{"id":3871,"date":"2012-09-10T18:25:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2012-09-10T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T00:25:01","slug":"a-teaser-for-lincoln-and-a-flashback-to-amistad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2012\/09\/a-teaser-for-lincoln-and-a-flashback-to-amistad.html","title":{"rendered":"A teaser for <i>Lincoln<\/i>, and a flashback to <i>Amistad<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"float: right; padding-left: 10px;\"><object width=\"350\" height=\"155\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oXHMPOMv_FI&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AqXiUdoKUVY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Nobody just releases trailers for movies any more; now, thanks to the <i>Twilight<\/i> franchise (and others, perhaps), we\u2019re starting to see trailers <i>for trailers<\/i> \u2014 and the latest trailer-for-a-trailer to hit the interwebs is this 44-second clip from Steven Spielberg\u2019s film about Abraham Lincoln. There\u2019s not a whole lot to comment on here, but I did think this would be as good a time as any to re-post an article I wrote for <i>Books &amp; Culture<\/i> back in 1998 on the last Spielberg movie that dealt with the Civil War, i.e. <i>Amistad<\/i> (most of which takes place about 20 years <i>before<\/i> the war, but there are some clear foreshadowings of it, and, if memory serves, the film does include a brief shot of American soldiers meeting each other on the battlefield during the epilogue). You can read that article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/1998\/03\/amistad-gives-african-americans-their-due-abolitionists-fare-less-well.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (And, wow, 1998 seems so long ago now, like it was a whole other century. Oh, wait, that\u2019s because it <i>was<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody just releases trailers for movies any more; now, thanks to the Twilight franchise (and others, perhaps), we\u2019re starting to see trailers for trailers \u2014 and the latest trailer-for-a-trailer to hit the interwebs is this 44-second clip from Steven Spielberg\u2019s film about Abraham Lincoln. There\u2019s not a whole lot to comment on here, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[216,220,209],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-amistad","tag-lincoln","tag-steven-spielberg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A teaser for Lincoln, and a flashback to Amistad<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nobody just releases trailers for movies any more; now, thanks to the Twilight franchise (and others, perhaps), we&#039;re starting to see trailers for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2012\/09\/a-teaser-for-lincoln-and-a-flashback-to-amistad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A teaser for Lincoln, and a flashback to Amistad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nobody just releases trailers for movies any more; now, thanks to the Twilight franchise (and others, perhaps), we&#039;re starting to see trailers for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2012\/09\/a-teaser-for-lincoln-and-a-flashback-to-amistad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-09-11T00:25:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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