The Hurricane Starring Denzel Washington As Rubin,...

In this paper, I am going to compare and contrast the movie The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington as Rubin â€Å"Hurricane† Carter to the handout provided for Nelson Mandela. I will begin with a critical review of the movie. The setting of the movie rotates from past to present, as the movie begin you will notice him in the ring with the middle weight champion and eventually defeat him in the first round with a knock-out. Than the movie switch to him protesting in a jail cell, 193 at Trenton State Prison, stating how he was wrongly accused for three murders and that anybody who was trying to come get him will feel the wrath of the Hurricane. The movie than revert back to the night where Rubin Carter and a young fella was wrongly accused of three murders in a well-known bar and grill, while leaving a night club. The reason they was pulled over was because the cops said they was looking for two black men in a white car. Mr. Carter than asked â€Å"any two black men would cou nt?† The movie fast forward to seven years later, approximately around 1980, where a young struggling African-American high schooler purchase his book from a book sale and is intrigued with the book because he can relate to the mishaps of Mr. Carter. The young man, Les Martin, was in housed by three Canadians who vowed to help him succeed in life and go to college. In the beginning of the book, Mr. Rubin Carter discusses his childhood and how it all started. Carter and a group of friends was playing when a