Extended Reading
  • 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...

  • Freida 2022-03-22 09:01:12

    A good movie can replace a preaching text

    In fact, my mother has repeatedly expressed that she doesn't like black people seeing them on TV, and can't help but complain. I dragged her to watch it with me.

    This Oscar-winning movie does not overly exaggerate the sad tone of the film, which simply describes the story that happened.

    What...

12 Years a Slave 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.