Lincoln Movie By Steven Spielberg

A review of the movie “Lincoln” directed by Steven Spielberg The movie Lincoln is an epic drama that was based on the biography, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.” The movie artistically uses different styles and elements to take the audience back in time and recount the events that took place in the attempts to past the 13th Amendment to the Constitution during the Civil War. The movie effectively uses different types of lightning, music, and texture and colors to transport you back to the time period. The editing of scenes and sequences, cinematography, and the application of music also proves to be other successful methods the makers of this film use to tell the great historic tale of American history. Based on a true story, the film immediately faces the challenges of historical facts. The films locations, backgrounds, clothing, and speech all needed to be realistic to produce a stage and the frame of mind that will allow the viewer to be absorbed into a story that they are most likely already familiar with. I have viewed …show more content…
Beginning with the violent and bloody battle in the mud, you can feel you heart rate increase as one of the soldier’s face is pushed below the water by his opponents boot. The lighting (especially the candlelight and gas lamps in the night scenes) is a constant illumination of the times in which the story took place. The lighting and music (soundtrack by John Williams), work together to bind the visual and musical mood and themes of the film. The music made up of brass, woodwinds, and string instruments regularly makes up the underlying base for the emotional tone and theme of the scenes, such as when Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) gives his speech to the House on equal protection under the