12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

  • Director: Steve McQueen
  • Writer: John Ridley,Solomon Northup
  • Countries of origin: United States, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 8, 2013
  • Runtime: 2h 14min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, SDDS, Dolby Surround 7.1
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Twelve Years a Slave
  • "12 Years a Slave" is adapted from the biographical novel "12 Years a Slave" written by Solomon Northup in 1853. Directed by Steve McQueen, Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor , Michael Fassbender , Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch , Paul Franklin Dano , Paul Giamatti , Lupita Nyong'o , Sarah Paulson , Brad Pitt, etc. co-starred. The film was officially released in the United States on November 8, 2013.
    The film is about a free black man living in New York City , educated and married. Then they met two people who promised to help him find a job in Washington District of Columbia. When Solomon arrived in Washington District of Columbia, he found out that he had been abducted and kidnapped. From then on he started his Slave career. After years of hardship, he relied on a kind Canadian to help send the letter home. After a lawsuit, he regained his freedom   .
    The movie "12 Years a Slave" won the Golden Globe Awards for the best feature film at the 71st Golden Globe Awards in 2014   . At the 86th Academy Awards, "12 Years a Slave" won three awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay   .
    In September 2019, the film was selected as the "100 Best Films of the 21st Century" by the British "Guardian" and ranked second. 

    Details

    • Release date November 8, 2013
    • Filming locations Madame John's Legacy, the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment

    Box office

    Budget

    $20,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $56,671,993

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $923,715

    Gross worldwide

    $187,733,202

    Movie reviews

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    • By Franz 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      courage not to give up

      Solomon was trafficked by greedy whites and lived in slavery for 12 years, which did not kill his will to freedom. In the end God helped him and set him free.

      The biggest impression that this film gave me is that it takes a lot of courage to never give up.

      Solomon was a well-educated violinist. After being accidentally sold into slavery, the slave's life was very different from the original life. The physical abuse was riddled with abuse,...

    • By Charlene 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      Is good and evil also divided into 369 and so on?

      Twelve years as a slave is also divided into 369 grades? Yes, the various characters that appeared in Twelve Years a Slave told us that kindness is indeed divided into 369 grades. In my eyes, the biggest success of this film is that everyone's view of good and evil is vividly displayed. The actors portray the characters related to the "slave industry" under the times, whether they are kind, or dehumanize, or Good and evil are intertwined, and the highlights are vividly and vividly....

    • By Tod 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      Twelve years a slave

      The only manifestation of the 12 years that I can't feel the 12 years as a slave is at the end of the film when I see that both children have grown up so much. I thought this was a long and silent episode of crying more and more violently. Speaking of apologize, it feels as if the only tear point is no tears at once. The narrative is a little watery. Maybe in order to let the twelve-year story be told in two hours, it has to be changed to a long time span like a running...

    • By Bennett 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      Interpretation of words and images

      1. "Words" and "images" are unified

      Words and images are both separated from each other and linked to each other. Twelve Years a Slave reflects the close cooperation between "words" and "images" many times. "Yan" refers to the text symbols presented in the film. In "Twelve Years a Slave", a lot of folk songs are used, accompanied by a rapid rhythm to render the depressing and sultry atmosphere. Throughout the film, Solomon spends most of his time working on...

    • By Albertha 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      Looking back on history

      I have always believed that there are two worlds in this world.
      A world is safe, harmonious, and people yearn for freedom and abundance.
      The other world is real and equally dangerous, and anything can happen.

      They are incompatible with each other, and their distinction is both artificial and human.

      Twelve years as a slave shows a vision.

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    • By Myles 2023-09-19 02:34:43

      Like the White Mansion family, another black director who was previously talented was rubbed off by the biographical movie [Oscar] and the heavy theme [Oscar]. This one is better, the use of several soundtracks and the setting of several scenes can still be It's eye-catching, and the unreserved display of cruelty and violence is still McQueen's taste. Unfortunately, the disappearance of the sense of time and the imbalance in the depiction of deep suffering make the film lose the emotional...

    • By Jaquelin 2023-09-03 05:58:07

      The most shocking scene in this film is: the blues sung by the blacks when they were buried for the slave laborers who died suddenly. This is the chant they hum during their labor. In the play, the protagonists often pretend to be different and ignore them. Qianfan, lying down in the mud seemed like an instant, he was completely desperate and couldn't help singing, and finally realized that in the years without urgent hope, only relying on the soul to save. Why are R&B and soul touching? ?...

    • By Carmela 2023-08-19 13:20:54

      Compared with the director's previous work, "Slave" is more neat and less innovative. For me, this movie is too bland and procrastinating. I still like the Steve McQueen who made...

    • By Burdette 2023-08-10 19:58:22

      Narrative tension and character acting are excellent. But the problem...it's too much like a classical drama rather than a re-enactment of the real story that its movie scenes show. The choice of words in many character interactions goes beyond the sentence-making level of thinking that an illiterate slave may have, such as how the male protagonist and the female slave dispute how to express their sadness, and the female slave scolded the shark "Being blinded by your own covetousness" "!...

    • By Berenice 2023-07-20 17:18:32

      Sure enough, it will win an Oscar, but it's not my favorite movie. Too Right Too Tall is a safe bet, but at the expense of style and power, Nebraska is just the...

    Movie plot

    In 1841, Solomon Northup ( Qiewa Te Ejiofor ornaments ) is a carpenter and violin, with his wife and children live in Saratoga Springs, New York. Later, two white men ( played by Scott McNairly and Tyron Killam respectively ) tricked Solomon into Washington and sold him as slaves on the grounds that they offered him a chance to perform as an accompaniment in the circus.
    Solomon was renamed "Pratt", a slave who escaped from Georgia. He...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The film is the third time that starring Michael Fassbender has collaborated with Steve McQueen. The first two were "Hunger" and "Shame". McQueen only directed these three feature films at the time.
    This is the third collaboration between Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt. The first two were "Shameless Bastard" and "Black Gold Murder". Among them, "Black Gold Murder" will be released after the film.
    Tyron Killham, who plays Hamilton, is a...
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    Evaluation action

    The film "Twelve Years as a Slave" has a grand theme and values. However, director Steve McQueen made a big deal and played down the historical, sinful, and cultural background. Using a period of "magnificent" history, a film with the color of horror was filmed. At the same time, "Twelve Years as a Slave" is a very well filmed good movie. Although the film is lacking in social background and cultural meaning, the control and grasp of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Mistress Ford: [to Eliza] Something to eat and some rest; your children will soon enough be forgotten.

    • Tibeats: My name is John Tibeats, William Ford's chief carpenter. You will refer to me as Master. Mister Chapin is the overseer on this plantation. He is responsible for all of Ford's property. You too will refer to him as Master. This plantation covers many hundreds of acres, and you will traverse the Texas road between the forest site and the sawmill in double time. Any clever nigger on that path that gets a little light-footed, I will remind him that on one side men and bloodhounds patrol the border and on the other the bayou provides a hard living, with alligators and little to eat or drink that won't kill you. No slave has escaped here with his life. You're here to work niggers, so let's commence.

    • Tibeats: [singing] Nigger run, nigger flew/Nigger tore his shirt in two/Run, run, the pattyroller git you/Run nigger run, well ya better get away. That's right, like you mean it. Nigger run, run so fast/Stove his head in a hornet's nest/Run, run, the pattyroller git you/Run nigger, run, well ya bette git away/Run, nigger, run, the pattyroller git you/Run nigger run, well ya better git away/Some folks say a nigger don't steal/well I caught three in my cornfield/One had a bushel and one had a peck/and one had a rope being hung around his neck/Run nigger run/ the pattyroller git you/Run nigger run, well ya better get away/Hey, Mr. Pattyroller, don't catch me/Catch that nigger behind that tree!/Run nigger run, the pattyroller get you/Run nigger run, well ya better get away.