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By Steven Graydanus. \u00a0It looks like he enjoyed Lincoln<\/i><\/a>. \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0Daniel Day-Lewis seem to do a good enough job, though surprisingly, he strikes less of a \u2018Lincolness\u2019 look than I remember in others who have played the part. \u00a0Perhaps I\u2019m just cynical where\u00a0Hollywood\u00a0history is concerned, but I can\u2019t help but feel so much of this will be taking our current events and imposing them on the events around Lincoln\u2019s last years. \u00a0According to the reviews, the movie is less about Lincoln himself as it is the events leading up to the\u00a0passing of the 13th\u00a0Amendment\u00a0 \u00a0According to Graydanus, much emphasis is on the\u00a0political\u00a0wrangling needed to get\u00a0legislation\u00a0through a morally stagnant congress. \u00a0Sound familiar? \u00a0I\u2019ve often maintained that history tends to tell you more about the historian than the history being written, and I can\u2019t help but feel that this movie won\u2019t overcome that tendency. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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The late Gregory Peck as a more robust Lincoln
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Not that it would be unique. \u00a0Hollywood\u00a0has never done history well. \u00a0Only on rare\u00a0occasions\u00a0has Hollywood attempted to stand back and just tell a story. \u00a0Coppola\u00a0famously did it with his script for Patton<\/i>, avoiding the deeper controversies and refusing to take sides to advocate this position or float that view about the general. \u00a0It was noteworthy that this allowed both supporters of the war in Vietnam, and opponents of the war, to see the movie as supporting their cause. \u00a0Another good venture was the HBO series Band of Brothers<\/i>. Unlike its follow up The Pacific<\/i>, it simply took the stories told in Stephen Ambrose\u2019s book, and put them on the screen. \u00a0Of\u00a0course\u00a0some jostling of the\u00a0narrative\u00a0was in order, and being the late 20th century, copious amounts of swearing was injected. \u00a0Though due to the soldiers\u2019 own requests, the \u2018vulgar\u2019 level of sexually charged cussing was\u00a0dropped, and only one\u00a0gratuitous\u00a0sex scene added to fulfill the HBO minimum requirement. \u00a0Otherwise, if you watch the TV series and read the book, you\u2019ll be amazed at how few embellishments\u00a0were added.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sadly, most movies are far less fortunate. \u00a0From such laughable farces as Oliver Stone\u2019s various takes on history, such as JFK or Alexander the Great, to such credible undertakings as the HBO series Adams<\/i>, there are\u00a0varying\u00a0levels of not just poetic license for the sake of story telling within the medium, but outright altering the actual\u00a0events\u00a0by subtly (or in Stone\u2019s case, anything but\u00a0subtly) shifting the focus to a single issue, person, struggle, or even unsubstantiated rumor. \u00a0We\u2019ll see if that\u2019s the fate that befalls\u00a0Lincoln<\/i>, or if my suspicions might be happily\u00a0abated.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Steven Graydanus. \u00a0It looks like he enjoyed Lincoln. \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0Daniel Day-Lewis seem to do a good enough job, though surprisingly, he strikes less of a \u2018Lincolness\u2019 look than I remember in others who have played the part. \u00a0Perhaps I\u2019m just cynical where\u00a0Hollywood\u00a0history is concerned, but I can\u2019t help but feel so much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nA review of Spielberg's Lincoln<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Steven Graydanus.  It looks like he enjoyed Lincoln.  I don't know.  Daniel Day-Lewis seem to do a good enough job, though surprisingly,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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