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I have seen the movie "Lincoln" twice now. I found it to be a very good movie with only two bad scenes, both at the beginning of the film. I thought is was an error on Spielberg's part to start the movie with a combat sequence. It make an unfair comparison to "Saving Private Ryan" right off the bat, and is not as good a sequence since it does not appear to have been meant to compare to the beach landing.
The scene after that, with the soldiers and Lincoln, "seemed" unrealistic. I do not think that many people really liked the Gettysburg Address at the time. I thought it was only appreciated more after the war than at the time by most people.
Once past then it was excellent, except for one thing...
There is a shot of Grant and Lee leaving the McLean house. Grant is wearing a uniform jacket with stars on his shoulder straps and remarkably clean. I though Grant had been in a dirty unifrom from viewing the trenches that morning and was wearing a private's jacket.
Now, I know this is not something that the average viewer will know or care about, but when the scene started, I wondered how it would be presented and I was disappointed.
However, this is a small thing compared to a movie with really good performances by Daniel Day-Leiws, Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levett, Bruce McGill and for me, the over-looked David Strathairn as William Seward. He has almost as much screen time as Day-Lewis (more than Tommy Lee Jones), but will probably not be conisdered for an award.
I find Seward a fascinating historical figure.
Cadet Kenneth Crist
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Major General Kenneth Crist, USV
1st Division Commander
XVII Corps
Army of the Tennessee
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