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Amazing Grace
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A 2006 Biopic on famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, and his fight to demolish Britain's slave trade, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch and Albert Finney.Not to be confused with Amazing Freaking Grace, the actual song. | |
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Unable to Cry | |
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Unable to Cry: Pastor John Newton, the blind former slave trader, is last seen dictating his memoirs/confession to a scribe, in which he gives full details of the atrocities he took part in, and tells Wilberforce that despite decades of crushing guilt, he wasn't actually able to weep until he wrote it. The Tears of Remorse he is finally able to shed are clearly a great weight off his soul. | |
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Answers to the Name of God | |
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Answers to the Name of God: The abolitionists are surprised when Lord Charles Fox walks in unexpectedly to join their side, leading to the wry exchange: | |
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Heel–Faith Turn | |
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Heel–Faith Turn: A very mild version, and Wilberforce was already against slavery beforehand, but his crusade really kicks into high gear after he finds God. Also the backstory of Wilberforce's pastor John Newton, who is shown to be very penitential about his past as a slave trader. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Although Wilberforce and Barbara initially have no interest in each other, they bond in less than a day over their common desire to see the slave trade ended. Half of this is Truth in Television: the real Barbara showed little interest in Wilberforce's politics, but he did propose to her after just eight days, and they had a close marriage until his death. | |
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Historical Hero Upgrade | |
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Historical Hero Upgrade: The real Wilberforce had more complicated views than his portrayal here might suggest, though still Fair for Its Day. Movie Wilberforce declares "I believe all men are created equal!" but the historical Wilberforce wasn't in favor of restructuring society to eliminate poverty, just in making sure the rich treated the poor fairly. | |
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Amazing Freaking Grace | |
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Amazing Freaking Grace: Wilberforce sings the title hymn in a pub, mentioning that it was written by his pastor John Newton, a reformed slave trader (adding some resonance to "a wretch like me"). | |
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Lost Him in a Card Game | |
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Lost Him in a Card Game: A polite card game turns sour when Wilberforce's opponent, the Duke of Clarence, raises the stakes by betting his new slave. Wilberforce immediately pulls out of the game in disgust. (The Duke knew perfectly well about Wilberforce's abolitionist convictions and was clearly doing it to get a rise out of him, even describing the slave pointedly with the N-word.) | |
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Engaging Conversation | |
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Engaging Conversation: William and Barbara. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Tarleton, fetch my nigger." The cold, casual delivery of the line is bad enough, but the context makes it worse: Clarence intends to use him as stakes in a card game. | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: John Newton, a former slave trader, became a staunchly religious abolitionist. He saw his ascetic life and devotion to faith as penance for his earlier acts of cruelty. | |
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Gorgeous Period Dress | |
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Gorgeous Period Dress: Courtesy of Barbara. | |
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Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone | |
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Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: William and Barbara are shoved at each other at every single possible opportunity. Neither is amused. They end up together anyway. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Charles Fox deciding to join up with the abolitionists is quite a shocker to them. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: William and Barbara. | |
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Gentleman Snarker | |
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Gentleman Snarker: Most Parliament scenes are basically a group of these having a Snarkfest Showdown. | |
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Shaming the Mob | |
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Shaming the Mob: Wilberforce wines and dines a bunch of important people on a shipdeck, complete with a fancy music quartet, and then sails them straight past the Madagascar-a slave ship. It works. | |
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Nature Lover | |
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Nature Lover: Wilberforce, after his spiritual enlightenment. | |
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Nice to the Waiter: Treats his butler more like a confidant than a servant. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: Wilberforce keeps his own disappointment and bitterness to himself, but finally bursts after a conversation with Barbara reminds him of everything that's been done to advance the abolition movement, to still no avail. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: After Wilberforce first brings out his idea he's booed out of court. The after meeting has most of his family and the Quakers; however, one of the speakers comes and joins them, William Dolben, who reveals that he's been on a slave ship as part of a journey and having witnessed the cruelty on it, he supports them, but is ashamed that he cannot do it publicly because he represents a town that thrives off it. He still helps put together the Shaming the Mob example. Fox as well, as detailed in Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
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Fiery Redhead: Barbara. | |
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Beleaguered Bureaucrat | |
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Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Wilberforce's entire struggle to abolish slavery is more or less this. Pitt tries to help out Wilberforce's cause in the House of Commons (by threatening to shoot an MP for him) but the MP more or less brushes him off. Later on, when a sick Wilberforce tries to get Pitt—now Prime Minister—to read his bill for him, Pitt says he can't openly support abolition while the revolution in France is going on. He does help out in the end, though. | |
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Ho Yay | |
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Pitt tries to help out Wilberforce's cause in the House of Commons (by threatening to shoot an MP for him) but the MP more or less brushes him off. Later on, when a sick Wilberforce tries to get Pitt—now Prime Minister—to read his bill for him, Pitt says he can't openly support abolition while the revolution in France is going on. He does help out in the end, though. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Particularly in his younger years, Wilberforce refers to his strangeness, such as sitting in the wet grass and hiding in a slave's berth, multiple times throughout the film. | |
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Tears of Remorse | |
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Tears of Remorse: See Unable to Cry below. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: Wilberforce is a bit ... extreme about having pets. | |
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Artistic License – Music | |
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Artistic License – Music: When Wilberforce sings the title song, he uses the familiar tune which was actually not paired with the text until the 19th century. Since the original tune is lost to history, that's probably a justified case. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
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Servile Snarker: Richard, Wilberforce's butler. | |
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Insult Backfire: | |
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Historical Beauty Update | |
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Historical Beauty Update: William Wilberforce◊ was, unsurprisingly, not so good-looking as Ioan Gruffudd◊. And the real Thomas Clarkson◊ was, according to nearly all his portraits, slightly overweight, while Rufus Sewell was definitely not◊. Averted with Benedict Cumberbatch, who actually does somewhat resemble William Pitt the Younger◊. | |
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