Djimon Hounsou

THE STORY: A. Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Pictures decided to take the classical story of the “Lord of the Apes” by giving it a modern makeover. The Legend of Tarzan, staring Alexander Skarsgård as John Clayton/Tarzan and Margot Robbie as Jane Clayton, recycles an old tale of the beefy white man in a loincloth saving African yet again. The movie starts in 1890, the post era of “King of the Jungle,” roughly ten years after Tarzan left the Congo. Tarzan has been re-assimilated into…

In 1839 a slave ship called the Amistad sailed from Cuba to the United States carrying a group of illegally-acquired slaves from West Africa. Amistad is the title of a movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, that tells the story of these slaves and their impact of American society. The movie opens by singling in on a man by the name of Cinque, a tribe leader. He is captured and taken to slave fortress from where he is them transferred onto a slave ship. Cinque leads a mutiny to take over the ship…