January 20, 201313 yr Just watched Lincoln and it's a dog turd - racist, poorly shot, horrible cinematography and it actually makes James Spader seem like a bad actor, which is hard to do.
January 20, 201313 yr Author Because it acts like black people had no influence at all over the passage of the anti-slavery amendment and that it was white advisors of Lincoln who pushed it through, when actually it was mostly the work of Frederick Douglas and other black politicians/activists of the era. Check out this commentary on it. http://stevethepenguin.blogspot.fr/2013/01/thats-how-i-feel-about-lincoln.html
January 20, 201313 yr Active Members That's a good point, it was the typical Hollywood syndrome of not being able to tell any story except from the perspective of a white male. But on the other hand, Lincoln isn't really a movie about slavery, it isn't even really a movie about Lincoln. It's a movie about the 13th amendment. From *that* perspective it's pretty good.
January 20, 201313 yr Clinton's introduction of the movie at the Golden Globes were well done. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NCrlq34caJE
January 21, 201313 yr Author But black people were also involved in passing that amendment! It's a serious white wash of a film.
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