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"Lincoln" legal mistake
03-02-2013, 04:07 PM
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RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake
History is the known record of human events. An historical film is the dramatization of historical events told within a specified time frame. Of necessity it must compress people and events to tell an exciting story. A screenplay that fails to do so will likely never be filmed.

We will always lack the technology to send recording devices back into time to record what historical figures thought,said,saw and did. So wide swatches of history will be controversial or unknowable. The idea that Abraham Lincoln never cursed is something we can't say unless primary sources remarked upon it and they could be wrong.


I agree with Laurie Verge that any movie that creates an interest in history serves a useful purpose.
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"Lincoln" legal mistake - Lindsey - 02-05-2013, 10:52 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 02-06-2013, 06:17 AM
RE: "Lincoln" movie criticisms - Gene C - 03-01-2013, 09:40 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - LincolnMan - 02-06-2013, 09:51 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 02-06-2013, 10:33 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - HerbS - 02-06-2013, 10:43 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - HerbS - 02-06-2013, 05:19 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - Rob Wick - 02-06-2013, 07:51 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 02-07-2013, 03:26 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - HerbS - 02-10-2013, 03:08 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - Jim Garrett - 02-14-2013, 07:06 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - ELCore - 02-18-2013, 08:23 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 02-19-2013, 06:12 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - LincolnMan - 02-19-2013, 09:12 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 03-02-2013, 06:10 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - HerbS - 03-02-2013, 10:41 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - Thomas Thorne - 03-02-2013 04:07 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - LincolnMan - 03-02-2013, 06:25 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - L Verge - 03-02-2013, 08:28 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - LincolnMan - 03-03-2013, 08:21 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - Gene C - 03-03-2013, 10:20 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - LincolnMan - 03-03-2013, 10:42 AM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - Jim Page - 03-03-2013, 12:08 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - Gene C - 03-07-2013, 06:06 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 01-20-2014, 02:43 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - Anita - 01-20-2014, 03:30 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 01-20-2014, 04:06 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - L Verge - 01-20-2014, 03:36 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - RJNorton - 01-20-2014, 05:14 PM
RE: "Lincoln" legal mistake - L Verge - 01-20-2014, 07:36 PM
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