Oroonoko and Cinque

Hi guys!

I'm going to write about the movie we saw on Monday. The purpose of that post is show the parallelisms that Oroonoko has with the movie Amistad.

First of all, I'm going to inform you about the movie. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, as you may know, one of the best directors of Hollywood. The movie had its premiere in 1997. It was nominated in four different categories of the Oscar awards.

Now, I am going to compare both stories. I think Oroonoko has much to do with that movie because in a way, the story of Cinque is the same story as the Oronooko's. It is, Cinque in his tribe is quite popular, his countrymen love him and they treat him as a prince; in fact, he wears different clothes than “ordinary” people. This is the first parallelism in both stories, both characters are treated as slaves; but I think that they are not treated as “real” slaves, because Cinque is seen as one of the less hurted of his tribe and also Oroonoko in the plantation, together with Imoinda.

The second one is that some people of Cinque's tribe betray him and they capture them to be sold as a slave. This can be compared with the betrayal of the evil captain that “betrays” Oroonoko. The third similarity is the fact that both Cinque and Oroonoko try a revolt when they are treated as slaves.

To finish up, I think it was really useful because it has lots of parallelisms with Oroonoko, so we can reflect the book in the movie, that is always easier watching thing than reading it.