Tony Montana wrote:
mags wrote:
Went to see Lincoln this week...
Thoughtful, quietly powerful film with meaning that can be applied to today's DC scene...And Spielberg gives the audience time to digest the issues, the politicians, etc...Wish all politicians currently in Washington would see it...They and Obama could learn a thing or two...
Is it historically accurate? Because if it isn't we should throw the idea of Obama learning anything out of the window. It's just a film. You couldn't really learn anything from Pear Harbor.
There may be a couple of historical inaccuracies, one being the originators of the 13th amendment proposal was brought into being by a couple of feminists, Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton...Although in the film, I don't recall anyone mentioning who brought up the amendment in the first place; I assumed that Senator Stevens was the power behind it from the film...The film is based loosely on Kearn-Goodwin's book, which reads like a novel...KG is an academic, a fairly reputable historian...Although it's "just a film", not a documentary, there are insights and parallels to be drawn with the current Washington climate. As for Pearl Harbor, I didn't see it, so I won't comment, although I heard it was a pile of trash...Another historical inaccuracy concerns the fact that the war might have ended with slavery still intact. Millions of slaves had already been freed before the war ended, a few border/southern states had already thrown out slavery...That's Eric Foner's position, he's a Lincoln historian...
What I loved most was the portrayal of the man, ruthless, crafty manipulator/politician, the husband, father, and storyteller bar none...There's one he tells about Ethan Allen, American revolutionary hero, who visits England after that war and uses the privy...But you have to see the movie...Hilarious...
