Chicago 10 (film)
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| Directed by | Brett Morgen |
| Produced by | Laura Bickford William Pohlad Peter Schlessel Jeffrey Skoll Ricky Strauss Diane Weyermann |
| Written by | Brett Morgen |
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Hank Azaria Dylan Baker Nick Nolte Mark Ruffalo Roy Scheider Liev Schreiber James Urbaniak Jeffrey Wright |
| Music by | Jeff Danna |
| Edited by | Stuart Levy |
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| Distributed by | Roadside Attractions |
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $177,490 |
Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace is a 2007 American animated documentary written and directed by Brett Morgen that tells the story of the Chicago Eight. The film features the voices of Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber, James Urbaniak, and Jeffrey Wright in an animated reenactment of the trial based on transcripts and rediscovered audio recordings. It also contains archival footage of Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger, William Kunstler, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, and Leonard Weinglass, and of the protest and riot itself. The title is drawn from a quote by Rubin, who said, "Anyone who calls us the Chicago Seven is a racist. Because you're discrediting Bobby Seale. You can call us the Chicago Eight, but really we're the Chicago Ten, because our two lawyers went down with us."
In 1968, a group of protestors got together to protest the Vietnam War where their actions led to their arrest and trial.
On the eve of the Afghanistan War, director Brett Morgen was spurred to create Chicago 10 in response to what he saw as the lack of active American opposition to the war. Morgen wanted to make the anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s resonate with contemporary youth, which influenced both the film's animation style and its anachronistic soundtrack, the latter of which features modern artists such as Black Sabbath, Rage Against the Machine, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem. The animated courtroom sequences were also informed by Jerry Rubin's description of the trial as a "cartoon show."
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