He should have started with California, which was admitted to the union in and had three representatives in the 38th Congress March to March Quotes Abraham Lincoln : It was right after the revolution, right after peace had been concluded.
Crazy credits No opening credits except for the main title. Alternate versions For international releases, an additional prologue about the Civil War was added prior to the start of the film. It mostly shows archive photos with the prologue text included in it. This was decided by the studio's marketing department in its research which realized that while many non-American audiences know of the titular character, most of them are not familiar with the war itself.
User reviews Review. Top review. A capsule of a great president and a director's increasing maturity. Daniel Day-Lewis is something of an unsung miracle; the man will come out of nowhere, select an unlikely role, knock it out of the park, then quietly crawl back into the ground for the next three or four years before repeating the same process.
He is an underrated talent most likely due to his lack of a prolific career, somewhat like director Terrence Malick. Here, Day-Lewis teams up with one of Hollywood's most prolific men, Steven Spielberg, who is coming off a stellar , where he produced both Super 8 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon and directed both The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, two acclaimed pictures.
Spielberg mans the camera in one of the most exhilarating biopics in recent memory. Lincoln is a stunning humanization and coloring-book job of American politics, shedding a light on the skepticism and grayness of the government during that time.
To simplify the story, Spielberg chooses to focus on the political interworkings of our sixteenth president's cabinet rather than the Civil War itself. It shows the long, grating process of amending the United States' constitution for the thirteenth time to abolish slavery and grant African Americans equality, and how that more than one men stood at the center of the action when the process was taking place, along with how he was incorruptibly confident that ending the practice of slavery will lead to ending the war.
While titled "Lincoln," we get several other characters with a fairly surprising amount of screen time. It could also be said that at times Abraham Lincoln is not writer Tony Kushner's who also penned Spielberg's Munich, unseen by me prime focus, as much as it is the backroom deals of the congress and the political battles and obstacles each member faced when their morals and ideology came forth in abolishing one of the most inhumane acts ever allowed in the United States.
Daniel Day-Lewis is mesmerizing here, never overplaying or shortchanging Lincoln in one of his most reliable roles yet. Here, he seems much more cinematic than his previous works, and seems to be smitten with Lincoln's character and persona as he embodies him for one-hundred and fifty minutes.
His voice is not stereotypically deep manly, and guttural as many other works have made him out to be, but reedy and poetically satisfying, boasting not much more than historical records claim. Day-Lewis is only assisted by the wealth of invaluable talent he is surrounded by, yet some of the most powerful work of his career comes out when Lincoln is reciting stories or parables to a group of bewildered, yet fascinated individuals who recall and cherish every word the man is saying.
One requirement upon seeing Lincoln is you must commit to two and a half hours of dialog and monologues from several characters about several different topics. One challenge faced by the filmmakers that is inherently difficult to overcome is the wealth of information, history, and knowledge of the period, and we see the struggle they face at attempting to sum it all up into a structured, disciplined film.
I could've seen this as an HBO ten to fifteen part miniseries, elaborating on smaller characters, extending the work of the amendment, and even showing Lincoln's impact on a still vulnerable United States. But such an action may have proved too heavy for even history buffs. With this film, there is a lot going on in terms of subtleties and there is a plethora of weight that rests on the film's script that at times makes this a challenging picture to watch. I'm reminded of my recent adventure to see the Wachowski's Cloud Atlas, and how that film was beautiful, striking, and increasingly ambitious, but also maddening and occasionally tedious.
I wouldn't so much call Lincoln maddening or tedious as I would challenging to stay in-tuned with. But that does not mean I couldn't see thousands of people emerging pleased and delighted with the film they just saw. This is a richly detailed and unsurprisingly intellectual picture that will go down as one of the greatest cinematic endeavors to ever focus on American politics.
Kushner and Spielberg have gone on to make quite possibly the best film we'll ever see about the passage of an amendment through congress and the exhausting compromises and deals that go along with the process. Finally, I must note Spielberg's top notch use of subversive elements from Lincoln's voice, to the focus of the picture from a narrative point of view, to the inevitable conclusion that still leaves us impacted and shaken.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg. StevePulaski Nov 17, FAQ 3. Why does Abraham Lincoln's voice sound so high-pitched? Did Lincoln really say his primary goal was to save the union and not end slavery? Details Edit.
It's worth noting that Lincoln will still be fighting vampires, except this time it will be at the box office. Hit the jump for a synopsis of the source material. On May 18, , William H. Seward, Salmon P. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war.
She goes to Lincoln and asks him to pardon a Confederate whom she had previously turned in to authorities. Ford has the correct physical build to portray Lincoln, but apparently the president was having a bad hair day. View two clips from When Lincoln Paid. Clip Reviews. Abraham Lincoln D. Directed by D. Griffith of Birth of a Nation fame or infamy, depending on your viewpoint , it does not portray the racism associated with Birth , which was based on the novel The Clansman.
Abraham Lincoln was one of only two talkies Griffith directed. It presents a heroic portrayal of Lincoln but in trying to tell his entire life story, it is essentially a series of vignettes. The script was written by John W. Considine, Jr. The hokey acting is on a level with that found in many films during the transition from silent to sound movies. View a clip from Abraham Lincoln : Clip Reviews. Young Mr. Directed by John Ford.
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