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tern in its infancy: shy to set prece-
If history is indeed written by the
dents, fearful to offend the agrarian
victorious, La Amistad's rightful place
South and downright averse to take
in our national annals is long over-
up a cause as trifling as human live-
due. But consider its victors: From
stock.
their first shackled steps on these
If not for the selfish concerns of
purportedly enlightened shores,
upstart young barrister Roger
African-Americans have had to claw
Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey)
their way into places others have
and the eventual patronage by none
merely happened upon, including the
other than John Quincy Adams
history books. Leave it to Hollywood
(Anthony Hopkins), the case of the
to finally see in the 1839 Amistad
Amistad Africans would most likely
mutiny a story that can liberate us
have fallen into the hands of an over-
all.
seer.
Like the rain-swept
As history and Spielberg
gales and lightning bolts Centel; le, to right, aboli- would have it, Amistad
that illuminate its first
tionist Theodore joadson,
is allowed to be a qui-
moments of screen time, (Morgan Freeman), trans- eter story of a stolen,
Steven Spielberg's
lator Covey (Chiwetel
disenfranchised people
Amistad offers up a tale
Ejiofo7) and lawyer Roger
and the fledgling
Baldwin (Matthew
that, like trade winds
nation's dignity they
McConaughey) champion
themselves, has the
alone help restore.
the Africans' cause in
power to turn the tide.
As Joseph Cinque,
Steven Spielberg's
In 1839, some 53
the anointed leader of
"Amistad."
Africans, pried loose
the Amistad Africans,
from their native Sierra
erstwhile Herb Ritts
Leone to be cast into slavery, rose up
model Djimon Hounsou is a force to
against their Spanish slaveship cap-
be reckoned with on screen, even in
tors aboard La Amistad — and slew
those moments he shares with
but two of them.
Anthony Hopkins.
When the ill-fated ship sails into
As the aged John Quincy Adams,
harbor on Long Island Sound, the
Hopkins is a cinematic anchor, aside
legal representation that awaits the
from those scenes where his heavy-
Amistad steerage is not the honed
handed pancake makeup belies the
histrionics of a Geoffrey Fieger but
sheer grace of his acting ability.
the sleepy wanderings of a justice sys-
Pete Postlethwaite as the Amistad
Africans' prosecutor and Nigel
Susan Zweig is a West Bloomfield-
Hawthorne as the befuddled Martin
based freelance writer.
Van Buren lend sterling perfor-