Corrected entry: When Platt is seen standing on a raft and paddling down the river, there is a thick layer of green algae on top of the water. When it cuts to the overheard shot, the water appears clear. Then, when it cuts back to the shot before, the algae appears again.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
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Directed by: Steve McQueen
Starring: Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams
Factual error: In the close-up of the violin being strung, it is obvious the strings are of contemporary origin. You can see they are translucent plastic; not exactly historically accurate.
Bass: The law says you have the right to hold a n****r, but begging the law's pardon... It lies. Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
Edwin Epps: Ha!
Bass: Suppose!
Edwin Epps: That ain't a supposable case.
Bass: Because the law states that your liberties are undeniable? Because society deems it so? Laws change. Social systems crumble. Universal truths are constant. It is a fact, it is a plain fact that what is true and right is true and right for all. White and black alike.
Trivia: This was the first film from a black director to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Question: In one of the very first scenes set in one of the plantation slave huts, Solomon is struggling to sleep. He is sleeping on the floor squashed amongst many other slaves. During this scene, what looks like a white youngish woman encourages him to touch her. A little earlier we see her sitting on the porch of the slave hut eating alone whilst the slaves are eating. As far as I could tell, she doesn't appear again in the film. Who is she? Does she play a greater role in the book? Was there more of a story here that ended up on the cutting room floor?
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Correction: The three shots are Platt leaving to test his shortcut with log raft, the overhead shot is somewhere along the way, and the final shot is arriving at the destination and thus proving the labor saved with the shortcut. Not all of the swamp needs to be algae covered just because the launch and landing areas are.
Greg B