Finishing the film Lincoln was bittersweet says Daniel Day-Lewis, who poured his heart and soul into the role as Honest Abe, and he pointed out the reasons why.
If I had my way, Spielberg and DDL would've made *three* Lincoln movies and not just one. They could've told his whole life story in an epic trilogy and the public would've lapped it all up. Yet Hollywood was hesitant to even finance one movie about him.
This was to be the greatest performance I've ever witnessed. Daniel Day-Lewis didn't act as Abraham Lincoln, instead, he somehow how channeled Lincoln...He was indeed President Abraham Lincoln. I felt like I was in a room watching history unfold before my very eyes. There is nobody even close to Daniel Day-Lewis as an actor. He always gives such a powerful, mesmerizing performance. His last film, 'PHANTOM THREADS' may have been his greatest performance. I hope he doesn't retire, but he has given more than his fair share of gifts to humanity.
@@morten1there are thousands of accounts of Lincoln. Anecdotes, newspaper articles, military records. Believe it or not you can piece together someone's life without ever having met them by what they did with their life. He gave his entire will and spirit to abolishing the pestilence that was slavery for all time within our nation. Daniel day lewis did months of research leading up to his role and even got the voice spot on. Lincoln was said to have a high, reedy voice. To the point where many people criticized him for it, not the deep booming voice we give him today
DDL did a really great job in portraying Lincoln. I love the Gettysburg address, beautiful poignant writing in so few words. Lewis was fantastic as Hawkeye in “the Last of the Mohicans”.
I think the US Declaration of Independence could also fit under that category. The preamble does a very good job at describing, in the most eloquent fashion, what government is supposed to be about. It seems highly unlikely that any modern political leader would ever talking about the philosophy of government; they're too busy bickering and playing games.
And we love you Daniel, for portraying one of only a few Presidents that truly gave his last full measure and was the best president we have ever had with grace and an uncanny chameleon like ability to channel what I believe Lincoln was really like. Of all your roles, I think this was the most important one...to get the history out there for the people to see, to show the monumental hardships Lincoln went through to fix a great wrong in this country...a wrong that still reverberates in our country to this day.
You cannot help but listen to him with rapt attention. He's so very deep in his perception of what a role is and means. The respect he shows when he embodies a character. It's not a job to him. It's an art. The actor's actor.
He has so many of the characteristics of Lincoln, the lankiness, the height, the facial and hair features, its as if he is related to the man...he is a very good actor in whatever he is in.
I know Lincoln must hv had his flaws, we all hv them, but he was a unique figure in the historical story telling of this country. Starting with his height and he had no particular outer beauty. I don’t think we will ever get to know the real man bc he is so shrouded within the story of Lincoln that the real human being can’t be found. One of a kind
Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the only non American actors out there that can get away with this role. If a different British or any other non-American actor was chosen for this role, there would have been some hate from a certain sector of American culture. It's akin to an American playing Churchill or The Queen. It happens, but rarely does it happen in such a large film. Abraham Lincoln is the one American in history that pretty much everyone (minus white nationalists and people who glorify the confederacy) agrees was a great man. It doesn't matter what race, religion, gender, or political belief(other than the ones above), everyone loves that man. So a British actor playing the quintessential American could be a huge risk....but not for DDL. The guy could play Martin Luther King Jr. without much resistance because he's that damn good. He respects his characters and respects the people who love them.
Historical sources say that Lincolns voice had a slight falsetto element. Day Lewis took this into account. If contemporary accounts had said Lincolns voice was deeper Day Lewis would have done it deeper. Journalist Horace White described Lincoln as having “a thin tenor, or rather falsetto, voice, almost as high-pitched as a boatswain's whistle.”
I hope Lincoln actually wanted equal right for everyone. Because in a possible Gettysburg Address recording, he says something like "that all men are committed equal", although in a debate he had with some guy some say he said that he think Whites are superior to blacks. That speech most likely is a real audio recording, because the phonograph was invented years before. He sounds different to how he is in the film though...
Eh, "Vampire Hunter" has a 54% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while this movie, largely based the historical non-fiction book "Team of Rivals" (which watching this movie made me dive into, btw) has received an 89%. I think it's clear which one people got more excited about.
Can you imagine if Danny Day had lived during Honest Abe's time? "Yeah, hi, Dan, what's up. Umm, yeah, well, I'm kinda busy this week, the Confederates came damn close to the White House yesterday, and - huh? Oh yeah, I know you love me and everything - I love you too, man, but I gotta cut this off, bro. See, I'm the President now and making some pretty important history at the moment and I don't feel like I have that much time left, sooo...huh...well, I don't know I'll be around again. You have a job and other friends, don't you? ...What about family? Ok, look, I gotta go...hey...HEY! Get your hands off of me...!" Danno's acting roles have been great fun to watch but I really wanted to see him when he was pretending to be a cobbler. That would've been soooo cool!
I love Daniel Day-Lewis but this move was an over-dramatized costume theater epic with big speeches I'm surprised Tom Hanks wasn't in it. Would have made it even more "american". sarcasm
MusBam his father was the Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis and his mother, the English actress Jill Balcon. His father was Protestant and his mother is Jewish. Daniel Day-Lewis was raised Protestant and he now considers himself to be agnostic.
Not really, teens won't care i'm sure...but most people, if you do it well, will be interested. You just have to look at that shitty segment "teens react to" to see how pathetic the next generation of adults is gonna be.
