blog 8

Amistad was a great movie, I really liked it, but I wonder how historically accurate it is. I suspect that a great amount of the scenes involving the Africans in prison were fabricated, seeing as noone at the prison spoke... eh... whatever language the African's spoke, and thus would have no Idea what they were saying, and therefore couldn't have reported it. This is a shame because my favorite seen of the movie was the scene where the African with the Bible was talking to Cinque, about the pictures in the bible. It was cool that even he could recognize that Jesus was a great man, and without being able to read he managed to get the story pretty right. It was a good movie seen, but it's historical validity is highly circumspect. Another scene I liked a lot was the case set before the supreme court, which could be more accurately portrayed since most court cases have records. Of course, I doubt the presentation was really so dramatic. Being a history major I would like to look in to this case further, but seeing as I have school I don't have that much time. Anyways the movie was great, I just don't know how much of the story I believe.