Talk:Amistad (film)

message: I just quickly posted Amasted(movie), I should be back to clean it up. - Pingveno 04:10, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Posted

message: I'm not used to editing wikipedia, otherwise I would do this, but it needs to be noted that this movie is rated "R" according to the MPAA.  Thanks.Belgarion777 01:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rating 

message: The film shows Van Buren making a whistlestop campaign for re-election. This is an anachronism; the nation's railroad network was not sufficiently advanced in 1840 to allow such a tactic (although it has been noted much of the railroad network was in place between New York and New Haven, and also at various sites along the mid-Atlantic coast, so it was possible it could have been done).
Which is it? --82.69.202.14 (talk) 16:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Van Buren election campaign 

message: I think a section should be added about "Amistad" being plagiarized from Barbara Chase-Riboud's novel "Echo of Lion's", which certainly adds irony, and also illuminates the origins of the film.  The interesting thing about this plagiarism case is that it was Jackie Kennedy Onassis who gave a copy of Riboud's novel to Spielberg and that's how he first heard about it.  There's an excellent Internet site on this called Wild Realm Film Reviews:  Spielberg and Plagiarism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.122.182.221 (talk) 13:44, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case Within A Case:  :"Amistad" the movie plagiarized from book "Echo of Lions" 

message: Unsure how this should be corrected, but in the 2nd paragraph of the Summary it says, "...the Spaniards have tricked the Africans by sailing directly for the United States."  What is actually depicted: Cinqué is awake one night, looking at the stars, and notices when the stars start to cartwheel as the Spaniards turn the ship.  Cinqué takes control of the wheel and, looking at the stars, turns them back to the East.  When Cinqué wakes up the following morning, the Spaniards gesture to the rising sun stating, "Este."
The reason the ship arrives on the East coast of the U.S. (thus having traveled West) is not that the Spaniards tricked anyone, they just had no way to communicate that they were traveling against the wind and needed to tack in order to sail East, beating against the trade winds, across the Atlantic. Since I'm not sure exactly when the aforementioned scene takes place (though I'm pretty sure it happens before they run out of food) I'm not sure where in the Summary to place the corrections. Anyone out there who owns the movie and can make the corrections or at least a confirmation of when the scene takes place? Usmcrave99 (talk) 18:04, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not tricked... per se 

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message: ---The Old JacobiteThe '45,just what WP Guideline or policy is there against correcting errors?104.35.236.49 (talk) 15:20, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections of errors & 

message: Below information was tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 12:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced information 

message: There is an unsourced statement in the lead that the book is based on Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones. Yet in the credits of the film Black Munity: The revolt on the schooner Amistad by William Owens is credited as reference material. A Prof. Howard Jones is thanked, but no work of his is explicitly mentioned. I can provide a screenshot of this if asked.--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 21:34, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The movie is not solely based on Professor Jones's book. It was one of many sources used for research. He states this clearly in a December 1997 article about his visit to the set of the film. I updated the text and added the link to his article. Jamesluckard (talk) 08:10, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source material 

message: I took the time to look up the quote attributed to Morgan Freeman re: Spielberg and a particular scene:
“Well, I loved the film. I really did. I had a moment of ERR, during the killings. I thought that was a little over-wrought. But he wanted to make a point and I understood that.” (Emphasis added to “err”.)
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what Freeman meant when he used that word. I’m wondering if this might call for the use of “[sic]” after the word “err”, to indicate that the quote is accurate, and the mistake (if any) is attributable to the quoted speaker, not the author/reporter.
Thoughts? Jd.varner44 (talk) 19:45, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think "sic" would be appropriate, per WP:SIC. There's no error in the quotation here, it's just sort of odd on Freeman's part. I'm assuming our quote here matches what the source itself used. DonIago (talk) 02:24, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morgan Freeman quote… should “sic” be added? 

message: There is actually no Portuguese language in the movie. All scenes which show Portuguese slave traders show them speaking Spanish, something not unusual in Hollywood.  Knoterification (talk) 23:37, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Portuguese language