Un drama basado en la historia real de Melvin B. Tolson, profesor del Wiley College de Texas. En 1935, inspiró a los estudiantes a formar el primer equipo de debate de la escuela, que más ta... Leer todoUn drama basado en la historia real de Melvin B. Tolson, profesor del Wiley College de Texas. En 1935, inspiró a los estudiantes a formar el primer equipo de debate de la escuela, que más tarde desafió a Harvard por el campeonato nacional.Un drama basado en la historia real de Melvin B. Tolson, profesor del Wiley College de Texas. En 1935, inspiró a los estudiantes a formar el primer equipo de debate de la escuela, que más tarde desafió a Harvard por el campeonato nacional.
- Premios
- 10 premios ganados y 10 nominaciones en total
- Helen Farmer
- (as Devyn Tyler)
- Harvard Debater #1
- (as Glen Powell Jr.)
The movie concentrates on debates, equality and social justice. These three topics are really the main points in this movie, and the actors delivers them all quite nicely. Also, Denzel continues to impress me with a stunning performance - how can he be awesome in both director and actor seats?
The main idea of this movie is you have to do what you have to do in order to do what you want to do - you have to search for truth in order for others to act truthfully.. You have to stand and speak, just like the Spartans did stand and fight, if you don't want to fail or loose being nobody..
In my country, i'm also on the debate team, so I can even take some idea's from the movie and deliver them in my speeches. The speeches were pretty strange and simple, but it was still quite entertaining to listen and to compare to our own debates. Sadly, it was nothing like the real debates in USA looks - the speaker, who started the debates, also ended it? I don't know how creators would explain it, but never ever in debate tournament team gets benefit from saying more speeches than the other team.. In "The great debaters", it happened. However, it still can be just a little plot hole as they could have just skipped the last speech.. This is not like i want to spoil something or I didn't like the movie, i just think that even perfect movies are somehow imperfect..
Still, this was only a minor misunderstanding and i liked the movie very much. It's even marvelous for me.. Story delivers to a amazing and almost worth crying ending.. So watch it in theaters, don't hold back..
- swAppp
- 22 dic 2007
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- TriviaOn December 19, 2007, Denzel Washington announced a $1 million dollar gift to Wiley College, so they could re-establish their debate team.
- ErroresIn the final debate against Harvard, James Farmer Jr. goes to the hot seat and clicks a ballpoint pen closed. The movie is set in 1935; the ballpoint pen was patented in 1938.
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James Farmer Jr.: In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow south. Not when Negroes are denied housing. Turned away from schools, hospitals. And not when we are lynched. St Augustine said, "An unjust law in no law at all.' Which means I have a right, even a duty to resist. With violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.
- Bandas sonorasMy Soul is a Witness
Performed by Alvin Youngblood Hart & Sharon Jones
Produced by G. Marq Roswell
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Arranged by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sharon Jones & G. Marq Roswell
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- The Great Debaters
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- Presupuesto
- USD 15,000,000 (estimado)
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 30,236,407
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 6,005,180
- 30 dic 2007
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 30,271,556
- Tiempo de ejecución2 horas 6 minutos
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1