Debuting the same night as the first 2012 Presidential Debate, the second trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln reminds us why Honest Abe was arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. (And why Daniel Day-Lewis will probably never play Mitt Romney.)
Opening with a montage of important events in American history, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, WWII, and post-9/11 New York, this new trailer explicitly targets the immense political strife and violence that ripped the nation apart during The Civil War. Drawing parallels to political leaders as varied as Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi (both of whom have had big, Hollywood biopics made of their life), the focus of the trailer is, appropriately enough, all on Lincoln.
Lincoln’s powerful, final words in the trailer, “I am President of the United States of America, clothed with immense power!” are taken directly from records of the Congressional on the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, which came down to the wire. Lincoln gave that speech to procure the two votes he needed for the amendment to pass.
You can check out all the civil unrest, bloody battles, and stovepipe hats for yourself when Lincoln opens in theaters November 16th.
—Have to say, even with the make up, Lewis’s performance
does NOT convince.
Meanwhile, beyond the fact that this is a done-to-death subject
and handy PC moral alibi for a staggeringly compromised
franchise slum Hollywood —-the non-lotomized will be noticing
—–Hollywood has BALKED
—this year’s 200th Anniversary of the Defeat of Napoleonic Globalism at Moscow
——100th Anniversary of the Jeckyl island banking and EUGENICS coup against
the Republic
——the 40th Anniversary of the Nixon-MAO handover summit
–and the 20th –30th –40th –50th –and now 60th Anniversary
of the RED China –Globalism and EUGENICS ‘unfriendly’
——————————KOREAN WAR——————————
NOT GOOD