Daniel Day-Lewis is Spielberg's Lincoln

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Seward is a fascinating person, and I'd really like to see what David Strathairn can do with this.
 
RustyNails said:
I think DDL is a tall mofo, definitely above 6' in height. The challenging part will be to show others around him as shorter.

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That top hat will definitely do wonders though.

Just some lifts outta do him.

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I'm going to come to Sydney and make you change it!

For serious though, sometime next year I'm going to finally take my talents to Australia for a vacation.
 
Yeah, I was thinking January (which sounds batshit insane because January is the coldest month of the year here in Canada). Good time of year?
 
Look at this goddamn cast:

Slashfilm said:
At the very least he’ll be in excellent company. The cast includes: Sally Field, who’ll play Mary Todd Lincoln; Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens; David Strathairn as Secretary of State William Seward; Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln; and Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill and Joseph Cross, with David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky in smaller parts.

And of course Daniel Day-Lewis.

Buncha great character actors in there.
 
I love Lincoln movies/documentaries. He was President during a very critical time in the progression of America and analyzing the decisions and seeing the consequences of not having taken that action always fascinates me. Then you get to play "Alternate reality" where you start to think what Lincoln had done during Reconstruction had he not been assassinated.

Hoping Spielberg wows us with another drama and doesn't candycoat things. I fear he is getting soft in his old age.
 
I love Lincoln movies/documentaries. He was President during a very critical time in the progression of America and analyzing the decisions and seeing the consequences of not having taken that action always fascinates me. Then you get to play "Alternate reality" where you start to think what Lincoln had done during Reconstruction had he not been assassinated.

Hoping Spielberg wows us with another drama and doesn't candycoat things. I fear he is getting soft in his old age.

Except that Munich is the bravest and most mature film he's ever made. This even has the same writer as Munich, Tony Kushner.
 
Lee wasn't that strong a supporter of slavery, a better choice would be Jefferson Davis - or Robert Toombs, William Yancey, or even Edmund Ruffin.

Yeah, yeah - I know I'm nitpicking.
 
It's funny someone posted a Gangs of New York image. In that movie DDL's character hates Lincoln, and actually strikes a poster of Lincoln with a dagger throw. Dead center of his forehead.


This is the opposite of Batman Begins. At first DDL was approached to be Ras Al Ghul but he turned it down.

I find it interesting too how they're so correlated.
 
Word around town is that DANIEL DAY-LEWIS hasn't broken his Lincoln accent since March. His real name doesn't even appear on the call sheet.
Lincoln supposedly had a high, reedy voice. I wonder if DDL will portray him like that.
 
Variety's @TheInSneider:
Word around town is that DANIEL DAY-LEWIS hasn't broken his Lincoln accent since March. His real name doesn't even appear on the call sheet.

Lincoln supposedly had a high, reedy voice. I wonder if DDL will portray him like that.

First is possibly true, second one is true. 2 of my friends got to be extras while they were filming in Richmond (they basically wallowed in mud for hours during a battle scene I believe, and it's not even guaranteed that their shots will be used). One said DDL talks to Spielberg is the high pitched Lincoln between takes, so it is possible he hasn't stopped using the voice I guess.
 
Hoping Spielberg wows us with another drama and doesn't candycoat things. I fear he is getting soft in his old age.
to present anything approximating the true story of lincoln, spielberg would have to do nothing short of obliterating every sanitised folk myth that americans are taught of the man since kindergarten. he was a shrewd and often cut-throat politician, who managed to pander to conservative bigots and starry eyed progressives alike, not through some messianic moral imperative, but through shrewd manoeuvring.

he'd simultaneously pander to one side by giving lengthy speeches which dismissed blacks as an inferior race, never capable of racial equality; while bringing on-side the abolitionists by presenting their cause as a military necessity.

with lincoln's morals becoming far more defined in his later years, i hope spielberg has the balls to present this as a story of redemption that it should be, rather than a box office ballwashing which only further cements over a century of jingoist propaganda.
 
I believe that the film is supposed to focus on the last couple of months of Lincoln's life, by which time his views were far more on the side of black equality than they had been earlier in his life.

Edit: And lets be honest- for the time he lived in his views were always more progressive than most of the white population as a whole regarding negro rights.
 
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