Breaking: Hollywood Makes A Movie About A Republican President
Blue Yeti ·
September 14, 2012 at 6:59am
OK, he's been dead for 147 years, but it's a start. What do you think? Will it be a stirringly beautiful tribute or as engaging as live action five dollar bill?
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Jul '11
Re: Breaking: Hollywood Makes A Movie About A Republican President
Damn, was just about to post this. Beat me to the punch.
But when do we get a movie about Colonel Green?
Re: Breaking: Hollywood Makes A Movie About A Republican President
So on behalf of the uninformed, dare I ask how the Starship Enterprise beamed President Lincoln aboard?
Edited on September 16, 2012 at 4:00amMar '11
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Leslie Watkins: I did not know that! Very interesting, Douglas.
Sep 14 at 2:43pm
There are no recordings of Lincoln's voice... we have to go on contemporary writing about his speeches for that... but we DO have audio of George Patton. After growing up with Scott as the very image of Patton, the real man takes some getting used to.
All of this reinforces my sense that with our modern multimedia, with its constant barrage on the senses, kind of hardens what we think people and things should look and sound like, and that this may be preventing modern Lincolns and Pattons from advancing as high as they might have back in the days where you got all your info from print. It's easy to appreciate the grandeur of the Gettysburg Address when you read it and hear Gregory Peck in your head. Maybe it wouldn't sound so grand with a tall, ugly, skinny guy with a whiny voice.
Jul '11
Re: Breaking: Hollywood Makes A Movie About A Republican President
Jonathan Horn
So on behalf of the uninformed, dare I ask how the Starship Enterprise beamed President Lincoln aboard? · 21 hours ago
Edited 21 hours ago
Ask a geek question, and you shall receive.
It's not exactly science fiction anymore, which is the wild thing. In the last five years, scientists have been able to beam individual atoms a distance, I think, of 30 meters, essentially creating an atom at a distance with the same state and properties of the original atom.
But Star Trek has been on the forefront of that for decades. Mobile phones were inspired from the communicators from the original series. Touchpads; Star Trek: The Next Generation. Medical body scanners; the list goes on. It's one area where culture has influenced science and technology, instead of the other way around.
Mar '11
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Nope the whole trailer just proves the movie is yet a further attempt to re-write history by basically prorating the whole war was only about slavery, which is utter nonsense. They have already re-written history at almost every single display at every single civil war battle field with this narrative.
I did not care for Gods and Generals (the battle scenes were decent) but at least they were trying to be faithful to history and not re-write it.
Edited on September 17, 2012 at 4:52amJun '10
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Brian, take slavery out of the equation and there is no war.