12 Years a Slave (2013)

Paul Giamatti: Freeman

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• Ford : [Ford is attempting to buy Eliza, who begs to allow her daughter to come too. Her son having just been sold]  How much for the little girl? You have no need for her. One so young will bring you no profit.

  Freeman : I will not sell the girl. There's heaps 'n piles of money to be made off her. She is a beauty. One of the regular bloods. None of your thick-lipped, bullet headed, cotton picking niggers.

  Ford : Her child, man. For God's sake, are you not sentimental in the least?

  Freeman : My sentimentality stretches the length of a coin. Do you want the lot, Mr. Ford, or do you pass on them all?

  Ford : I will take the ones Platt and Eliza.

• Freeman : Oren. John. Lethe. Eliza. Randall. Emily. Platt... Platt!

  [Solomon is the only one still seated. He does not respond; Freeman approaches him] 

  Freeman : You fit the description given. Why didn't you answer when called?

  Solomon Northup : My name is not Platt. My name is...

  Freeman : [slaps Solomon hard across the face]  Your name is Platt.

• Ford : What is the price for the ones Platt and Eliza?

  Freeman : A thousand for Platt; he is a nigger of talent. Seven hundred for Eliza. My fairest price.

  Ford : You will accept a note?

  Freeman : Always from you, Mr. Ford.

• Freeman : You see how fit the boy is. Like ripe fruit. He will grow into a fine beast.

  [makes Randall run and jump in place] 

  Freeman : Six hundred, and that's fair and final.

• Freeman : Put the least thought in your head. C'mon, now. Think of somethin'.