Lincoln: Spielberg's Perspective

Marianna 2022-01-25 08:06:28

Lincoln: Spielberg's Perspective

Biography is characterized by a focus on a character's journey through his own destiny, overcoming obstacles and accomplishing his mission. In this process, his efforts, his wisdom, his means, his influence on the people around him, the power he uses, the attitude of his family, his anxiety, thinking, weighing, judging and finally when facing contradictions decision.

Spielberg footnotes all of the above in detail. It reveals three characteristics of Lincoln in history: 1. He is good at persuading others through storytelling, especially persuading people who disagree with himself. 2. Strong will is not only reflected in the face of confrontational forces, but also in the face of family members with different opinions, and when it involves strong emotional conflicts. 3. The wise use of the powers conferred. and speculation on legal logic.

The film strongly expresses American values: equality, democracy, fairness. Give everyone a chance to express their opinions and allow everyone to express their ideas in their own way. However, the freedom of expression of those with different opinions is fully allowed.

The United States is not a great country since ancient times, but has continuously created great people through the system, thereby gradually promoting the United States to become an important force in the world that cannot be ignored.

How can such a film make the Chinese public understand its profound meaning?

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Extended Reading
  • Chelsey 2022-03-23 09:01:32

    This film should be called "Lincoln and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution." Basically, the entire length of the film is about Lincoln's promotion of the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. In this process, the audience can see clearly that the essence of political struggle is the exchange of interests, and the compromise and pain an idealist has made in reality in order to realize the ultimate ideal, but it is too much for the subject of a biography. A little bit one-sided, the character description is not full enough!

  • Vern 2022-01-25 08:06:28

    The subject of political character biographies is very picky for the audience, there is a kind of sentiment, the kind of shocking

Lincoln quotes

  • Corporal Ira Clark: Now that white people have accustomed themselves to seeing negro men with guns fighting on their behalf, and even getting the same pay, in a few years perhaps they can abide the idea of negro lieutenants and captains. In fifty years, maybe a negro colonel. In a hundred years, the vote.

    Abraham Lincoln: What will you do after the war, Corporal Clark?

    Corporal Ira Clark: Work sir. Perhaps you'll hire me.

    Abraham Lincoln: Perhaps I will.

    Corporal Ira Clark: But you should know, sir, that I get sick at the smell of bootblack, and I cannot cut hair.

    Abraham Lincoln: [grins] I've yet to find a man could make a difference with mine.

    Private Harold Green: You got springy hair for a white man.

    Abraham Lincoln: I do. My last barber hanged himself. And the one before that. Left me his scissors in his will.

  • Tad Lincoln: Papa? Papa, I want to see Willie.

    Abraham Lincoln: Me too, Tad. But we can't. Willie's gone. Three years now, he's gone.