Word: franzoni
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...other words, words--lots of words. But Spielberg is up to their challenge. His handling of the long courtroom scenes is wonderfully alert to unsuspected visual and dramatic possibilities. Better still, he and the screenplay (credited to David Franzoni) are alive to the--yes--sometimes humorous, and therefore humanizing, struggles of the slaves and their would-be rescuers to surmount the language and cultural barriers that separate them. In our own age, with democracy travestied by ethnic- and interest-group politicking, the most instructive thing about Amistad may lie in its demonstration that broad principle, shrewdly advanced, can find ways...
...Chase-Riboud asked a federal judge to stop the film's release, claiming key elements were lifted from her pages. The film's screenwriter, David Franzoni, swears he never read Chase-Riboud's book, but instead used "Black Mutiny," first published in 1953 ? the rights to which Spielberg owns. The judge ruled Monday that the film would proceed at the same time as Chase-Riboud?s lawsuit...