Well, you can't miss the new film Lincoln. Here's the big reason: Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln is pretty much WHO we will think of when imagining the person "Father Abraham" from now on. He really looks like the lanky, awkward Lincoln. He has the mannerisms down. I doubt the real Lincoln sounded all that much like the actor's Lincoln, but this Lincoln's voice contains the intense ardor, the ironic diffidence, the melancholy, the paternalism (in the good sense), the relentless political logic, etc. of the real guy. It's a "contains multitudes" voice. It makes the magnanimity of the Gregory Peck Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird seem lamely one-dimensional by comparison.
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