Things Lincoln never said

[David Lockmiller]

(02-10-2014 12:54 PM)Gene C Wrote:  

(02-10-2014 12:20 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  That's the very point that I have been trying so long to make about the "Lincoln" movie. People are going to "weight" the source of information when they have so many choices to make as to credibility on any given subject. A Spielberg movie on "Lincoln"? That will be the Gold standard. movie.

You are right. This wasn't a documentry, although many people treat it like one. He took some poetic license. Like the scene in Jurasic Park, where the dinosaur eats the lawyer who is in the outhouse. It didn't really occur the way it was portayed on the screen. He probably just used a little poetic license.
(no offense intended to you lawyers out there)

Would the meal of a dinosaur eating a lawyer who is in an outhouse be considered a "dinosaur's sandwich"?

As to whether the playwright Kushner considered the "Lincoln" movie not to be any sort of documentary, you should watch Bill Moyers interview with Kushner on the "Lincoln" movie.

Bill Moyer's specifically asked Kushner about one scene after showing a clip of the scene. It was the scene showing Mary Lincoln berating the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, for not pushing hard enough to gain passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In reply, Kushner described the scene as a "provable truth" (which would indicate a "documentary" approach rather "poetic license"). In another thread, I quoted from Professor Burlingame's book demonstrating that Kushner's "provable truth" in this instance was "provably false."