斯皮尔伯格重塑林肯总统(1/2)

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概述：传统印象中林肯总统总是充满领袖气质，但是导演斯皮尔伯格试图从另一个角度塑造一个更为真实的林肯。
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D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation
John Ford
Lincoln
Spielberg
Ford's Theater
Eric Martin
Union
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口语地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/group/topic/699357/For about a century, he was portrayed as a monumental figure. In D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, he is statuesque. In John Ford's 1939 film, Young Mr. Lincoln, he is folksy and robotic.
Spielberg's Lincoln is different.
"I was determined to make a movie about a working president, not a posing president."
We watch the president ending slavery first and then the war.
In the museum at Ford's Theater, where the 16th President was assassinated, historian Eric Martin explains how Lincoln's thought process evolved.
"His first and foremost objective when the war began was not the freeing of the slaves but ultimately is the preservation of the Union. And Lincoln realizes in order to attain his military goal of ultimately preserving and saving the Union, the question of slavery will have to be addressed."在长约一个世纪的时间里，林肯被刻画成一个威严的形象。在戴维•沃克•格里菲思的电影《一个国家的诞生》中，他如雕塑般庄严。在约翰•福特1939年的电影《青年林肯》中，他平易近人又呆板笨拙。
斯皮尔伯格的林肯是与众不同的。
“我要做的电影是展现一个活生生的总统，而不是一个刻板的总统形象。”
这位总统先废除了奴隶制，接着结束了战争。
在第16任总统林肯被暗杀的福特剧院的博物馆，历史学家艾瑞克•马汀解释了林肯的思维过程是如何逐步形成的。
“当战争打响时，他的首要目的并不是解放奴隶，而是从根本上维护联邦的统一。林肯意识到要想实现他的军事目的——从根本上维护并拯救联邦，就必须先解决奴隶制的问题。”