Amistad: The Best of John Quincy Adams
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- The funniest and most inspirational John Quincy Adams moments from Steven Spielberg's "Amistad," starring Anthony Hopkins as JQA. If you have not yet seen this movie, I hope these clips and Hopkins' brilliant performance will convince you to do so. :)
All credit for these clips goes to Steven Spielberg, producer Debbie Allen, and everyone else involved in the making of "Amistad." I own nothing.
"If it means civil war, then let it come. And when it does, let it finally be the last battle of the American Revolution." What a line.
It was supposed to be just that. Yet, it keeps on going and going and going.
Wonder if he actually said it. Since he was on that case in court.
One of my favorite cinematic lines ever
@@9999bigb What is? The Civil War ended in 1865. It does not, in no means in the present tense, keep on going and going.
@@SStupendous The irony of this sentence in a clip of someone stating that the revolutionary war lasted far beyond its official bounds.
Hopkins captured the man perfectly, right down lurking depression that cursed him like it cursed his father, and all the agitation, impatience, crankiness, susceptibility to stress, and genius-level humor that came with it.
The man was like a pile of frayed nerves and broken synapses, and yet he could accomplish more in a day than 20 men could do in a week.
they couldn't have found a better actor to portray John Quincy Adams Anthony Hopkins did a great job
You should watch the HBO series Adams, Paul Giamati plays a great John Adams.
@@sadimasochist4543 But his son, not quite good
Amen, he's such a recognizable actor, and he was still played his role so well that it took me a while to recognize that it was him.
I STRONGLY AGREE 👍.
Sir Anthony Hopkins
I think there's a case to be made that John Quincy Adams was the last founding father. He knew every one of those men who he passed by in that hall and met pretty much everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence. He was there from the beginning, being a witness to Bunker Hill and went on to have a life that took him all across the western world. No doubt those experiences made Quincy and abolitionist.
His father was an abolitionist as well. The apple don't fall far.
He wasn't the last founding father. Just because he was a son of one doesn't make him one.
@@jasontovar1776 The last official Founder was Charles Carroll of Carrolton (Virgina). But he meant symbolically since Quincy Adams lasted until the 1840s!
@@IronMan-tk8uc I understand what he was saying but just because he was a son of a founding father doesn't mean he is one.
Last founding father, lone founding son
I just finished re-watching the HBO "John Adams" series and I have to say, these two complement one another. Giamatti's John is believable as Hopkin's John Q, and the fellow who played John Q in the HBO series is a believable transitionary actor. I love this pairing.
They do in fact compliment each other very nicely.
Agreed
Then follow it with Lincoln another Spielberg movie that take place about about 20 years after this one like this one took place 20 years after John Adams
@@jimmy2k4o 95 years of history in two actually good miniseries and a blockbuster film. Perfect. Also 3 of my favorite movies of all time, that is, of any genre. You got a damn good taste man
@@SStupendous I love movies since I was a kid. Especially long running tv shows.
I learned that history is like a long running tv show. Serial tv show with lots of characters coming and going. Plots that begin and end, spanning multiple genres, while true. Full of flawed heroes and virtuous villains.
Twists like 80 years ago the world United to defeat fascists that took over Italy, Germany and Japan then spread outwards. Now those three countries are not only Allies, but very close Allies who are loved and respected by the world for how peaceful they are.
I like how you get multiple interpretations of a historical event based on which movie or show you’re watching. I’ve see Anne Boleyn be executed at least 5 different times now.
I keep all my historical movies and tv stuff together in a crude chronological order, that way I can pretend they’re just episodes in a long series.
Best part is, the story is still going on and we’re the characters.
Not to minimize the real life horror of real events. Just because I find something interesting doesn’t mean I wouldn’t stop it if I could.
Lincoln, John Adams and amistad all had either Spielberg or Tom hanks behind the camera directing or producing.
Infact Tom Hank set up his own production company that seems to exclusively do historical movies and shows. It’s called “playtone” they’ve made things like Greyhound, Elvis, John Adams, from the earth to the moon, game change, parkland, Charlie Wilson’s war, band of brothers, the pacific. All I would recommend.
And if you want more Spielberg history movies including Tom hanks, there’s “bridge of spies” “the post” and obviously “saving private ryan”
Love the visual image of John Quincy Adams talking about the belief in summoning one ancestors for strength in impossible odds with a portrait of his father behind him.
Anthony Hopkins fuckin deserved the Oscar for his immortal role
Was going to be hard to top Robin Williams in “Good Will Hunting”.
@@jonathancarlson6127 This was better. He was robbed.
I cried.
The best person to play President Quincy Adams.
"No you're an ex-slave whose devoted his life to the abolition of slavery, and overcoming the obstacles and hardships along the way, I should imagine. That's your story, isn't it?" I love that phrase
JQA did the most good for his country before and after his Presidency.
Today's political parties can learn a lot from this great man.
The jking85 this man is the symbol of leadership
Andrew Jackson was a better president.
@Weather Brief that we can such beautiful soul
@@andrewpytko4773 Yikes, definitely not.
@@sapiensursus3034 Explain how? He was so popular Jacksonian democracy was named after him.
Hopkins and Freeman. Two of the greatest of our generation.
Freeman isn’t close to the level of Hopkins
@@TheMiistBS Freeman I'd just as great an actor as Hopkins
Fun fact: the US-Spain treaty Adams is referring to at the beginning, where he says it recognizes no jurisdictional limitations, could be the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 (by which the US acquired Florida from Spain). Of course Adams knows what the treaty says, because he NEGOTIATED it!
He got it from his father, 2nd president and founding father John Adams. He abhorred the practice of Slavery, never owned one, purchased one. He was the polar opposite of Madison who supported slavery, whereas Washington and Jefferson were benevolent slave owners..
@@justinmcclung6030 "benevolent slave owners" seems to be a somewhat delusional contradiction in terms. It took far too much time and a civil war for America to discover that.
Very true!
@@Ingens_Scherz There is no contradiction to it when you remember that they were limited by the times they lived in and the laws that existed.
@@justinmcclung6030 Washington moved his slaves in and out of Pennsylvania on a schedule so they could not claim residency in a Free State. He hunted escaped slaves with all the resources he could afford. He had his slaves whipped. Not sure we can describe him as benevolent.
between the series john adams and amistad, we get a complete picture of John quincy adams, and he's a really likable and accomplished man. a great American.
point of fact. John Quincy Adams was the son of John Adams. John Adams was the 2nd US President.
John Quincy Adams was mostly just a kid in the series. His father was its main subject.
@@Jonmad17 He did appeared as an adult (even as a full elected President during the last episode), but the focus really was on his father.
Yes, he was. And yet the spotlight went to his sadistic rival, Jackson.
But a minor POTUS, unfortunately.
If I had as many books as John Quincy had in his library, I would die a happy man.
I'm not entirely certain, but I think he inherited a lot of his collection from his father. He certainly inherited his love of reading.
@supasaiyajin jay, if you get a chance to visit the Adams family house in Quincy, Massachusetts, be sure to check out the Stone Library. It's amazing! www.nps.gov/adam/learn/historyculture/places.htm
It's never too late to get started on your own library. Hit up yard sales, library book sales, antique stores, you name it.
Sir Anthony Hopkins brought John Quincy Adams back to life and he did an excellent job doing so!!!!!
He's owned every role he ever had.
5:24 when he paused right before he said his dad's name. Son's really dont understand until your father is gone what he was trying to teach you in this world.
I like how President John Quincy Adam's was standing in front of his farther Picture. That was a good shot of view. Of President John Quincy Adams and President John Adams. John Adams got to see his son to be President of the United States.
Indeed.
I caught that. I was moved, as they were speaking of ancestors...
A brilliant performance by Hopkins. A portrayal of
Statesmanship and diplomacy. An accurate depiction of President John Quincy Adams
Sir Anthony Hopkins is a ridiculously great actor. He's even good in movies that suck. I love this movie. Spielberg is awesome
He is on a totally different level than the rest of Hollywood
The "What is their/ your STORY" scene is beautiful. The turning point of the film too.
Two of the best actors together in a film by one of my favorite directors. Morgan and Anthony have incredible performances in this picture. Very stunning.
@@Endgame707 Okay, what does that have to do with me liking Freeman and Hopkins?
I love how in the speech at the end he seems to make a kind of peace with his father.
Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams! SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
👏🏿👏🏿😁🖤🤍
What is the name of the movie?
Hearing the speech over and over across several many years, it never fails to make my hair stand on end. Brilliant, just brilliant. The story being close to truth, one can only begin to imagine the stress, the hardships, the pain, that one human can inflict on another. Never see this in animals.
In my opinion, Spielberg's finest film. I've seen it at least ten times.
Nothing short of brilliant.
The Adams are great people.
This film was so vivid, Spielberg used all/most of his mastered techniques from Schindler's List. I was so disappointed when it was not communally embraced as was "Schindler."
My favourite scene: When he orders to uncuff Cinque. And the Marshall says just "Yes, Mr. President."
NEVER contradict the President of the United States, current or former.
I live in Ghana. The warmth of the people here keep me here. I lived for close to 17 years in Africa. A joy to be among these joyful people
"may it be the last battle of The American Revolution..." God, I love that part...Amen!!! Sadly, it would seem that after 600,000 dead, we are still fighting that same battle...
My favorite lines are that who we are is who we were
JQA would not live to see the Civil War but his son Charles Francis Adams and an agent named Thomas Haines Dudley worked in Britain to keep them from recognizing the Confederacy and supplying it with ships.
"still fighting" yeah okay big guy let's just play parent black people haven't been truly free for 70 years
@@youtubecontent6394 you’re so silly bestie 🤣
@@youtubecontent6394 I have no idea what that means
Damn. He’s more of a spitting image of Adams than he is of Nixon.
I have watched this scene dozens of times and I never get tired of it. His speech to his father’s statue is very touching.❤
We missed that kind of movies so much
0:50 At first I wondered why he cried and it’s nice to see the other men trying to help him.
My favorite part is when he talks about who we are is shaped by who we were
Hopkins, one of the greatest actors ever..if not the greatest!
'Had I thought your remarks worthy of any kind of riposte, representative Pinkney, be assured you'd have heard from me hours ago.'
JQA is the hero of this film - and of the historical moment.
I think this Anthony Hopkins finest work. It was a great movie, historically and culturally rich.
John Q. Adam was a staunch abolitionist, and had much to say on the subject, including the Jefferson-Hemings liason, which I found fascinating. He didn't exactly promote as much equity as society would suggest, but he never waivered.
He was not a staunch abolitionist.
Equality before equity.
By a very large margin, JQA was the best president we have had so far.
To say he was the best president is an overstatement, but to say he was one of the wisest is not.
Absolutely. He was the most principled, the most fair, the most consistent in fighting for the human rights of people of color, and opposing war and militarism. He was an evolved and advanced thinker among a culture of brutal white Europeans who thought nothing of enslaving millions of Africans, torturing them and extracting their labor, and killing millions of Native Americans. JQA was truly a peace-loving leader. Would that the United States would have produced many more like him.
YES
@@carollipton4584 In that vein, a man ahead of his time. 💛
He was a great statesman and patriot, but his Presidency wasn't the best.
“If it means civil war…. then let it come….. cuz I’ll be dead by then.”
John Quincy Adams' words in his final address are so appropriate in today's (2021) world.
I know it is a weird but I like to think in my own way that Amistad is a sequel of sorts, to the John Adams mini series even though it was made before and technically has no relation. I like to think that JQA was thinking of the Paul Giamatti John Adams while thinking of his ancestors and giving his speech.
This came out before the John Adams miniseries
@@evannesbitt7852
Yeah. Good thing he said that in his post.
@@DarkMatterX1 still doesn't give it any logic
@@evannesbitt7852 Spiritual sequel, dum-dum.
Totally agree. As well as a spiritual predecessor to Spielberg's later film, Lincoln. He reuses similar shots and angles in that movie, and if you listen carefully, you can even hear traces of John William's Lincoln score "With Malice Toward None" in Amistad whenever JQA speaks.
'Amistad' (1997) was a great film (7.3 Imdb)
When everyone thought he was dead when he was merely bored by dull remarks 💤
MCU is most ambitious crossover
*Intellectuals:* 0:58
My morning train passes "Peacefield" on the way into Boston. JQA was our most intellectual chief executive. His presidency was ineffective but his later years as a member of the House of Representatives was remarkable in it's achievements. "Our Best Former President"
He was ineffective due to the enormous obstacles to his progressive agenda, led by Andrew Jackson, who was the antithesis of JQA- a racist and a thug who owned slaves.
@@carollipton4584 And? Andrew Jackson was thd best
He was elitist swine, Jackson put many an ass whoppins on him.
I like what Joseph Cinque said many years later, if now that he was a Christian, would he have still killed his captors or prayed for them. He said "I would have prayed for them. And then killed them."
"inasmuch as you are not guilty of the first offense, nor of the second, you shall defend your homes, families and liberties even unto bloodshed."
Joseph Smith, another great, if somewhat controversial, American thinker
Hopkins gives the best NARRATIVE DIALOGUE in anything his in!!!!
4:04 no, NO, _NO_, *_NO! NOW STOP THIS._*
Still cracks me up every time.
LOL, "Does the Commonwealth of Connecticut have any treaties with West Africa?" Individual states can't make treaties with foreign countries! Any treaties with foreign countries must be approved on the federal level by the senate! When he said that JQA really started getting irritated at his ignorance and foolishness.
@@matthewdenn314 Ignorance yes, but not foolishness. He doesn't know how Constitutional law works. He's posing very sharp questions for someone so foreign to the culture he's working in. This was the scene where Adams decided he needed to meet Cinque
Who we are is who we were...
"Another blow to Adams' presidency was his generous policy toward Native Americans. Settlers on the frontier, who were constantly seeking to move westward, cried for a more expansionist policy. When the federal government tried to assert authority on behalf of the Cherokees, the governor of Georgia took up arms...Adams defended his domestic agenda as continuing [James] Monroe's policies."
The Cherokee’s owned a large area of land in the northwest of Georgia overlapping slightly into Tennessee and Alabama. In 1828 gold was found on Cherokee land and the push to get them out was on. JQA resisted this and it was a factor in the election of November 1828. Andrew Jackson, a much more populist candidate and the last Revolutionary war veteran, defeated QA and removed the Cherokee in 1830.
I think mcconaughey’s purposely said Claudius rather than Caesar because he knew it would irk JQA so much he’d come and correct him in person.
I recently learned that I am related to John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
+Dominic Zeno Then you are a blessed man. The Adams were two of the greatest men in history.
Yet your pic is of Thomas Jefferson. Lol, I kid, I kid. That's pretty damn awesome though. How'd you find that out?
John Quincy Adams got my respect
Tom Sanders you can't be related to one and not the other - they are father and son!
Dominic Zeno what's the dark story?
Whatsoever you do unto the "least" of my brethren, that you do unto me"
@cakmi, glad you like it! It's a really gr8 speech...personally, I think it's an underrated performance in Hollywood. Thanks for the comment! :)
3:44 reminds me of my dad guiding me through my taxes for the first time
John Quincy Adams loved America.
Finally!!! Open dialogue on UA-cam without racial ignorance.
notice at 4:21 the potrait of his father over his left shoulder
Excellent little detail
This is so beautiful. God bess so many.
It would be cool if the other Adams family members had their own movie or miniseries.
@Maya Dub, there's a great miniseries from 1976 called "The Adams Chronicles" that follows the family from John Adams to his great-grandson, historian and author Henry Adams. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it! Funny enough, William Daniels, who played John Adams in the musical film "1776," plays JQA in that miniseries.
Wednesday got her own series.
Check out the HBO 7 part series on John Adams I.
Amistad Project 2020!!
IT's fun to watch Tony made up to look old then, as opposed to Tiny who really is quite old in Westworld now. He looks much healthier as the elderly himself than he did as the old Adams. He's still very strong and swift and upright. And he is 78 now, which is exactly as old as Adams was during this trial.
Better healthcare, no booze and plenty of sunshine.
4:05 When you see your son doing any fortnite dance.
Too true
Lincoln is the spiritual sequel to Amistad! 😀
now THAT is some Adams family values!
Anthony Hopkins was brilliant in this roll.
No sabéis si existe una traducción al castellano del magnífico discurso final de John Adams. Muchas gracias
The Greatest thing that our founding fathers did was see into a future they couldn't ever imagine .
Hopkins was astounding in this film - astounding
I must respectfully disagree with you on JQA's policy towards Native Americans. It does not seem he stirred up fear of them but, actually, respected them more than politicians usually did in those days:
"[Adams] refused to sign a fraudulent Indian treaty by which the Creeks were to be removed from all their lands in Georgia. But his scrupulous concern for the rights of Native Americans irritated both Southerners and Westerners."
For a white man, he was about 170 years ahead of his time. I think he was out greatest president. He supported equality and human rights and opposed racism and slavery, at a time virtually no elected official believed that. But not only did he believe this, he walked his talk. He had Cinque over to his house as a guest and treated all of the Africans with dignity and respect, as equals.
The Adamses, being much closer in time to Roger Williams, perhaps had a more immediate appreciation for the respect (and intellectual curiosity) Rev Williams had for the indigenous peoples of New England..some of whom sheltered Williams for three months when he fled Salem in January 1636.
To be fair though the Adams family were never racist to begin with it’s literally the reason why everyone hated the Adams family
FOREFATHERS a well remembered word ... almost names of Great American Presidents ... but who sent them here ... all of us a nice nice good movie worth to be remembered well especially the 16 President ... thanks
"Claudius wouldn't be born for..."
I was thinking the same exact thing
@libville, glad you liked it! Thank you for your comment! :D
No, no, JQ, when someone takes your hand like that, you slide palms across and then fist bump. He was trying to show you awesomeness and you settled for a lame handshake.
sliding palms is a big part of the JQ
This is the ending scene that people should be thinking of and referring to (Non-fiction) instead of the ending scene of "To kill a (Fiction) mockingbird".
They needed a "celebrity lawyer" to argue before the high court and for 1839 standards, they got one.....a former President
Excelente película! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
GREAT AND PERHAPS GOOD MAN ...
teşekkürler antony HAHA
One of the greatest presidents ever to lead.
part from 4:10 is epic and thank you for review of it
It's ironic that Alexander Hamilton was the most "Government" power over Individuals, and expansion of territoral gain, of all the founding fathers of USA
Yet at the same time was also the single biggest advocate of the Abolition of slavery
Also that John Adams Sr was the only other founding father who opposed slavery, yet was Hamilton's arch enemy politically and hated him completely and was also the only one of them who wanted the mass arrest of citizens for siding with France and even speaking French despite the first amendment
> yet was Hamilton’s arch enemy politically
As opposed to Jefferson, whose swearing in he skipped, and whose party he fought against his entire career?
It is quite possible to dislike a man, yet agree with his politics. Hamilton had a similar problem as Burr; they both enjoyed politics as politics, whereas the previous fashion was to make sure everyone knew that you despised politics and personal ambition (despite pursuing it with all your skill and efforts).
Awesome post. Thanks!
great writing
VERY cool that you get to pass Peacefield, I've been wanting to go to there for forever! :D And I agree, gotta
That last scene of the Chairs ....🙄
Very powerful !
Who they are , humanity restored with one question ...😭
Kinda reminds me of my grandpa.
Did you now John Quincy Adam kept a pet alligator in the White House tub.
Then who can blame him for bathing naked in the Potomac River?
0:32 I suppose he is responding to the great orator William Pinkney! I read his biography a couple of years ago. (Not even American.) :)
@ARC1313, well, lolz, it was John Quincy Adams, and though it's a matter of individual opinion, I personally believe he was. :)
Who we are is who we were. Thats America
The capital dome is wrong. It wasn't the dome that is there now.
They used the State House in Providence, Rhode Island because it was close enough and few people would notice the error. No CG to make it more authentic looking.
JQ took after both parents quite well. Especially his mom
You should go! The mansion has changed very little since JQA's time. The library built by his son Charles Francis is the only addition. JQA's desk that he used in the House of Representatives & at which he had his fatal stroke is on exhibit in the library. The famous Mendi bible is there also.
I dunno I feel that these scenes have so much of the Spielberg charm and whimsical-ness while the slave ship scenes are so graphic and f*cked up. Kind of a big contrast there stylistically I feel. I think Munich was better told by spreading out the cynicism, just my opinion though.