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12-07-2012, 01:03 PM,
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rbrugler
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RE: Spielberg's Lincoln
Saw it @ Gettysburg with 300 folks from the Lincoln Forum which included two consultants on the movie. Quite a challenging audience for the movie.
Almost to a person it was evaluated as powerful, informative & well worth seeing again. At the theater, you can not stop it to discuss the scenes. Can not wait for the DVD with Director's Cuts.
Harold Holzer & Gabor Boritt were consultants & made suggestions. Some were taken, others were not.
SEMI-SPOILER ALERT......in the movie:
1-You know who did not strike his son,
2-Mary did not sit in the gallery of the House,
3-the actor who portrayed Grant was too tall, had reddish hair & beard and was too talkative for the normally quiet General.
Robert Brugler
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12-09-2012, 06:37 PM,
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RE: Spielberg's Lincoln
Thankfully Grant was not portrayed as a boozing nincompoop
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12-10-2012, 10:21 PM,
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Sally
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RE: Spielberg's Lincoln
I loved the movie. Obviously, DDL did a great job. But I was also impressed by how much the other actors looked like the real people they were portraying. My only disappointment was the way Robert was portrayed. (I'm kind of an RTL fan.)
First, I've always read that he didn't grow a mustache until after his father's assassination. I know this is a minor point, but it seems odd to me that the producers did such a great job getting almost every other detail correct, yet this one slipped by them.
My second (minor) quibble was that Robert had a southern accent. It has also been my understanding that, in his efforts to distance himself from his father's "homespun" background, the young RTL put on the eastern airs and accent of his schoolfriends from Phillips Exeter and Harvard.
Third, as has been stated, Lincoln would NEVER have hit any of his sons. I don't know why that was put in there.
Finally, I was somewhat surprised by the intimation that Robert was conceived on the wrong side of the marriage certificate. This occurred in the scene where Mary and Lincoln are arguing over Lincoln's decision to let Robert join the army. Mary makes a comment to the effect that Lincoln never liked Robert because he was the reason he'd been roped into a marriage that made him miserable. Did anyone else get that? I suppose, since RTL was born only nine months after the wedding, they could easily have fudged his birth certificate for the sake of "decency". But wouldn't that have come out somehow? Mary had so many enemies, like Herndon. You'd think he would have loved to prove that she'd been a "fallen woman". Or did I somehow miss that in Herndon's writings?
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12-25-2012, 10:29 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: Spielberg's Lincoln
If one article could sum up the film for most people, I think this one might.
Best
Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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Spielberg's Lincoln
That's great information. It shows that Sally Field did her homework. Well, that's another to put in my "mental file" of all things Lincoln.
