Amistad (3/8) Movie CLIP - Give Us Free! (1997) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Disrupting the courtroom proceedings, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) stands up to chant for freedom, over and over again he proclaims, "Give us free."

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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He cried out with the voice of generations. He spoke with the will of one people knocked down but determined to rise up.

franswasings

For me, this is one of the most powerful scenes in a movie I have witnessed.

IamYou

Djimon Hounsou deserved an Oscar nomination for this!

SachHarshan

This is certainly one of the most heart wrenching scenes in a movie.

aubreynorton

He learned the those words and the meaning of them while he was there. This scene shows intelligence

sharkboyDify

We joke about it now. I was a kid and my parents took me to see that. People started crying out loud in the theater during this scene. I don't remember much else about it.

MickyAvStickyHands

What's touching is it looks like he studied hard the speech around him for weeks in the hope of piecing together that sentence.

ianinkster

So much Symbolism in this scene. One of the most powerful scenes in Cinematic history.

KDubRollerblader

My mother took my family to see this when I was 10. I couldn’t sleep for weeks. God bless us all who have continued to survive through atrocity after atrocity.

browngirlzandra

I almost cried at this film, and im half african so like Djimon I dont have any ancestors who were slaves, but it still brings me to tears, I might have family out in the Americas I dont even know about. So much passion, films like this never get old

GoldenScorpKid

History teacher took us to see this in high school…love this movie. Very powerful

angelobosquesjr

Happy 25th anniversary, Amistad!
Released 12/10/1997!

WarrenWebber

Every time I watch this movie this scene just makes me tears run down my face. When Djimon Hounsou gets up and says, "give us us free" just so powerful because that actually happened. What hell those men must have gone through.

danrodriguez