As you might have heard, Steven Spielberg’s going to make a movie about Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Liam Neeson will star.
I just saw “War of the Worlds” last night, and noticed that the annoying teenage son tells his dad that, after “borrowing” dad’s car, he was “over on Lincoln Avenue with some friends,” or words to that effect. And I remembered that, in the opening scene of “Minority Report,” the kid at the breakfast table is reciting from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. In “Saving Private Ryan,” Gen. George C. Marshall reads aloud Lincoln’s celebrated letter to Mrs. Bixby.
Is this a new thing for Spielberg, or does anyone recall any other Lincoln references in his earlier films?