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This is honestly what Movies.com thinks the Lincoln poster is saying
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Ali
23rd August 2012
The first poster for Steven Spielberg's inevitably weighty Honest Abe biopic Lincoln has surfaced, and it already has a lot of American websites saluting a sunset and wiping away their tears with golden eagle feathers.
I found this poster via Movies.com, an American movies website (believe it or not), and they disagree – they think this Lincoln poster speaks VOLUMES. It's entirely possible, however, that they're lost for words in the face of a musty old black and white photo and are projecting like crazy.
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"As we reported earlier, the film itself, according to Spielberg, will be "about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition" as he moved forward in his attempt to abolish slavery once and for all. It won't cover Lincoln's entire life, only the four months prior to his death, and this poster does a solid job of delivering that info to us without a synopsis.""
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"This looks like a weathered, beaten-down Lincoln. A guy who's hunched over because the fate of a nation is on his shoulders.""
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"Plus the black-and-white is great because it plays into one of the biggest themes of the film, most notably Lincoln's pursuit to abolish slavery.""
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"Here he's saying, "How do I get a nation to see beyond the color of someone's skin?"""
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"Lincoln wanted us to be color blind, and so does this poster."Is that COLOUR? Aiieeee, the slavery parallels have come crashing down! Every man for himself!
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