12 Years a Slave movie 2013
Category: Biography, Drama, History
Starring:Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender,
Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul
Giamatti,
Lupita Nyong'o, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard,
Quvenzhané Wallis,
Ruth Negga, Sarah Paulson,
Scoot McNairy, Garret Dillahunt, Michael
Kenneth Williams
Director:Steve McQueen
Screenplay:John Ridley
Studio:Fox Searchlight Pictures
Plot
In 1841, Solomon Northup (Chiwitel Ejiofor) is a free negro living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. He makes his living as a skilled carpenter and fiddle player. One day he is lured by a pair of men (Scoot McNairy and Taran Killam) into a lucrative touring gig with a circus. After a night out drinking in Washington, D.C., with the two men, Northup awakens to find himself chained to a floor, eventually realizing he has been drugged and will be sold into slavery.
Northup is transported by ship to New Orleans, where he is called by the name "Platt", the identity of a runaway slave from Georgia. He is beaten to force him to conceal his identity as a free man and keep the name Platt, and is ultimately purchased by plantation owner William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch). Enduring his new life, Northup stays on good terms with Ford, who turns out to be a relatively benevolent master; Northup assists him by engineering a waterway for transporting logs swiftly and cost-effectively downstream. As Northup's ability as a musician was noted at the slave market, Ford presents him with a violin in gratitude. Racist carpenter John Tibeats (Paul Dano) resents and hates Northup for his intelligence and closeness with Ford and begins verbally harassing him.
Eventually the tensions between Tibeats and "Platt" reach a boiling point, when Tibeats attempts to beat Northup and Northup fights back. In retaliation, Tibeats and his friends try to lynch Northup by hanging him, leading to Ford's selling Northup away, to protect him from Tibeats, to Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), a cruel planter who believes his right to abuse his slaves is biblically sanctioned. Before being sent to Epps, Northup attempts to reason with Ford, stating he is in fact a free man. Ford states that he cannot hear it and responds "he has a debt to pay" on Northup's purchase price. Ford also tells him that he thinks Northup is a good person, but it wouldn't do him any good.
Northup's first task at the Epps plantation is to pick cotton during the harvest. Everyone is expected to pick at least 200 pounds each day or be beaten. A young female slave named Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o), however, picks over 500 pounds daily. Epps' wife (Sarah Paulson) is extremely jealous of the attention Epps lavishes on Patsey and physically abuses her, but his attentions also include repeated rape of the slave girl.
The slaves care for each other whenever one or more is beaten. One day, an old man dies in the cotton field and the slaves bury and hold a funeral for him in the slave cemetery. They start singing a spiritual and Northup slowly joins in, finding strength in the music.
Epps eventually decides that a recent outbreak of cotton worm in the fields is a plague sent by God and brought to his plantation by his new slaves. He leases them to a neighboring plantation for the season while his crops recover, but warns them not to bring any more plagues onto his friend's property. While there, Northup gains the favor of the plantation's owner, who asks him to play the fiddle at his friends' wedding anniversary celebration and lets him keep his earnings from the event.
When Northup returns to the Epps plantation, he attempts to use these earnings to pay a white field hand and former overseer (Garret Dillahunt) to mail a letter to his friends in New York. The field hand agrees to deliver the letter and takes the money, but betrays Northup to Epps. Northup is narrowly able to convince Epps that the story is a lie. Northup then tearfully burns the letter, which represented his only hope of freedom.
Patsey's abuse progressively worsens as Epps continues to force himself on her, while his wife becomes increasingly jealous. She tries to kill herself and asks Northup to help her do it, but Northup refuses. One day, Epps becomes enraged after discovering Patsey missing from his plantation. When she returns, she reveals she was only gone to obtain a bar of soap; however, he orders her stripped and tied to a post. Egged on by his wife, Epps forces Northup to whip Patsey. Northup reluctantly obeys, but Epps eventually becomes frustrated, takes the whip away from Northup, and savagely lashes her. Shaken and distraught by what had happened, Northup accidentally snaps one of the strings on his violin but proceeds to tear the violin to pieces in tears.
As Patsey heals, Northup begins working on the construction of a pavilion with a Canadian laborer named Bass (Brad Pitt). Bass earns Epps' displeasure by expressing his opposition to slavery, but this convinces Northup to confide in Bass about his life and kidnapping. Once again, Northup asks for help in getting a letter to Saratoga Springs. Bass risks his life in taking such action in the South but agrees to do so.
While working in the fields one day to break dirt for planting, Northup is called out by the local sheriff, who arrives in a carriage with another man. Inquiring about Northup's past life, the sheriff asks a series of questions to match him to the facts of his life in New York. Northup recognizes the sheriff's companion as a shopkeeper named Parker (Rob Steinberg) he knows from Saratoga and realizes the man has come to free him; the two embrace. Though Epps resists and Patsey is distraught, Northup leaves immediately. After being enslaved for 12 years, Northup is restored to freedom and returned to his family, which now includes his son-in-law and grandson named Solomon. Endnotes recount the inability of Northup and his legal counsel to prosecute the men responsible for his being sold into slavery, as well as the mystery surrounding unknown details of his death and burial.
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