Um drama baseado na história verdadeira de Melvin B. Tolson, professor do Wiley College Texas. Em 1935, ele inspirou os alunos a formar a primeira equipe de debate da escola, que depois desa... Ler tudoUm drama baseado na história verdadeira de Melvin B. Tolson, professor do Wiley College Texas. Em 1935, ele inspirou os alunos a formar a primeira equipe de debate da escola, que depois desafiou Harvard no campeonato nacional.Um drama baseado na história verdadeira de Melvin B. Tolson, professor do Wiley College Texas. Em 1935, ele inspirou os alunos a formar a primeira equipe de debate da escola, que depois desafiou Harvard no campeonato nacional.
- Prêmios
- 10 vitórias e 10 indicações
- Helen Farmer
- (as Devyn Tyler)
- Harvard Debater #1
- (as Glen Powell Jr.)
Enredo
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- CuriosidadesOn December 19, 2007, Denzel Washington announced a $1 million dollar gift to Wiley College, so they could re-establish their debate team.
- Erros de gravaçãoWhen Samantha is participating in her first debate at Oklahoma City, she mentions World War I in her argument. In 1935, this war would have been referred to as the "Great War", since a World War II had not yet occurred.
- Citações
James Farmer Jr.: In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow south. Not when Negroes are denied housing. Turned away from schools, hospitals. And not when we are lynched. St Augustine said, "An unjust law in no law at all.' Which means I have a right, even a duty to resist. With violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.
- Trilhas sonorasMy Soul is a Witness
Performed by Alvin Youngblood Hart & Sharon Jones
Produced by G. Marq Roswell
Traditional
Arranged by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sharon Jones & G. Marq Roswell
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- 17 de dez. de 2007
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- O Grande Desafio
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- Orçamento
- US$ 15.000.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 30.236.407
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 6.005.180
- 30 de dez. de 2007
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 30.271.556
- Tempo de duração2 horas 6 minutos
- Mixagem de som
- Proporção
- 2.35 : 1