Personally, I think it's fine for small things like that to be period inaccurate. I think it just helps the movie to be more relatable to the present day without breaking the illusion of being in that time period *too* much
@@TheMaf54 There is no such thing as "time period too much" for a movie about real historical events.
That judge is a friggin HERO!
The crazy part is that he was a jacksonian Democrat in real life.
The judge was no abolitionist by any definition. The judge was very pro slavery, but understood that it was illegal to transport Africans across the ocean from their home country.
This judge didn't actually exist. They made him up for the movie...
This case was assigned to Judge Andrew Judson. But contrary to what was portrayed in the movie, President Martin Van Buren did not have Judson removed from the case. Judson was a prominent white supremacist who believed slavery should be legal. So, even if Van Buren wanted to interfere in the judicial process, he wouldn't have done so in this case. Everyone, including Van Buren, was convinced Judson would rule against Cinque and the other Africans because of his white supremacist views. To everyone's surprise, Judson ruled for Cinque, et al.
That judge has gigantic balls of solid steel!
And he was originally nominated for deciding against the case, yet he followed the common sense and law.
The interpreter: Chiwetel Ejiofor. This was his acting debut!
No he featured in deadly voyage 1992
I knew he was going to be a great actor just from his performance in this.
The verdict was more complicated than depicted in the movie (no surprise there). Lieutenant Thomas Gedney of the US Coast Guard had intercepted the Amistad in New York waters. The State of New York had abolished slavery, so Lieutenant Gedney ordered the Amistad be towed to Connecticut (where slavery was still legal) in hopes of being awarded salvage rights for the slaves. The actual judge in the Amistad case was
Andrew T. Judson, an appointee of Andrew Jackson. Judson was not an abolitionist and did not believe in racial equality in any way. His decision in favor of the captives was therefore a complete surprise. He ruled that the captives were born free and kidnapped in violation of international law and that they "shall not sigh for Africa in vain. Bloody as may be their hands, they shall yet embrace their kindred." Lieutenant Gedney's salvage claim to the Amistad was allowed, but since the "cargo" were not slaves, they had no salvage value.
No
Sounds like what you’re saying, and appears to be the case, the judge’s fidelity to the law outweighed his racism. That would have been an interesting point to convey in a movie, though it might have been more difficult to portray, compared to praying for guidance before the Cross.
@@saudade2100 sounds like he saved the day, but he was still a douchebag
Wow! That is a true judge. Locking his own personal opinions and beliefs away in favor of the rule of the law and the law only.
Yes this is complicated stuff. I don't like the thought behind this movie: "6th president good, 8th president evil".
I watched some of these scenes in history class and this one gave me chills. I felt so happy for them!
It's sad that they brought the disgusting parasite called "Christianity" with them. Christ never even existed, yet these barbaric English Christian "people" brought it to Africa.
Gross.
Great scene! God bless that judge.
*****
Absolutely correct, AOS. Let's stop it as best we can.
GB
Its based on a true story. Good movie
GOD/S ALL HIGH SHANGO AND OSHUN AND ESHU AND OLURUN AND OYA BLESS THAT JUDGE.
@Prod. Toni Awe yes I learned it sooner than I should have but yes I'm happy to learn about it the Holy-Orisas.
@Prod. Toni Awe Shango or Oshun sometimes both. Sometimes Oyä. Asé
I love that Matthew McConaughey's facial hair fell off haha great scene!
1:25 hahaha I never noticed that
Lol Damn you😒. I never noticed that before, I never WOULD have noticed it, and now I'll never be able to NOT see it.
holy crap a movie mistake and they never caught it
They could’ve fixed that in Post.
Good catch, I hadn't noticed that.
1:31 When you finished high school.
Life was better in highschool
More like after a long day’s work.
lmfao☠️☠️☠️
@@DJAntonetti agree for some people the best years of a person's life
@@DJAntonetti
Nope it wasnt
Jeremy Northam was really good in this scene.
Spielberg did a nice job directing it and the editing is superb.
One of the best scenes in the film. Amistad should have won best picture.
Or at least have been nominated for best picture.
I thoroughly agree. This remains Spielberg's most underrated film and one of the more underappreciated films in cinema history.
And let's not forget the music, by the legendary composer John Williams, whose music will forever stand the test of time. The score for Amistad was nominated for Best Original Score at the Oscars in 1997, but lost to James Horner's score for Titanic.
My favorite scene in the film. It should be mandatory viewing for all Federal, State, and Municipal Judges alike. 👨⚖️ 👩⚖️
maybe the most touching scene in the movie... This is such a great movie.
Wow to think that Chiwetel Ejiofor was just 20 in 1997 when this was shot and delivered such a stellar performance with a very near-real West African accent is truly remarkable.
And great job to all the actors and director Steven Spielberg
He's british nigerian and went home a lot in his youth, in fact his dad died in a lorry accident about 10 years before this, there is a scar on his forehead from it. But his performance at such a young age is remarkable, a sign of more to come. My moms nigerian, so I'd recognize that accent anywhere.
I'm not African but lived in Nigeria a very long time. Everybody in Nigeria, white, Spanish, Italian, German, all speak good pigin too. Nigeria is always made to be the bad place in movies, but I love Nigeria. If you get rid of corrupt leaders and nationalised oil, Nigeria would be like Dubai, and all Nigerians be rich.
😢😢😢😢@@jchan2945
This is the best scene ever.No more suffering, killing, kidnapping etc. HELLO FREEDOM!!!!!!
The chanting means, "we are going back home", in our Mende language. My grandmother used to talk about the "white" slave traders. Her own grandmother was still alive in the later days of the "trade".
Many African Americans that traces their ancestry to multiple countries now, in West Africa, is because our people were taken from different parts of the region but as slaves they came together to have children that then had children and so on.
Thank you for letting us know what they were chanting! I always wondered, and how fitting for the moment.
Not the most popular move by that judge but ethical & ballsy & satisfying it most definitely was.
Interestingly the judge was a Catholic too, and a great judge
In reality, the judge, Andrew Judson did not believe in racial equality at all.
This is but one outstanding scene in one of the greatest films ever made
Could someone be so kind as to find out what the African's we're chanting in the Mende language used in this scene?
It's so stirring.
"We are going back home"
Coming from that specific judge this was so satisfying to see
A JUDGE WHO STOOD UP AGAINST THE MOB, THE DEMOCRAT SENATE AND HOUSE AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO SERVE JUSTICE!!
Yk democrats and republicans supported opposite things that they do today before the civil rights era right? Or are you just choosing to ignore history? That’s why the triple k is Republican rn, and why, back then, they were democrat.
Actually, the Democrats at this time didn’t do anything, they actually tried to have the judge go for the slavers because the democrats at this time were generally pro-slavery.
Huh? You not take your meds, trumpfluffer? Fkkking idiot
TRUTH
The Democratic Party did not yet exist
1:58-2:00
Mr. Coglin looks so tensed. Makes me feel sad for him :(
The issue is that this is striking at the most frayed nerve in the American body politic. Only by recognizing that these people were native born Africans was this not the issue that broke the states into war. Because even the South opposed (on paper) the importation of fresh slaves from Africa.
He sacrificed his career to save these people.
Who the hell gave this scene a thumbs down ?!?
Someone needs their heads examined
Spanish representatives?
Queen Isabella's descendants.
I love how this judge was basically put there because they thought he would rule in their favor, but he followed the law and his instincts. He had only a bit part but he won the story.
I rented this movie, in the days of vhs, rewound it and immediately watched it again! 😂❤
Jeremy Northam is a goooorgeous judge.
International trade in slaves was made illegal in the entire US in 1803. The slave ship of the movie was in 1841. Slave trade was still legal in Europe. The shipment of slaves was clearly in violation of current US law. It would've made no difference if the ship docked in New York or Alabama. It was illegal.
Slavery was outlawed in Great Britain in 1833.
In 1807, the British government passed an Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade throughout the British Empire.
I think it was made illegal in the US in 1807, not 1803. And it was not legal in most European countries, but in some.
One of the best movie scenes I´ve ever seen.
Great job on acting on the parts of the Amistad kidnap victims(don't want to call them slaves, cause technically they never entered servitude, nor were they born into it). You see some who have started to learn english like Honsou, smile as they figure out what is happening, the bible guy is getting rightfully emotional. Some of the other guys are looking at eachother like "wtf is going on?!" I gotta imagine some were having a smiling wtf face when the spanish guys got arrested like "lets see how you like chains".
Jeremy Northam was really good in this.
Djimon Hounsou is so beautiful, OMG.
yeah he is pretty hot i read he dose modeling too but hes taken and has a wife (oops he might see this as nearly all movie stars have access to you tube now lol but yeah he is really cute
Yeah I know abt model career. But he is a damn good actor, too. And just a gorgeous man
wonka320 Yes he is, he has the most amazing smile.
Que filme ! Mostrou tristes realidades do povo africano!
McConaughey's beard comes off at 1:27
Judge name:Jeremy Coglin played by Jeremy Northam
God bless this Gudge
Thanks Wow Love this
fantastic!
In the face of stark oppression, when all is thought lost, there will always be a light to shine down on the recusant so they may spread it's wealth, love, faith, knowledge; charity if you will, and give way to goodness and greatness in the hearts of men.
I always wonder what he said to the the judge at 1:21 in his native tongue was it some great praise
This has to be the most "American freedom" scene in the history of cinema.
I'm looking w=for the scene where Justice Blackmun plays Justice Story.
"Senores Ruiz and Montes are under arrest by Federal Marshalls!!"
@David Koresh their Spaniards lol
@David Koresh no whiter than your neighbor
Very emotional>
It was a good court case in the colony of Connecticut
Djmoun Hounson é um ator fantástico! Esse filme é muito triste !
This is around the same time Jeremy Northam did MIMIC, but he looks so much younger in AMISTAD…how’d they work out top billing with so many great actors?
The main cast was billed alphabetically.
1:35
Translation: We are going back home.
Lieutenant Meade’s younger brother would be the one who would win at Gettysburg, did not realize that.
Justice served!
Thomas More is the MAN! :D
Powerful scene
1:30 Booyah, mama, booyay! :)
What does that mean, please tell me
Its
Booyyaa maabombuyee
@@kendallireland6825 "Booyah," and "booyay" mean "victory," I don't know who the "mama" is they're referring to.
@@yaruqadishi8326 According to Google Translate, in Somali this means "powers are irrelevant."
@@michaelbass3865 that's not what they are saying though. Its saying context freedom and thank you.
They were given them their free.
Now that's freedom! #Amastad #BlackHistoryMonth
this is unreal
can someone edit a trap beat over the chant at the end?
One thing worth noting is the American blacks in the galleries joining in the dance.
Sir Morgan FREEMAN well remembered and Denzel WASHINGTON in the film GLORY together with Robert Shaw played by Matthew Broderick ... are their true names sometimes i wondered who gave us our IDENTITY for future reference, then we are INTERCONNECTED co incidence ... hear the song of Emiko Shiratori MELODIE'S of LIFE and Joe COCKER UP WHERE WE BELONG
Keti koti, remember that day judge?
Can a judge do that, under Federal or State law? What I mean is, parties A and B are in court. In the course of trial, evidence emerges that party C may have committed some crime (slave trading). Can the judge order the arrest of party C, by extension starting criminal proceedings?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that. Maybe just not paying attention.
Yes. They have that authority.
Yes, a judge can do that. Suppose A is suing B for assault and battery. Suddenly, C confesses that he was there and also threw a kick or two in the beating. The judge can order the arrest and detention of C so they can be tried for their crimes.
We should work for no group of people force others to do anything against their will.
Some animals may be in the way, yet we should move them and let freedom be above any other law!
Then President Martin van Buren (DEMOCRAT) had to ruin the whole thing.
I wonder why these types of stories about black people, don't ever get brought up. (Popular) mmmm I wonder why🤔🤔🤔 oh I know why!
Because if the most interesting feature of a story is that the protagonists were black, it wouldn't be much of a story? This film was pretty popular in its day for an R rated film.
"Don't ever get brought up" as in a major Hollywood movie was based on the story?
Does anyone know what the Africans are chanting?
WAS ANNA PAQUIN 14 OR 15 WHEN THIS CAME.... WITCH SCENE HE WAS WITH
Boy that didn't go the way the naval officers wanted or the traders boy they looked so pale
Chris&forrest funvideos LOL!! I forgot how great this movie was too.
it is a fantastic scene... it is however inaccurate, there was no judge Coglan, he was purely fictional
Julio Mateo Yeah and I doubt you see all those "bro hugs" then either. Still a great vid and story though.
Raymond Dundys The best part was the revolt. I'd kill them too. Slavery's some evil BS!!
+Raymond Dundys This movie ain't nearly as inaccurate as Gladiator (2000).
Silva gladiator is accurate to in Rome and era too.
I love what he does but please help me who was the actor who gave that speech
Jeremy Northam
British guy, actually. Ever seen "The Net?"
The business of the slave trade should be required in high school....in all it's savagery
It was when I went through in the 90s, actually, Depictions of the inhumane conditions in the slave ships were part of my HS textbook.
I don’t get it, condemning international slave trading but selling and buying slaves nationally was a acceptable. One could argue that buying and selling is in itself a trade to receive and purchase goods in many forms.
But they were kidnapped and sold into slavery from Africa.
Free Rosa
What is the actors name??
Buya mamá buyé, buya mamábuyé, buya mamá buyé .....!!!!!!
I love my black people
Keti koti, end of slavery?,
1997 a.d. proves otherwise does it not?
VIVA LA AMISTAD.
Say No To Slavery & Peace For All🥰
This is what happens when you go home after Black Friday
You're not funny.
Say what you want about liberalism, but... this.
I thought slave trading was legal!? (back then)
whiiiiiich is why the Spaniards got arrested for it.
legal.... not illegal
ah. not in the USA. once the Spaniards were picked up by the US Navy and tried to reclaim their slaves, and it came out that those slaves were African born, they were in violation of US law
Importing slaves from Africa became illegal sometime (I think 1808) but it was still legal to trade them within the U.S.
It was legal to trade American-born slaves. It was legal to transport slaves between the states. It was not legal to import slaves from Africa, and I'm like 95% certain it was not legal to import slaves born in other slaveholding nations like Brazil or Spain.
That of course didn't mean it wasn't occasionally done in defiance of law, but the people guilty of doing so were liable for some pretty nasty penalties.
God bless America.
Anyone know that the Africans are saying? Anyone speak Mende?
Boo-yah, mama, boo-yay!
Julio Mateo "We are free and going home."? He's a great actor too. He was a slave in Gladiator then was in Blood Diamond.
Home baby, home!
My last name Ruiz what does that mean
Amistad is how exactly is how brexit going. Establishment will not accept the result
#BlackLivesMatter.
Can't believe i am saying that in 2020.
Funny .... cause Democrats accused Lincoln of being an "Activist President."
Times changed huh. Parties switched.
Asé Büyangö
Malditos
Shiiiiii
THE START OF CHRISTIAN AFRICANS...BY SINKY...
Bad bad
The first Christian nation was Ethiopia. Africa was Christian before Rome was.
Republicans would have complained this judge to be an "Activist Judge."
And, thank God for that!!!🙌 Tremendous job playing the Federal Judge
Ironically the Democrat senate pushed to have the slaves given back to Spain, and they argued they were property.
BOO-YAH BOO BOMB BOO YAY!
Its
Booyyaa maabombuyee
We are all going home!
Love the fact that it shows the Latinos as slave traders and how the Brit's were the heros who fought to end it
The British were the first white power that really realized how wrong the slave trade was. They were the first to stop themselves, and the first to try to stop the world. They deserve a lot more credit than they get as the first great white empire to really wake up and take a hard look at how it was treating people.
Of course they were still far from benevolent, just ask the Indians and South Africans. But they were the first to actually decide that what they were doing was wrong, and start a ragged, uneven, ineffective attempt to reform -- but nonetheless an attempt to reform.
Yikes.
British law forbids slavery. They even had british ships looking for slave ships.
First off all those were Spaniards
They were white Spaniards, certainly "darker" than Anglo-Saxons but definitely "white".
Catholicism for the win
Saved by The Bible
Best comedy ever
It is a shame that we do not have honest fair and just judges like this anymore.
Run
I wonder why these types of stories about black people, don't ever get brought up. (Popular) mmmm I wonder why🤔🤔🤔 oh I know why!