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Lincoln

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Lincoln	comment	Lincoln is a historical retelling of the 16th President of the United States's attempts to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner, based on the acclaimed biography Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as their son Robert and has a supporting cast that includes Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, Jared Harris and Jackie Earle Haley. (A pre-stardom Adam Driver can be seen as the telegraph operator.)Set during the last four months of President Abraham Lincoln's life, the film's main focus is on his guiding of the political forces in America to end the Civil War and pass the 13th Amendment, thereby abolishing slavery. This is much harder than it sounds, due to the many political divisions not just in the North (to say nothing of the country) at the time, but also in Lincoln's own party. The Radical Republicans led by Representative Thaddeus Stevens demand a strong bill to be passed at all costs, while the more conservative party members led by the Blair family want to hold off until they can try one more chance at negotiating peace with the rebellious South. Throwing complete support behind either side risks the Amendment not getting passed at all, and even with the support of his own party, Lincoln still needs some Democratic support to pass the amendment as well. This sets the stage for a series of behind the scenes maneuvers to sway certain Congressmen to break from their party and vote for the Amendment.Meanwhile, Lincoln also has to deal with his family issues, particularly his son Robert's demands to enlist over his wife Mary's vehement objections.The film was given a limited release on November 9, 2012 before opening wide on the 16th and becoming a robust box office hit for a historical political drama. The trailer can be viewed here.
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Lincoln / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Lincoln / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: At the very end, during the carriage ride, between Lincoln and Mary, after spending the film arguing about their son Robert's desire to enlist in the military, affirm their love for each other.
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Lincoln / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Lincoln / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Sally Field is 9 years older than Day-Lewis, the reverse of Lincoln's difference to Mary. Thankfully the make-up makes him look older than her. George H. Pendleton was played by Peter McRobbie, who was in his late 60s. The real Pendleton was just shy of 40 at the time the film took place. Bill Raymond, who was in his 70s, plays House Speaker Schuyler Colfax, who was only 41 when the 13th Amendment was passed.
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Lincoln / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Lincoln / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: While Congress may have a cold attitude towards him, it's clear Lincoln loves and is loved by his soldiers.
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Lincoln / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
Lincoln / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: A signature behavior of Lincoln, present in many of the conversations he has throughout the film. They don't always have a relevant moral, though. The first time, with the parrot story, it's completely unrelated. The second time with the Ethan Allen story, it's just to get everyone to lighten up a bit. Lampshaded hilariously by Stanton who at one point interrupts Lincoln, shouting "I am not going to sit through another one of your stories!"
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Lincoln / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Lincoln / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Thaddeus Stevens is a stubborn obstinate jerk who doesn't give a damn bout what "the people" want. He is also a merciless fighter for freedom and justice for all people.
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Lincoln / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Lincoln / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: During the first vote-canvassing montage, one Congressman slams his door in the lobbyist's face and a picture of a soldier falls off of a mourning wreath. The picture was of the Congressman's brother, and the Congressman now opposes the 13th Amendment because he blames black people for his brother's death in the war. Lincoln's telegraph to Ulysses S. Grant. He initially pushes for the decision to discuss the terms for peace with the South in Washington, only to change his mind and have them sent to another city. On the day of the vote, word reaches Congress of the South attempting to make peace overtures, causing both parties to attempt to delay the vote...until Lincoln uses Exact Words to deny knowledge of any Southern delegates in Washington.
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Lincoln / int_23a37bb9	type	So Happy Together
Lincoln / int_23a37bb9	comment	So Happy Together: After the 13th Amendment is passed, Abraham and Mrs. Lincoln reconcile and are shown happy together, musing on going on vacation and seeing Jerusalem. It doesn't happen.
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Lincoln / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Lincoln / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: This film uses phrases that didn't exist back then, Justified because modern audiences wouldn't understand 19th century upper-crust (or worse yet: slang) American English.
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Lincoln / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Lincoln / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Abe, of course.
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Lincoln / int_2a3aa1a5	type	Peace Conference
Lincoln / int_2a3aa1a5	comment	Peace Conference: As promised to his conservative allies, and after delaying long enough to get the 13th Amendment passed, Lincoln meets with Confederate peace feelers at Hampton Roads. The talks go nowhere despite Lincoln's plea to "Stop this bleeding."
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Lincoln / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Lincoln / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Many of the politicians in the film. Thaddeus Stevens has this as his native language.
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Lincoln / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Lincoln / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Seward is not sleazy in character, but he still maintains his contacts with political operatives who are, whom he sets to rounding up lame-duck Democrats that can be persuaded to vote aye.
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Lincoln / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Lincoln / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: This film is about Honest Abe, but he is the one who orders his Secretary of State to get professional lobbyists to wheel and deal with patronage appointments as much as they can to secure the votes necessary to get the 13th Amendment passed. In Stevens's words concerning himself: "The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America."
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Lincoln / int_37d2818	type	Title In
Lincoln / int_37d2818	comment	Title In: A frequent sight throughout the film, e.g., JANUARY, 1865 / TWO MONTHS HAVE PASSED SINCE ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S RE-ELECTION / THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR IS NOW IN ITS FOURTH YEAR.
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Lincoln / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Lincoln / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Lincoln and Mary Todd go to the opera to see Gounod's Faust, the same opera featured at the start of The Age of Innocence (which also starred Daniel Day-Lewis) set 10 years later in the 1870s.
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Lincoln / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
Lincoln / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: An inversion. We're shown that Lydia Smith, who viewers would assume to be Thaddeus Stevens' maid, is actually his live-in mistress when he gets into bed and the camera pans across to reveal Lydia in bed next to him.
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Lincoln / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Lincoln / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Lincoln's love of theater is shown midway through the film. The second and final theater scene throws a twist by showing a different show than Lincoln's final one, being watched by his son Tad instead, which is canceled to announce the President's assassination. They didn't make that last one up for dramatic effect, either, that actually happened. Also, the 13th Amendment passed.
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Lincoln / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Lincoln / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Both Seward and the Radical Republicans believe that it will be much easier to pass the amendment after the end of the year, when the newly-elected Congressmen take their seats and the Republicans have an overwhelming majority in both the House and Senate; Asa Litton decries Lincoln's push to pass the amendment now as an empty gesture to frighten the Confederacy into ending the war, or else a feeble attempt to show "support" from the Democrats in the House. But Lincoln is painfully aware that while a majority of the Union supports abolition for various reasons, only a small minority (including Stevens and the Radical Republicans) believe in true equality for blacks, and he can easily foresee enthusiasm for the amendment fading away in the new house, especially if the war is over by then. He is calculating that outgoing Democrats who have nothing to lose (and much to gain through federal patronage) are actually more likely to vote in favor of the amendment than incoming Republicans at the start of their new terms. Seward then has a short conversation with a couple presenting a petition to the President, who admit that they'd be happier if the war could be ended without freeing the Confederacy's slaves: Stevens is a firm believer in this, which is why he's so vehemently opposed to Lincoln's gradualism and his avowed faith that "the people" will do what's right, when they're ready to:
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Lincoln / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Lincoln / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Lincoln's flag-raising speech. It's no Gettysburg Address.
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Lincoln / int_3fba7250	type	Father Neptune
Lincoln / int_3fba7250	comment	Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, who keeps things going when Stanton has a temper tantrum.
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Lincoln / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Lincoln / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: As dictated by history, the Amendment passes and the Civil War comes to an end in short order. And Lincoln is assassinated not long afterward.
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Lincoln / int_4133a8bc	type	Forgets to Eat
Lincoln / int_4133a8bc	comment	Forgets to Eat: Both Robert and Abe, according to Mary.
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Lincoln / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Lincoln / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Tommy Lee Jones plays Thaddeus Stevens with his normal Texas accent, though Stevens was from Pennsylvania, and it would have been very ironic to have such a fiery abolitionist from the deep South.note Although, of course, there were some.
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Lincoln / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Lincoln / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Lincoln's perfectly capable of yelling when he needs to, but when he lowers his voice, you realize what makes him probably the scariest man in the nation.
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Lincoln / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Lincoln / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: When Speaker of the House Colfax breaks tradition to cast a vote, McPherson asks him how he wants to vote. Colfax gives him a mildly disappointed look and says, "Aye, of course!"
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Lincoln / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
Lincoln / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Lincoln, much to the exasperation of his Cabinet and his staff. The real-life Lincoln was known for telling stories at every occasion... sometimes with a subtle message, ofttimes to tell a joke during a tense moment and break the mood.
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Lincoln / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Lincoln / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Discussed in a private meeting between Lincoln and Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens has revolutionary ideas about making all African-Americans equal and overturning Southern society to make it a haven for citizens of all colors. Lincoln agrees with him in principle, but he cautions Stevens to not make his goals so clear, for fear of scaring off his more reluctant supporters, and start with the small step of abolition first. Lincoln himself is susceptible to this; Seward points out that the Republicans had won control of the House in the 1864 elections, which upon their sitting would have made approval of the 13th Amendment a cakewalk. Lincoln, however, was insistent that the amendment bill be passed with the votes of "lame duck" Democrat representatives to show that it was bipartisan.
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Lincoln / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Lincoln / int_45cd286c	comment	Pettifoggers are underhanded, disreputable shyster lawyers, and ones who nitpick and quibble over trifling details; hucksters are peddlers who typically sell their goods on street curbs, or go from door-to-door; Tammany Hall was the name of the political machine that ran New York City, of which Fernando Wood was a prominent member.
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Lincoln / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Lincoln / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Lincoln and the other Union soldiers solemnly doff their hats to Robert E. Lee after he surrenders at Appomattox (this actually happened, of course). Also displayed between Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens. They knew each other from their time in Congress. During their brief parley for peace at the movie's end they are amicable where Stephens' fellow Confederates are rude and dismissive.
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Lincoln / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Lincoln / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Thaddeus Stevens. Half of what he says is devoted to insulting whoever he is addressing. This has a lot to do with the fact that he is decades ahead of his time (even among many of his fellow abolitionists) in thinking that black people deserve complete equality with whites and considers himself married by common law to his "housekeeper," even though common law itself would not. His insults are directed towards opponents of abolition and people who he does not think are committed enough to abolition.
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Lincoln / int_4d422f71	type	Throw It In!
Lincoln / int_4d422f71	comment	Those unfamiliar with Lincoln family history may do a double take to see that Robert Todd Lincoln (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is present at the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Robert was in fact actually there and not a Throw It In! by the filmmakers.
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Lincoln / int_4e6cb27f	type	Rambling Old Man Monologue
Lincoln / int_4e6cb27f	comment	Rambling Old Man Monologue: Lincoln has a habit of breaking into anecdotes that sometimes don't have any relevance to the topic at hand. Other times they're quite calculated to produce an effect.
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Lincoln / int_4fc0aaa7	type	Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
Lincoln / int_4fc0aaa7	comment	Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: Lincoln's story about the doomsayer parrot. Once it's finished, everyone who heard it is staring confusedly wondering what on earth that was all about.
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Lincoln / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
Lincoln / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: Washington, D.C. in general and the White House in particular, according to Mrs. Lincoln.
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Lincoln / int_504333fe	type	A God I Am Not
Lincoln / int_504333fe	comment	A God I Am Not: Lincoln, who has no symptoms of seeing himself as a god, but makes a boast as he encourages William Seward and James Ashley to go out and gather support for the proposed amendment:
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Lincoln / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
Lincoln / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: The passing of the amendment and the final abolition of slavery results in many Republicans, Ashley and Litton among them, to break down sobbing after seeing their greatest dream made a reality.
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Lincoln / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
Lincoln / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: The original book was called Team of Rivals for a reason. Lincoln's powerhouse cabinet spends much of their time together yelling at each other instead of getting policies carried out. At least until Lincoln brings down the thunder. And they're just a few men; Congress is even worse. The Congressional scenes come off like a cross between CSpan's coverage of today's Congress and Prime Minister's Question Time. Several reviews point out, positively, that the entire picture is "two and a half hours of historical CSpan".
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Lincoln / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Lincoln / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: As Spielberg put it on the 149th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address: "It's not the job, and in fact it's a betrayal of the job, of a historian to promise perfect and complete recall of the past, to promise memory that abolishes loss. One of the jobs of art is to go to the impossible places that other disciplines, like history, must avoid." With that in mind... Lincoln was not clothed upon his death (so Doctor Charles Leale and two other doctors could check for other wounds and apply hot water bottles, a mustard plaster, and blankets to make him comfortable) and was laid diagonally, since the bed he was put in was too small for him. The possibility that any Union soldier, black or white, would have committed the Gettysburg Address to memory in 1863 is remote, since the speech did not enter the national vocabulary until the early 20th century. Two of the soldiers at least have the excuse that they were at Gettysburg when he made the speech. William Henry Harrison's portrait was never hung in Lincoln's office. First Lady Mary Lincoln did not attend the final tally on the amendment. The flag raised near the beginning of the film is raised with a crank instead of a system of ropes. Votes then were taken in order of representatives' last names in alphabetical order, not by state, and all of the Connecticut House members voted for the amendment, not just one. Screenwriter Tony Kushner later released a statement clarifying this was intentional; they wanted to make the progression of the vote more obvious (hence the vote by state) and for it to have early opposition to represent the obstacles it faced. Connecticut so happened to be right at the start of the list with the Northern states listed alphabetically. Bilbo jokes that Seward went so far as to forbid the Gang of Three from using the coins that bear Lincoln's visage to avoid any connection between them and the president. While there was money with Lincoln's image at the time, it was on the ten dollar bill, not on coins. Alexander Gardner would not have sent fragile one-of-a-kind plates to Tad Lincoln, especially since the boy had once ruined several images by locking their developer in a closet. Tad Lincoln is shown as a normal eleven year-old boy in the film. In real life Tad Lincoln had a very serious speech impediment, to the point that only his closest family and teachers could understand him. He later had speech therapy to overcome this. Based on photographic evidence, he most likely had a cleft lip or cleft palate. Bilbo and his cohorts were real and lobbied congressmen on Seward's behalf during the 13th Amendment debate. Beyond that, their portrayals are largely invented. Bilbo's collaboration with Seward and Lincoln was hardly a secret as the film depicts: Bilbo had met Lincoln and corresponded with him regularly about political matters, unlike the film where he strains to keep his distance from the President, while Latham and Schell were longtime friends and political partners of Seward. On the other hand, historians question whether Bilbo and Co. succeeded in changing a significant number of votes, with only one congressmannote Wells Hutchins of Ohio, a pro-Lincoln War Democrat who may well have voted for the Amendment anyway believed to have actually been influenced by their lobbying. Alexander Coffroth, the wavering Pennsylvania congressman, has a pronounced stutter that is Played for Laughs and suggests to Stevens that he will switch parties from Democrat to Republican after the amendment passes. Cofforth actually had a reputation as a skilled orator, and he remained a lifelong Democrat until his retirement. Rep. Josiah "Beanpole" Burton and Dem. Clay Hawkins are entirely fictional Congressman.
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Lincoln / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Lincoln / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The amendment requires anywhere from 16 to 20 Democrats voting yes to pass. This is harder than it sounds because a major amount of Lincoln's support comes from Radical Republicans, who are heavily opposed to working with Democrats. Lincoln eventually convinces Rep. Stevens to cooperate for the greater good, and in a memorable scene Stevens verbally intimidates the feeble Democrat Coffroth into not switching parties because they need to show other Dems that the 13th has bipartisan support.
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Lincoln / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Lincoln / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: When Lincoln is recounting the story of Ethan Allen visiting an English privy:
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Lincoln / int_5f8ddb2c	type	Corpse Land
Lincoln / int_5f8ddb2c	comment	Corpse Land: Lincoln passes through the killing grounds of the Battle of Petersburg and goes by countless dead bodies of Union and Confederate soldiers alike. He takes his hat off in respect and the last thing seen is a dead rebel soldier staring lifelessly into the sky.
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Lincoln / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
Lincoln / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Thaddeus Stevens has been fighting for abolition for his entire political career, and refuses to accept any compromises about it even when many of his colleagues are willing to do so if it means ending the war sooner. He puts up with repeated mockery him for his at-the-time radical belief that all people, black or white, are completely equal. He eventually relents and accepts some rhetorical and political compromises in order to get the 13th amendment passed, (see, I Did What I Had to Do).
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Lincoln / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Lincoln / int_627264e0	comment	When Seward first tells Lincoln that congressmen came to him asking if there was a peace delegation, he told them there wasn't because if there were Lincoln would have discussed it with him first. As he's saying this, though, he's giving Lincoln a Death Glare that screams: "I know it's true and why didn't you tell me?"
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Lincoln / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Lincoln / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Many of the Republican Congressman after securing the passage of the 13th Amendment. When the black people enter the gallery to hear the vote on the amendment, Rep. Litton's voice goes rough and cracks as he greets them. Rep. James Ashley has an Inelegant Blubbering moment after the amendment passes.
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Lincoln / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Lincoln / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Thaddeus Stevens's mistress (or common-law wife in his eyes-played by S. Epatha Merkerson) is black and pretends to be his housekeeper to prevent rumors.
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Lincoln / int_6aa1a448	type	Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition
Lincoln / int_6aa1a448	comment	Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: There is a scene where Lincoln is arguing with his wife on the morality of going to war. There is lighting flashing through the dark window on Lincoln's side, while there is fire burning in a fire place next to the wife. Lincoln is arguing going to war to stop slavery and stop an insurrection. Meanwhile, his wife is arguing that the lives of young soldiers and consequently their families are at stake. It seems that the use of lightning and fire shows that both are serious arguments-but both have different connotations. Lincoln's lightning might represent both the "divine" justice needed to be done and Lincoln's strong ideological stance. His wife's stance is depicted as a fire-place, usually a symbol of home, and fire as a symbol of truth, indicating there would be a high cost to pay for the war. Also, male vs. female. Ideals vs. truths?
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Lincoln / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Lincoln / int_6bda9a30	comment	And George ''Yeaman'':
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Lincoln / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Lincoln / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Alexander Coughdrop— ahem... er, Coffroth. And George ''Yeaman'':
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Lincoln / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Lincoln / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: The last we see of George Pendleton, oldest opponent of abolition, is him silently walking through the celebrating House chamber with an expression of despair that the 13th Amendment passed.
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Lincoln / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Lincoln / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Possibly. Hal Holbrook, who plays Francis Preston Blair, is well-known for his Emmy-winning portrayals of Lincoln in TV miniseries such as Sandburg's Lincoln and North and South (U.S.). Two of Lincoln's petitioners, Mr. and Mrs. Jolly, are played by husband and wife Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel. Bruce McGill, as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, is still the organizer of mayhem par excellence.
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Lincoln / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Lincoln / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Vice-President of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens is a reprehensible white supremacist, but he doesn't view this as good reason to treat black people poorly.
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Lincoln / int_75aa4ad2	type	Slippery Slope Fallacy
Lincoln / int_75aa4ad2	comment	Slippery Slope Fallacy: One of the most effective arguments used by Pendleton, Wood, and the other Democratic Representatives in convincing fence-sitting Representatives to vote against the 13th Amendment is that abolition is just the first step towards giving blacks the vote, and eventually full equality with whites, concepts that few people outside of Stevens and the Radical Republicans can even contemplate, much less make themselves comfortable with. Lincoln addresses this in conversation with George Yeaman:
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Lincoln / int_75f612a3	type	Simple Country Lawyer
Lincoln / int_75f612a3	comment	Simple Country Lawyer: Despite being the President, Lincoln still projects this vibe, and often tells stories from his lawyer days. Tony Kushner noted that this was inspired by John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln which showed Lincoln's early days as a lawyer.
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Lincoln / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Lincoln / int_762b9223	comment	Alexander Coffroth, the wavering Pennsylvania congressman, has a pronounced stutter that is Played for Laughs and suggests to Stevens that he will switch parties from Democrat to Republican after the amendment passes. Cofforth actually had a reputation as a skilled orator, and he remained a lifelong Democrat until his retirement.
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Lincoln / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Lincoln / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who fusses over the burnt edge of a military map and positively storms out of the room when Lincoln starts to tell another of his stories. George Washington, or rather a painting of him-cut to his morose expression during the perfect Lincoln anecdote about him.
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Lincoln / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Lincoln / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The film opens violently with the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry.
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Lincoln / int_77e45bb5	type	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
Lincoln / int_77e45bb5	comment	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Lincoln slaps Robert after Robert accuses him of barring him from service for fear of Mary more than Robert's death. The blow is not physically hard and Lincoln tries to embrace his son right afterwards, but it has a very bad effect on both men.
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Lincoln / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Lincoln / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Lincoln is not above using his authority as Commander-in-Chief to block his son's determination to enlist in the Army.
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Lincoln / int_7a570c0	type	The Good Chancellor
Lincoln / int_7a570c0	comment	The Good Chancellor: Secretary of State William Seward frequently and vocally disagrees with how Lincoln does things, and prior to Lincoln's presidency was a heavily-favored political rival to win the 1860 Republican nomination... but as Secretary of State commits himself fully to fulfilling the president's wishes by any means necessary. note The parallels between this and President Obama and Hillary Clinton are not lost on historians, nor on Obama himself, who had read Team of Rivals prior to winning the presidency and deliberately applied its lessons.
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Lincoln / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
Lincoln / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Lincoln, who in Real Life was in fact a big William Shakespeare fan, quotes from Henry IV, Part 2: Early in the movie, while recounting his dream to Mary, Lincoln quotes Hamlet's speech about being "a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." Lincoln even quotes from Macbeth when William Seward takes objection to Lincoln's inviting the Southern delegates for a peace conference: When going over the naval strategy, he paraphrases the "Never shake thy gory locks at me" line from Macbeth:
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Lincoln / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Lincoln / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Lincoln looks close to tears when Alexander Stephens asks him, "how many hundreds of thousands have died during your administration?"
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Lincoln / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Lincoln / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Mrs. Lincoln thinks Abe sees Robert as this, while Abe suggests that Mrs. Lincoln sees Tad as this (the film depicts their true feelings towards their sons as much more complex).
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Lincoln / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Lincoln / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: The Confederate Peace Commission. They know they're about lose the war, but stubbornly refuse to give up their slaves, somehow thinking they can keep the old South intact.
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Lincoln / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Lincoln / int_7d89315b	comment	Thaddeus Stevens gets one, kind of, when pressed by his Democrat enemies to either admit that he believes blacks should be completely equal to whites in all things, or to take a more moderate, watered down approach — either would jeopardize support for the amendment from some quarters. He gets around it by admitting that he doesn't believe all men are equal... because the men he's currently arguing with are loathsome, slimy idiots closer to reptiles than men.
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Lincoln / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Lincoln / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Fernando Wood's first scene is him loudly giving a fiery speech about the superiority of white men and Lincoln's supposed tyranny, even calling him "King Abrahamus Africanus The First" (which is a Historical In-Joke referring to a pamphlet released by Pro-Confederate "Copperheads" like Wood, which accused Lincoln of becoming a dictator.) Ulysses S. Grant's first scene shows well why his nickname was "Unconditional Surrender Grant", as he bluntly tells the Confederate delegates that their terms of truce are unreasonable and that neither he nor Lincoln consider the South a sovereign nation, just armed rebels.
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Lincoln / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Lincoln / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Wood, Stanton, "Beanpole" Burton. Bilbo has his moments too.
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Lincoln / int_82ab88c5	type	Percussive Pickpocket
Lincoln / int_82ab88c5	comment	Percussive Pickpocket: Inverted. Lincoln's lobbyists deliberately crash into a Democrat they hope to bribe a vote from, apologize, and help him recollect his papers. It takes a second or two for the Congressman to realize that they're piling money into his folder.
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Lincoln / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Lincoln / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Thaddeus Stevens and Francis Preston Blair and their affiliated factions respectively. Stevens and the Radical Republicans want the amendment to pass in order to abolish slavery and help bring about more racial equality, while Blair and the conservative Republicans are only interested in passing it as a pragmatic means to end the war. The two black soldiers who talk to Lincoln at the beginning of the movie. Corporal Clark takes the opportunity to criticize the government's poor treatment of black soldiers, while Private Green is more conciliatory towards the president and just wants to hear some news.
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Lincoln / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
Lincoln / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman Ã Clef: The names of the Representatives who voted against the 13th Amendment were changed for the film. Steven Spielberg said this was done out of respect for the families (however, this was not done for opposition ringleaders George Pendleton and Fernando Wood, since they play such major roles in the film).
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Lincoln / int_854601b3	type	Government Procedural
Lincoln / int_854601b3	comment	Government Procedural: Really more of this than a Biopic, as the film covers January-April 1865 and the passage of the 13th Amendment.
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Lincoln / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Lincoln / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Lincoln impressions almost invariably use a deep, sonorous tone (this started with molasses-voiced Raymond Massey in his 1940 performance), when in reality Lincoln had a high and nasal voice like he has in the film. Some viewers may find it strange that Representative Fernando Wood sounds British even though he's an American, perhaps thinking the film is invoking the Evil Brit trope. In actuality, Wood, as depicted by Lee Pace, sounds that way because he is using elocution, the art of formal speech. Wood may have learned this "classical" sound in school, or picked it up by listening to actors (perhaps the extremely popular Booths) and others trained in public speaking. Bill Raymond as Schuyler Colfax, saying "The House recognizes Fernando Wood," is also using it. Elocution kind of evolved into the "Mid-Atlantic" sound, used by many American film actorsnote Katharine Hepburn, Mia Farrow, Vincent Price which is why they seemed to sound British, up until the 1970s, when this style was largely dropped in favor of "naturalistic" speech.
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Lincoln / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Lincoln / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Representative Ashley suffers one towards Lincoln when he realizes that Lincoln not only delayed the Confederate peace commissioner delegation but lied about it, and is furious because he knows now there's no way the 13th Amendment will ever pass. Representative Litton suffers one to Thaddeus Stevens when the latter is basically hamstrung into declaring that he only believes in the legal and not moral equality of black people.
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Lincoln / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Lincoln / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power!" Yes, that is an actual Lincoln quote.
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Lincoln / int_86c2ee3c	type	Dodgy Toupee
Lincoln / int_86c2ee3c	comment	Dodgy Toupee: Stevens didn't really care about his appearance that much; he had more important things to worry about.
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Lincoln / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Lincoln / int_875615dd	comment	Lincoln's love of theater is shown midway through the film. The second and final theater scene throws a twist by showing a different show than Lincoln's final one, being watched by his son Tad instead, which is canceled to announce the President's assassination. They didn't make that last one up for dramatic effect, either, that actually happened.
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Lincoln / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Lincoln / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: We get two theater scenes before the end of the film, and the second one isn't Ford's Theatre, either. Note that the second one was not added for dramatic effect, Tad Lincoln was in fact actually attending a performance of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp when the news broke out that his father had been shot.
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Lincoln / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Lincoln / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Stanton and Welles describe the amphibious attack on Fort Fisher as beginning with a "steady barrage" from the largest fleet the navy had ever assembled. When another cabinet member wants clarification Stanton elaborates that it means 100 shells every minute until the rebels surrender. For context, in the last war America fought 180 shells an hour was the rate of fire during the siege of an entire city.
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Lincoln / int_8d463bfd	type	Parenthetical Swearing
Lincoln / int_8d463bfd	comment	Parenthetical Swearing: When Lincoln gets fed up with the squabbling members of his cabinet, he delivers a line with such explosive potency that viewers have mistaken it for an actual F-Bomb: Pettifoggers are underhanded, disreputable shyster lawyers, and ones who nitpick and quibble over trifling details; hucksters are peddlers who typically sell their goods on street curbs, or go from door-to-door; Tammany Hall was the name of the political machine that ran New York City, of which Fernando Wood was a prominent member.
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Lincoln / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Lincoln / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: One of Lincoln's stories from his lawyer days. An abusive husband was killed by his wife in the middle of a fight and his reputation was so bad that no one was eager to convict her. Lincoln was assigned as her lawyer, he subtly hinted she flee, and she did. Most everyone's response after that was just to drop the case.
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Lincoln / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Lincoln / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: When Lincoln has a conference with two of his aides:
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Lincoln / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Lincoln / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Southern congressmen who support the amendment on moral grounds but will not defy their party completely can choose to abstain rather than vote either way. This didn't necessarily help their political careers any more than just voting for the amendment, however. Thaddeus Stevens gets one, kind of, when pressed by his Democrat enemies to either admit that he believes blacks should be completely equal to whites in all things, or to take a more moderate, watered down approach — either would jeopardize support for the amendment from some quarters. He gets around it by admitting that he doesn't believe all men are equal... because the men he's currently arguing with are loathsome, slimy idiots closer to reptiles than men.
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Lincoln / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Lincoln / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: The Lincolns have never recovered from the loss of their middle son Willie. Mary's grief was such that her husband thought of having her committed to an asylum, and she swears that he'll have to if their eldest son Robert is killed in the war.
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Lincoln / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
Lincoln / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: In one hilarious scene one of the lobbyists tries to bribe a vote out of a Democrat only for the man to whip out a gun and try to shoot him. The lobbyist manages to grab his hand and make the first shot miss, then scrambles to collect his papers while the Congressman hurries to reload. The lobbyist kicks dirt into his face to delay him, then runs like heck to escape the Congressman.
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Lincoln / int_970ccfec	type	Big "YES!"
Lincoln / int_970ccfec	comment	Big "YES!": When it is George Yeaman's turn to vote on the 13th Amendment, he initially responds by mumbling something inaudible. When asked to speak up, he stands and shouts as loud and long as his lungs will let him, followed with the cheering of his new fellows in the amendment's proponents.
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Lincoln / int_978379ad	type	Token Enemy Minority
Lincoln / int_978379ad	comment	Token Enemy Minority: Bilbo, one of Seward's lobbyists, is a southern Unionist who was driven out of Tennessee after siding with the Republicans.
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Lincoln / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Lincoln / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Lots of exposition early in the film regarding the political situation and the mechanics of getting an amendment passed, including Seward explicating things like the 2/3 majority requirement that Lincoln would obviously already know.
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Lincoln / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Lincoln / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: Democrat Clay Hawkins is bribed by Bilbo to vote yes for the amendment in exchange for... becoming the postmaster of Millersburg, Ohio. He initially asks to be the taxman of the Western Reserve, but Bilbo negotiates him down to postmaster. When his fellows Democrats find out, though, they're both amused and disgusted, and Hawkins chickens out of the bribe. In the end, though, he chooses to vote yes on the amendment anyway regardless of the bribe or his fellow Dems.
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Lincoln / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Lincoln / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In an early congressional debate as to whether or not slavery is "natural law", George Pendleton taunts the pro-abolition and pro-equality Thaddeus Stevens by asking if slavery isn't natural law, what is? Stevens is finally provoked to respond when Pendleton disparagingly mentions interracial marriage. When asked to speak, Stevens keeps stealing glances up at the viewing gallery, where the black people are sitting. You could easily pass this off as simply an example of his fervent abolitionism, except for how the camera always focuses on Elizabeth Keckley, a black maid. As Lincoln gets up to leave what will turn out to be his last cabinet meeting, he remarks, "I suppose it's time to go, though I would rather stay."
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Lincoln / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Lincoln / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: A lively bluegrass theme appears whenever Bilbo and his cohorts are onscreen.
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Lincoln / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Lincoln / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Lincoln is very involved with Tad. At the most crucial point in the film, Lincoln is absorbed in reading with him and watching him make a fort out of books for his toy soldiers. He loves Robert too, contrary to what Mary thinks, and begs him not to join the army.
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Lincoln / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Lincoln / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Often occurs thanks to ongoing war. For example, Lincoln once tells a hilarious anecdote to lighten the mood of telegraphers, then listens urgently with them as they report the outcome of the Battle of Fort Fisher... and the casualties.
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Lincoln / int_a6f5faba	type	Large Ham Title
Lincoln / int_a6f5faba	comment	Large Ham Title: Sort of. Lincoln tells Secretary Stanton to start talking with "Thunder forth, god of war!" Truth in Television, as Lincoln did refer to Stanton as his "Mars."
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Lincoln / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Lincoln / int_a8559a9f	comment	Lincoln, who in Real Life was in fact a big William Shakespeare fan, quotes from Henry IV, Part 2:
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Lincoln / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Lincoln / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Many of the characters display the usual racial prejudices of the time, and Thaddeus Stevens' belief in racial equality is frighteningly radical to his peers. It's especially hammered when Representative George Yeaman says he cannot endorse the 13th Amendment because it might lead to further reform. Even the Republicans balk alongside their Democratic counterparts as Yeaman floats the idea of woman's suffrage. Also, the shameless use of the Spoils System in order to secure the necessary votes. Short of actual bribery, the promising of patronage positions was legal, if not necessarily well-regarded, which is why Lincoln did not want to be identified with it. These tactics are now illegal and would be seen as blatant corruption in the modern day. Arguably, it was the assassination of another President by a disgruntled office-seeker that was largely responsible for the change, a change implemented in large part (appropriately enough) by George Pendleton, Lincoln's Big Bad. An anecdote is mentioned of a woman due to be convicted for murder even though the jury was reluctant to convict her, knowing she acted in self-defense. Since the law didn't make that allowance for women then, she's allowed to flee while everyone's back is turned and no one bothers to search for her. Thaddeus Stevens has to hide his belief in racial equality so this fear doesn't kill the Amendment, plus the fact he's married in all but name to his black maid.
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Lincoln / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Lincoln / int_ab5eea65	comment	Representative Ashley suffers one towards Lincoln when he realizes that Lincoln not only delayed the Confederate peace commissioner delegation but lied about it, and is furious because he knows now there's no way the 13th Amendment will ever pass.
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Lincoln / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Lincoln / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: Secretary Seward initially urges Lincoln to hold off on calling for a vote on the 13th Amendment until Congress elected in 1864 meets for the first time, upon which the House of Representatives will have a Republican majority. Lincoln, however, insists it must be done before then because the war will be over soon and many Republicans will see no reason to vote for the 13th if the South is already defeated. To test this Seward asks a visiting couple who claim to support the amendment if they would still vote for it if the war were already won, to which they admit they wouldn't, they only care about winning the war sooner.
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Lincoln / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Lincoln / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Pendelton's expression after Yeaman votes in favor of the Thirteenth Amendment. He knows, just like the Gang of Three predicted earlier, that someone as publicly against the amendment as Yeaman switching sides would have leave a strong impression on the rest of Congress. Sure enough, the next three Democrats who had been counted on to vote against the amendment desert Pendleton.
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Lincoln / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Lincoln / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Thaddeus Stevens, big time. Lincoln himself also indulges in this from time to time.
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Lincoln / int_aefa4f68	type	FloweryInsult
Lincoln / int_aefa4f68	comment	Flowery Insult: "Fatuous nincompoop" is one of the less elaborate things Thaddeus Stevens call his opponents. Lincoln's no slouch in this department either. "Pettifogging Tammany Hall Hucksters" is probably the best of them.
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Lincoln / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Lincoln / int_b17f6a27	comment	Thaddeus Stevens gets one from one of his colleagues in the film, after making a statement to Congress that he is only interested in blacks being equal before the law, not equal in all things, which clashes with Stevens' positions on racial equality. Stevens responds that he will say anything, if it means that slavery will be eliminated.
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Lincoln / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Lincoln / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Lincoln is faced with the decision to either do what he can to end the war as soon as possible, or to continue trying to pass the amendment at the risk of prolonging it just a little longer. When the Democrats force Stevens to declare his beliefs on racial equality, he either has to express more moderate views, which would be anathema to the Radical Republicans and those who support abolition, or be completely honest about them and seriously jeopardize the passing of the 13th amendment. He manages to Take a Third Option, sort of: He relents and does it, but makes sure Rep. Pendleton, the democrat congressman who corners him on it, gets utterly immolated by Stevens' insult of also holding him equal "only in the eyes of the law".
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Lincoln / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Lincoln / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: Representative Wood (D) excels at this. At a crucial moment in the Amendment debate, he tries to goad Stevens into stating, on the Floor, his radical opinion that black people are not inherently inferior to whites. He fails, as Stevens truthfully avows that he cannot claim all men are equal when he's confronting men as slimy and inferior as the Democrats he's opposing.
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Lincoln / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Lincoln / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: When Bilbo realizes that his guest is none other than President Lincoln, he blurts out, "Well I'll be fucked!" as he stumbles to get to his feet. Lincoln replies, deadpan, "I wouldn't bet against it." When a Democratic Congressman attempts to shoot Bilbo with a single-shot pistol for offering him a bribe, struggles to collect his dropped folder, kicks dirt on the Congressman to delay him as he reloads, and yells, "Fuck you, you son of a bitch!" The punchline of the Ethan Allan story could also count, as it uses many euphemisms for using the toilet until the exact perfect moment. When Lincoln gets fed up with the squabbling amongst his cabinet members: At one point, Mary dares Lincoln to follow through on his threat:
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Lincoln / int_bcc9f4f7	type	Realpolitik
Lincoln / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Realpolitik: Lincoln proves to be a master of this. He's perfectly willing to make deals, offer favors, and straight-up bribe people in order to get the 13th Amendment passed.
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Lincoln / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Lincoln / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Lincoln and Stevens butt heads over the fight to pass the 13th Amendment, with Lincoln thinking Stevens needs to tone down his rhetoric to not drive off support and Stevens arguing that Lincoln needs to fight harder to get it passed. Both of them wind up taking each other's advice, and the amendment passes.
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Lincoln / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Lincoln / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Near the film's end, Grant tells Lincoln "We've won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it." Unfortunately, Lincoln is never able to do so, and, after the less-than-smooth tenure of Andrew Johnson, it in fact falls to Grant to try to lead the U.S. "out of it."
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Lincoln / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Lincoln / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Despite being an anti-slavery party, the House Republicans are not totally behind the amendment. The conservative faction has to be persuaded by the Blair family to support it.
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Lincoln / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Lincoln / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: When Representative Hutton is called to cast his vote for the amendment he is silently praying. The natural assumption that doing so would have moved him to vote to free the slaves turns out to be incorrect and he votes against the Thirteenth Amendment. This makes Yeaman's "Yes" vote right after all the sweeter. When you see a theater performance near the end of the film, you will momentarily relax seeing that it is obviously not Our American Cousin, the play that Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated, but then the manager comes out to announce the assassination to the audience, which includes Tad Lincoln.
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Lincoln / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Lincoln / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Lincoln believes that he has to get the 13th Amendment passed before ending the war, because he freely admits (to his cabinet, at least,) that the entire justification for the Emancipation Proclamation is legally incoherent, and it would never stand up to judicial review once he could no longer back it up with the excuse of "war powers". The Confederate delegation is concerned about how their 'rights' will be infringed upon if they surrender, but the irony that more or less their entire government framework is built with defending literal slavery in mind is entirely lost on them.
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Lincoln / int_c7d86fbe	type	Plausible Deniability
Lincoln / int_c7d86fbe	comment	Plausible Deniability: Lincoln's handling of the Confederate peace delegation. He uses Francis Blair as envoy, allowing him to claim that Blair is acting as a private citizen without binding Lincoln to any actions or promises. Then he retains them at Hampton Roads rather than allowing them to Washington. It nearly unravels when Seward and then several Congressmen discover their presence, but Lincoln saves the day with a carefully-worded denial.
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Lincoln / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Lincoln / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: The 6'4" Lincoln towers over everyone else. Day-Lewis' height (6'1") is exaggerated somewhat by the camera angles.
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Lincoln / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Lincoln / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Lincoln makes a joke about his unruly hair rather than respond directly to a black soldier's complaint about unequal treatment. Thaddeus Stevens states that his haggard appearance is the result of his tireless efforts for racial equality, capping it off by saying that he looks even worse without his wig.
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Lincoln / int_ca01f9a3	type	Mononymous Biopic Title
Lincoln / int_ca01f9a3	comment	Mononymous Biopic Title
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Lincoln / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
Lincoln / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: Abe and his stovepipe hat, in which he sometimes stores speeches.
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Lincoln / int_cbe32f62	type	Decided by One Vote
Lincoln / int_cbe32f62	comment	Decided by One Vote: The amendment just barely averts this. It passes with just two votes over the required 2/3rds majority, though one of them is by the Speaker of the House, who is not required by law to vote.
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Lincoln / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Lincoln / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title
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Lincoln / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Lincoln / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Stevens wants to treat the South as a conquered nation. In contrast Lincoln wants to welcome them back into the Union with open arms and be forgiving as possible. Of course, given what happened in Reconstruction, history is very much on Stevens' side on this issue.
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Lincoln / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Lincoln / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Mary, who has suffered the loss of two children, worries about her husband's safety, and fears (sadly, quite correctly) that history will remember her as a crazy woman who ruined Lincoln's happiness.
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Lincoln / int_d0f63e83	type	Magnetic Hero
Lincoln / int_d0f63e83	comment	Magnetic Hero: Lincoln is accurately depicted as an immensely charismatic man whose ability to influence others is critical to securing the votes needed for the 13th Amendment.
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Lincoln / int_d1595d9f	type	Windbag Politician
Lincoln / int_d1595d9f	comment	Windbag Politician: On the day of the vote, the speaker tells the audience they will now briefly recap the proposed amendment. Everyone bursts out laughing on "briefly".
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Lincoln / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Lincoln / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: A father-son variant occurs when Robert suggests that Abe is more scared of Mary's wrath than losing Robert; subverted when Abe slaps Robert and then attempts a reconciliatory hug, only for Robert to reject his dad's hug.
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Lincoln / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Lincoln / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Thaddeus Stevens gets one from one of his colleagues in the film, after making a statement to Congress that he is only interested in blacks being equal before the law, not equal in all things, which clashes with Stevens' positions on racial equality. Stevens responds that he will say anything, if it means that slavery will be eliminated. Lincoln himself gets one from Seward after the latter finds out that a Confederate peace envoy had been invited to Washington without his approving it.
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Lincoln / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Lincoln / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Lincoln's story of Ethan Allen, concluding with the claim that "nothing makes an Englishman shit faster than the sight of George Washington!"
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Lincoln / int_d64491d8	type	Meaningless Meaningful Words
Lincoln / int_d64491d8	comment	Meaningless Meaningful Words: After discovering Lincoln sent Preston Blair as a peace feeler to the rebels, Seward rages about how it could jeopardize all their work to pass the 13th Amendment. Lincoln says some reassuring words which the spent Seward reluctantly agrees with. Then he takes a moment to think and realizes Lincoln probably just said some nonsensical platitude.
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Lincoln / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Lincoln / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: A very mild example. The actress who plays Thaddeus Stephens' mistress/housekeeper Lydia Hamilton Smith has much stronger African features and a darker skin tone than the real woman◊, who could have passed as white. This is obviously to make her race clearer to viewers who don't know her background.
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Lincoln / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Lincoln / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: One of the final scenes is at a theater... but the Grover's, where Tad is watching Aladdin. Then the manager enters to announce that Lincoln had been shot at Ford's.
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Lincoln / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
Lincoln / int_dc031fde	comment	Rep. James Ashley has an Inelegant Blubbering moment after the amendment passes.
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Lincoln / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Lincoln / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: General Daniel Sickles' leg, which he donated to a museum after it was amputated at the Battle of Gettysburg, appears on display in the foreground of one of the early vote-purchasing scenes.
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Lincoln / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
Lincoln / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: At least when using it as a metaphor for distaste.
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Lincoln / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Lincoln / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: After seeing the amputated limbs at the military hospital, Robert goes for a smoke to calm his nerves. He can't even manage to roll one up before tossing it away in frustration.
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Lincoln / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Lincoln / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Abe and Mary have a heated argument in which they speak of her possibly being thrown into the madhouse because of her grieving processes. She even specifically states that if her son Robert were killed in the war, Lincoln should go ahead and put her in the madhouse. Ten years later, she was put in the madhouse, by Robert himself (though quickly released). Robert Lincoln says, "I won't be you, Pa!", but says he won't be nothing at all. Robert was a successful lawyer and served the U.S. government as Secretary of War and later as Ambassador to Great Britain, but chose not to follow his father into politics. Alexander Stephens proposes peace in exchange for Lincoln's written assurance that the Southern states will be readmitted to the Union in time to block ratification of the 13th Amendment. Lincoln responds that even if he gives that assurance, he expects the Amendment to be ratified if most of the Northern states and at least two of the Southern states vote in its favor, and he already expects Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas to do so. In fact, Virginia and Louisiana were the first Southern states to ratify the Amendment in February, 1865, followed by Tennessee and Arkansas in April. The Carolinas, Alabama, and Georgia followed suit in November and December, while Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Mississippi did not do so until after the Amendment had been formally ratified and incorporated into the Constitution.
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Lincoln / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Lincoln / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: The Lincolns have a raging fight during a big thunderstorm. Another invocation of reality: They are partly fighting about Mary's reaction to Willie's death. The real Willie's funeral took place during a violent thunderstorm, and people writing at the time cited it as an Empathic Environment.
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Lincoln / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Lincoln / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Lincoln will get the 13th Amendment passed, come hell or high water.
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Lincoln / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Lincoln / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Averted with the Confederate peace delegation, led by Confederate VP Alexander Stephens, who are depicted relatively sympathetically; so instead we are given Fernando Wood - a loud, obnoxious, slimy Democratic orator - and his patron George Pendleton, both of whom hold openly white supremacist views. More than any representative of the Confederacy, these two men act as targets for the audience's ire. And for Thaddeus Stevens to hurl gloriously elaborate insults at.
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Lincoln / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Lincoln / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: "So far as I know there is no Confederate delegation in Washington." They're in a steamboat docked on the Potomac. When Seward first tells Lincoln that congressmen came to him asking if there was a peace delegation, he told them there wasn't because if there were Lincoln would have discussed it with him first. As he's saying this, though, he's giving Lincoln a Death Glare that screams: "I know it's true and why didn't you tell me?"
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Lincoln / int_e769e5b0	type	The Reliable One
Lincoln / int_e769e5b0	comment	The Reliable One: Lincoln's secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay are in the background of many scenes, quietly taking notes or working away. Seward, who also works quietly to acquire votes while Lincoln and Congress argue very publicly. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, who keeps things going when Stanton has a temper tantrum.
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Lincoln / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Lincoln / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Lincoln pulls this when the Republicans and Democrats jointly delay voting on the amendment after they hear the rumors about the South's peace overtures. When they ask him if there are Confederate delegates in Washington, Lincoln writes back to them that there are not (since he had ordered them to meet in another city). The Democrats immediately recognize this "lawyer's dodge" but the vote resumes regardless.
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Lincoln / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Lincoln / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: An audio Match Cut from one of Seward's operatives whacking a crab with a mallet to a gavel banging the House of Representatives into session.
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Lincoln / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
Lincoln / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: When the 13th Amendment is passed, the Representatives break into a rousing rendition of "The Battle-Cry of Freedom".
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Lincoln / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Lincoln / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The opening scene is very violent, brutal, and nasty, with soldiers fighting in hand-to-hand combat and stamping their enemies' heads into the waterlogged battlefield to drown them. It then cuts to an African-American soldier who says that, given that Confederate soldiers didn't take black prisoners at a previous battle, the black Union soldiers at Jenkin's Ferry decided they weren't going to take prisoners either. Abraham Lincoln takes his oldest son to a veteran's hospital to try to talk him out of enlisting. The young man nearly cracks when he sees some orderlies pushing a wheelbarrow dripping blood to a hole where they're dumping amputated human limbs by the dozens. Everyone in the hospital itself is missing one or both their legs. After the Confederate negotiations go nowhere, there's a poignant scene of Lincoln and his men riding their horses through a field of bodies, all piled high from the siege of Petersburg.
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Lincoln / int_f2d29e14	comment	Some viewers may find it strange that Representative Fernando Wood sounds British even though he's an American, perhaps thinking the film is invoking the Evil Brit trope. In actuality, Wood, as depicted by Lee Pace, sounds that way because he is using elocution, the art of formal speech. Wood may have learned this "classical" sound in school, or picked it up by listening to actors (perhaps the extremely popular Booths) and others trained in public speaking. Bill Raymond as Schuyler Colfax, saying "The House recognizes Fernando Wood," is also using it. Elocution kind of evolved into the "Mid-Atlantic" sound, used by many American film actorsnote Katharine Hepburn, Mia Farrow, Vincent Price which is why they seemed to sound British, up until the 1970s, when this style was largely dropped in favor of "naturalistic" speech.
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Lincoln / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: In conference with Grant, Lincoln reminds him that none of the Confederate Army's soldiers are to be taken prisoner, and that if the rebel leaders including Jefferson Davis just "happen" to escape Union justice, Lincoln would be just fine with that.
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Lincoln / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: The Ethan Allen anecdote during the Revolutionary War about an American invited to a British home, the latter hanging a portrait of George Washington in his restroom. The American considers it a compliment because, well...
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Lincoln / int_f8a7ff7e	comment	Sudden Principled Stand: Clay Hawkins, despite being threatened with violence from his own constituency, votes for the amendment, vigorously defying his own party to "shoot me dead!" This act of courage prompts a moral tug-of-war in the next Democrat who can't decide whether to stand by party or principles.
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Lincoln / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Robert sees one of Lincoln's young secretaries in uniform for the shindig, he complains that he'll be the only man over fifteen and under sixty-five not in uniform. His uniformed little brother corrects him:
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Lincoln / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Stevens and his wish to turn the South into a land "with free men and free women and free children and freedom!"
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Lincoln / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Lincoln / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Lincoln goes to negotiate with the rebel commissioners after some persuasion by General Grant. At the end he asks the commissioners directly, "Shall we stop this bleeding?" The scene fades out and is replaced by one of the Fall of Richmond.
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Lincoln / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: "Beanpole" Burton is referred to in one of the first scenes when a few of his constituents petition Lincoln. He reappears in the voting scene. Stevens mentions a wig in one of his early scenes. In his final appearance, we see his magnificent bald head.
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Lincoln / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Lincoln / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Those unfamiliar with Lincoln family history may do a double take to see that Robert Todd Lincoln (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is present at the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Robert was in fact actually there and not a Throw It In! by the filmmakers. Rather than go for depicting a famous battle like Gettysburg in the opening scene, Lincoln opens with the lesser known Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. During the assassination of Lincoln, it is not shown from Lincoln's point-of-view but rather Tad's, who was watching a different play, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp at the Grover Theater, before it is stopped to inform everyone that his father has been shot. Spielberg's sound design team went to the White House to record the sounds of the clocks and doors inside. They even got the sound of Lincoln's watch recorded from where it is held in the Kentucky Historical Society. It was the first time the watch had been wound up in a century and a half, and the filmmakers were amazed that it still worked. Daniel Day-Lewis performing Lincoln's actual voice, as well as many of his recorded quotes. He also portrayed Lincoln as a storyteller and sometimes jokester, which Lincoln was indeed recorded as being. Lincoln's dream about being aboard a dark, vaguely-defined vessel, moving with great speed towards a mysterious shore? Lincoln did in fact report having that exact dream before "nearly every great and important event of the War", including the battles of Antietam, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro and Gettysburg. (Chillingly, he also had a dream of going into the White House and finding it filled with mourners around a corpse whose face was covered by a sheet. In the dream, when he asked one of the guards whose body it was, the guard replied that it was the President, killed by an assassin.) James Spader's appearance as William Bilbo had to be guessed from various sources because there are no photos of the real Bilbo. One habit of his that Spader found was that the real Bilbo was into wood carving, which he incorporated by showing him frequently carving a wooden duck.note Cute gag lampshading the lame-duck Democrats they've been trying to persuade. The voting scene records two unusual occurrences during the House's decision on the amendment: 1. several black families sat in the House Gallery to watch, with Rep Litton welcoming them, and 2. the Speaker of the House, Schuyler Colfax, asked to vote even though the Speaker is a ceremonial role and thus technically not required to. He voted yes. During a carriage ride in April Lincoln talks about visiting the Holy Land, telling Mary: "There is no place I so much desire to see as Jerusalem." This is a direct quote of what he actually said to her in the carriage that day, hours before he was shot.
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