Synopsis: Lincoln is a 2012 American epic historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life, focusing on the President's efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Production: Dreamworks Pictures
Won 2 Oscars. Another 108 wins & 242 nominations.
And making three dollars less
each month than white
soldiers.
Harold Green is a little startled at Clark's bluntness.
HAROLD GREEN:
Us 2nd Kansas boys, whenever we
fight now we -
IRA CLARK:
Another three dollars subtracted
from our pay for our uniforms.
That was true, yessir, but that
CHANGED -
Equal pay now. Still no
commissioned Negro officers.
I am aware of it, Corporal Clark.
Yes, sir, that's good you're aware,
sir. It's only that -
(to Lincoln, trying to
change the subject:)
You think the Wilmington attack is
gonna be -
Now that white people have
accustomed themselves to seeing
Negro men with guns, fighting on
their behalf, and now that they can
tolerate Negro soldiers getting the
same pay - in a few years perhaps
they can abide the idea of Negro
lieutenants and captains. In fifty
years, maybe a Negro colonel. In a
hundred years - the vote.
Tony Kushner
Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film Munich, and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln, both critically acclaimed movies. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. more…
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