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What can I say? Daniel, Daniel and once more - DANIEL DAY LEWIS!
Spielberg's 'Lincoln' focuses on the man, not the monument.
Всегда легче и всегда найдется место какому-нибудь ублюдку, который возьмет и застрелит хорошего, доброго человека. Грустно.
читать дальшеAfter 10 years of development, director Steven Spielberg finally decided he would only "make 'Lincoln' if Daniel Day-Lewis decided to play him, and I would not make 'Lincoln' had Daniel decided not to play him."
Liam Neeson, who was attached to play Abraham Lincoln since the project began development, decided to drop out.
According to Neeson, he felt he was too old to play the part after waiting so many years for the project to get the go-ahead.
Incidentally Daniel Day-Lewis is only five years Neeson's junior, though still closest in age to Lincoln, who was 55 and 56 years of age at the time portrayed in the film.
After Liam Neeson dropped out, Steven Spielberg returned to his original choice for the titular role, Daniel Day-Lewis.
Day-Lewis declined because he didn't know if he could play such an iconic role.
It was Leonardo DiCaprio who convinced him to take the role after Spielberg told him that Day-Lewis declined. It is unknown how DiCaprio convinced Day-Lewis to take the role.
Daniel Day-Lewis originally turned down the role of Lincoln, sending Steven Spielberg this letter:
"Dear Steven. It was a real pleasure just to sit and talk with you. I listened very carefully to what you had to say about this compelling history,
and I've since read the sсript and found it -- in all the detail of which it describes these monumental events and in the compassionate portraits of all the principle characters
- both powerful and moving. I can't account for how at any given moment I feel the need to explore one life as opposed to another.
But I do know that I can only do this work if I feel almost as if there's no choice; that a subject coincides inexplicably with a very personal need and a very specific moment in time.
In this case, as fascinated as I was by 'Abe,' it was the fascination of a grateful spectator who longed to see a story told rather than that of a participant.
That's how I feel now in spite of myself, and though I can't be sure this won't change, I couldn't dream of encouraging you to keep it open on a mere possibility.
I do hope this makes sense Steven. I'm glad you're making the film. I wish you the strength for it and I send both my very best wishes and my sincere gratitude to you for having considered me. Daniel."
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis previously portrayed Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting in Martin Scorsese's Банды Нью-Йорка, a character who opposed Lincoln's political plans.
Once Daniel Day-Lewis decided on the voice that he would use to portray Lincoln, he sent an audiotape of it to
Director Steven Spielberg in a box with a skull & crossbones on it so no one but he would hear it first.
Steven Spielberg spent 12 years researching the film. He recreated Lincoln's Executive Mansion office precisely, with the same wallpaper and books Lincoln used.
The ticking of Lincoln's watch in the film is the sound of Lincoln's actual pocket watch.
Lincoln's watch is housed in the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, Kentucky (not the Lincoln Presidential Library.) It is the watch he carried the day of his assassination.
Describing his experience playing Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis said, "I never, ever felt that depth of love for another human being that I never met.
And that's, I think, probably the effect that Lincoln has on most people that take the time to discover him... I wish he had stayed [with me] forever."
During the three and a half months of filming, Steven Spielberg addressed his actors in character: he called Daniel Day-Lewis "Mr. President," and Sally Field "Mrs. Lincoln," or "Molly."
Additionally, he wore a suit every day on set: "I think I wanted to get into the role, more than anything else, of being part of that experience - because we were recreating a piece of history.
And so I didn't want to look like the schlubby, baseball cap wearing 21st century guy; I wanted to be like the cast."
During production, the part of Abraham Lincoln is listed on the call sheet as being played by Abraham Lincoln, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
Sally Field was so determined to play Mary Todd Lincoln, she begged Steven Spielberg for the chance to screen test alongside Daniel Day-Lewis.
Spielberg believed she was too old to play the part, but Field was adamant. She recalled,
"I'm 10 years older than Daniel and 20 years older than Abraham Lincoln's wife was and Steven told me he didn't see me in the role.
But I knew I was right for this part and begged him to let me audition for it.
He was kind enough to do that and Daniel is such a sweetheart that he flew over from his home in Ireland to screen test with me. I'll love him forever for that."
Sally Field gained 25 pounds in order to more accurately portray Mrs. Lincoln.
Steven Spielberg told a preview audience in Manhattan that screenwriter Tony Kushner spent about six years working on the movie.
Originally it was conceived of as a bio film exploring Lincoln's entire life story, but eventually was whittled down
to the events surrounding the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in the U.S. detailed in Doris Kearns Goodwin 's book "Team of Rivals".
Steven Spielberg has explained that during the movie's climactic scene in which the names of House of Representative members are being called to vote on the 13th Amendment,
the names of many of the men who voted 'No' - for various reasons - were actually changed in the film
so as not to embarrass the living descendants of these men whose reputations might have been stained by their negative vote-casting.
Abraham and Mary have one of their famous fights, in which he threatens to have her committed to a mad house.
In the case of this film, the issue they fight over is Robert's enlistment in the army.
Coincidentally, it would be Robert who ultimately did commit her to an insane asylum, tragically leading to their permanent estrangement.
Lobbyist William N. Bilbo's (James Spader) appearance was created from scratch because not a single photo of him exists. His eccentric presence was taken from various sources.
James Spader was personally instructed by Daniel Day-Lewis to be "as nasty as possible" to portray William N. Bilbo.
Every major character in the film was a real person or at least a composite of real figures and the film strives to reflect the actual actions or thoughts of the historical figures.