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La Amistad

Decades of Hollywood’s interpretation of our nation’s past struggles and triumphs have both aided the American people in empathizing and understanding our predecessors, as well as helping to skew our views of the reality of the past. Often times in Hollywood’s retelling of historical events, truth is manipulated by filmmakers to accommodate necessities in storytelling such as character development, plot devices and alterations that allow a story to unfold within a 2 hour time frame.
La Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg, is no exception to the rule of historical manipulation in film. Although the film successfully communicates to its audience several key themes and concerns of the era that it emulates, it ultimately fails to accurately portray several key aspects of the Amistad incident.
For instance, Roger Baldwin, A key player in the Amistad case is portrayed at the start of the film as a lawyer who cared only to take the case on the implications of......

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