Film Analysis Of The Movie Lincoln

In Abraham Lincoln, by George McGovern, McGovern summarizes and gives insight on one of the United States’ most well-known and highly praised presidents, Abraham Lincoln. McGovern thoroughly outlines Lincoln’s life, his struggles and how he became the great president that he was. One point McGovern continues to mention is how no matter how bad a situation was or even when people doubted Lincoln, he would take his defeats and preserve. In the beginning of the book, McGovern recounts Lincoln’s life as a kid and a young adult. He describes how no matter how bad Lincoln failed or how sad he was, “Lincoln would not resign himself to failure and loss; instead he learned from each experience and carried on” . In addition, McGovern continues to mention how Lincoln never stopped learning. From a young age, Lincoln loved to learn, read and expand his knowledge so he could fully analyze any situation. According to McGovern, this personality trait allowed Lincoln to work and rise up from a farmer’s son to the President of the United States. This trait, also, allowed Lincoln “to take a far more active role in managing military affairs” . Lincoln was able to come up with a new strategy for the Union to win the Civil War.

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Since those members also will soon be in need of employment and Lincoln will have many federal jobs to fill as he begins his second term, he sees this as a tool he can use to his advantage. Though Lincoln and Seward are unwilling to offer direct monetary bribes to the Democrats, they authorize other agents to quietly go about contacting Democratic congressmen with offers of federal jobs in exchange for their voting in favor of the amendment.

The end of the civil war was drawing near, and Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America was looking forward to the reconstruction of his country. He went out for a play at Fords Theatre. While enjoying the play he was shot in the back by an assassin . This assination changed the future of America, and affects us today.

For a mere human to comprehend his role in life is something that does not occur much, and for one to follow it so willingly is practically unheard of. Even more so, he would not let it go to his head, but remained humble and modest throughout his life. I refer back to Lincoln's response to Horace Greeley, and to the Emancipation Proclamation itself, and to all the countless decisions he made during his presidency. In all his actions, the future of the American experiment was the central idea of the war, and he would do all that is necessary to preserve it. Lincoln worked to uphold the Constitution and continue the work that the Founding Fathers had begun. His immense moral decisions in the political arena helped to secure the future, and he did it all, not for himself, but for the people.

Abraham Lincoln saved America: “ He led the Union to war so that he could stop the southern states from being separated from the United States,” ( Eduardo) ( Hatfield 3). Without Abraham Lincoln America may have divided and collapsed. Therefore, people can thank him for saving us through his fearlessness leadership. After Lincoln was killed, people mourned over their president: “ Tens of thousands of Americans lined the railroad route and paid their respect to their fallen leader,” (History.com) ( Hatfield 4). Because of Lincoln’s noble actions and bold leadership, people were dramatized after he had been killed. Lincoln’s valor actions showed why he was a fearless leader; thus, he it was very unjust to kill such a prominent leader. Yet, many angry civilians were against Lincoln’s actions not thinking that they were

He keeps to the subject very well in this book, making the tone of it objective, keeping his personal views out. The book is written in an undeviating fashion, looking at Lincoln’s relationship with slavery from his early childhood to his death and beyond.

Despite the historical accuracy of the film, Lincoln did contain some mistakes. First off, Daniel-Day Lewis portrayed his character very well; He was tall and lanky, spoke calmly, and told many stories, which is true of Abraham Lincoln. As shown in the movie, there was a great deal going on in the country. Lincoln and his supporters were planning and advocating for the 13th amendment and trying to gain more supporters. Also true was the fact that Confederate officials were heading North to make peace negotiations. But in reality, discussion of the 13th amendment and peace occurred at the same time. The movie shows Lincoln would not commence with peace negotiations until the amendment passed Congress. Liberties in the director’s production are few, though. For example, the movie made no mention of the influence African Americans had in advocating for Black rights. Instead, African American characters in Lincoln were limited to domestic jobs. In addition, Mary Lincoln was not at the final voting with the House of Representatives. Despite these very few inaccuracies, Lincoln was an extremely informative film. After watching, the viewer will have a better understanding of President Lincoln’s experience in advocating for the abolishment of slavery and the process of passing the 13th amendment. The film presented a lot of information and had many characters which created confusion at times. It was, at times, difficult to distinguish between characters and their names, political affiliations, significance, and viewpoint. That aside, the characters were interesting and effective in portraying political figures of the 17th century. Any boredom experienced in the beginning of the movie was quickly pushed aside as arguments thickened and the story progressed. Altogether, Spielberg produced a successful blend of information and opinion to

One of the most significant conflicts in the film Lincoln is deciding between peace and passing the thirteenth amendment. For this reason, getting the votes on the amendment to pass is difficult because others think if we let this amendment pass the war will not end. With the Civil War going on year four and the union struggling to keep together, Lincoln decides to try and pass the thirteenth amendment and receive support from the House of Representatives. The thirteenth amendment is the abolishment of slavery and involuntary servitude. Lincoln says that the key to peace is passing this amendment. The only person who truly believes in Lincoln’s vision is Thaddeus Stevens, who was a republican. Stevens did not see eye to eye with Lincoln

The movie “Gone with the Wind” is about a rich southern girl named Scarlett O’Hara and her life hardships set during the time-period of the Civil War. In the story, Scarlett is forced to watch helplessly as her family’s wealth and lives fade as the confederacy loses the Civil War. Even though, the movie is mainly centered on the dilemmas of Scarlett’s love life, there are many historical accuracies that immerse the viewer in the southern mindset as well as the timeframe. The portrayal of class structures and the confederate attitudes before the Civil War are both accurate and engaging details that the movie successfully implements. In the film, these examples are displayed mainly through the dialogue and setting.

Abraham Lincoln is by far our most revered president in the history of the United States. He had a strong moral vision of where his country must go to preserve and enlarge the rights of all her people, but he was also a good man with a strong sense of character and a great discipline in the art of law; and he sought to continue the great and mighty legacy of the Constitution. He believed that the Founding Fathers had drawn up the Constitution without the mention of slavery because they felt that it would later die of a natural death. He would soon learn that that would not be the case.

At the beginning of the movie we see Lincoln talking to two African Americans who served in the war, and they went on to say that they loved his speech and one of them even quoted the end of his speech. This movie shows us how much we need rescuing. According to Spielberg, Lincoln and his contemporaries debated the moral merits of ending slavery now or ending the war now. Lincoln was gaining and losing votes. People are looking at it as this: if African Americans are given rights then women are next and people do not want that. A man had said that if we give African Americans the freedom then they are going to want more. Lincoln does not know that there are bribes being made in order to get 20 votes from the representatives. Lincoln is

In this film, Steven Spielberg portrays Abraham Lincoln like a great master of charisma and elegant manners, a mankind with the inherent leader’s stratagem of making others wishing to gladden him. According to the plot, he speaks in an unpredictably easy and clear voice, using a specific language that in some parts reveals his humble personality and influence of his upbringing, that is nevertheless passing into the monologue of an elder person, who is fatigued by war and personal issues. This film describes President Lincoln as an individual lacked social success, but who had substantial acquaintance and intelligence of human nature. Moreover, film focuses on the last several months of Abraham Lincoln’s life, including all the important events as the passage of the 13th Amendment

Three years ago, in Washington D.C I was astonished seeing Abraham Lincoln sitting in his throne looking down at me as I entered his presence. He was huge, but not frightening, though in the film he was tall, but his presence frighten many Democrats and Republicans. In Lincoln, he enforced the 13th Amendment to pass in the House of Representatives which became part of the United States Constitution. He believed this amendment would end the war and slavery which was critical to bring good to American society. In Lincoln, the first scene was the battle of Jenkins Ferry happening between white Confederate soldiers versus a battalion of black Union soldiers. This scene was gory, but a valiant fight the Union of the 2nd Kansas colored regiment sacrificed to support the Union and all of its African Americans whom believed freedom is naturally given and it is their right to fight and protect

The year is 1865 and the Civil War death toll has risen just over six-hundred-thousand men. The freedoms sought out by our nation’s founders, now jeopardized by the secession of eleven states from the Union. The fate of The United States of America now laid upon the broad shoulders of our nations sixteenth commander-in-chief, President Abraham Lincoln. In a term marked by the burden of complete social upheaval, Abraham Lincoln was our nation’s foremost leader. The lawyer from Illinois navigated the only internal war in American history by embodying the principals taught by Professor Grint, utilizing a model of distributed leadership to gather