SPIELBERG DIRECTOR SERIES: Lincoln (2012)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of grief, mental illness, war, slavery, racism, white saviorism, racist propaganda
Here we are, ending our journey through Spielberg’s catalog on a film that’s got to be a sure-fire smash. It’s got an impeccable cast, a great screenwriter, and one of the most compelling people in history around which to build a story. Which is precisely why we’re so angry about this movie. Yes, it’s clearly Oscar bait, and yes, any story about Abraham Lincoln is going to read very, very hollow given the growing movement for racial justice in our country. But it’s the self-indulgent, sentimental and somber framing of a story that refuses to find any real humanity in its protagonist that really gets our goat here. We know Steven’s got a hell of an ego, but it’s never more on display than watching this way too self-important film. For a movie about one of the most interesting human case studies in our nation, there’s very little that we can learn about or empathize with the 16th President. He’s just a portrait in a room, and this is just a WIkipedia entry of a movie. We’re wrapping up with Spielberg’s flat biography of Lincoln this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “The People’s House” from the soundtrack to Lincoln, composed and conducted by John Williams. Copyright 2012 Dreamworks II Distribution Co., LLC.
Excerpts taken from the film Lincoln are © 2013 DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Excerpt taken from “Theme from Mission: Impossible,” written by Lalo Schifrin, produced and arranged by Larry Mullen with David Beal, and performed by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen . Copyright 1996 mother records.
