That line makes me burst into tears everytime. "Now imagine she's white." They all were so focused that she's a little black girl that they forgot she was a child, no matter her skin color. And them having to imagine that she's white shows them how prejudice they are.
Now realize the author of the book based this on a real case where the races were completely swapped and notice how suddenly you no longer care about who was what race
@@sinxoveretothex it dose not matter, ALL CHILDREN DESERVE PROTECTION AND BY THE GRACE OF THE ONE ALL MIGHTY GOD ANY MAN WITH A BEETING HEART AND A SOUL MADE IN GODS IMAGE CARES TO PROTECT ALL CHILDREN OF ANY RACE!
@@tyscrollz4764why wouldn't they care? Because they're the actual racists. The only time they care about crime is when the victim is black and the perpetrator is white. Just look at the nonsense in this short. The trial is about vigilante justice. In the end, the only way the father should be acquitted is if he stumbled upon them in the act.
@@tyscrollz4764 for the same reason the author saw fit to swap the races and for the same reason the screenwriter saw fit to swap "your daughter" for "white daughter" in the script
"Soaked in their s*men" is so fucking foul. I didn't even want to type it out. The anger that it would make me feel as a human being, let alone a juror that's on the fathers case...
Matthew McConaughey is a very good actor. That’s just internet ppl being internet ppl. They’re mad bc he has an opinion they don’t like. He has opinions I don’t like too, but he’s still a great actor. 🤷♂️
In fact, if Audible just paid him to read all their books, I’d subscribe for eternity. Edit: Which, I know, has nothing to do to do with his acting skills. But I just think he has a smooth voice. Lol
One of the very best sequences in this film was when Chris Cooper was to testify against Samuel L Jackson. The prosecution figured because he was injured (accidentally) in this attack and lost his leg that he would be sympathetic towards the prosecution. When Matthew McConaughey got him to open up about how he felt about Samuel L Jackson, his response was platinum. Not only did he forgive Samuel L Jackson for what happened to him, he said that he would do the same exact thing and he hoped that those boys were burning in hell. That gives me chills and goosebumps. It proved that all the primary actors in this film are top level
@@kcbh24 Agreed!!! If there was a Mt. Rushmore for courtroom drama authors Grisham would be up there. _The Chamber, The Pelican Brief, The Client_ (just to name a few). Thankfully, Hollywood has given his novels the attention they deserve. Even Christmas with the Kranks was unexpectedly done very well
@@kcbh24 I know. It seems out of his place amongst his extensive collection of courtroom and legal dramas. But, yes, Christmas with the Kranks was based on his 2001 novel _Skipping Christmas._ Grisham said the novel was loosely based on his personal experiences
@@kcbh24 Agreed. He also wrote a very sweet book called _Playing for Pizza_ about a disgraced former NFL quarterback who ends up playing ball for a pro team in Parma, Italy. I enjoyed it.
@ReconCrusader to be fair, this movie is based on a book that takes place in the 80s. Virtue Signalling was not even a concept yet. Save the Anti-Woke BS for Sweet Baby Inc and Disney, would you kindly?
That’s one of the best movies ever made! That summation was priceless because it put the jury in the defendant’s mindset. The horror of what his daughter went through. The book is great too. Both will tear your heart apart.
It's better and worse than that. He puts the jurors in what they think is the defendant's mindset. He lets them imagine it disgusting and visual and then with one more line shows them their bias
@pamjames9077 I agree. Amazing movie and book. I read that book before it was in paperback, many years ago, and I can still remember that opening chapter. Intense is one of the few words I could say. As a writer myself, I was impressed and felt inadequate, to say the least! Amazing doesn't cover it.
Really this movie doesn’t make any sense. So the guy is on trial for a double homicide. He killed two disgusting racist rapists yes, does that absolve him of guilt? No, and any amount of passionate speeches in a courtroom wouldn’t change that for a real case.
This is one time that the director taking creative license with the source material actually makes the scene better than the source material. In the book, it's one of the jurors that supposedly tells this story in the jury room during deliberations, that's how Carl Lee goes home in the novel.
The book itself took creative liberties given it was based on a real case in which the races were reversed. Using the r*pe of a white girl by black attackers to push anti-white/pro-diversity narratives is a bit sick, no?
My girlfriend was sexually assault at 7 years old to this day it haunts her. It was her babysitter and he was sentence to life thankfully. To anyone who knows someone working mentally to feel safe from assault your not alone
I pray for your girl to one day feel free from all that haunts her.. as a survivor, tell her that even a total stranger from Arizona prays for her recovery. We got this.
Based on personal experience only. Of the women that I have come into contact with. I would guess about 40 percent have been sexually attacked in their lifetime (this is not speculation, this is them telling me). And I am a white cis male, I am not sure why they share things like this with me sometimes. But I'm not asking, so I wonder how much they share with other women who they actually trust. I have even had 2 men share their stories on the subject. (Big suprise, one was a boy scout). So yeah, if you realize it or not, there is many in your life working thru this kind of trauma.
I'm 35 years old and I saw this movie as a young teenager and this scene has stuck with me for life. I'm not joking I just thought about it 2 weeks ago because this is so horrific that this movie put a stain in my mind. I'm a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and this movie was powerful. I want justice for all victims of abuse.
I remember reading this book years ago. I was taking the bus home from work. I cried like a baby, reading how the little black girl was violated. This movie was really done well.
That's not his reaction. His reaction is because he recognizes it as the last desperate attempt from a beaten down defense attorney to appeal to a jury in a heavily racist county. By this point of the story, everyone on the defense team had been threatened, attacked, killed, and had their homes ransacked or crosses burned in their yards for defending a black man. I believe a juror or two was threatened as well. Jackson's character barely had a prayer, but he knew his attorney's last line of desperate, but powerful imagery might have some influence.
This was the movie where I realized Samuel L. Jackson was a phenomonal actor. I had seen him here or there in some great films but he stole the show with this one. When he's being questioned on the stand, we are just as riveted as the jury would be. Ever since, I would watch any movie with him in it. He doesn't pick bad movies and he goes all in for every role he takes.
He was 24 when he started acting in 1972 but he didn't start getting lead roles until the mid 90's. Being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Pulp Fiction gave him the name recognition that his talent deserved. One of the reasons his cadence is so iconic is that he's had a stutter his entire life. Speaking clearly and concisely is a practiced skill for him. He can do things with his voice that other people simply never learned to do.
@@elvispressplay7735 I was so sure the crazy pigeon guy in John Wick was Samuel L Jackson but you’re right, it’s a totally different guy 😂 Sorry Samuel…criticism that you didn’t deserve 😅 I haven’t seen it since it first came out…sorry, terrible memory on my part 😬
I swear Matthew is one of the best actors I’ve ever seen. He kills it every role he gets even wolf of Wall Street even though he was only in it for like 4 scenes
An attorney instrumentalizing the raw emotions and brood protection instincts of the jury to get a verdict in his favor out of them... Revolutionary stuff for sure. 🙄
Yes! John Grisham’s novel. “ A Time to kill.” Excellent book, excellent movie. If you haven’t read it. Do it. If you haven’t seen the movie, go rent it. You’ll never regret watching it, or reading the book. Something‘a you never forget, this is one of those times.
I saw This movie. It made me cry more for the prejudice involved than for the actual crime. Imagining the crime and the child made me sick to my stomach.
@@x3csP I doubted it. But looked it up and he's right. The author took a real life case and changed the race and outcome. In the real life case the father waited for the court system to do it's thing. Rather than avenging his daughters
@@Billy-rq9hshow does that make no sense? OP is saying that the injustice of the situation is what upset them the most, and considering the crime itself just made them feel ill
I’ve never seen anything like this in a movie so intense, no bang bang shoot up, blow up car chase, just a great story with great actors,,,, a scene that grabs you then hits like a punch in the gut….
Hence why jurors are interviewed prior to trial to ensure impartiality. If they cannot be unbiased and unprejudiced towards political affiliates, races, age groups, disabled individuals, classes or genders, they aren't allowed in the courtroom for that specific case. I do not know when they began this process, however, it had to have been in very recent decades.
This movie right here is a masterpiece, the lawyer did what he had to do, and he accomplished that,, the fact that he had to show the jury a vision of this being a white instead of a black person just broke my heart, doesn't matter what nationality a person is, we are all the same race, the human race,, WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE ARE SPIRITS HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE HERE ON EARTH, WE ARE BEING DECEIVED, HAVING US LOOK RIGHT AND LEFT AT EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT THE ENEMY.
I remember seeing this film in the theater when I was young - it was so... raw is the only word I can think of. And when he gave this speech during the film, and then said "now picture her white" - the whole theater gasped - this is just one of those films that sticks with you. So well written and well acted.
Not technically true , sometimes movies come out that are truly masterful, I've even seen some with no known actors or that are foreign films. But we are also way too critical and lack the ability to just sit back and be entertained without nit picking at every little thing. We lack imagination and the ability to say , what if. Cartoons arent even safe from judgement and that's just sad , it's a cartoon for Pete sake.
Everyone says that about whatever time they are living in and yet, 10 years from now someone is going to be giving an example of a movie from this generation and say they don’t make movies like this no more.
I'm over 60. I understand what you're getting at. I feel like there isn't a large enough market for movies to take the time to fully develop characters or not rely on gratuitous violence and huge explosions to move the plot forward. In many ways, I think that's true. But I do get pleasantly surprised, and, some years, more often than I expect. I find it's often the independent and foreign films that really raise the bar, and sometimes not. To find the best films, you have to be open to watching movie of different types. I have the same feelings about music. I'm partial to '70s rock. But there are a handful of current bands I enjoy.
The movie idealizes self-justice. The accused chose to kill two men and heavily wounded a third one in the process. He gets set free after his double-murder because the jury got manipulated emotionally by a skilled lawyer. They try to make it about race relations but in the end, they send the message that the justice system and it's rules of law don't need to care about two lost lives if a mistreated child is added to the equation.
Great movie, saw it a long time ago, also RIP to the late great Donald Sutherland who also played in this film, his son is the original main character in 24, Kiefer Sutherland (who played the vampire David in The Lost Boys, he also plays in this movie with his father too)
So many great actors in this film. And this scene… Matthew McConaughey really got me when he said; imagine she’s white.😢 You know he’s right. Not a single prosecutor would have been half as hostile towards the father if they were white.
One of the best and most heartbreaking films I’ve ever seen. I used it as inspiration for my theatre directing thesis with my cast. We needed to put ourselves in the shoes of folks in the south who weren’t like us in order to tell the story we needed to tell.
That obviously hits a serious spot, I’m 61 years old and I am white and anybody who doesn’t see anybody else as your equal they would not see it until you pointed it out. It was your daughter that had that done to them. So let’s hope we can all someday live on the same plane, it’s easy for me to say because I’m an outlaw biker and a construction worker and yes, I am White. I have never had any problem with my Cape Verde and friends my black friends because they were all friends, and since I was raised in the Catholic church and wasn’t all boy, when I say friends, I mean, we are all same in the eyes of Lord,, and anybody that doesn’t think that is true somebody will surely come and strike you down!
*_One of the most compelling arguments in any trial or any movie.. it was one that griped you deep in your soul and pulled on something tender.. that you felt deep within.. that makes you understand the Horror .. and the injustice.. and the disgusting ways people try to rationalize Sickening behavior!!_*_ Racism has tried to justify all sorts of criminality!_ And Matthew McConaughey was perfect for this! You actually believe hes doing this! Not just acting!? _Excellent writing!! _*_It hurts just right!!_*_ If only this movie could effect the change in the country _*_that it did in that court room!!??_* 🧐🤔🤨🤷🏼 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #oustanding! #MUSTsee!
Great era for movies and music…great time for art. I was graduating high school & looking toward the future, so much hope at the time. Our world is so different now… P.S. if you are a movie buff definitely take time to look up some from that time, there are some good ones 👍🏻
Just open your eyes damn. Idk how old you are this movie been around for year's now. Be glad you saw the short if you never saw the movie smh internet is something else. Get off and read and catch up on some stuff I bet it's needed.
@@midorimashintaro2092 No because the girl that had been rap*d was black, so the jury will think of a black girl, he then told them to imagine it was a white girl to show them their own prejudice.
This was a great movie. Keifer Sutherland said he wanted to play the character because it would be a memorable role; people walked up to him and spit at him after this movie came out.
@@gary9346 Possibly, but I feel like it loses the colorblind aspect of the argument (which is certainly made it stick with ME for almost 30 years) that the original version had.
One of the best closing arguments in a court ever as someone who spent my jr high and high school years in south MS after growing up as a white guy in a black neighborhood going to a black school I can say even in the late 90's early 2000s that place I'd have a better chance getting off pew pewing a sheriff in the center of town then a black man would just walking on the side walk in front a house that smells like weed.
@LazyFox69 basically I was trying to say this movie highlights just how racist that place was as a non racest white teen being dropped there getting introduced to the ends and outs of what went on even in the late 90's.
@@pjboudwin273054 people understood you perfectly fine. I try not to judge spelling or grammar. The person behind the username has a story that none of us know.
@@LazyFox69 I applaud your audacity, but if you're going to get after somebody for having poor punctuation and grammar, you should *damn well* be making sure your own comment is perfect...
I gather you haven't seen the movie, but the beginning of the monologue does provide some context. It's a trial against a black man that killed two men (who were raping his daughter). It was going unfairly simply due to the man's race and his lawyer was making the point that a fair trial and justice will never be possible until black and white people can be seen and treated the same in the eyes of the law. The line about the victim being white is because the original victim was black. If she had been white, there would've been more humanity and empathy for the victim, and empathy and understanding for the father and his crimes.
This movie and the book were based on a true story, although the background of the characters were reversed. The little girls that got hurt were really W and the perp was blk.
@tracy3418 no they hanged her by her arms I believe possibly by her feet planning to leave her to die I haven't watched it in 10yrs or so but I know they hung her and she didn't die. Its a great movie but its really dark and highlights a lot southern racism during that time.
That is one of the most powerful moments ever depicted in a movie. No matter how many times I've seen it, it still has the same impact: immediate tears and pain in the chest like it's actually my heart that's breaking.
He described what happened to the victim (a black girl) whose (black) father is on trial for killing the two white men who did it to her, in a racist southern town. They were picturing her as black because the girl it happened to was, and he was asking them to imagine her white so that they actually empathised with her and her father instead of the assumed default reaction of drrr this is the south, black man bad
The story he was telling did happen to a black girl. The lawyer is defending the girl's father, who is on trial for killing his daughter's rapists. He's asking the jury to think about how differently they would see things if the victim was a white girl instead.
Seemed so familiar... then it hit me! John Grisham, A Time to K!ll. This was his first novel. I love this man. Growing up in South Africa during apartheid, with all the dehumanization, the repeated messaging that everyone born black was automatically the worst of humanity: violent, promiscuous, dirty, dishonest, bad, illiterate, etc. etc. John Grisham showed the opposite: hard working, disciplined, dedicated, loyal, honest, intelligent, trustworthy... Hollywood carried the tropes about black people. I have therefore, steered clear of their industry and kept my head in books. I have a large collection of John Grisham's books. He, and a white man who hired me during apartheid, have jointly been my North Star. John Grisham had ubuntu. He saw the humanity in black people. To all the John Grisham's out there, thank you for your humanity.
🎬Movie: A Time to Kill
(1996)
Don't you mean - Movie: A Time to K**l (1996)??
@@muyosono
Thank you.
It's a great film.
@@muyosoim confused is that sarcasm? haha
@@mkace2198it’s a joke cause everything has to be censored on CZcams these days.
That line makes me burst into tears everytime. "Now imagine she's white." They all were so focused that she's a little black girl that they forgot she was a child, no matter her skin color. And them having to imagine that she's white shows them how prejudice they are.
Now realize the author of the book based this on a real case where the races were completely swapped and notice how suddenly you no longer care about who was what race
@@sinxoveretothexwhy wouldn’t they care? It’s a fucking child my guy doesn’t matter if they were blue or green we all should care
@@sinxoveretothex it dose not matter, ALL CHILDREN DESERVE PROTECTION AND BY THE GRACE OF THE ONE ALL MIGHTY GOD ANY MAN WITH A BEETING HEART AND A SOUL MADE IN GODS IMAGE CARES TO PROTECT ALL CHILDREN OF ANY RACE!
@@tyscrollz4764why wouldn't they care? Because they're the actual racists. The only time they care about crime is when the victim is black and the perpetrator is white.
Just look at the nonsense in this short. The trial is about vigilante justice. In the end, the only way the father should be acquitted is if he stumbled upon them in the act.
@@tyscrollz4764 for the same reason the author saw fit to swap the races and for the same reason the screenwriter saw fit to swap "your daughter" for "white daughter" in the script
"Soaked in their s*men" is so fucking foul. I didn't even want to type it out. The anger that it would make me feel as a human being, let alone a juror that's on the fathers case...
In the book, she's bloodied, bruised, and torn ro shreds, and doctors ended up declaring she'd never be able to have children.
@@kcbh24 they said that at the beginning of the movie when the parents take her to the doctors office
@@RebeccaTaylorTillery I don't remember as well because I only saw it once years ago. The book I read more than once, though, and it stuck with me.
@@kcbh24 I didn't read the book, but I thought the movie was excellent.
@@RebeccaTaylorTillery check it out one day! I will definitely watch the film again. I'm feeling nostalgic.
and people say that Mathew cant act or wus too goofy in his roles.....i felt his frustration and the look Sam had at the end hit hard 😥
Those peopled lied. Have you seen Frailty?
Oh just tell them to watch True Detective Season One. He absolutely kills it in that show.
Matthew McConaughey is a very good actor. That’s just internet ppl being internet ppl. They’re mad bc he has an opinion they don’t like. He has opinions I don’t like too, but he’s still a great actor. 🤷♂️
In fact, if Audible just paid him to read all their books, I’d subscribe for eternity.
Edit:
Which, I know, has nothing to do to do with his acting skills. But I just think he has a smooth voice. Lol
He was 🔥 in this movie. Luv this.
One of the very best sequences in this film was when Chris Cooper was to testify against Samuel L Jackson. The prosecution figured because he was injured (accidentally) in this attack and lost his leg that he would be sympathetic towards the prosecution. When Matthew McConaughey got him to open up about how he felt about Samuel L Jackson, his response was platinum. Not only did he forgive Samuel L Jackson for what happened to him, he said that he would do the same exact thing and he hoped that those boys were burning in hell. That gives me chills and goosebumps. It proved that all the primary actors in this film are top level
It only came to life because of John Grisham's excellently written novel.
@@kcbh24 Agreed!!! If there was a Mt. Rushmore for courtroom drama authors Grisham would be up there. _The Chamber, The Pelican Brief, The Client_ (just to name a few). Thankfully, Hollywood has given his novels the attention they deserve. Even Christmas with the Kranks was unexpectedly done very well
@@HummaKavula-DontVoteForStupid I had no idea he wrote the novel for Christmas with the Kranks. I'll have to check out the novel and film.
@@kcbh24 I know. It seems out of his place amongst his extensive collection of courtroom and legal dramas. But, yes, Christmas with the Kranks was based on his 2001 novel _Skipping Christmas._ Grisham said the novel was loosely based on his personal experiences
@@kcbh24 Agreed. He also wrote a very sweet book called _Playing for Pizza_ about a disgraced former NFL quarterback who ends up playing ball for a pro team in Parma, Italy. I enjoyed it.
It’s crazy all he did was repeat the crime and “Imagine the victim was white” and THATS what it took for it to click
That's because it's virtue signalling nonsense
@@ReconCrusader Justice is supposed to be the blind one, why dont you take a break?
@ReconCrusader to be fair, this movie is based on a book that takes place in the 80s. Virtue Signalling was not even a concept yet.
Save the Anti-Woke BS for Sweet Baby Inc and Disney, would you kindly?
Hollywood at work.
The line in the book is:
"... now, imagine she's *yours."*
@ReconCrusader Jesus you losers need to touch grass
That’s one of the best movies ever made! That summation was priceless because it put the jury in the defendant’s mindset. The horror of what his daughter went through. The book is great too. Both will tear your heart apart.
It's better and worse than that. He puts the jurors in what they think is the defendant's mindset. He lets them imagine it disgusting and visual and then with one more line shows them their bias
@pamjames9077 I agree. Amazing movie and book. I read that book before it was in paperback, many years ago, and I can still remember that opening chapter. Intense is one of the few words I could say. As a writer myself, I was impressed and felt inadequate, to say the least! Amazing doesn't cover it.
And peak Sandra is in it
Really this movie doesn’t make any sense. So the guy is on trial for a double homicide. He killed two disgusting racist rapists yes, does that absolve him of guilt? No, and any amount of passionate speeches in a courtroom wouldn’t change that for a real case.
@@feelinguru-vywiththepaingu9808. Those first two chapters were brutal. I had a cousin who could not read it.
This is one time that the director taking creative license with the source material actually makes the scene better than the source material. In the book, it's one of the jurors that supposedly tells this story in the jury room during deliberations, that's how Carl Lee goes home in the novel.
Definitely helped the dramatic effect by rewriting it like this. Book was fire though😅
@@skdeuce3780 I agree 100%
The book itself took creative liberties given it was based on a real case in which the races were reversed.
Using the r*pe of a white girl by black attackers to push anti-white/pro-diversity narratives is a bit sick, no?
Nah they ruined it. "Now imagine she's yours." Is so much more powerful than pathetic, typical, overdone anti white sentiment.
My girlfriend was sexually assault at 7 years old to this day it haunts her. It was her babysitter and he was sentence to life thankfully. To anyone who knows someone working mentally to feel safe from assault your not alone
Thank you🙏🏾❤ We know
I hope you and your girlfriend have a wonderful life together.
I pray for your girl to one day feel free from all that haunts her.. as a survivor, tell her that even a total stranger from Arizona prays for her recovery.
We got this.
Based on personal experience only. Of the women that I have come into contact with. I would guess about 40 percent have been sexually attacked in their lifetime (this is not speculation, this is them telling me).
And I am a white cis male, I am not sure why they share things like this with me sometimes.
But I'm not asking, so I wonder how much they share with other women who they actually trust.
I have even had 2 men share their stories on the subject. (Big suprise, one was a boy scout).
So yeah, if you realize it or not, there is many in your life working thru this kind of trauma.
It feels like I'm alone sometimes
I'm 35 years old and I saw this movie as a young teenager and this scene has stuck with me for life. I'm not joking I just thought about it 2 weeks ago because this is so horrific that this movie put a stain in my mind. I'm a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and this movie was powerful. I want justice for all victims of abuse.
I saw this in the cinema. The entire audience gasped when he delivered that line.
Hell, Matthew was crying for REAL during that bit.
@@JnEricsonx I believe it. He was perfect for this role. 👌
@@JnEricsonxhow could you not? Absolutely horrifying picture he painted.
What’s the name of the movie? So many people here are saying it’s rly good
@@Jo-er6tw A Time to Kill.
I saw this scene on TV when I was younger flipping through channels and it stuck with me for decades. Powerful moment.
RIP Donald Sutherland 😢
I loved that actor so much
His performance always stole the spotlight
Matthew McConaughey...
@@blackthorn3335 Donald Sutherland was in this movie as well and he is shown briefly during this clip. Kiefer Sutherland is in this movie too.
@@memawknowsbest4978 ah ok. Apologies then dude. I was focused on Matthew McConaughey performance and thought they meant him. 👍
That's crazy I can't believe he died this year, at the age of 88.
One of the most powerful scenes in cinema.
Topped only by:
"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!"
...and...
"My friends. You bow to no one."
Why
Jesus is Lord
@@mena94x3or the ride of the rohirram
I remember reading this book years ago. I was taking the bus home from work. I cried like a baby, reading how the little black girl was violated. This movie was really done well.
No you didn't. In the book the victim is white! You liar.
"Now imagine she's white" Samuel L Jackson looks up and said "Say what Mofo?" 😅
It's Sam Jackson. Pretty sure he's not gonna say "mofo"
That's not his reaction. His reaction is because he recognizes it as the last desperate attempt from a beaten down defense attorney to appeal to a jury in a heavily racist county. By this point of the story, everyone on the defense team had been threatened, attacked, killed, and had their homes ransacked or crosses burned in their yards for defending a black man. I believe a juror or two was threatened as well. Jackson's character barely had a prayer, but he knew his attorney's last line of desperate, but powerful imagery might have some influence.
Its because they are more sympathic for their race than any other race.
@@selkertazumi9660 It's because racists don't see other coloured people as human, hence the ability to commit & justify atrocious acts.
Context: It’s an all white jury in the south during Jim Crow .
This was the movie where I realized Samuel L. Jackson was a phenomonal actor. I had seen him here or there in some great films but he stole the show with this one. When he's being questioned on the stand, we are just as riveted as the jury would be. Ever since, I would watch any movie with him in it. He doesn't pick bad movies and he goes all in for every role he takes.
And he didn’t start acting til his 40s I believe
He’s not at his best in the John Wick movies but I agree otherwise. Fab actor on the whole
Considering he's not in the John Wick movies, I won't hold that against him...
He was 24 when he started acting in 1972 but he didn't start getting lead roles until the mid 90's. Being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Pulp Fiction gave him the name recognition that his talent deserved.
One of the reasons his cadence is so iconic is that he's had a stutter his entire life. Speaking clearly and concisely is a practiced skill for him. He can do things with his voice that other people simply never learned to do.
@@elvispressplay7735 I was so sure the crazy pigeon guy in John Wick was Samuel L Jackson but you’re right, it’s a totally different guy 😂
Sorry Samuel…criticism that you didn’t deserve 😅
I haven’t seen it since it first came out…sorry, terrible memory on my part 😬
I swear Matthew is one of the best actors I’ve ever seen. He kills it every role he gets even wolf of Wall Street even though he was only in it for like 4 scenes
This was the most impactful film I ever watched this is why Samuel Jackson and Matthew mac, are phenomenal actors
I loved this monolog. He delivered this so beautifully, and that last part was the most impactful. So good.
That was such a crazy powerful scene in this movie! I don’t know how ANYONE could have listened to this scene and not gotten teary eyed and broken up.
I think this is the first movie ever to bring a tear to my eye. That closing statement from Matthew McConaughey was phenomenal love this movie
This has always been one of the most powerful speeches in any movie I've seen.
An attorney instrumentalizing the raw emotions and brood protection instincts of the jury to get a verdict in his favor out of them... Revolutionary stuff for sure. 🙄
@@epaminon6196get over it?
Yes! John Grisham’s novel.
“ A Time to kill.” Excellent book, excellent movie. If you haven’t read it. Do it. If you haven’t seen the movie, go rent it. You’ll never regret watching it, or reading the book. Something‘a you never forget, this is one of those times.
This monolog is one of the best scenes in movie history. I'll admit McConaughey is no Peck, but this is right up there with Atticus Finch for me.
I saw This movie. It made me cry more for the prejudice involved than for the actual crime. Imagining the crime and the child made me sick to my stomach.
What? That makes no sense
You do know this is based on a book which is based on a real story in which the rapist was black and the victims were white?
tell me u're white without telling me u're white... eyeroll
@@x3csP I doubted it. But looked it up and he's right. The author took a real life case and changed the race and outcome. In the real life case the father waited for the court system to do it's thing. Rather than avenging his daughters
@@Billy-rq9hshow does that make no sense?
OP is saying that the injustice of the situation is what upset them the most, and considering the crime itself just made them feel ill
This scene is powerful, but this is a horrible edit.
Without the dramatic pause, it just falls flat.
I agree this edit is not good
Truth. Way, way more powerful in-context.
That is very true, but at least it doesn’t leave out the final sentence like so many other shorts seem to miss the punchline
I’ve never seen anything like this in a movie so intense, no bang bang shoot up, blow up car chase, just a great story with great actors,,,, a scene that grabs you then hits like a punch in the gut….
Damn that hit hard
Imagine that fairness can only happen when people are blind to their own prejudice.
Hence why jurors are interviewed prior to trial to ensure impartiality. If they cannot be unbiased and unprejudiced towards political affiliates, races, age groups, disabled individuals, classes or genders, they aren't allowed in the courtroom for that specific case. I do not know when they began this process, however, it had to have been in very recent decades.
I absolutely love this movie and this part always sends chills down my spine and tears in my eyes. Truly a moving story to watch.
Best lines in this movie 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Hands down still one of my favorite movies with Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey ❤❤❤❤
This scene always makes me tear up. So impactful and heartwrenching
I genuinely can not get through this movie without breaking down into full body sobs
you might need to see someone.
@maxthibodeau3627 You might need to check and see if YOU actually have a heart. 😱
@@jamiemiller9268the movie is heartbreaking every time I watch it. Anyone that's not moved I don't want to know them.
One of the best courtroom drama movies, hands fucking down
This movie right here is a masterpiece, the lawyer did what he had to do, and he accomplished that,, the fact that he had to show the jury a vision of this being a white instead of a black person just broke my heart, doesn't matter what nationality a person is, we are all the same race, the human race,, WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE ARE SPIRITS HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE HERE ON EARTH, WE ARE BEING DECEIVED, HAVING US LOOK RIGHT AND LEFT AT EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT THE ENEMY.
Yes we all need mercy and some accept it by believing on Jesus Christ
A fantastic movie, it's traumatizing but incredible! I'm gonna miss Donald Southerland big time! Imo one of the best actors ever
This is a great movie. Superb acting.
Excuse my language. But this movie was FUCKIN GREAT!!!
this movie was 1 of the hardest movies I have ever watched. it's really good but it's an emotional roller-coaster
I remember seeing this film in the theater when I was young - it was so... raw is the only word I can think of. And when he gave this speech during the film, and then said "now picture her white" - the whole theater gasped - this is just one of those films that sticks with you. So well written and well acted.
They don’t make movies like this anymore a classic actors sets score damn I miss those moments in cinema 😮
I’ve heard people from every generation say that. Yet somehow, someone makes a movie that tells a great story that stands the test of time.
Not technically true , sometimes movies come out that are truly masterful, I've even seen some with no known actors or that are foreign films. But we are also way too critical and lack the ability to just sit back and be entertained without nit picking at every little thing. We lack imagination and the ability to say , what if. Cartoons arent even safe from judgement and that's just sad , it's a cartoon for Pete sake.
Everyone says that about whatever time they are living in and yet, 10 years from now someone is going to be giving an example of a movie from this generation and say they don’t make movies like this no more.
I'm over 60. I understand what you're getting at. I feel like there isn't a large enough market for movies to take the time to fully develop characters or not rely on gratuitous violence and huge explosions to move the plot forward. In many ways, I think that's true. But I do get pleasantly surprised, and, some years, more often than I expect. I find it's often the independent and foreign films that really raise the bar, and sometimes not. To find the best films, you have to be open to watching movie of different types. I have the same feelings about music. I'm partial to '70s rock. But there are a handful of current bands I enjoy.
@@amitpalbains9361 Boring. What a waste of time and energy, making the point to type something like this. #LAME
Excellent movie. Great cast. Phenomenal acting.
This will ALWAYS be one of the most POWERFUL scenes in a movie! EVER! In my opinion!❤
This is when movies teach people the meaning of justice. Now you cant do the justice anymore.
The movie idealizes self-justice. The accused chose to kill two men and heavily wounded a third one in the process. He gets set free after his double-murder because the jury got manipulated emotionally by a skilled lawyer.
They try to make it about race relations but in the end, they send the message that the justice system and it's rules of law don't need to care about two lost lives if a mistreated child is added to the equation.
Black people do this everyday, whatchu talm bout?
@@epaminon6196 okay and? Lol
Great movie, saw it a long time ago, also RIP to the late great Donald Sutherland who also played in this film, his son is the original main character in 24, Kiefer Sutherland (who played the vampire David in The Lost Boys, he also plays in this movie with his father too)
So many great actors in this film. And this scene… Matthew McConaughey really got me when he said; imagine she’s white.😢
You know he’s right. Not a single prosecutor would have been half as hostile towards the father if they were white.
that's actually just cruelest most evil thing to do to anyone ever. it's not only sickening but enraging
One of the best and most heartbreaking films I’ve ever seen. I used it as inspiration for my theatre directing thesis with my cast. We needed to put ourselves in the shoes of folks in the south who weren’t like us in order to tell the story we needed to tell.
I love this movie! This movie is so impactful, and emotional.
BRILLIANT MOVIE....WATCHED A FEW WEEKS AGO ❤
That obviously hits a serious spot, I’m 61 years old and I am white and anybody who doesn’t see anybody else as your equal they would not see it until you pointed it out. It was your daughter that had that done to them. So let’s hope we can all someday live on the same plane, it’s easy for me to say because I’m an outlaw biker and a construction worker and yes, I am White. I have never had any problem with my Cape Verde and friends my black friends because they were all friends, and since I was raised in the Catholic church and wasn’t all boy, when I say friends, I mean, we are all same in the eyes of Lord,, and anybody that doesn’t think that is true somebody will surely come and strike you down!
one of the greatest movie scenes
This movie.......the casting, production, and amazing writing. Movies like this aren't made anymore
Bc they would get canceled and called racist
Obviously not. @@harleyhendrix8467
What movie is this
@@harleyhendrix8467they do make movies like this, and this movie is quite literally the opposite of racist, your comment is gibberish
I completely forgot about this movie, thank you for reminding me. I need to rewatch it asap.
*_One of the most compelling arguments in any trial or any movie.. it was one that griped you deep in your soul and pulled on something tender.. that you felt deep within.. that makes you understand the Horror .. and the injustice.. and the disgusting ways people try to rationalize Sickening behavior!!_*_ Racism has tried to justify all sorts of criminality!_ And Matthew McConaughey was perfect for this! You actually believe hes doing this! Not just acting!? _Excellent writing!! _*_It hurts just right!!_*_ If only this movie could effect the change in the country _*_that it did in that court room!!??_*
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#oustanding! #MUSTsee!
I just found out today how strong I really am listening to this man. Trauma is trauma and going back to it is never easy! 😞😭
Hopefully uou get helped
@@carylynne6574 therapy on Friday. Thanks for your concern 👍
One of the greatest movies of all time❤
Snow!???! Is that you
Such a great film! And a sad one too. Except for the great performances. You know chit like this happens even now.
One of my favorite books turned into a movie 😔😭😭😭 Wonderful portrayal 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
THIS was the Best Summation I have ever heard in my life!! 🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏼🌹😍
This movie also put Matthew McConaughey on the map of my heart!! 🌹💞
Great era for movies and music…great time for art. I was graduating high school & looking toward the future, so much hope at the time. Our world is so different now…
P.S. if you are a movie buff definitely take time to look up some from that time, there are some good ones 👍🏻
Excellent movie. Not preachy like newer movies...this is watchable again, and again.
Great book and movie. Cried my eyes out. 😢
Well Said & Illustrated !
Great quote
What is the name of the fucking movie... Im sick of these clips that never put the title anywhere
A Time to Kill. It’s a very good movie, I highly recommend it!
The title is shown in the top pinned comment
Just open your eyes damn. Idk how old you are this movie been around for year's now. Be glad you saw the short if you never saw the movie smh internet is something else. Get off and read and catch up on some stuff I bet it's needed.
Brilliant !!! ....... Thank you once again for brining the truth too light !!! .........
Remember crying when watching it many years ago
❤❤❤❤ love this movie
Love this movie. Classic.
What’s the movie name
Such a good book and movie. Makes me cry every time. This scene was powerful. Matthew did a good job.
Mathew Mc is a talented actor. I haven't seen this movie but this Clip is well done.
Great film. I weep.
This man is doing amazing job in every movie I've seen so far
This scene makes me cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SCENES IN MOVIE HISTORY!
Classic GREAT MOVIE THAT SONG COMES ON IN THAT COURT ROOM GIVES ME CHILLS!
“Now imagine she was white.”
This was the only line in any movie that made me tear up.
That's a bit worrying
Very cringe
In real life "she" was and the rapist was black but who cares
I didn't understand that part, wouldn't the white folks have imagined her to be white to begin with.
@@midorimashintaro2092 No because the girl that had been rap*d was black, so the jury will think of a black girl, he then told them to imagine it was a white girl to show them their own prejudice.
I could be wrong....but..forgot where he said imagine that's YOUR daughter
This was a great movie. Keifer Sutherland said he wanted to play the character because it would be a memorable role; people walked up to him and spit at him after this movie came out.
I love this movie, it is amazing. Super heartbreaking but so well done.
So close to the book. Except for one word. The most IMPORTANT word.
"... now, imagine she's YOURS." 😢😡
I would argue the movie edit is more powerful.
@@gary9346 Possibly, but I feel like it loses the colorblind aspect of the argument (which is certainly made it stick with ME for almost 30 years) that the original version had.
One of the best closing arguments in a court ever as someone who spent my jr high and high school years in south MS after growing up as a white guy in a black neighborhood going to a black school I can say even in the late 90's early 2000s that place I'd have a better chance getting off pew pewing a sheriff in the center of town then a black man would just walking on the side walk in front a house that smells like weed.
Stroke while reading, at least , or . Bro
@LazyFox69 sorry I never could get grammer right I write what I feel and hope people understand it knowing I'll have to apologize for my grammer.
@LazyFox69 basically I was trying to say this movie highlights just how racist that place was as a non racest white teen being dropped there getting introduced to the ends and outs of what went on even in the late 90's.
@@pjboudwin273054 people understood you perfectly fine. I try not to judge spelling or grammar. The person behind the username has a story that none of us know.
@@LazyFox69 I applaud your audacity, but if you're going to get after somebody for having poor punctuation and grammar, you should *damn well* be making sure your own comment is perfect...
Great film. This is what showed what a powerhouse Matthew McConaughey is as an actor.
This was a great movie and an awesome book.
"Now imagines shes white" hella outta context lmfao
I gather you haven't seen the movie, but the beginning of the monologue does provide some context. It's a trial against a black man that killed two men (who were raping his daughter). It was going unfairly simply due to the man's race and his lawyer was making the point that a fair trial and justice will never be possible until black and white people can be seen and treated the same in the eyes of the law. The line about the victim being white is because the original victim was black. If she had been white, there would've been more humanity and empathy for the victim, and empathy and understanding for the father and his crimes.
This movie and the book were based on a true story, although the background of the characters were reversed. The little girls that got hurt were really W and the perp was blk.
Wow hopefully all three have repented and believed in Jesus nothing sets you free like him
This was such a good, but heart-wrenching movie to sit through
All life matters no matter what color you are ,be proud of who you are, God makes beautiful colors ❤
So now we have president Snow, these last few clips have a ton of Hunger Games and Harry Potter actors
Edit: RIP Donald Sutherland
Unfortunately this little clip here just describes only a little bit of what they did to her 😢
I haven't seen this movie in years and I can still see her hanging there that scene was extremely hard to watch.
Did they kill her?
@tracy3418 no they hanged her by her arms I believe possibly by her feet planning to leave her to die I haven't watched it in 10yrs or so but I know they hung her and she didn't die. Its a great movie but its really dark and highlights a lot southern racism during that time.
@@tracy3418 no
That is one of the most powerful moments ever depicted in a movie. No matter how many times I've seen it, it still has the same impact: immediate tears and pain in the chest like it's actually my heart that's breaking.
This is one of my favorite movies!!! The actors make it so real feeling. It's hard to watch this movie and not get emotional.
they edited the content so you would not hear how evil 👺 life is in America
🎬Movie: Dazed and Confused
It's 'A Time To Kill' based on the book by John Grisham
@@corinnedews7277 Lol. Woosh!! Right over your head. Ha ha
I really love this movie and certainly this part. He is so strong in this our Matthew Mc Conaughey.
That was one hell of lawyer and legit af! The moment they all open they eyes is priceless
What does he mean "now imagine she's white"? That seems so irrelevant and also nobody was picturing a black kid
He described what happened to the victim (a black girl) whose (black) father is on trial for killing the two white men who did it to her, in a racist southern town. They were picturing her as black because the girl it happened to was, and he was asking them to imagine her white so that they actually empathised with her and her father instead of the assumed default reaction of drrr this is the south, black man bad
The story he was telling did happen to a black girl. The lawyer is defending the girl's father, who is on trial for killing his daughter's rapists. He's asking the jury to think about how differently they would see things if the victim was a white girl instead.
That‘s literally the point …
He's explaining them all that white matters
Great movie! One of my favourite performances of all the actors ❤
I loved this movie so much.
Seemed so familiar... then it hit me! John Grisham, A Time to K!ll. This was his first novel. I love this man. Growing up in South Africa during apartheid, with all the dehumanization, the repeated messaging that everyone born black was automatically the worst of humanity: violent, promiscuous, dirty, dishonest, bad, illiterate, etc. etc. John Grisham showed the opposite: hard working, disciplined, dedicated, loyal, honest, intelligent, trustworthy...
Hollywood carried the tropes about black people. I have therefore, steered clear of their industry and kept my head in books.
I have a large collection of John Grisham's books. He, and a white man who hired me during apartheid, have jointly been my North Star. John Grisham had ubuntu. He saw the humanity in black people. To all the John Grisham's out there, thank you for your humanity.