Abraham Lincoln, for whatever his historical faults, is perhaps the most cinematic President the Unites States has ever had.
Whether you put him in a theatrical D.C.
backroom drama like Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” or in a silly, pulpy movie like Timur Bekmambetov’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” (from the same year!), you get a great film.
Maybe it’s because of his iconic appearance, maybe it’s due to the almost mythical challenges of leading a country in the midst of a Civil War, or maybe it stems from the temptation to cast him as a hero battling the evils of U.S.
slavery.Spielberg’s “Lincoln” has scenes set in the wreckage of battlegrounds.
“Vampire Hunter” has Honest Abe fighting vampires on runaway trains.
Most every film about Lincoln dramatizes the Civil War to some degree, and they typically allude to Ford’s Theatre, where he was assassinated.
That’s what
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