the story of the great movie (12 years of slave)

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. on... Hand of two crooks in 2013. 1841 and sold into slavery.

 He was put to work on plantations in Louisiana for 12 years before being released. 

The first scholarly edition of David Wilson's version of Northup's story was edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Solomon Northup.

 Supporting roles are played by Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garrett Delahunt, Paul Giamatti, Scott McNairy, Lupita Nyong'o, Adepero Odoi, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Alfre Woodard. Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 27 to August 13, 2012.

 The locations used were four historic antebellum plantations: Felicity, Bocage, Destrehan, and Magnolia. Of the four, Magnolia is the closest to the actual plantation where Northup was held captive.

12 Years a Slave received widespread critical acclaim and was named the best film of 2013 by numerous media outlets and critics, grossing over $187 million on a production budget of $22 million.

 The film received nine Academy Award nominations, winning Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley, and Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o. Winning Best Picture made McQueen the first black British producer to receive the award and the first black British director to win Best Picture.

 The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts honored it with BAFTA Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor for Ejiofor.

 Since its release, the film has been cited among the best films of the 2000s and of all time, being named the 44th best film since 2000 in a BBC poll of 177 critics in 2016.

In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” making it the ninth film to be so designated in its first year of eligibility, and the 49th Best Motion Picture Academy Award winner.

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Solomon Northup, a free African-American man born in 1841, worked as a violinist and lived with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. 

Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offered him short-term work as a musician in Washington, D.C.; Instead, they drugged Northup and turned him over to James H.

 Birch, the slave pen owner.

 Northup declared his freedom, but was brutally beaten and tortured.

He is shipped to New Orleans with other slaves, who tell him that he must adapt if he wants to survive in the South. Slave trader Theophilus Freeman gives Northup the identity of "Platt", an escaped slave from Georgia, and sells him to plantation owner William Ford. Ford loves Northup and gives him a violin.

 Tensions between Northup and farm carpenter John Tibbets explode when Northup defends himself from Tibbetts and cracks him with his whip. 

Tibbets and his men prepare to execute Northup but are stopped by the Overseer

. Northup is left on tiptoe with a noose around his neck for hours before Ford arrives and cuts him off. Northup tries to explain himself, but Ford sells him out to plantation owner Edwin Epps.

Epps, unlike Ford, is abusive and sadistic towards his slaves. 

Northup meets Patsy, Epps' favorite slave and top cotton picker. Epps regularly rapes Patsy, and his jealous wife abuses her. 

Cottonworms are destroying Epps' crops, so he rents out his slaves to his neighbor Judge Turner's farm for the season.

 Turner favors Northup and allows him to play the violin at the celebration and keep his winnings.

 Northup returns to Epps and pays white field worker and former supervisor Armsby to mail a letter to his friends in New York. Armsby takes Northup's money but betrays him. Epps interrogates Northup and threatens him, but Northup convinces him that Armsby is lying.

 Northup burns the letter. Patsy is caught by Epps going to a nearby farm to get soap, because Mrs. Epps won't let her have any. 

Epps orders Northup to whip Patsy, which he reluctantly does, but Epps demands that he hit her harder, eventually taking the whip and beating Patsy almost to death.

 Angry and remorseful for what he had done, Northup destroyed his violin.

Northup begins construction of the gazebo with Canadian worker Samuel Bass.

 Bass, citing his Christian faith, strongly opposes slavery and criticizes Epps, antagonizing him.

 Northup reveals that he has kidnapped Bass and asks for help in sending his message. Bass hesitates because of the risk but agrees. 

The local sheriff arrives, and Northup recognizes his companion as Mr. Parker, a store owner he knew in New York

. As they embrace, Epps protests vehemently and tries to stop Northup from leaving but is rebuffed. Northup bids farewell to Patsy and heads off to his freedom.

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African American historian and cultural scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was a consultant on the film. 

Scholar David Fiske, co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of Twelve Years a Slave, provided some of the material used to market the film.

Emily West, an associate professor of history at the University of Reading who specializes in the history of slavery in the United States, said she had "never seen a film that represented slavery so accurately."[19] Reviewing the film for History Extra, the website.

 “The film starkly and powerfully reveals the sights and sounds of slavery – from slaves picking cotton singing in the fields, to the cracking of whips on people’s backs,” she wrote in BBC History magazine. We also heard a lot about the ideology behind slavery. 

Professors such as William Ford and Edwin Epps, although very different in personality, used an interpretation of Christianity to justify their ownership of slaves. 

They believed that the Bible sanctioned slavery, and that it was their “Christian duty” to preach the Scriptures to their slaves.”

Scott Feinberg wrote in The Hollywood Reporter of a September 22 New York Times article that "excavated and highlighted a 1985 article by another scholar, James Olney, that questioned the 'literal truth' of specific incidents in Northup's novel and suggested that David Wilson, the white writer... To whom Northup dictated his story, he was free to embellish it to make it more effective in mobilizing public opinion against slavery.

” Olney has observed that “slave biographies,” when “read one side by side,” display “an overwhelming resemblance.” That is, although autobiography by definition denotes a unique and personal story, slave narratives offer a type of autobiography that essentially tells the same story.

 When read side by side, as in this anthology, there is clear repetition, and while this repetition allows for creativity and the shaping of a personal story, Olney says, it was equally important that slave narratives follow a form that resonates with the stories of others to create a collective picture of slavery as It existed then

. In fact, the “same” form presented in all of these unique and individual stories created a powerful and resounding message about the continuing evils of slavery and the necessity of its end.

A journal article published by Johns Hopkins University Press and written by Sam Worley states, “Northup's narrative, though famous, has often been treated as a second-rate narrative, albeit one that has an unusually interesting and involved story as well, thanks to the research he has conducted.

” Its contemporary editors, Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, are of great historical value.

Noah Berlatsky wrote in The Atlantic about a scene in McQueen's film adaptation

. Shortly after Northup was kidnapped, he was sent aboard a slave ship. A sailor tries to rape a slave girl, but is stopped by a slave.

 “The sailor stabs and kills [the male slave] without hesitation,” he wrote, noting that “this seems unlikely on the face of it — slaves are valuable, and the sailor is not the owner.”

 The scene is certainly not in the book. Berlatsky also says: “The sequence It is an attempt to provide nuance and psychological depth - to make the film's depiction of slavery 

seem more realistic. But it creates that psychological reality by interpolating an incident that is factually incorrect.”

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