On November 9, 2012, the film "Lincoln" premiered in North America. The film grossed $182 million at the domestic box office and $275 million worldwide (shooting began on October 17, 2011, and ended on December 19 of the same year, budget: $65 million). In addition to the box office success, it also won praise in the industry: won the 70th Golden Globe Award and the 85th Academy Awards, with a comprehensive media score of 88 points, "Chicago Tribune", "Washington Post", "The Wall Street Times", "New York Times" and many other media give full marks; Rotten Tomatoes freshness is as high as 91%. "The masterful cooperation between Louis and Spielberg is amazing. The finished film has surpassed our imagination and has directly risen to an artistic anthem." People at the time gave the master's work a high evaluation.
Childhood
Abraham Lincoln is Spielberg's most enduring obsession, and his Lincoln sensibilities can be traced back to childhood. When he was seven or eight years old, one of his uncles took him on a tour of Washington, D.C., historic places, and one of his most memorable sights was the Lincoln Memorial—where he was taken aback.
"I was small, and Lincoln was tall, sitting on the throne, the big chair. I was so taken aback by the statue that I could barely look Lincoln's face in the face."
That didn't stop him, however. Read about Lincoln. "Now I know I used to have dyslexia -- I didn't know it at the time -- but when I started reading, the references to Lincoln were always more accessible than the school science exercises," he added. "I did everything I could, except buy a Lincoln—I had everything but no car. I read a lot, watched a lot of documentaries." At the time, my first reaction was that the atmosphere teacher never taught me this thing."
Book a script
It wasn't until 1999 that Spielberg met Doris Cohens-Goodwin and asked her what she was going to do next. She said she wanted to write a book about Lincoln's presidency, to which Spielberg responded: "I'll buy it." She said she couldn't find a publisher, to which he replied: "This is It's none of my business. I'm going to buy it from you now, and when you find a publisher, just tell them you've given the movie rights to me and DreamWorks." ("Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham") "Lincoln" (Lincoln and his rival staff)
"If a movie is going to reflect some real-life situation, it has to tell all the real stories like a sine curve, that is to say, there's the absurd, there's the comedy, There are painful losses, and there are powerful stubborn forces that pursue you, and then you are finally redeemed."
After the book was completed, the process of adapting the script was also quite difficult.
The first draft of the screenplay is about 550 pages long - a typical screenplay is usually about 120 pages long. There was a passage in the script that struck a chord with Spielberg. It tells of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, and the end of the American Civil War. In other words, these events occurred during the last months of Lincoln's life. Spielberg asked Kushner to focus on this part, and the final script was about 150 pages long and about two and a half hours long.
Think different
"I'm like a hungry kid. There are so many movies I want to make, I used to sit around wondering why no one is making movies about this and that. Now, I can do it myself Those movies that have been missed."
Perhaps the meaning of the master lies in constantly breaking through himself.
From the early "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "ET Alien", all of them have caused a sensation around the world, breaking through people's original imagination. Spielberg's later works extended his perspective to the Holocaust, slavery, war and other themes, including "Lincoln", and successively filmed "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", "War Horse" , "Bridge of Spies" and a series of works, as an American from a Jewish family, he can also be regarded as a retrospective reflection on the history of his family and country. From these works, you can always taste a little bit of the ultimate concern for human beings and life. Maybe this is the reason why he can communicate with Lincoln.
"Every movie is actually a time capsule, and when you're done with a movie and you say goodbye to the cast and crew, you've buried a life on that set—you know, and that life will last forever. Stay there."
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