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- I've been in love with Daniel Day Lewis since "Last of the Mohicans"! Can't wait to see him as Lincoln! : )
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- I saw this movie as a 'personal view' snapshot in time. At no time before, during, or after did I think this movie was an accurate historical event. The whole purpose of the 60 Minutes interview is to capture the actor's view on playing a 'dead' person as well as ask people who see the movie whether they felt Day-Lewis was 'believeable' in that role, nothing more, nothing less. So for everyone who goes off the deep-end here, get a life. Stay on topic and stop seeing a controversy or conspiracy in every thing you read or watch.
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- When I saw this film, I felt that I was transported back in time. I felt that I was witnessing that history. Daniel Day-Lewis was so riveting and authentic for me. All the actors were superb. At the end of the film, there was absolute quiet in the theatre. No one moved for several minutes. It was a very powerful experience. Thank you, Mr. Speilberg. Excellent, excellent film.
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- I don't think anyone today really knows the truth about Lincoln. They don't research the truth about the man, nor face the reality of what he did.
He started the civil war, and cost 640,000 lives.......because he got MAD, that states seceded from the union.
Those states had just reason for seceding.......and it had NOTHING to do, with slavery!
This movie is nothing but a glorification, of the concept that the civil war was about slavery, and slavery had nothing to do with the war.
The reason fro the Emancipation Proclamation, was to persuade blacks to fight on the union side.......because they needed the soldiers.
This whole sham of the greatness of Lincoln....... is another pathetic example of how history gets twisted, over time. - Reply to this comment
- I did a report on Lincoln in college, so I know this to be the misrepresentation that it really is.
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- I just loooooooove your show....thought I had to put that in here while I can remember my password.
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- I see another Oscar for Spielberg, Day-Lewis, etc,etc,etc,
Can you see it coming, too? - Reply to this comment
- Great 60 Minutes Overtime story. Stephen Speilberg & Daniel Day-Lewis, what an amazing collaboration. The sound detail of Lincoln's actual watch ticking is remarkable. I look forward to seeing this film very much.
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- Mr. Spielberg, Daniel is one of the best actors of our time. From his work in the Bounty to Gangs of New York has been exemplary however this will be one performance of Mr. Lewis' that I will have to miss. This would go for any actor involved in a production of yours that introduces any remuneration to you specifically in any manner whatsoever. As a business woman I keep my political proclivities private as to not alienate any prospective business. I've been an avid fan of your since my first viewing of "Duel" with Dennis Weaver but unfortunately you have waded up to your neck in Oprah for Obama waters here by factors of 3. You have insulted over half your audience in the crassest and most obtuse avenues available. Within this context your films aren't that great Mr. Spielberg for you to finance and condone others in hurting personally good folks like my own Grandmother with the Tea Bagger label when she voted for Obama. Yet after giving another million to these same ugly organizations this week you're now asking us to pay to see your work, today? Really? For every action there is a reaction Mr. Spielberg and mine unfortunately will be in perpetuity. Nothing personal here until you allowed yourself to get ugly personal with us and worse by assumptive default.
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- mixed feelings. he was so long ago that doubt anyone really cares about lincoln. blacks weren't totally freed until the 60s with the civil rights act of '64 and even then they still suffered abuse, discrimination, murder. grandfather says things changed when blacks started pocket violent revolutions, riots, burning in cities. whites joined with blacks to secure their rights and some whites were hanged by white supremists. don't see where lincoln did as much because blacks were still held down. ww1 black veterans were hanged and the hanging continued well into the mid 20th century. lincoln appears to have been but a whisper. today, hispanics are the scapegoat, not blacks.
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