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Lincoln, the game of language and performance
Hollie 2022-01-25 08:06:28
A special background of the era does not require ups and downs of stories and exciting plots, only actors and lines, and all insights come from dialogue and action. This is the subject that Spielberg is good at. After the glory of "Schindler's List", through the thinking of "Saving Private Ryan" and the contrived "War Horse", the large dialogue in "Lincoln" and the masterful interpretation of Lewis, let us The biography can also be described in this way, struggling between peace talks and abolition of slavery, finding a balance between great love and small love, love and guilt for wives and sons, persistent pursuit of equality for all living beings, sadness and helplessness for heavy casualties... ... Away from the hunched back, the silent words are heart-wrenching. (To be continued)
Extended Reading
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Thaddeus Stevens: You are a democrat. What's the matter with you? Are you wicked?
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Abraham Lincoln: [pounds his hand on a table as his cabinet squabbles] I can't listen to this anymore. I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war! I wonder if any of you or anyone else knows it. I know! I need this! This amendment is that cure! We've stepped out upon the world stage now. Now! With the fate of human dignity in our hands. Blood's been spilled to afford us this moment now! Now! Now! And you grouse so and heckle and dodge about like pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!