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Daniel Day-Lewis to Play Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg-Directed Biopic
The Hollywood Reporter ^
| 11/19/10
Posted on 11/19/2010 4:16:18 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache
Whatever!
I REALLY DON’T TRUST SPIELBERG AND THE SCREENPLAY WRITER.
The resulting story could lead to more revisionism in history, especially now that many Americans can nolonger distinguish between “HISTORY” and “ADULTERATED NON-FICTION”.
I JUST DON’T TRUST ANYTHING THAT CAME FROM HOLLOWEIRD.
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posted on
11/19/2010 4:37:33 PM PST
by
convertedtoreason
( Nature tells us to take a LIBERTARIAN CONSERVATIVE stance)
To: My Favorite Headache
My guide for movies is that poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better than either.
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posted on
11/19/2010 4:49:09 PM PST
by
Spok
( "Woe to them who call the day, night and the night, day." -Isaiah)
To: My Favorite Headache
Perfect pic. Daniel will be good as Abe. Put a beard on him with a cheek mole and there you go.
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posted on
11/19/2010 4:59:11 PM PST
by
fish hawk
(Libs are too stupid to even engage in a conversation. If only their mothers believed in abortion.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
I dont know about gay, bu the Spielberg Lincoln most definitely will be a Democrat and the Southern slave owners will be Republicans. Agreed. Not only that, but he'll either:
* Have John Wilkes Booth assassinate Lincoln with a walkie-talkie, or
* Pull a James-Cameron & depict JWB as a gun-totin' snarlin' psychopath inspiration in creating the NRA.
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:34:40 PM PST
by
kromike
To: Patrick1
It wasn't bad. It did a terrible job if portraying Washington's famous mission to deliver Dinwiddie ’s letter to the French warning them away from the Ohio Valley was horribly done! Why they felt it was necessary to create a completely fictional frontier guide (Name escapes me but it was played by Lloyd Bridges!) when the could have done a portrayal of the real guide Christopher Gist. Gist's contributions to early America deserve to be remembered!
He was a Daniel Boone before there was a Daniel Boone!
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:48:22 PM PST
by
Reily
To: OldDeckHand
"There have been very few Colonial period pieces made in the last 25-years...It (the Revolution) is such rich high-drama material, I don't know why it's not mined more frequently for screenplays, but it isn't." I enjoyed Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" although it took some liberties with the historical record and acknowledged being only loosely based on the Francis Marion story. I'd love to see a movie about Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys.
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:57:24 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: FormerACLUmember
Okay that’s hysterical. lol SSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHPP!! I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
To: My Favorite Headache; Borges; EveningStar; alwaysconservative; Mr. Blonde; Mr. K; wtc911; ...
After seeing him in some recent movies & KNOWING the Lincoln flick was in works, I thought Sean Penn a dead ringer visually for Abe. And despite all.. think Sean is an excellent actor
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posted on
11/20/2010 4:17:05 AM PST
by
DollyCali
(Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
To: DollyCali
DDL is incredible, too. I can live with that. It’s all in the screenplay.
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posted on
11/20/2010 4:19:48 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: My Favorite Headache
I like DDL, but seeing him as Lincoln reminds me of how he had a cow years ago when there was talk about Julia Roberts playing Shakespeare's wife. An American playing the Bard's wife??? This from the man who had just played (or would just play) Natty Bumpo. And now he's Lincoln? Couldn't find an American?
Next we'll be getting a European actress to play a top U.S. government agent with bionic body parts and ... oh, waitaminute ...
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posted on
11/20/2010 6:38:02 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: DollyCali
To: Spok
“My guide for movies is that poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better than either.”
We have similar tastes, it seems. In fact, if you don’t mind, I’ll borrow it for a tag line for a while...
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posted on
11/20/2010 6:43:09 AM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
To: Spok
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posted on
11/20/2010 6:44:13 AM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
To: FormerACLUmember
LOL! Daniel Day Lewis is such a brilliant actor.
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posted on
11/20/2010 6:47:24 AM PST
by
ShandaLear
(The price of Obamacare? 30 pieces of silver.)
To: DollyCali
I know I’ve been reading about Spielberg making a Lincoln biopic for about 10 years. I remember first hearing about at at the end of the Clinton administration, lol.
As a history buff, my hope is a sweeping, violent and accurate portrayal of the events, including the Civil War. IMO, Spielberg made the definitive World War II epic with “Saving Private Ryan.” That movie probably more than any other actually brought the audience as close to being in the front lines as they should ever hope to be. I’ve always wanted to see a similar treatment of the Civil War.
I think the definitive depiction of the true carnage of the Civil War has yet to be made...although some of “Cold Mountain” came close.
We’ll see how Spielberg does portraying Lincoln...I’m hoping he can be non-biased in the approach.
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posted on
11/20/2010 7:06:28 AM PST
by
pcottraux
(Alvin Greene/Basil Marceaux 2012!)
To: DollyCali
If you are receiving this I put you on my list,
no doubt w/o your permission..
so it is okay if you want to dive out
No one was interested in desert island self-help series, so I’m done. I dive!
Been fun!
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posted on
11/20/2010 7:48:30 AM PST
by
WestwardHo
(Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
To: DollyCali; My Favorite Headache; Borges; EveningStar; alwaysconservative; Mr. Blonde; Mr. K; ...
Hi, Dolly and gang:
Mr. Lewis is a superb actor and Mr. Speilberg is a more than capable director. I’m more interested in Mr. Speilberg’s story telling capabilities. If the story will be historically correct, or a touchy-feely, leftist hatchet job.
Jack.
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posted on
11/20/2010 10:24:53 AM PST
by
Jack Deth
(Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
To: WestwardHo
LOL..gotcha !
sorry I pinged you to another prior to getting this ping..
dolly
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posted on
11/20/2010 3:06:14 PM PST
by
DollyCali
(Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
To: pcottraux
There was nothing original about SPR though. It was like a compendium of all the war films Spielberg had ever seen.
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posted on
11/21/2010 10:10:20 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Patrick1
What are you talking about?
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posted on
11/21/2010 10:11:26 AM PST
by
Borges
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