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See Daniel Day-Lewis At Full-Tilt Abeness!!
Merrick here...
A few weeks ago we got a sense of Daniel Day-Lewis' appearance as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's forthcoming film called, well, LINCOLN.
Despite the inherent anachronism of that behind-the-scenes shot, Lewis clearly looks pretty amazing...perhaps even eerie...in that make-up.
Now comes another behind-the-scenes image from the project, this time featuring Lewis in more iconic Lincoln attire. This may be our fist look at Lewis/Lincoln in full regalia - if there was a previous glimpse I'm not aware of it. This via The Richmond Times-Dispatch, which ran the image in an article about the production locally.
Wow.
The image, which is EMBIGGENABLE, is credited to Thomas Hoffman.
Lewis sure looks awesome in this new photo, and I suspect he'll be customarily immaculate in the role. But to me, he is...and forever shall remain...Nathaniel Poe.
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How tall is he?
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PARTY ON DUDES!!!
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do we know who is playing him?
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Or so I just made up.
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Seriously, look at that picture.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 10:57 a.m. CST
Boothe will be played by Jaden Smith if Will had his way.
by Tikidonkeypunch
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What. The Fucking. Fuck. I have no fucking clue what the hell that is supposed to mean. I've read the article and I still have no fucking idea.
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Baby Jesus it is absolutely stunning what drooling monkeys they have writing for this site!
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Or you don't understand how a person can be "full-tilt" someone else? I don't understand what you don't understand. I recommend googling the phrase "full-tilt" and then realize that Daniel Day Lewis is in full costume and make-up in the second picture....which equals full-tilt Abeness. Abe Lincoln. Being like Abe. Abe-ness.
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I'm just sticking with the fact that it looks like Steve Jobs and Abe Lincoln had a full grown man-baby in the first picture. Apologies for my stupidness.
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You suck your daddy's prick with that mouth??
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Admitting your wrong is the first step towards salvation! (I keed I keed!) I really dont come on here bitching about the grammer but I do have to admit that not even checking 8-9 words for clarity and spelling is about as retarded as you can get. I mean, this isnt a personal blog for gods sake! If the word "at" was removed and one more "s" was added at the end then it would be fine. C'mon Merrick! Oh, and as for the pic, is it me or does the first pic look better than the full regalia pic??? I mean look at his face in the second pic. That looks like DD Lewis from the nose up. The eyebrows dont match, the nose doesnt match, etc. Maybe he was heading for the makeup trailer, I dunno. That first pic is SPOT ON though.....
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Dec. 14, 2011, 11:20 a.m. CST
There is, of course, plaster a life mask (death mask?) of Lincoln himself. Anyway, the nerd in me wonders if the make-up folks had access to it?
by ClayMatthews
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Haven't seen a good were-ape movie in ages.
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Got a good feeling about his one...
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I wonder if D-DL is laying down an incredible scene right now...
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"Admitting your wrong is the first step towards salvation! (I keed I keed!) I really dont come on here bitching about the grammer but I do have to admit that not even checking 8-9 words for clarity and spelling is about as retarded as you can get." - Gotta love that those two sentences have at least three spelling and grammar mistakes in. But yes, 'abenes' is pretty fucking silly. Can't wait to see DDL in this :)
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One of the most important producers of the 60's and 70's counter culture cinema.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 11:37 a.m. CST
Can't wait for the scene in which he tells Jefferson Davis, I drink your milkshake!
by Brian Hopper
I drink it up!
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Daniel sure looks like him here... would make a better Ras than Neeson...
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I want my money back.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 11:40 a.m. CST
Everybody in Hollywood knows you never go FULL Lincoln.
by Cletus Van Damme
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Has some life in it, and this isn't just a Spielbergized history lesson a la Amistad.
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So this movie is already fucked because he looks short and there's no way to make him look taller.
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I'm excited about this movie, BRING IT!!!
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SPOILER ALERT He dies in the end.
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would normally make me take interest in it, but with Spielberg at the helm I know it's going to be a revisionist, saintly version of Lincoln on the screen. They'll probably be a scene where he cries about slavery. Too bad. It could have been great.
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I'm still excited, still hoping for a Spielberg film that will remind us of the glory days when he could blow our minds with incredibly moving and powerful stories. But none the less, Mister Grieves has called it, I see a scene where Abe falls to his knees and cries about "How could we do this, to our brothers, how can I tell God I didn't try to help them?" Meanwhile, John Williams, who retired years ago, has some mix of things we've heard before drowning our ears with overly dramatic music on top of the scene bringing me to tears, of horror at how the mighty have fallen.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 12:20 p.m. CST
True story: Lincoln was reported to have had a high-pitched voice.
by Greggers
With his height and countenance, Lincoln *looks* like he's have a very deep voice; that's the way he sounds in our collective imagination. But in reality, Lincoln's voice was more high pitched (and accented). This is something I hope the movie gets right, not just for the sake of historical accuracy, but as a way of helping us refocus on a character we think we know so well. I hope this movie isn't easy. I hope this is EMPIRE OF THE SUN Spielberg and not AMISTAD Spielberg.
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Spielberg blew it, should've cast Christopher Lloyd for that part!!!!
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.....sometimes I think he takes his craft a little TOOOOO seriously. Play an orange BECOME an orange. Okaaaay. Play a plank BECOME a plank. Righty-oooooo. Etc, etc, etc. And it's not just Danny boy. A lot of this Method-style approach to acting can be a tad indulgent. I SUFFER FOR MY ART!!!! Eh, no. Not really. You don't have to. Brando, Olivier, Monty Clift, Bette Davis - you know, the greats - all held that Method bullshit in contempt. The great Claude Rains once said: "Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture. That's all you need to know." Amen to that. Danny will, no doubt, put in a sterling performance. But sometimes his 'dedication' to his craft seems a little forced, a little indulgent, a little too precious. But maybe he knows no other way.
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do the Goonies meet Honest Abe?
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Dec. 14, 2011, 12:37 p.m. CST
That first shot looks like he's scanning the horizon
by openthepodbaydoorshal
for Moby Dick. The second....looking full tilt boogie Abe. Will the intesity of Lewis' acting, and the smooth efficiency of Spielberg's direction create a black hole that will suck all that surrounds it?
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Dec. 14, 2011, 12:39 p.m. CST
If she would have lived, wouldn't Marilyn Monroe be his
by openthepodbaydoorshal
mother-in-law?
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Dec. 14, 2011, 12:42 p.m. CST
Shh, don't mention the Goonies. Some goofball suit might read it and become "inspired" to do a remake.
by Pvt. Duke
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<dives for cover>
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Dec. 14, 2011, 12:45 p.m. CST
I'll always love Spielberg, but mostly because of the stuff he did before Private Ryan.
by Pvt. Duke
I liked Minority Report and Munich, a couple others he's done since, but there hasn't been that magic in a while. That, or I'm older now and a cynic.
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little known fact.
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With a boatload of sour grapes that they haven't been able to drop for 150 years. I'm sure rednecks everywhere will scream and cry how inaccurate it is because Lincoln isn't sneaking into the rooms of pregnant women, tearing their stomachs open, and devouring the fetuses while his eyes glow red.
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. . . Chester A. Arthur . . .
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. . .we've all heard enough about his high pitched voice. It gets repeated a bazillion times.
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Lincoln was well known to devour fetuses. However, I don’t hold it against him as he was merely a product of a time when the moral correctness of fetus ingestion was ingrained in society.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 1:52 p.m. CST
Live action interpretations of Lincoln always look creepy to me
by Terrence
Because he's such a historical and almost fantastical person, it has a real uncanny valley effect to it. Or it could just be that Lincoln robot at Disneyland that fucked me up.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 2:06 p.m. CST
This much is certain: Day-Lewis will do something interesting with his voice
by Brian Hopper
(and with his performance generally). Is there a better actor working today who can affect the voice and mannerisms of a bygone era? Two obvious examples are Bill Cutting and Daniel Plainview. Guaranteed: He will do something interesting and perhaps amazing with the Lincoln character. I just hope Spielberg can avoid an overly reverential, Amistad-esque tone and go for something more gritty and realistic.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 2:16 p.m. CST
When Jaws gets rebooted, cast Day-Lewis as Quint.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
I'm just kidding, but could you imagine him in that role?
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http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2011/11/10/EXCLUSIVE-Dazzling-DNA-mutation-short-THE-GATE
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Dec. 14, 2011, 2:44 p.m. CST
DDL to get an oscar for this. You heard it here FIST!!
by CullenisPrime
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Dec. 14, 2011, 2:54 p.m. CST
"There's only one way to deal with a man like Jefferson Davis. You cut out his heart, take off his head, raise it up on a pike up high for all to see."
by Dogmatic
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When the CIA dude ripped off Abe's mask I almost flipped out. Then lincoln is like "Crash the plane with everyone on board...no survivors" DUDE! Daniel is going to own this movie!
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Dec. 14, 2011, 3:01 p.m. CST
I have wondered what they are gonna do for Lincoln's voice....I know with it being Spielberg and DDL's method approach they will...
by Dogmatic
strive to get as historical a take on it as possible. Of course we dont have any recordings of his voice but we do have vague descriptions thru various correspondence and documents. They say that his Kentuckian roots came through a lot in his accent (which sounds great to me b/c I am a Kentuckian) but also that his voice was somewhat high and tinny (can anyone describe "tinny" for me?) which made him not the best of public speakers even though it worked b/c his prose and writings were so eloquent.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 3:06 p.m. CST
Asimovlives....they actually DID have Levi's back then....check any pair you have and you'll see the logo dates Levi Strauss jeans back to 1850's
by Dogmatic
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Retitled it, "Cap'n Quint: Sharkpuncher"!
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Dec. 14, 2011, 3:26 p.m. CST
They had skinny jeans, piercings and Vans back then too, in fact...
by mdk
...Lincoln was a big dubstep fan.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 4 p.m. CST
I send my Union Army from ACROOSSSS the Mason Dixie Line...
by moondoggy2u
I FREE YOUR SLAVES!!!!
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Just before he died, he asked Booth "How do you like my mutton, you sawed-off irish bug."
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Dec. 14, 2011, 4:09 p.m. CST
Did someone tell that kid he was getting a knuckle-sandwich if he looked at either DDL or Spielbergo?
by Pvt. Duke
Spierlberg: The coffee is face-level, kid. Coincidence? You tell the maestro.
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a constipated Klingon. Just sayin' . . . .
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Levis are that old? Cool! And now, they even have presidential pedigree! If it was good enough for Ol' Abe, it's good enough for... anybody!
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Do we know what Lincoln sounded like? Are there any wax cylinder recordings of him speaking? Or has his voice been lost to time and there is only conjecture. I kinda think he would have sounded like Sam Waterston. just wondering.
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Lincoln's voice.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 5:26 p.m. CST
I coulda swore I saw these pics elsewhere like a week ago
by donkingkong
Still pretty cool, DDL looks the part and I'm sure he'll act the shit outta this one like he always does.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 5:55 p.m. CST
I thought this was a film by STEVEN Spielberg, so who the hell is this STEPHEN Spielberg guy you speak of?...
by Cervantes
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Dec. 14, 2011, 6 p.m. CST
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here." Lincoln's final word on AICN talkbacks
by Clio
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Dec. 14, 2011, 6:16 p.m. CST
[Insert random "Lincoln does something DDL did in another movie" joke here]
by IronballsMcGinty
You laugh now!
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Just saying
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I was disappointed about Neeson not being in it, but Daniel Day Lewis will nail it. You guys aren't excited for this? Seriously? What the fuck?
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Come on, you know its going to happen.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 7:03 p.m. CST
I will only watch if 1- It's on 3D and 2- It has a long masturbation scene
by Ricardo
OR... or... if they cast Richard Dreyfuss as Lincoln's wife - but he is dressed as and behaves as a man. No explanation given the entire movie.
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Eyewitnesses who saw Lincoln speak said he sounded "just like Don Knotts." Well, okay, not really. Nevertheless, "High and tinny" is not too hard to conceptualize.
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Dec. 14, 2011, 8:44 p.m. CST
... also featuring Sean Astin as Samwise, the Union Cadet!
by CountryBoy
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Dec. 15, 2011, 12:24 a.m. CST
No recordings, but there were people who had heard it
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
and did impressions, and possibly their children and grandchildren did an impression of the impression.
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I love DDL. In between being an apprentice shoesmith in a village near Florence, he's spent the last thirty years knocking them out of the park. From My Beautiful Laundrette onwards, never a foot wrong. Wanted to see him as Hamlet but he had a freakout on stage, to be replaced by a lowly understudy named Jeremy Northam..
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However, he'll probably pull it off. More problematic is Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The hell? She'll do the shrill crazy part all right, but she's much too old. Isn't she like 15 years older than Day-Lewis? I cannot account for this casting at all - makes no sense.
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Oops. Wrong talkback.
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Dec. 15, 2011, 8:50 a.m. CST
Much rather see Lincoln stake a black-eyed bloodsucker...
by david_boreanez_cunt_hairz
Didn't anyone learn from the J. Edgar movie that these straight portrayals of historical figures is not clicking with the audiences right now?
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Seriously. There is a Spielberg cameo in the movie and you showed us the photo of it without warning? F-er!!!
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which is a couple of inches shorter than Lincoln was. The height issue was one reason why Liam Neeson was the original choice. I'm sure they'll do things to make him look taller in the movie.
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...to get the voice accurate.
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Certainly portaiting Edgar Hoover as straight is not right.
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