COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Procedural Justice, Morgan Freeman, Melodrama
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The film is a very powerful melodrama. Provides an important avenue to sympathize with a victimized group. Presidents did not campaign on the road in 1839. Van buren is rendered as a modern politician (vain, fickle and cynical) This is done to erase the differences between the past and present so we can more easily understand it. When african sail past the american music ship. It shows the difference between the africans and americans. Was actually an establish 46 year old abolitionist lawyer. Pragmatist who wants to free the prisoners. It is a problem for the legal system to solve. He was already on board for anti-slavery. None of adams letters were used to create his character.
