Sentences with phrase «emancipator lincoln»

Perhaps fittingly, the Anglo - Irish Day - Lewis has come to represent the schizoid heart of American history: as pioneer Hawkeye in The Last Of The Mohicans; wicked, flag - draped hood Butcher Bill in Gangs Of New York; soulless tycoon Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood; and now tin - voiced emancipator Lincoln.

Not exact matches

When Abe Lincoln first ran for public office in Illinois, surely it was not with the ambition of being the Great Emancipator.

Our identification of Lincoln as the «Great Emancipator» tends to erase memories of Lincoln's prewar positions on these points: He accepted them all.

In a far less villainous vein, Charles Middleton was cast as Tom Lincoln, father of the 16th president, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie role.

In fact, Lincoln seems to suggest that the Great Emancipator would have relished in these times.

Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator's push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War.

Steven Spielberg has been trying to set up a movie based on the political career of The Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, for quite a while now, but ran into some complications earlier this year when Liam Neeson, who had been signed on for the lead role, dropped out of the project.

Lincoln has two modes: the Great Emancipator as orator; and good ol' Abe as folksy Mark Twain storyteller.

This time, it's Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln, starring Daniel Day - Lewis as the eponymous Emancipator.

«The Lincoln Laws: Should we thank the Great Emancipator for codifying the law of war — or curse him?»