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* AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2YeH6xeXPk The bagpipes rendition of the titular song]] that closes the film (together with the main cast list) is a very emotional tune, resonating with any and every audience that hears it.
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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/AlbertFinney as Wilberforce's pastor John Newton, a penitent former slave trader turned abolitionist, who actually wrote the song AmazingFreakingGrace.
* WhamLine: [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "Tarleton, fetch my nigger."]] The cold, casual delivery of the line is bad enough, but the context makes it worse: Clarence intends to ''use him as stakes in a card game.''

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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/AlbertFinney as Wilberforce's pastor John Newton, a penitent former slave trader turned abolitionist, who actually wrote the song AmazingFreakingGrace.
* WhamLine: [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "Tarleton, fetch my nigger."]] The cold, casual delivery of the line is bad enough, but the context makes it worse: Clarence intends to ''use him as stakes in a card game.''
AmazingFreakingGrace.
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* WhamLine: [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "Tarleton, fetch my nigger."]] The cold, casual delivery of the line is bad enough, but the context makes it worse: William intends to ''use him as stakes in a card game.''

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* WhamLine: [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "Tarleton, fetch my nigger."]] The cold, casual delivery of the line is bad enough, but the context makes it worse: William Clarence intends to ''use him as stakes in a card game.''
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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/AlbertFinney as Wilberforce's pastor John Newton, a penitent former slave trader turned abolitionist, who actually wrote the song AmazingFreakingGrace.

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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/AlbertFinney as Wilberforce's pastor John Newton, a penitent former slave trader turned abolitionist, who actually wrote the song AmazingFreakingGrace.AmazingFreakingGrace.
* WhamLine: [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "Tarleton, fetch my nigger."]] The cold, casual delivery of the line is bad enough, but the context makes it worse: William intends to ''use him as stakes in a card game.''
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* HoYay: It is really easy to read the relationship between Pitt and Wilberforce as an one-sided love-story. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitt_the_younger#Personal_life Note that Pitt was probably gay in real life.]]

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* HoYay: It is really easy to read the relationship between Pitt and Wilberforce as an one-sided love-story. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitt_the_younger#Personal_life Note that Pitt was probably gay in real life.]]]]
* OneSceneWonder: Creator/AlbertFinney as Wilberforce's pastor John Newton, a penitent former slave trader turned abolitionist, who actually wrote the song AmazingFreakingGrace.
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* HoYay: It is really easy to read the relationship between Pitt and Wilberforce as an one-sided love-story. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitt_the_younger#Personal_life Note that Pitt was probably gay in real life.]]

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