Even Steven Spielberg’s admirers saw serious risks in a proposition like “Lincoln.” And it is that, let’s be clear, a biopic about one of the most respected and relevant figures in US history has had all the votes to become one of those disproportionate and dedicated homages to the exhaustive mission of raising the altars to its centrality while forgetting the forms in favor of the universal depth of a message of praise. However, Steven Spielberg surprised with his most intimate film in a decade, almost theatrical, far from visual excesses, focused on his discourse and task without ceasing to be, from his stupendous prologue, great cinema.
10 curiosities about ‘Lincoln’
one Day Lewis’ lie
At the time, Daniel Day-Lewis He assured he would retire from acting for five years if he won his third Oscar for ‘Lincoln’. Well, once he got his (indisputable) award, the actor kept his word and came back just five years later with the impressive ‘The Invisible Thread’.
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2 DiCaprio Key
At first, Daniel Day-Lewis turned down the offer to star in ‘Lincoln’ because he wasn’t sure he could live up to such an iconic character. However, he was Leonardo DiCaprio himself. who talked to him to get him to say yes. And it reaches it. How did he do? No one knows, but we owe it to good Leo.
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3 Respect the offspring
For one of the most important scenes of ‘Lincoln’, the moment in which the 13th amendment is voted, Steven Spielberg decided to change the name of many of the people who opted for ‘No’ because they didn’t want to embarrass their respective descendantsthat they might be embarrassed by the (horrible) choice of their ancestors.
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4 Before the Oscars
Although Steven Spielberg’s relationship with the Academy has always been more or less cordial, nominations have not been lacking since the days of ‘Jaws’, none of the actors or actresses who had appeared in his films had managed to get an Oscar. Until the arrival of Daniel Day-Lewis and his impressive performance in “Lincoln”.
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5 initial project
Screenwriter Tony Kushner spent no more or less than six years working on the screenplay for ‘Lincoln’. And it is that, at first, the film was intended to be a much more traditional biopic, chronicling the entire life of Abraham Lincoln. Fortunately, Spielberg and Kushner ultimately chose to focus their gaze on the events surrounding the passage of the 13th amendment.
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6 touching the platform
Although it may seem incredible, especially given Steven Spielberg’s opinion on this matter, ‘Lincoln’ It was very close to a direct release on HBO. In fact, the director himself has said that the reason it didn’t happen is because his DreamWorks Pictures got into the picture. Goodness.
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7 The afterthought of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda planned to write a musical about Lincoln and the American Civil War based on the book “Team of Rivals”, but She Changed Her Mind Immediately When She Found Out Steven Spielberg Had Started Work On ‘Lincoln’. Naturally, this situation prompted him to create the sublime ‘Hamilton’, so we came out on top.
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8 Kaminsky’s idea
Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, already a classic in Steven Spielberg’s team, said it clearly I wanted to achieve a particularly sober visual aspect for ‘Lincoln’, looking for naturalistic lighting and with the right shots of cranes or platforms. In this sense, it is particularly significant that the protagonist’s eyes almost always appear in the shadowsespecially in the general shots of the film.
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9 Ticket office
While by no means one of the most commercially successful films of Steven Spielberg’s sweeping career, ‘Lincoln’ has garnered a more than impressive collection, becoming the 13th highest-grossing film of its year.
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10 first curious
Since the immense ‘Encounters of the Third Kind’, released in 1977, none of Steven Spielberg’s films had been released outside of the summer or Christmas period. Until ‘Lincoln’ comes along, of course, which was launched in November.
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Because ‘Lincoln’ is that, capital cinema, immense, solemn in the best sense of the term, obsessed with, through minimal elements, telling great facts. It is urgent to clarify that we are not dealing with a biopic to be used, since Spielberg and his screenwriter, Tony Kushner, adapting the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, place the president in a context, the establishment of an amendment that prohibits slavery in the United States, which is the real central theme of a film which, however, does not take the eye off the more personal aspects of an exciting historical figure.
The traumatized father, husband and adviser Lincoln are on the same level of importance as the politician, intelligent and gifted in his mission to mesmerize with speeches and anecdotes. In this way Spielberg, with the invaluable help of a huge Daniel Day-Lewis, achieves a perfect balance, offering An entire lesson in cinema and history.
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